Re:Amazon fires worker who led strike over virus
by boomboomsubban on Thursday April 02, 2020 @12:43AM
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This is just wrong, this disease was not some mystery three weeks ago and implying that the Amazon managers just learned of the dangers last weekend is absurd.
Re:Amazon fires worker who led strike over virus
by AnthonyMouse on Friday April 03, 2020 @12:33AM
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Three weeks ago there were less than 5000 known cases in the US, now there are about a quarter of a million and the most in the world. The idea that what we know now is equivalent to what we knew then is absurd. Three weeks ago there was some hope it could be contained using ordinary measures.
They'd have been smarter to respond to it sooner, but better late than never.
Re:Amazon fires worker who led strike over virus
by boomboomsubban on Friday April 03, 2020 @03:28PM
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The US declared a national emergency on the thirteenth. Every day past that in which they did not quarantine the employee is a far greater risk than the day he came in. And the idea that they didn't understand the risks until the 28th is ridiculous.
You're trying to spin it both ways. If Amazon was just idiotic about their response to the outbreak, why did they pick that moment to suddenly take things super serious and fire the employee?
The available information changed. This very quickly went from something many people weren't sure wasn't going to be maybe a nasty flu to something that has half the world staying home from work and hospitals getting overrun. Changing your procedures in response to new information is what managers should be doing.