Retail Workers Told THEY CAN'T Leave During HURRICANE MILTON

[@kuraikenshi2349]

Just leave. Your bills dont mean shit if your dead. If the whole are floods, your house is ruined, your store is closed, and you are doomed to die for a job that doesnt care about you. Please, just ditch your job if they want you to stay in a hurricane.

[@jtjames79]

Unless you're into that sort of thing. Hazard pay is sweet.

[@ibapreppie]

There's 0 proof. I need photo's of an actual Gamestop being open during this hurricane. Just because its on reddit, doesn't mean its true.

[@SelfProclaimedEmperor]

​@@jtjames79most jobs don't do hazard pay, only union ones do

[@SelfProclaimedEmperor]

​@@ibapreppieit fits with their past actions, like staying open during lockdowns

[@markfreeman4727]

We've seen this before at amazon, this literally kills people your job ain't worth your life "but i have a family to take care of and bills to pay" how the heck are you going to address either as a rotting corpse?

[@General_Kenobi_212]

Yup, I've heard of places that have literally barred the doors to prevent their employees from leaving, but I'd be breaking that door down or going out a window. What are they gonna do, call the police and have them force you to stay at gnpoint?

[@EmmureMARIO64]

“Either your job or your family. Choose your family and you are fired!”

[@timkline162]

You can make minimum wage anywhere. If you work at Gamestop and they told you you have to work instead of evacuate, leave now and get a job at Walmart when you get back.

[@jtjames79]

You're not getting fired anyway. It's always an empty threat.

[@Helga-f6u]

Does anybody believe this?

[@DeadRobit29]

Guys! Leave! The job's gonna get blown away by the hurricane anyway, don't get swept up with it too! No job is worth losing your life over!

[@youtubename3838]

Any company that forces employees to stay during a disaster should be charged with attempted mxrdxr

[@ZogarX]

If your job is fucking around with hurricanes you call out and leave anyway. I guarantee half the damn store is doing that and they aren't staffed well enough (lean system) to fire that many employees. Waiting for corporate to do the right thing is suicidal.

[@OneTato]

Had a meeting today few ppl on our team are out there and didnt join the call. Turns out, boss lady told them to ditch work get to safty. They evacuated this morning, the area had cut the power off in preperstion for the storm too. We dont play with weather since a bunch of execs got snowed in at alabama office a few years back.

[@brikx9619]

I used to live in Florida and its somewhat difficult to obtain employment there. Thats was the #1 reason I moved away to the midwest. I completely understand what those employees or going through. You lose that job it can be some time before another one comes along AND a hurricane came through there..... no one will be hiring. So its like, what do you do? Stay or Go? Its hard decision to make because trust me, those landlords are STILL going to want their money on the 1st either way.

[@rodseller9936]

Your comment is my vindication.

[@ifadetogray]

I haven't been to Gamestop in a long time, possibly a year or more, and now I will never go back because they devalue their workers that much.

[@Dakarn]

Corporate: "People can leave whenever they want." Employee evacuates Corporate fires them Employee: "Why did you fire me?" Corporate: "You put your safety ahead of corporate profit."

[@Kalysta]

This is when you contact the labor board and an employment lawyer.

[@Dakarn]

@Itme My father worked for the State of South Carolina during Hurricane Floyd, and evacuated before the storm changed course. The state had authorized evacuations of non-essential personnel up until the following Monday after the storm passed. He asked permission from his boss and it was granted. We came back that Sunday so he could go to work on Monday, and when he showed up, he got fired for going AWOL. So yeah, they will fire you just to CYA for themselves.

[@bspoon5041]

Legally in the state of Florida during hurricanes they cannot make you stay nor can they fire you during a natural disaster when you evucate. Remind your employer of this not only are they breaking state employment laws but it a HUGE OSHA violation.

[@LegendaryFenrir]

If you depend on GameStop for safety, that's the second mistake you've made. The first is working at GameStop.

[@putthebunnybackinthebox4790]

Some people don’t have a choice, you stupid f*cking clown

[@ryanhernandez5632]

Sue your employers if they even hint at making you stay

[@OpheliaDarling2814]

I worked at a restaurant that made people show up to work during the 500 year flood in tn back in 2009-2010. My yard was an island surrounded by 5 foot deep floodwaters. I made my boss come pick me up. When she realized she couldn't get to me, less than a mile away from the restaurant, she finally agreed to close the store. She hasn't been outside to see how bad it is.

