In the past few days, I've seen multiple stories of deaths and life threatening injuries on the job.
Airline worker sucked through a jet engine:
3 construction workers killed, 2 injured in scaffold collapse:
https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/article270666997.html
Football player collapses after making a tackle in the Monday Night Football game.
Latest reporting is that he has survived, but isn't yet breathing on his own. It's all super fresh so who knows how this will go?
In each of these cases you have men who died/were critically injured just doing their jobs.
In only 2 of the 3 cases was work halted. The construction site was closed pending an investigation, and the NFL has indefinitely postponed the Bills/Bengals game even though playoffs start next week.
The airline? “Normal operations” resumed 6 hours later.
And, yeah, I get it, the people who booked that plane still had places to go, but Jesus… Seems a little cold to just go “Welp! Back to work!”
“Hey Frank, yeah, I know it's your day off, but we need you to come in, Jim didn't make it…”
Your employer doesn't care about you.
You can/will be replaced.
You don't owe them anything, much less your life.