MarkB_MI said: (quoted from post at 02:51:45 09/13/11) Personally, I would not want to work inside the Benton Harbor city limits unless I was WELL armed. It's one of the few places in the country that are scarier than my beloved Detroit.
That's what everyone who's never been to Benton Harbor is missing. Sadly, BH is a sick city, but when the sun goes down it becomes a really creepy place. The city is falling apart, nobody cares to do anything about it other than blame the "twin city" of St. Joseph. The Walgreens employee may need his firearm just to get to his vehicle after work.
Although I agree that an employer should be able to have a policy in place on how to handle these situations, this policy will now get some bad press and maybe some more Walgreens employees will get an idea on how much "corporate" values their existance. If I were the employee who "fired" and "got fired", I wouldn't feel too bad about it. He now knows the value his former employer put on his life, and it wasn't much. He was just supposed to roll over and die so long as he followed policy. At the end of the day, he just wanted to make an honest living and go home at night. He was just protecting himself from someone who's intent was to kill him, and is so very lucky the crook's gun didn't fire as "...The gunman repeatedly attempted to fire...". He wasn't trying to protect property or money, he was attempting to survive a murder attempt. I'm on the employee's side 100%. In the eyes of the law, the employee was in the right, and sadly, and legally, Walgreens can fire him, too.
They ought to give the former Walgreens employee a medal, or the key to the city, but they won't. That would lead to others following suit and potentially lead to Benton Harbor becoming a respectable city again.
Maybe the CVS or Rite-Aid down the street are hiring?
AG
This post was edited by AG in IN at 09:11:08 09/13/11.
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