{"id":247258,"date":"2021-12-20T08:30:04","date_gmt":"2021-12-20T08:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=247258"},"modified":"2021-12-21T08:30:52","modified_gmt":"2021-12-21T08:30:52","slug":"this-will-end-with-you-not-having-a-job-texts-reveal-how-amazon-delivery-driver-was-warned-shed-be-fired-if-she-didnt-work-through-devastating-tornado-that-killed-six-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=247258","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;This will end with you not having a job&#8217;: Texts reveal how Amazon delivery driver was warned she&#8217;d be FIRED if she didn&#8217;t work through devastating tornado that killed six workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><strong>Amazon delivery driver was told she would be fired if she did not finish her deliveries during the deadly tornado in Illinois last week<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The driver&#8217;s boss threatened that returning to the base would &#8216;ultimately end with you not having a job come tomorrow morning&#8217;<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The tornado touched down about 80 minutes later on December 10\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>It struck one of the company&#8217;s warehouses killing six workers in Edwardsville, Illinois- about 30 miles from the unnamed delivery driver<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Amazon and the US Occupational Safety and Health Administration are investigating the driver&#8217;s situation and the six deaths\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_246953\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/notatornado.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-246953\" class=\"wp-image-246953\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/notatornado.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/notatornado.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/notatornado-480x270.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 640px, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-246953\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Later the same night the amazon distribution centre was flattened by the same tornado. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Adriana Diaz \u2013 Daily Mail.com Dec 18, 2021<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>An Amazon delivery driver was told she would be fired if she did not finish her deliveries during the deadly tornado that hammered <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/illinois\/index.html\"><strong>Illinois<\/strong><\/a> and killed six workers at its distribution center.<\/p>\n<p>The unnamed Amazon delivery driver informed her boss at the dispatch that tornado sirens were sounding in her area and suggested she head back to the base for safety, but the supervisor threatened her with termination, according to the text messages provided to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/features\/2021-12-17\/amazon-tornado-aftermath-workers-say-they-lacked-emergency-training\"><strong>Bloomberg<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>About 80 minutes later,\u00a0a tornado struck one of the company&#8217;s warehouses on December 10 in Edwardsville &#8211; approximately 30 miles from where she was located<\/p>\n<p>Despite the oncoming tornado and the driver&#8217;s fear for her safety, the boss warned that if she decided to return without finishing her deliveries &#8216;you not having a job come tomorrow morning.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;If you decided to come back, that choice is yours. But I can tell you it won&#8217;t be viewed as for your own safety,&#8217; the boss said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The safest practice is to stay exactly where you are. If you decide to return with your packages, it will be viewed as you refusing your route, which will ultimately end with you not having a job come tomorrow morning. The sirens are just a warning.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The dispatcher only realized the danger and relented after the tornado struck the Amazon facility.<\/p>\n<p>The driver first informed her boss of the impending peril at 7:08 pm\u00a0but was told: &#8216;OK. Just keep driving. We can&#8217;t just call people back for a warning unless Amazon tells us to do so.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The stunned driver then told the boss that tornado sirens were going off, but the unidentified dispatcher continued to insist she continue working.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Just keep delivering for now. We have to wait for word from Amazon. If we need to bring people back, the decision will ultimately be up to them. I will let you know if the situation changes at all. I&#8217;m talking with them now about it,&#8217; the boss said.<\/p>\n<p>That was when the driver had enough and told her boss she was driving back to the base.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10323987\/Amazon-driver-told-shed-axed-not-finishing-deliveries-tornado-killed-six.html\">Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In what might be viewed as the work of Karma, the Amazon warehouse was subsequently flattened by the tornado<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Current_Affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=247258"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":247293,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247258\/revisions\/247293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=247258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=247258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=247258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}