Impact Plastics Employee- Company Told Him and Others They Werent Allowed to Leave During the Flooding. Many Died in the Flood

I get that he wanted to keep his job but life is full of examples where you have to be your own boss in a situation. He should’ve left and took it up afterwards. I hate this slave attitude workers adopt.

I read about similar stories from Michelin employees in sc. company kept normal schedule requiring workers to drive in during peak wind times, around 6/7am. Only after extent of the weather they were told to shelter in place and production was halted. Not allowed to leave for several hours for safety reasons. So they drove in a hurricane to go to a job that was called off after they got there but couldn’t leave. This isn’t a case of corruption or conspiracy. It’s a company putting production and profits first with only concern of the safety of employees on site. Once on site the employees are the responsibility of the company so they were “forced” to shelter in place for hours. Now the closest Michelin facility is probably Spartanburg which is less than an hour from Asheville. There was flooding there and huge power outages from tree damage but not the epic flooding of Asheville and chimney rock. Those were more impacted by flooding because they’re in the mountains with a river so rain waters collect and add to the already surging river. The heavy rain started days before and the high winds from the hurricane lasted for hours.

There is no conspiracy here. It’s supervisor negligence of employee safety due to the weather conditions. That said nobody knew the weather would be that bad so it was not a decision made out of bad intent.