[@ZaOnly420]

Dollar general tried to keep me working during a crazy ice strom that ended up putting everyone out of power for weeks lol i just didn't go to work well i couldn't everything was frozen anyways it was insane. I left that job

[@briandurio6479]

Dollar General did the same thing for me a few years back for hurricane delta iirc. My manager called me the morning it made landfall and was mad because I was in Mississippi instead of opening the store

[@ytsuxmuhd4998]

Had a new boss take over a store I was working at, and the very next day my whole town got hit by an ice storm. Power was out in my neighborhood, and the roads were frozen (with 0% chance of being salted that week). I called n said "boss, I tried. But I'm sliding all over the damn roads, and I ain't trying no more. I'm goin home." He was understanding and wound up closing the store for the duration

[@bkelly2310]

Funny how we can lock down for a cough but can't leave for a literal cat5 hurricane

[@patrickmcpartland1398]

There are curfews and anyone out after will be arrested in a few places in Florida tonight

[@BlitzkriegOmega]

Mind you, a Cat-5 Hurricane that even WAFFLE HOUSE is shutting locations down for. **WAFFLE HOUSE**

[@bkelly2310]

@@BlitzkriegOmega Lmao if the toughest employees in the service industry are being told not to go to work no one else stands a chance

[@b1krain539]

It's crazy how much power ppl allow their job to have over them. Self preservation should be #1 priority. Save yourself not a company.

[@Brokenhearted757]

I'd be looking for another job as hard as that maybe, no one will tell me I have to stay at a job.. My family will always be first. No job is worth giving up family. As far as tornado warnings are concerned, I pay attention to them where I live we had one in December of 2023, then again in March 2024

[@raptor2264]

They might as well quit and evacuate while they still can

[@ViperChief117]

If it was me I would’ve just quit and dealt with finding a job after the storm passes.

[@LegDayLas]

Gotta think smarter not harder. Call in sick with covid. When they ask for proof tell them the pharmacy was closed due to the hurricane. The burden is on them to prove you lied.

[@TheDutchBros]

bro they can't stop'em if it's mandatory if they even said that they can sue

[@Th33Vultur3]

You can always replace a job, home and car. Your family and yourself cannot be replaced. Fuck these jobs!

[@wrayday7149]

Explain to me how those retail workers got to work when the Gov declares a State of Emergency which only allows essential personnel to travel on roads? Gamestop can't afford lawsuits from employees punished for following emergency guidelines.

[@gobeklipepe]

Its a health and safety violation to force an employee to work in unsafe conditions. The employees should file a lawsuit against the employer.

[@MsKeebe]

Why isn’t OSHA getting involved?

[@Crowski]

My grandmother is 77 and works for a bank. They sent everybody home and told them they’re working tomorrow…..🤬🤬🤬

[@dirkjewitt5037]

Hurricane Galadriel has a ring to it.

[@bkelly2310]

There is a tempest within this hurricane

[@dirkjewitt5037]

@@bkelly2310 That's worth a hundred-year walk about. Need any companions. What do you say to nine?

[@Lachdanun]

Thats a lot of liability lawsuits..

[@Subject_Keter]

Cant stop me from leaving. 😂

[@FreshGrey-pm4vw]

Leave and then file for unemployment - you have a case

[@metalhead5707]

Companies care more about money than their employees; explains why they’d gladly replace them with robots instead of giving them a raise every now and then

[@michaelmartin4874]

Might as well evacuate. The store's not gonna be ther when you get back, anyway.

[@xavierhernandez221]

Home depot is trying too see if they can still stay open lol. Our store manager trying too see if we can close, still discussing it with district. Strange how they taking this long to give a answer.

