I live in an area that tornadoes are not uncommon. I was working at a pizza chain that offered take out only. The entire storefront was glass. The general manager was on vacation and we were told to contact the district manager if we had any problems. Myself and a shift manager were the only people working at the time as it was early afternoon, the slowest time of day for us. The weather forecast for that day was hot and clear with severe thunderstorms and possible tornadoes about mid-day.
The sky went from sunny and clear to black and downpour in the span of about 30 mins. We had the radio on to keep up with the weather broadcast. It started to hail and a tornado watch was called. I called the district manager to ask if we could temporarily close if a tornado warning was called so we could go shelter in back. She said that the sky's were totally clear where she was, she was in a town over 2 and a half hours drive Northwest of us, and that we were not to close.
The tornado sirens went off. We locked up and went into the cooler until the radio gave us the all clear. When the next shift manager came in we both quit. When our general manager returned from vacation she was furious because we were her 2 best employees. She contacted me and tried to get me to come back. I told her as long as I would have to work under a district manager that doesn't care about the safety of her employees I wasn't coming back.