Amazon employees in collapsing Illinois warehouse told to shelter in bathrooms and break rooms, they said
on December 11, the workers set a challenge: Get to one end of the warehouse, which was the length of five football fields, and shelter in the break room or bathroom.
While tornado drills exist in theory, they're rarely practiced or explained, so most employees don't know how to safely manage a tornado, Rebecca said. And Cari McCollum, a former Amazon warehouse worker in Illinois, agreed. She told Insider that, during a tornado,"wherever you were, you were supposed to stop what you were doing and go straight to the closest designated area for shelter. And those were the rear restrooms, and break area and the front restrooms."An Amazon spokesperson told Insider:"Our leaders on the ground followed their training moving quickly to get people to take shelter immediately.
It's not the first time that Amazon staff have had to work through extreme weather. Insider's Grace Dean previouslythat warehouse staff had to work through an extreme heatwave. The company supplied employees with iced scarves rather than allocated leave. McCollum told Insider about the wide-reaching effects that the deaths of six Amazon employees had on their colleagues.
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