[@LegDayLas]

Who the fk would shop at a home improvement store the day before a hurricane that is going to flatten homes. (the only valid reason is to board your windows, but who doesn't have their boards from the last hurricanes sitting in storage somewhere already)

[@KatePellito]

Thank you for your contribution to the world of creativity. Your videos are always top notch.🥰🌼🌃

[@Carnyzzle]

I've worked for a gas station before with one of the hurricanes coming and I told them that I was not coming in because of the hurricane and they can feel free to write me up for not showing up Thankfully it ended up being a day where I didn't need to work already

[@annoyingtiger888x2]

No place to go, no money for a hotel, some people have pets they refuse to leave, no gas to buy... there's plenty of reasons people can't leave and people call them dumb. We have a lot of cats, very little money and a tiny car. We have nowhere to go and I refuse to leave my babies behind. Thankfully, we're not right in the path so we will hopefully be okay. But these guys being FORCED to stay?? That's f'ed up.

[@appalachiabrauchfrau]

There were free ubers and shuttles to shelters and evac drop zones. You don't have an excuse when resources are available.

[@stardustsins2017]

More reason to not support companies that do this

[@Meatball2022]

Happens all the time. Very common. Happened to me a dozen times in the past. One employee did this to me, I called their district manager and yelled at him on the phone for 10 minutes and threatened HR involvement until he apologized.

[@jerrybrown3076]

All the workers have to do is call the Governor hot line and they will come and arrest the owner and see that workers are out of the State safety. And if the owner fire the workers the governor can take care of that too.

[@s.h.6858]

And I think this gov would back up that threat.

[@russellmania5349]

⁠@@s.h.6858 Yeah, they don't have a commie governor like Newsom.

[@LegDayLas]

Ya, that's not how any of this stuff works.

[@laowaistudieschina7470]

Who tf are the retailers expecting to shop during a HURRICANE?!?

[@StudioUAC]

-heck to work. live the neet life

[@SomeRandomPersonOnTheNet]

My in-laws job pays very well, but the manager makes them work in just about every storm… this time around too… our schools and government offices are closed… My job went to work-from-home… nope… my elderly in-laws get to drive into work or risk their job.

[@LegDayLas]

It's not a risk when you coordinate a walk out with your fellow employees. They can't fire everyone, so they will fire no one. It's why companies are so afraid of unions. The power dynamic flips when you simply work together in your collective interest.

[@isardonic8601]

That happened to me. A hurricane hit my city. The trains were down, and I contacted my company. Told them I can not make it. They told me to use my time. I said no, the city is under national emergency, and this is not my fault. They agreed, and gave me the day off. Note, my building was still open regardless 😭

[@isardonic8601]

If you're wondering, I work for Amazon. No surprise there.

[@CrazedCorgi]

I'm not im retail, but my company has not did a single email blast for the hurricane victims like they have done in the previous years. I'll assume they will not for the new hurricane.

[@TheFsalazar23]

If it were me, I would leave. I'm not tryna to die in a break room of a retail store/factory.

[@TheSillySils]

May the Lord level these businesses with no insurance payout.

[@Lambwarrior]

I run a little Cesesars in Georgia and when Helena hit us some of us didn’t have power for weeks and the franchise still made us work if the store had power and told us we couldn’t leave if we wanted our jobs. All my employees called out don’t blame them but they still made me open the store. These types of jobs are the worst people so money hungry

[@manonthemoon692]

The problem is people doing what they are told and not doing what is right. All problems we are facing today in time falls back to that

[@toodlepop]

"i was just following orders." "I was just following my contract." "i was just following my NDA." at this point, people are CRAVING to be subjugated because they think it will give them an excuse when they do wrong. it's pathetic and evil.

[@BookOfWorms]

Let the bosses stay and run it, if they're so eager to die FOR A JOB. The rest of you get out of there. Twister called that rating 'the finger of god'. If you don't give your bosses the finger, you'll be present when god does it for you

[@Kevinb1821]

Damn GameStop stayed open 😂 I think most companies learned from Helene to close. I didn’t see anything open the afternoon befoe the hurricane hit. Not even cvs or w gas station.

[@Myrmekes]

I work for a small box retail corporation. Sounds about right. They say they care while at the same time saying do it or you’re fired

[@TheGuruStud]

It's b/c they'll fire with cause and the store closes for good. No unemployment pay out.

