KY Candle factory workers threatened with firing if they left before tornado, employees say

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1. A company representative who WASN'T THERE...

... denies it, of course.


“It’s absolutely untrue,” said Bob Ferguson, a spokesman for Mayfield Consumer Products. “We’ve had a policy in place since Covid began. Employees can leave any time they want to leave and they can come back the next day.”

He also denied that managers told employees that leaving their shifts meant risking their jobs. Ferguson said managers and team leaders undergo a series of emergency drills that follow guidelines of the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

“Those protocols are in place and were followed,” he said.

Working in factories in Ohio for years, the reports from the survivors doesn't surprise me at all.

If I was in that situation and survived it, the only silver lining would be if the managers and supervisors didn't make it... so there would be fewer sociopaths in this world.

Edit: My current factory job is actually a joy, with many kind and encouraging people. The woman in charge doesn't behave like some military drill instructor (as if that's necessary to make people work), with signs inside that building that say "BE KIND!" And the employees diligently work to reciprocate the kindness there. It's honestly the FIRST time that I've experienced it at a factory job, and I'm in my mid-50's.