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Florida CEO of company in Ian's path insisted employees still show up so she could have a good quarter [1]
['Carla Sinclair']
Date: 2022-09-28
A Florida CEO of a company located in Clearwater, which declared a state of emergency Tuesday due to Hurricane Ian, asked employees to show up at the office and keep working.
"Obviously you feeling safe and comfortable is of the utmost importance, but I honestly want to continue to deliver and I want to have a good end of quarter," said Joy Gendusa of Postcardmania in an email (see below). "And when [the hurricane] turns into nothing, I don't want it to be like, 'Great, we all stopped producing because of the media and the maybe that it was going to be terrible.'"
"There is always more hype in the media than any storm that has ever hit here," she said, obviously a fan of Tucker Carlson, who calls hurricanes a scam invented by the media. "Bring your pets if you feel teh [sic] need. I doubt in the end you will really need to. We are not closing, we are working. We'll make it super fun for the kids!"
From Vice:
But in the end, the email (posted by @jonahfurman on Twitter, see below) went viral, and Gendusa backed down, allowing employees to take off Wednesday and Thursday — although "they're still expected to hit 40 hours of work this week," according to Vice's Paul Blest (see second tweet below). In his post's comments, at least one employee said they will now be looking for another job.
Wild: Here are the CEO's remarks on an staff call sent out with minutes from the meeting:
"Anyway, bring your pets, bring your kids… Jason can start blowing up those air mattresses… Raise your hand if you're scared of the hurricane. It's really not going to be that scary."
https://t.co/EAKHUFcuf5 pic.twitter.com/bnDIKJPO66 — Jonah Furman (@JonahFurman) September 27, 2022
After tweets about this by @JonahFurman went viral, the company reversed course and said they'd close the office Wednesday and Thursday. But employees I spoke with said they're still expected to hit 40 hours of work this week.
https://t.co/zBNqHqc0Sg — Paul Blest (@pblest) September 28, 2022
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