At the risk of getting flamed here...I have to side with company policy on this one. Most robberies end with crooks leaving with "stuff" and money, rarely killing anyone. However, allowing non law-enforcement to have firearms and attempt to stop a robbery pretty much guarantees someone is going to get hurt. As a small business owner, I'd much rather let my insurance absorb the financial loss of the robbery, and accept the small risk of the death of my staff, which would be the fault of the robber. The alternative is the high probability that the robber, or the staff, or both, are going to be seriously injured or killed and I, as the business owner, will be held liable. The protection of my stuff and money is just not worth the risk.
AutoZone Fires Worker Who Stopped Robbery
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I just want to make sure I understand you clearly.......your words "and accept the samll risk of death of my staff". I don't think anyone in a corporate/business sense should accept any level of risk when it comes to somebody elses life.
Sad, if the store or place of work is.not going to protect you who will then? And if you can not then everyone is screwed.
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I agree with you 100% and was about to post the same. The last thing companies need to do is encourage employee's to put their lives in harms way over material assets that are insured and even more importantly are not worth the loss of life if anything goes wrong (and there is very high potential it will). I think what the man did was brave but none the less the policy is there for a reason and that reason is to protect the employee's safety.
Anyone who has ever worked for a bank is very familiar with policies like these and what goes wrong when someone tries to be a hero..
Ok...makes more sense the way you explained it JK47. But, is it really necessary to fire the guy? And, had the guy left the store and not returned with the firearm and left his manager there and said manager was killed by the robber, what kind of fallout do you think the company and the coworker would receive then?
The employee wouldn't suffer any legal repercussions. The company could be responsible for the manager's death (legally), and would probably be sued by his family for wrongful death. If I were put in that position, I would have a very hard time regarding the manager's life as a "material asset". He didn't go back for the money... He went back for a person.
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I couldn't agree more...that is why I don't think the employee should have been fired.
What happens when the guy comes in and fires upon ur employees? By not allowing ur employees to protect themselves u take their safety upon urself. IE their blood would be on ur hands.
That was different, no ones live was at stake. In this case though, he was protecting his supervisor, if the robber was leaving then it would be stupid to try to stop them but if someone life is in danger then it is a different story.