[@paytreonsuhks]

people need to learn what a ski mask and a bat are

[@madison5835]

Working at Sally’s during a terrible ice storm we only got to stay home after one girl died in a car crash trying to drive to work. The district manager then called everyone to stay home or close down and go home if they already made it to the store. This was after a state shut down was in place. Hair dye and shampoo is apparently an essential service lol

[@bobbybamf14]

I am going through this right now.

[@tinaprice848]

We are open at Dollar general in Lakeland florida so far. And a lot of us walk to work

[@hollyshaw-elliemae]

dont go

[@chipperjoneszz]

Their building may not be able to withstand the sustained winds and sheer mass destructive nature unleashed by this beast. GG

[@Kaloo1968]

I used to work for Walmart and the store that I was at would not let us leave. If we wanted to leave, we were threatened that we would be penalized and could lose our job. Yep! We were threatened.

[@Bigglenndaddy]

I got off work today with enough time to make it to Publix with 10 minutes to shop. All Publix are shutting down at 5:00 p.m. today

[@mattwhaley1865]

If you can go to your local Hispanic grocery store, they should have more supplies in stock.

[@toonyoshi3324]

My job is to take care of and look after my family...not a job that dont give a flying f#@$ about me...but some people...even after the apocalypse will still go in to work...even if there is no customers

[@giraffezebra2698]

The same people who complain about being “forced” to work would not be happy if no one was working at the gas stations or grocery stores if they need to go. Lines for gas are hours long and they may not have gas to give you when you get to the front of the line. My brother has been trying to fill his tank for 3 days. I can’t imagine how bad it would be if there were no employees. Some workers actually are essential. Some gas stations are giving incentives for people willing to work until the last minute, many encouraging those with families to leave early. Owners are working and sending employees home. They are doing the best they can in most cases. There are always idiots who think of nothing but money.

[@fightingblind]

Honestly Tuesday evening was the best time to evacuate as long as you already have a full tank of gas. Full tank will get you to I10 and there is gas up there. I evac-d Tuesday night at like 7pm. 75mph all the way. People evacing sunday and Monday were on gridlock taking 4 hours to go 30 miles

[@RobinSingsDaBlues]

IF you are at work and are told you cannot leave in an emergency situation - DO KNOW they have NO authority to tell you to stay or lose your job - thats what attorneys are for

[@GTH321]

Would love to have had that conversation

[@michaelflury4434]

Lost track over the last few years where I'm at when the higher ups are like "oh we will keep a eye on things" while telling very few staff,who dont do stuff, not to come in but tell others to show up.even if its bad and said higher ups are a no show.

[@felipelovecraft1767]

Pretty simple leave. Either way a job can be replaced, life you only have one. Plus the work site can be heavily damaged and pretty much closed.

[@Bassotronics]

Funny thing is I don’t know anybody in my whole life named Milton. But… My teacher had a poster of two monkeys and she called them Mugsy and Milton. When a child was bad the child had to stare at the monkeys for 15 minutes without laughing.

[@christophernewhouse5832]

oh i did learn from last week dont spend $2000 going 2 Alabama + this time its projected to hit Tampa the hardest my house is on higher ground so its not going 2 be as bad hopefully cut down trees within a radius of ur roof & hope ur neighbors trees dont fly through ur windows no1 should work if u r in a evacuation zone u should be compensated 4 hours lost so 3 days payed leave i hate greedy people die with money going 2 the wrong people 4 the wrong causes

[@charlesmitchell9690]

Its really hard to leave in the mountains. Your family depends on that income and once you're labelled like that in a local area you potentially are cut off from that local area not just job wise but careerwise. A lot of people don't understand how difficult it is beyond the paycheck. It's what else is going on. How many people from Asheville who grew up in Asheville told a camera over the least week and a half and said they never envisioned Asheville to be flood danger... The valley for which Asheville sits WAS FORGED BY A RIVER. They can't imagine that the river that forged the valley exists... It just doesn't exist everyday because the river isnt showing the daily power of its monumental force. When you're surrounded by people who may want your land and they know where you work or worse? What I mean is you live on some land it's beautiful a message in the mountains isn't like a message in the big city. From how long it takes to get to work to what job openings you could ever work at jus cuz they don't like you for whatever reason. As for Florida and evac. We have traded our freedom for the coins and papers that promise to enable us to have freedom including the freedom of our own safety. Choices we make them everyday. I personally would've recorded the person and took it to an attorney then again finding an attorney who cares about laws? Health community vs big business for the area? Big boss? Bosses power can reach beyond their business operations.

