So my employer being the legal eagles they are dismissed the potential liability of allowing its employees carrying firearms by setting an anti-weapons policy that is restrictive enough to ban tazers, pepper spray, and "anything menacing in nature." I think it important to preface the issue with this so it's clear there is no grey area.
The issue at hand is that I am a manager and in general that makes me a target for employees past and present. I found out today that a certain employee is being forced to work for me because they are mentally unstable and infatuated with their current manager, enough to claim they had relations and when the love went unrequited file a claim with the DoL, which the employee lost. Since then, the employee has continually gotten more and more unstable to the point it was determined to move them to another team, mine. Now I have 4 employees on my team that left the team that employee was on because of that employee and the animosity has not passed with time.
I feel like my life is endangered just by being associated with this employee as their manager and on top of that I feel I'm being thrown in the middle of an extremely hostile situation, a powder keg if you will. The explosion and fallout could be gargantuan. The question is, do I risk ruining my employment, career, future and livelihood by carrying to protect my life and the lives of my employees or drop it and hope?
I'm not currently equiped to carry concealed with any assurance I won't get caught, a Glock 19 is simply too large, I have a desk job and so my shirt may ride up when I sit as may my pant legs. I've thought about carry in a briefcase as well, but I'm still dealing with the, should I.... There won't be any warning if I am caught, it will mean immediate termination so my concealment must be 100% 100% of the time.
The issue at hand is that I am a manager and in general that makes me a target for employees past and present. I found out today that a certain employee is being forced to work for me because they are mentally unstable and infatuated with their current manager, enough to claim they had relations and when the love went unrequited file a claim with the DoL, which the employee lost. Since then, the employee has continually gotten more and more unstable to the point it was determined to move them to another team, mine. Now I have 4 employees on my team that left the team that employee was on because of that employee and the animosity has not passed with time.
I feel like my life is endangered just by being associated with this employee as their manager and on top of that I feel I'm being thrown in the middle of an extremely hostile situation, a powder keg if you will. The explosion and fallout could be gargantuan. The question is, do I risk ruining my employment, career, future and livelihood by carrying to protect my life and the lives of my employees or drop it and hope?
I'm not currently equiped to carry concealed with any assurance I won't get caught, a Glock 19 is simply too large, I have a desk job and so my shirt may ride up when I sit as may my pant legs. I've thought about carry in a briefcase as well, but I'm still dealing with the, should I.... There won't be any warning if I am caught, it will mean immediate termination so my concealment must be 100% 100% of the time.
