So That Happened

<p>A Florida Pizza Hut manager on a <a href="https://www.someecards.com/entertainment/donald-trump/donald-trump-pizza-hut-commercial/">pizza power trip</a> promised to discipline employees if they didn&#39;t follow his specific, draconian instructions on how to appropriately flee life-threatening Hurricane Irma, according to <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/nation-now/2017/09/12/pizza-hut-manager-threatens-employees-evacuating-ahead-irma/658325001/" target="_blank">USA Today</a>.</p><p>It&#39;s the one time in modern history that public opinion has taken the side against more pizza.</p><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Pizza Hut wants its minimum wage employees to risk their lives for corporate profits. (<a href="https://twitter.com/KatiSipp?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@KatiSipp</a>) <a href="https://t.co/r8rwb3O7I6">pic.twitter.com/r8rwb3O7I6</a></p>&mdash; Jacobin (@jacobinmag) <a href="https://twitter.com/jacobinmag/status/907031322459344896?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 11, 2017</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><p>&quot;Our #1 priority is the safety and security of our team,&quot; wrote the manager, before explaining why that&#39;s not true.</p><p>&quot;If evacuating, you will have a 24-hour period before storm &#39;grace period&#39; to not be scheduled. You <strong>cannot</strong> evacuate Friday for a Tuesday storm event! Failure to show for these shifts, regardless of reason&quot; will result in &quot;documentation being issued.&quot;</p><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>Another low light follows, again printed in all bold text just in case hurricane fear made you skim the note:</p><p>&quot;<strong>In the event of an evacuation, you MUST return within 72 hours.&quot;</strong></p><p>The reason that these rules are cruel and unfair should be obvious. Just take it from the mayor of Miami-Dade, Carlos Gimenez, who <a href="http://www.miamiherald.com/news/weather/hurricane/article171653142.html" target="_blank">urged speedy evacuation</a>.</p><p>&quot;If you do it later, you may be caught in a flood of traffic trying to leave the area. You may find yourself in a car during a hurricane, which is not the best place to be.&quot;</p><p>Again, public opinion&mdash;in a rare occurrence putting human life above pizza&mdash;was furious at the Pizza Hut manager. The national chain has <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/nation-now/2017/09/12/pizza-hut-manager-threatens-employees-evacuating-ahead-irma/658325001/" target="_blank">denounced the memo</a> as &quot;an isolated incident by an employee who showed very poor judgement.&quot;</p><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/pizzahut?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@pizzahut</a> You guys are closed on Christmas, but sending delivery drivers to their death for a hurricane? What&#39;s up with that?</p>&mdash; avery💝s data📝charts📈&amp; finance💹✊🌹 (@averygrrl) <a href="https://twitter.com/averygrrl/status/907043319326310400?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 11, 2017</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I was a Pizza Hut RGM for years &amp; road out Hurricane Andrew in Louisiana &amp; I gave no such order to my employees! WTF?!</p>&mdash; America&#39;s Freedom 76 (@1AngryAmerican_) <a href="https://twitter.com/1AngryAmerican_/status/907411603720519680?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 12, 2017</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">can you imagine the horror.. &quot;Mayor, how&#39;s the recovery going?&quot; &quot;There&#39;s been no loss of life. But Pizza Hut isn&#39;t open &amp; we needed them!&quot;</p>&mdash; Kevin Monsour (@ThatLawGuyKev) <a href="https://twitter.com/ThatLawGuyKev/status/907564215480840194?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 12, 2017</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Forcing low-wage employees to come to work during a hurricane. Talk about making America Great Again.</p>&mdash; Paul McKinney (@PaulMcKinneyLA) <a href="https://twitter.com/PaulMcKinneyLA/status/907668282005610496?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 12, 2017</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><p>The president has not weighed in on the controversy:</p><div><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="giphy-embed" frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://giphy.com/embed/gOkl3JJ50kTDO" width="480"></iframe> <p> </p> </div><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

Pizza Hut manager posts awful note threatening employees fleeing Irma. No one took his side.

A Florida Pizza Hut manager on a pizza power trip promised to discipline employees if they didn&#39;t follow his specific, draconian instructions on how to appropriately flee life-threatening Hurricane Irma, according to USA Today.It&#39;s the one time in modern history that public opinion has taken the side against more pizza.Pizza Hut wants its minimum wage employees to risk their lives for corporate profits. (@KatiSipp) pic.twitter.com/r8rwb3O7I6&mdash; Jacobin (@jacobinmag) September 11, 2017 &quot;Our #1 priority is the safety and security of our team,&quot; wrote the manager, before explaining why that&#39;s not true.&quot;If evacuating, you will have a 24-hour period before storm &#39;grace period&#39; to not be scheduled. You cannot evacuate Friday for a Tuesday storm event! Failure to show for these shifts, regardless of reason&quot; will result in &quot;documentation being issued.&quot;Another low light follows, again printed in all bold text just in case hurricane fear made you skim the note:&quot;In the event of an evacuation, you MUST return within 72 hours.&quot;The reason that these rules are cruel and unfair should be obvious. Just take it from the mayor of Miami-Dade, Carlos Gimenez, who urged speedy evacuation.&quot;If you do it later, you may be caught in a flood of traffic trying to leave the area. You may find yourself in a car during a hurricane, which is not the best place to be.&quot;Again, public opinion&mdash;in a rare occurrence putting human life above pizza&mdash;was furious at the Pizza Hut manager. The national chain has denounced the memo as &quot;an isolated incident by an employee who showed very poor judgement.&quot;@pizzahut You guys are closed on Christmas, but sending delivery drivers to their death for a hurricane? What&#39;s up with that?&mdash; avery💝s data📝charts📈&amp; finance💹✊🌹 (@averygrrl) September 11, 2017 I was a Pizza Hut RGM for years &amp; road out Hurricane Andrew in Louisiana &amp; I gave no such order to my employees! WTF?!&mdash; America&#39;s Freedom 76 (@1AngryAmerican_) September 12, 2017 can you imagine the horror.. &quot;Mayor, how&#39;s the recovery going?&quot; &quot;There&#39;s been no loss of life. But Pizza Hut isn&#39;t open &amp; we needed them!&quot;&mdash; Kevin Monsour (@ThatLawGuyKev) September 12, 2017 Forcing low-wage employees to come to work during a hurricane. Talk about making America Great Again.&mdash; Paul McKinney (@PaulMcKinneyLA) September 12, 2017 The president has not weighed in on the controversy:   

A Pizza Hut manager promised to discipline employees if they didn't follow his specific, draconian instructions on how to flee life-threatening Hurricane Irma.