[@seekertosecrets]

4:51 Damn...

[@Gameboynitro]

It's sad how there's people that truly believe it's impossible to find work elsewhere if they leave this one job that couldn't give two shits about your safety. How are you gonna support your family if you're dead?

[@jaybone8119]

You might as well leave! I went into my job during a blizzard and they fired me

[@rootapt-getworld]

Why anyone would question leaving and caring about a job vs being dead is wild to me. I mean ive done dangerous jobs where the danger comes with the job but thats totally different then hey theres a historic hurrican otw you cant try to leave until the night before.

[@loneraven5656]

My life & family or my job? Dueces ✌

[@grimreaper63151]

That doesn’t surprise me. My boss tells me that shit, I’ll tell them where they can shove it

[@onceuponanexploration6048]

At the very least hazard pay or double pay since people need stores open.

[@nardopolo7407]

also jc pennys decapitation inusrance rule is insane I wonder if they still have it

[@alexandru5369]

Just leave it's justa. job also that job won't matter if you're dead. Also it's retail

[@whocares4274]

I would certainly have not even showed up to work let alone think twice about leaving.

[@oOignignoktOo1]

They can't leave GameStop needs them for the midnight release of Aqua Man for the PlayStation 5.

[@nukemdukeem6227]

I said it before and I'll say it again "im not getting killed for minimum wage, that will cost extra"

[@ibapreppie]

Ive seen 0 proof that Gamestops are open during this. I live paycheck to paycheck and you won't see me working during a hurricane. And Im sure Im not the only one.

[@jamiethornton6101]

You know what I would be saying Camelot? Goodbye friends!

[@UltimateEnd0]

Okay, who took Milton's stapler?

[@itranscendencei7964]

There won't be any job left when they come back. What do they expect? Just walk out. It's not worth it.

[@VespoLiveGaming]

Because customers will be breaking down the doors to buy pre-owned games and funkopops during a hurricane.

[@cozzy4447]

As if they think they have any right to make demands in situations like that 😂

[@AbyssalWolf335]

Companies don't care about the employee. They want profits. You can replace employee's by lunch time.

[@SnowOwl0101]

Companies want us to "Risk it for the Biscuit" because they can squeeze a little more profits out of us before we are recycled for new hires.

[@EmmureMARIO64]

I would say “watch me leave.”

[@BrandonMCDonald-x3f]

Bruh swore I just saw a lightsaber ad with the old man from family guy and his “floppy lightsaber”.

[@MMCUSN]

Manager informs employees they can not evacuate. Manager found tied to tree.

[@Steve.Cutler]

Its not hurricane Helen it's Heleen 😂 Just leave, they cant stop you!!

[@sissysovereign1294]

Oh HEAVENS NO!!!! It's bad enough that both retail jobs and retail workers are already seen as less than human and treated as a joke, but this is just cruel. You better believe I'm abandoning my register if a life and death situation is happening! Fuck...THAT..NOISE!!! And this is coming from a cashier that still works for a joke paycheck with only 19 cents to her name! No job is worth your life! Especially one that pays you in peanuts and reminds you of how replacable you are! If brainwashed workers and managers want to die for a paycheck then fine, but I wouldn't chance it!

[@GeorgeSweet]

They need to get back to work. Don't they understand this hurricane is all just drummed up drama. The company COULD lose money. That's unacceptable.

[@GeorgeSweet]

Jk

[@wilberwhateley7569]

But don’t you know that the corporate bottom line is all-important? If a few employees die in a natural disaster to make sure that the bottom line is maintained, that’s acceptable - won’t anyone think of the corporate executives?

[@ronnieallen6986]

Your life is way more important than any job can always get another job you only have one life if you lose your life don't get another one i be leaving

[@lawrup]

CAMELOT Has been real quite Since this was Posted

[@apocalypsator6]

Tell them about your rights. You're a good sheep. You put on the mask and made sure customers did the same. You deserve something.

[@literallystrange9097]

And suits