This is my first post and on mobile, so sorry for formatting mistakes etc…
Yesterday I was the attending first aid on site when an employee caught their finger in a powered pallet jack and severed the digit completely in our back warehouse. I was first on scene, have my OFA, and was attending. I paged our manager over, told her to call 911. She deadass told me there were customers to serve first. I don't know if she was in shock or what, but she just stood there staring while I tried to get the bleed under control; I asked her to hold the pressure while I found the missing finger and called 911 and she backed away and told me she couldn't because she was going to pass out (she also has her first aid?!) Apparently this meant she couldn't call an ambulance either.
I talked my in-shock coworker through holding pressure while I called 911 myself and found the missing finger. Meanwhile my boss had fucked off to go serve customers. When the EMTS arrived, my coworker was conscious but not alert. I asked my boss where the emergency contact list was and was told we don't keep emergency contacts for anyone on file. I was told I could not follow my coworker to the hospital because now we were short staffed… I managed to get a hold of an emergency contact for my coworker and walk them through what they would need over the phone for work injury coverage.
After this, I went back to the front to tell my boss I needed to take a 15 after dealing with all of this, but before I could even ask my unrelated coworker who was not present for any of this told me she “felt faint” and “needed a cig break.” When she came back, I told my boss I was going on my break and got told that I couldn't because no one had been on stock duty while all this was going down. I told her “too bad” and walked away.
I'm so angry over every aspect of this absolute fuckery, and today I discovered the coworker who was injured did not have an operator's license for the pallet jack and had never received any training on how to use it. WTF?!?!