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Amazon Warehouse Collapse in Baltimore Leaves Two Dead (engadget.com)
An anonymous reader quotes Engadget:
Amazon is grappling with tragedy at one of its warehouses this weekend. A 50-foot wall at the company's southeast Baltimore fulfillment center collapsed on the night of November 2nd in the midst of a large storm, killing two people. They worked for an external company, an Amazon official told the Baltimore Sun... The storm was a particularly violent one that had torn roofs off apartment buildings and collapsed a ceiling at a TJ Maxx store, injuring three people. Amazon was caught up in extreme weather that unfortunately led to fatalities.
...so the supervisor placed an Amazon Prime order and a robot brought a couple of them and some cleaning supplies.
The summary makes a big point that they were contractors (working for a 3rd party) and not Amazon employees. Why does that matter?
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Well that's the last time I order a "like new" warehouse support beam. ;)
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
I don't mean this was the fault of the workers. Quite the contrary. If conditions outside are such that it's barely safe for emergency crews, then an employer who is not involved directly in health and safety has no business calling its employees in to work. Now two people are dead because the warehouse couldn't deal with hunkering down for a storm.
I could see keeping a Wal-Mart open under such conditions. People may need things desperately, and people might need a place to shelter if things get really bad. But there is nothing that warehouse could do to help the situation right that moment, and it should have been left to a skeleton crew of security guards who can hunker down wherever they feel safe -- NOT try to work through the storm.
How is the Riemann zeta function like Trump rallies? Both have an endless number of trivial zeros.
How will we live without it??
Don't worry - it'll be completely automated within a decade and you won't have to/get to feel smugly superior to these hard-working folks who are doing tough jobs you feel are beneath them, even though they took the job voluntarily.
But I'm sure you're busy creating jobs when you're not criticizing employers and employees as a /. AC. /s
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Companies hire contractors specifically for cases like this. It's why it's cheaper to hire a contractor even when you're paying a contractor agency for the privilege. The lack of these kinds of benefits is why workers needed Unions. If the employees had families they're probably not only grieving but trying to figure out what they're gonna do with one less breadwinner. A worker's comp payout would at least delay that, maybe long enough to figure out what to do next.
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Amazon: "Thoughts and prayers"
Well that makes it all better then. Nothing to see here, folks. Case closed.
In a world of the blind, the one-eyed man is king--and the two-eyed man is a heretic.
Who said they were working?
every job i worked never quit over weather. unless its a tornado.
I checked and my shipments are all still on schedule, so crisis averted!
It has way more important problems than some freak accident that is highly unlikely to happen again.
https://www.usatoday.com/story...
It has way more important problems than some freak accident that is highly unlikely to happen again.
Problem solving steps.
1. Define the problem correctly. This is important, since you need a solution that does more than reduce one narrow case of gun crimes.
2. Take no possible solutions off the table initially. Republicans, for instance, automatically take any solution off the table limiting gun availability.
3. Find the solution or combination of solutions that best mitigate the problem for least cost. Republicans often say, well that wouldn't work in this case, completely missing the point, or, far more likely, deliberately pretending they are too stupid to see the bigger picture. Solve the right problem, which is getting the most reduction in gun deaths period.
Too bad ignorant people like you aren't a minority.
There was an EF-1 Tornado powerful enough to take off roofs..... everyone ought to have evacuated when a warning sounded to a structurally sound room --- makes you wonder what kind of operation Amazon is running there...
no emergency preparedness?
and the smaller contractor company can just fold and re-incorporate and walk away scot-free. It's the employee equivalent of the "layering" step in money laundering. You distance yourself from the bad things your company does.
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In a lot of jurisdictions the company is responsible for carrying insurance to pay out these claims, but they have the "option" of not carrying the insurance provided they pay all claims as specified by the law out of pocket. That's why folding the contracting company works.
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I'm not employed by Amazon, but if one of their buildings drops a wall on me, you better believe I'm suing.
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soviet capitalism
Oxymoron.
I'm not saying the soviet system didn't result in misery and death. Just not because of capitalism.
And I don't give capitalism a complete pass either. Slavery, the Great Depression, wars ... they're all linked to capitalism.
I found this article interesting:
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TL/DR: any ideology can be a weapon of mass destruction.
If it weren't for deadlines, nothing would be late.
along with crime in general. Meanwhile fatal workplace accidents are increasing.
As long as there is murder there will be a city with the highest murder rates. The question is are we doing everything we can to stop murder? Of course not. We could legalize drugs tomorrow, treat the hard stuff as a medical problem and massively cut back on murder. But just because we're not doing everything we can to stop murder doesn't mean we should ignore or even de-prioritize workplace safety.
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This isn't an accident, it's a regulatory failure. If you want to do business in Maryland you have to be willing to game the system.
Years ago my mother had her childcare business shut down for nearly two months. The Maryland Child Care Administration had ordered her to replace the standard deadbolt with a lock keyed on both sides. They didn't want an intruder to be able to break through the glass and turn the lock. Then the fire marshal ordered her to remove the keyed deadbolt so people could exit quickly in a fire.
She ended up satisfying both agencies by gluing a key into the deadbolt.
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