Truth to Power? Lolol

 It is telling that Jeff Bezos himself has a glowing tribute on his Twitter site to his employee Fred Hiatt and condolences to his family for his sudden cardiac death, prolonged by medical intervention until the family could gather and say their goodbyes. (And ensure everything medically possible had been done for Fred....)

Not true of his Amazon Edwardsville warehouse workers...

(Workers, not family or teammates. You don't wait so long to try and help, or even acknowledge the sufferings of, your missing and presumed killed in action family and teammates in America. You get in there and ask, "What can I do to help?")

Bezos will miss Fred after the tornado tragedy, no doubt. I suspect his hand- selected successors will be as gentle with national coverage of the big boss post tragedy as that which Fred would have led...

Btw, what evening Amazon warehouse shift starts at 2030, even in peak season? 8:30pm. ?

How long until centralized company HR computers can confirm who was still clocked in, and whose shift had ended already but might still be inside, nit having badge swiped at the door to get out? 

Is Amazon waiting for biological family members to step forward to report the missing so they know how many bodies / employees / people to look for? Sad.

The OSHA investigation will be interesting, because with the deaths comes a way to formally breach the company veil in terms of training, , management and worker safety standards inside Amazon. Here the warehouse is in smithereens, but the answers from corporate will be telling about standard business practices and how the systemically shortchange the American worker, despite established labor laws.

It just doesn't make sense that this far out, responders and rescuers don't know exactly how many warehouse workers were officially in on the job, or had just clocked out and were inside waiting out the storm. Or waiting to pick up another shift with the mandatory downtime enforced rest period in between...

Were workers trained on how to evacuate the warehouse or where to gather in case of inclement weather? The building had no basement.

Bezos should know by now the names of his presumed dead employees, and in death, treat their memories the same as his deceased Washington Post newspaper employees.  The factory workers enabled him to buy the newspaper and chase his space dreams...

They died on the job. 

Even employee and beloved colleague / team member Hiatt wasn't working at the end, but spending holiday time with family. Nttawwt.

In death, Fred Hiatt still has something to teach. An unfinished lesson about.... "speaking truth to Power". But of course, that's a cliche in the biz 

Bezos need not be confronted outright at all. Just go find the facts, journalists. Report what you learn and confirm. Don't trust your unnamed sources without verification.  If your boss says he loves his workers, Mama say, "Check it out !"

(Last one updated for the unapprenticed newbies who came up making a name in the biz fetching coffee, buying Christmas presents to cultivate sweeter relationships, drinking in the right holes, and collecting tips... Of course, your mama's love you! Check it out, wha?  And your lovely boss too! 💕 👏)