So a little backstory. I work in the warehouse at an outdoor amphitheater, and have been working for this company about 2 years. My older brother is the "warehouse manager" with no official title but is currently trying to become the GM and has good reason to believe he will be next for that position. This post is mainly about how to keep his job position safe while still taking some sort of action.
Now for years we have had rat infestation issues but after coming back from the offseason this year, it was so bad that you literally couldn't walk into the warehouse without stepping on rat shit. We obviously cleaned this all but were not provided any real proper cleaning equipment (face mask, eye protection) and we all were definitely breathing it in because we could see it floating in the air at points. The building is maintained by a different company (LiveNation) so my company I don't believe would be responsible for this, but their building workers knew about this and only provided us rat traps. To be honest this stuff was so disgusting we all thought they would hire a professional cleaning team because there were rat shit pellets all in the ceiling and we have found many many rat nests.
On a second occasion we dealt with disgusting stuff. We have a massive walk in refrigerator that is brand new as of last year, but during our off season it quit working (no one is on site during off season) and when we came back it was the most foul smelling thing i have ever smelled because the stuff inside became extremely moldy after being off for months. Now this was causing breathing problems and chest pains to multiple workers including me as we cleaned it. To make matters worse, they had us "wash" all the product with soap and water and sanitizer, which was mainly beer cans, soda cans, wine, mixers for alcoholic drinks etc. None of use were happy about this and we had arguments over working with this stuff. Some of the wine and the boxes it is in still smell extremely bad and have small mold spores still on the box. The last event we had, there were "big bosses" around and at one point one was freaking out making us work with this wine to deliver to a location to be sold because it was the last that we had of that kind. Well as we moved, a boss said it smelled like shit and we explained it was the wine from the nasty fridge, yet he continued to make us delver and get sold to customers. On top of all this, my brother who is trying to move up is a T1 diabetic and is allergic to mold. He obviously isn't a warehouse slave like us but he dealt with the wine for a few hours the other day and about 5 hours into the day he went home throwing up and ended up going to the hospital to be treated so his blood sugars wouldn't drop too low. He has said something to upper management about working with it but doesn't want to say he will get rid of all the bad product in fear for losing the potential for a promotion. I however am just a warehouse worker and am not afraid to speak up because I have nothing to lose, I just don't want them to take anything out on him in place of me bringing this up. I guess at this point I'm fed up with them passing off our health and the customers health just to save a few bucks as an almost billion dollar company. I also know not to create a battle with them because I'm sure i will lose but that is why I'm here, for some advice.
I know this is a weird situation and sorry for the long post but I was just wondering what legal action I could take on this matter, if any, and how do to so without compromising my brothers potential. Another thing is if they tell me to work with this product, and I refuse because i believe it is a health hazard, do they have a right to send me home?
Note: If there is any additional info i should include, let me know and i will gladly include it. EDIT: Split it into multiple paragraphs
Submitted May 10, 2017 at 09:56PM by issathrowawayaccount http://ift.tt/2q5Q22Y legaladvice
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