Committee chairperson Linda Thorpe added that there are options for a county employee that feels threatened during the course of their duties other than carrying a concealed weapon.OK, Linda, let's try a workplace thought experiment.
"In instances [where] an employee feels that they may be threatened, they have contacted the sheriff's department and a deputy has gone with them," Thorpe said. [More]
Say you're in your office goofing off surfing the Internet and you come across this blog post. Now let's say you hear what sound like gunshots coming from down the hall and people screaming--and the commotion is quickly approaching your door. Now let's say that once what's happening sinks in and you feel the hot knife of terror in your gut, that is, you "feel threatened," you decide to pick up the phone and...oops--too late. He's here.
I'd suggest maybe James Behling could save you, except...oh, for God's sake, James, don't you think your ass sticking out from under your desk while you whimper to be spared is a pretty undignified way to check out?
Too bad Robert Egan and Martha Milanowski won't be any help either.
But at least they knew enough to tell the non-ruminants what to do!
The funny part was getting worker's comp for being unarmed against a grizzly bear. How is worker's comp gonna help someone who's dead?
ReplyDeleteAnd really, does anyone think that if you call a cop for escort, he's gonna show up? Which leads to that old cliche that is no less true for being a cliche: when seconds count, the cops are only minutes away.
"What's our liability if we prohibit our employees from carrying and something happens to one of them?" Emil Bakka, committee member, asked.
ReplyDeleteAt least someone had the sense to ask a good question. Workers comp? Most of the time you have to sue to even get it and like the man said, what good is it if your dead?