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LisaLynne

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6. I think if his employer made it so it was likely he would have to be ...
Mon Jun 9, 2014, 07:30 PM
Jun 2014

driving when that sleep deprived, then I think the employer is at fault. People are always like, "Hey, get another job", but it's not that easy, especially lately. Our jobs are not trivial. They are how we feed ourselves, our families, how we provide for shelter for those we love, how we survive. That's why workers need SO many more protections than we have. But, that's slightly off topic. Basically, what I am saying, is that employers who put a person in a position of feeling they have to do something dangerous in order to keep their job, I feel, is responsible for those outcomes.

Also, I think we as a society need to start taking driving more seriously than we do. It's so common place it's really easy to forget the damage we can do in a split second of dozing off or looking at our phone.

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