Unfortunately, tragedies and natural disasters happen everywhere, but that doesn’t mean it’s not a big deal when they happen. It’s awful when anyone loses their life due to a tragic circumstance.

In this story, one person is trying to talk to his dad about a tragedy, but his dad doesn’t seem to think it’s a big deal. He uses his own life experience to back up what he says.

That leads to a disagreement with neither father or son willing to back down even a tiny bit from their perspective.

Keep reading for all the details.

So dad says “it happens in every workplace”

I tried to explain to this bloke that the amazon workers that died during the tornado didn’t particularly have the option on leaving work. That “amazon won’t let [us] leave”. And that 6 freaking workers died.

He says “it happens in every workplace”.

I said “are you freaking kidding me?”

His dad shared his experience.

His ‘justification’ was he was in a cyclone in Darwin at some point in the 90s (couldn’t give me an exact date) and he “wasn’t allowed to leave work because my boss said I couldn’t”.

I asked “what if you had died? What had you have done different?”

And he basically said it’s all about making money.

I pretty much said you wouldn’t risk your life for $10USD an hour.

OP’s dad was not about to change his mind.

Then the argument started.

And after about 15 minutes of arguing with the guy that just kept repeating “it happens everywhere. It doesn’t affect me!” I threw my hands up.

He earned over $25AUD(he said “I couldn’t tell you exactly what I was earning in those days”) per hour.

He hates his dad’s attitue.

I think there’s a massive difference.

To be fair, he wasn’t exactly a warehouse worker rather a pathologist.

What a negligent, dishonourable hunk of garbage.

What the heck is wrong with people born in the 50s. Purely disgraceful.

I think it would be better to get fired for leaving your job than to risk your life for minimum wage.

Let’s see how Reddit responded.

This person points out that OP’s dad is right.

Someone who was born in the 1950s weighs in.

This is the sad reality.

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This person understands OP’s perspective.

Even if the dad is right, or especially if the dad is right, that doesn’t make it okay. Acting like it’s no big deal because it happens everywhere doesn’t mean it’s okay or not a big deal. It is a big deal.

I think that’s the frustrating part. OP wasn’t looking for a lecture on whether or not bad things happen everywhere. I’m not sure why his dad thought this was a kill to die on.