I work part time at a chain coffee shop (not the big green one). All of the employees are part time except for our GM. We’re located right in the middle of one of those dark red zones we saw in the storm maps yesterday for the severe weather. We knew the likelihood of a tornado hitting us (we are also in a midwestern US state that’s seen lots of tornados over the years). Yet our District Manager wouldn’t let us close the store. This is a guy who doesn’t even work at our location, he’s upper management and travels and oversees a bunch of our shops. He makes the call on whether or not we can close the store due to bad weather and he never lets us close. So two of my coworkers (I was off yesterday) had to sit in the bathrooms in the dark (no power) while a tornado went by. Our building flooded, power lines went down, businesses a couple of buildings down from had walls ripped off. There were cars flipped nearby. Right across the highway, a couple of large buildings were nearly shredded. I’m extremely thankful my coworkers are okay, I love the people I work with. I just HATE the upper management, especially our DM, who makes these hurtful decisions and doesn’t have any idea what it’s like to live with them.