The company said "we didn't threaten to fire anyone" but I guarantee its heavily implied.
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I work a few exits away from there. They have bad feedback from previous employees. Here’s the local news interview with an employee: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfuRLcpSFak
I wonder if the owner is booking a flight to a non-extraditable country or if he's going to go private.
The worst that will happen is a tax deductable fine. If you kill people but you do it for a corporation, nobody goes to prison.
Its Tennessee. He'll buy a steak dinner for the investigator at the club and they will call it good.
The "Tennessee Bureau of Investigation" would probably inspire more confidence if their acronym wasnt TBI.
Why?
TBI is a commonly seen initialism in US reporting that stands for "Traumatic Brain Injury". Given the relative amount of education in Tennessee, and their backwards stance on every issue from women's health to wearing mixed fabrics, identifying as the 'TBI' is er... rather unflattering.
This is the first I've heard of that acronym. It was certainly never bandied about when my wife suffered a traumatic injury to her brain.
It's become really common especially since we're seeing American football players get dementia-like symptoms in their 50s. TBI is an umbrella term covering everything from getting your skull caved in all the way down to the micro concussions that football players get regularly. I recently listened to part of an NPR report about concussions in football but I've been seeing TBI used by mainstream outlets for at least a few years now.
I tend to avoid sports in all possible ways, so maybe that's why.
A reasonable policy. Would that more people were of the same inclination, then maybe there would be less cause to use "TBI" with such frequency in sports reporting
Bring back Pillory.
Seeing as these people drowned, do the old salem witch trials. Throw the CEO and management into the water weighted down, and if they drown, they were innocent. If they live, they are guilty and should be burned at the stake.
The workers were asked to stay even after part of the parking lot was starting to flood.
It was after the power went out that they closed the factory.
Tennessee didn’t declare a state of emergency in the county until after the flooding started.
It's even worse because there is a river in the other side of the road from them. It was the river flooding into the parking lot. There is a spillway or a dam a little farther downstream.
I love in the insurance industry when they say our customers need us, you need to be here.
Yeah it's frozen and you know who won't need an insurance claim? Me.
This kind of shit is gross. A handful of dollars YOUR dollars means fuck all to me.
Plus, it ends up costing them more in the long run.
Shutting down the production line was probably cheaper than a few wrongful death lawsuits.