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As Hurricane Milton prepares to circumcise the United States, please remember your job isn't worth it. If your area is under an evacuation order, please evacuate, even if your shitty job is telling you to stay and show up for work. Please stay safe.

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[-] Metz@lemmy.world 120 points 1 month ago

How the fuck is it not extremely illegal to tell (or even force) someone to work when there is an official evacuation order?

[-] No_Eponym@lemmy.ca 86 points 1 month ago
[-] GreeNRG@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 month ago

Freedumb more like it lmaobang

[-] Mr_Blott@feddit.uk 29 points 1 month ago
[-] NABDad@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago
  • some assembly required, not valid in all states, may cause premature death
[-] NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

* Taxes and fees apply

[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago

At will employment. Even if it is illegal they could fire you the next day with no repercussions as long as they don't say, "I'm firing you for (ABC illegal reason)". You'd be surprised how often employers fuck that up and get sued successfully.

[-] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 12 points 1 month ago

I'd imagine it is illegal or at the very least that you don't have to obey that them telling you to stay put. It could be that the companies don't give a shit either way

[-] johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago

You can always leave, but they can always fire you for it.

[-] psud@aussie.zone 4 points 1 month ago

I don't think they can fire you for it, they can fire you for no reason though

[-] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago

Very true, I'd just imagine that even in the US it might be an unlawful termination or some such thing

[-] Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago
[-] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 7 points 1 month ago

I had to look that up. I have heard of the term but never knew what it meant. Sounds like a law made so that unless you're unionized, you get no benefit from collective bargaining and whatnot. It does say "not to be confused with 'at-will employment'" which is about termination of employment. I'm a bit confused but I think the gist is that no, the US does not have such protections?

[-] Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

The US is terrible with labor laws, by design. It's absurd, especially immediately after civic when all these"essential workers" were called "heroes" but weren't compensated as such. And when nobody was applying for jobs that were paid trash and got shit on by management and customers should the only reaction was "nobody wants to work anymore".

No, people wanna work. They just don't want to be paid minimum wage for skilled positions and spend half the day being berated

[-] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Companies make jobs as awful as possible, cry about how nobody wants to work and at least here say "this is why we need immigrantion".

I don't deny that many places do, but also, not wanting to pay union wage or even livable one is a reason to bring someone in who've they've already beaten into thinking living on half-wages is okay.

[-] spongebue@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

At will*

Right to work is about not having to join a union. At will employment means you can quit/get fired for any reason* or no reason at all

* there are a few exceptions to this, like you can't be fired over membership of a protected class (being a certain race, sex, etc) and there are limited whistleblower protections in certain areas. Not sure if not showing up to work applies when there's an evacuation order, especially considering one may live inside an evacuation area and work outside (or vice versa)

[-] Etterra@lemmy.world 76 points 1 month ago

Tell your boss that they can stay and die in the hurricane if they want to, but you're leaving. And then actually leave. Fuck those assholes.

[-] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago

I think it'd be better to tell that and then not even leave, just stick around working after you've told off your boss

[-] Etterra@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

It's possible that they're just parroting their own boss' bullshit out of fear for losing their own job. It never hurts to give them fair warning. But it remains for them to be smart and brave enough to defy their boss and leave.

[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

But.. why? The entire point is to not be there when the massive wall of water and wind slams into the building.

[-] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago
[-] metaStatic@kbin.earth 2 points 1 month ago

and don't forget to tip your boss

[-] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

*hamburger music starts playing*

[-] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 48 points 1 month ago

One of the first lessons I learned is it's better to take the half day then wait for management to let you go.
Office will keep you there until the roads close before letting you go home. But then how do you go home?

[-] Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago

When I lived in South GA, and we were expecting snow for the first time in 5 years, I begged bosses to let us go before it got there. I lived less than 10 minutes from work and used to live in Michigan...but we know what to expect. They said things will be fine.

Accidents galore

[-] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 33 points 1 month ago

I don't think cutting right through the middle counts as circumcision.

[-] DarkDarkHouse 33 points 1 month ago

Milton’s on shrooms and has an axe

[-] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Dammit, Milton! I'm calling the FDA!

[-] NABDad@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

The U.S. is getting gender reassignment surgery.

[-] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago

Gender switched from "nice" to "micropenis"

[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Look Florida is obviously an injured limb that's festering. It needs to be amputated and Milton signed up for the job. We tried to offer it to Helene but she decided to take a mountain vacation during this sprint.

[-] meowMix2525@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago

You say circumcision, I say castration, ehhhh potayto potahto

[-] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 month ago

BOBBIT Chopping motion with hand

[-] psud@aussie.zone 1 points 1 month ago

Should've been hurricane Lorena after Ms Bobbitt

[-] Binette@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago

The hurricane botched it because of climate change 😔

[-] QuantumSparkles@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

More like a c-section

[-] Evotech@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Cursed avocado

[-] TriflingToad@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I know it already passed but I want to share that I came to work when I got 5 separate alerts of this.

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