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by schnischna 2242 days ago
Because he was fired for refusing to comply to the orders of his employer. Whether they seemed reasonable or not.

And he seems to have switched from worrying about his safety to campaigning against Amazon. Why should anybody be forced to employ somebody who has made it their job to damage their employers reputation?
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josefx 2242 days ago
> Whether they seemed reasonable or not.

Isn't following unreasonable orders by definition you know unreasonable? I mean if your boss told you to jump of a bridge that seems unreasonable right? And you would still do it? After all he is your boss and you don't want to get fired, right?

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cowsandmilk 2242 days ago
Being ordered to quarantine does not put you at risk. Jumping off a bridge puts your life in danger. Have no idea how those are at all comparable.
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josefx 2242 days ago
> Have no idea how those are at all comparable.

He was in the middle of organizing a movement for covid related safety improvements after multiple cases of exposure. Dropping that for two weeks would put him back at zero and he would return to the same risk he tried to have resolved. The order itself doesn't cause the risk, but it prevents an existing risk from being resolved.

Its closer to working on an active train track knowing that the train might come any time. Of course he could have taken two weeks vacation, but he would just be back on the same train track with the same uncertainty of when it would be his turn to be hit by the covid train.

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