Riots in London
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Aren't most stores, malls, convenience stores corporate owned? So, if a 7-11 is flash mobbed, that location is following corporate rules whether it is a franchise or corporate store.
Maybe I am wrong but I doubt corporate allows store folks to carry and brandish weapons. I think they'd immediately get fired if they pulled out a weapon during an armed robbery. At least they'd still be alive. They could make their statements to corporate and then be fired. LOL.
Maybe I am wrong but I doubt corporate allows store folks to carry and brandish weapons. I think they'd immediately get fired if they pulled out a weapon during an armed robbery. At least they'd still be alive. They could make their statements to corporate and then be fired. LOL.
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So he goes to the emergency room, makes his police statements and then gets fired. I guess he must deliver to very dangerous areas and did not feel safe. So he had a weapon for his own protection. Which is against corporate policy. I guess the store found some other delivery person to work below minimum wage plus tips who would go there unarmed and carrying cash all the time.
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I read a story about a pizza delivery dude who got fired from one of the big chains. He was making a delivery to section 8 land late at night. And he got jumped. After being shot at least once (more shots were fired, they missed) he retaliated. He pulled out a pistol he had on his person and shot back causing the thieves to run away and stop shooting at him.
So he goes to the emergency room, makes his police statements and then gets fired. I guess he must deliver to very dangerous areas and did not feel safe. So he had a weapon for his own protection. Which is against corporate policy.
So he goes to the emergency room, makes his police statements and then gets fired. I guess he must deliver to very dangerous areas and did not feel safe. So he had a weapon for his own protection. Which is against corporate policy.
Well here is another story for you. Completely unrelated to business, but just to show that no one is really out of reach of this bullshit. Recently, a local well known lawyer had someone break into his house to steal a waverunner. The burglar was shot dead and now he faces a HUGE civil suit for damages... Infuckingsane!
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I am not sure if is the same story but did this happen in South Florida? I recall hearing a story along those lines.
Well here is another story for you. Completely unrelated to business, but just to show that no one is really out of reach of this bullshit. Recently, a local well known lawyer had someone break into his house to steal a waverunner. The burglar was shot dead and now he faces a HUGE civil suit for damages... Infuckingsane!
Well here is another story for you. Completely unrelated to business, but just to show that no one is really out of reach of this bullshit. Recently, a local well known lawyer had someone break into his house to steal a waverunner. The burglar was shot dead and now he faces a HUGE civil suit for damages... Infuckingsane!
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I can't recall. It caught my attention and I remembered some of it because I was thinking that I would not want to have to venture into very rough areas alone carrying cash late at night to bring food to complete strangers you know nothing about. And then I read that those folks make below minimum wage and have to drive their own cars. Which have one of those big light up please-rob-me-I-have-cash-and-am-alone-and-unarmed signs they put on the roof to advertise the pizza store. I can't say I blame the guy for packing. And it's revolting that he then gets fired and therefore cannot qualify for unemployment.
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I read a story about a pizza delivery dude who got fired from one of the big chains. He was making a delivery to section 8 land late at night. And he got jumped. After being shot at least once (more shots were fired, they missed) he retaliated. He pulled out a pistol he had on his person and shot back causing the thieves to run away and stop shooting at him.
So he goes to the emergency room, makes his police statements and then gets fired. I guess he must deliver to very dangerous areas and did not feel safe. So he had a weapon for his own protection. Which is against corporate policy. I guess the store found some other delivery person to work below minimum wage plus tips who would go there unarmed and carrying cash all the time.
So he goes to the emergency room, makes his police statements and then gets fired. I guess he must deliver to very dangerous areas and did not feel safe. So he had a weapon for his own protection. Which is against corporate policy. I guess the store found some other delivery person to work below minimum wage plus tips who would go there unarmed and carrying cash all the time.
yep I've read that. Then this as well:
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/fired...ry?id=13705438
he's a hero.
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good read:
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This singular example of Progressive manipulation established, understood and accepted, one of the most damaging and manipulative tactics used by the Progressive Movement in our education system is the artificially elevated self-esteem of our children. Today, Progressives instill in our children an unearned sense of self-worth; a falsely elevated self-esteem. Teachers and group administrators have been deceived into believing that by manufacturing a faux pride usually reserved for the realization of an achieved success, they can advance the educational capabilities of the child. These useful, albeit in many cases well-meaning, “idiots,” as it were, have taken to eliminating the need to keep score at recreational sporting events, to awarding first prizes to everyone, to making sure “everyone is a winner,” etc.
In reality, depriving a child of “learning how to lose” deprives them – robs them – of the critical lesson of how to learn from their failures – a lesson more valuable than learning how to achieve. And when a child has no skill set that can address failure; no skill set to derive a lesson from the failure so as to turn that failure into a victory, into a learning experience, into a success, what the “system” has created is an angry, frustrated individual possessing an entitlement mindset but who is less the critical thinking tools to affect achievement on an individual level. The Progressive education “system” has been producing individuals who believe they are entitled to everything and responsible for nothing.
When we understand the tactics used by the Progressives to affect a generation of those who they can enslave to entitlement, we can more clearly see just how much damage they have already done.
As British new media columnist John Phelan points out in addressing the riots engulfing the streets of Britain:
In one instance a British rioter, admittedly drinking wine at “half nine in the morning” was quoted as saying, “…that’s what it’s all about, showing the police we can do what we want.” Another youthful looter bragged, “We’re getting our taxes back.”
From Birmingham, UK, to Milwaukee, Wisconsin to Santiago, Chile, the scene plays out the same. Progressives have succeeded in creating a “Dependent Class” out of a generation of intellectually manufactured narcissists, all in the name of “social justice”; all under the wicked institution of social engineering; all at the hand of Socialism. Today, that “Dependent Class” is angry because the utopian promises made by glad-handing Progressive politicians and elitists to create an all providing nanny state has failed at the weight of the cost of those promises…and the world pays the price.
The unrest in the West is not racially motivated. It is not a battle between the “haves” and the “have nots.” It is the result of a reckless experiment in social engineering executed by the power-hungry that used our children as guinea pigs. What we are witnessing is the natural result of a failed Progressive ideology and the intellectual destruction of a generation. What we are witnessing is the result of a true crime against humanity.
Sadly, no court in the world will hold the Progressive monsters accountable for their crimes…because, my friends, Progressives own the courts.
This singular example of Progressive manipulation established, understood and accepted, one of the most damaging and manipulative tactics used by the Progressive Movement in our education system is the artificially elevated self-esteem of our children. Today, Progressives instill in our children an unearned sense of self-worth; a falsely elevated self-esteem. Teachers and group administrators have been deceived into believing that by manufacturing a faux pride usually reserved for the realization of an achieved success, they can advance the educational capabilities of the child. These useful, albeit in many cases well-meaning, “idiots,” as it were, have taken to eliminating the need to keep score at recreational sporting events, to awarding first prizes to everyone, to making sure “everyone is a winner,” etc.
In reality, depriving a child of “learning how to lose” deprives them – robs them – of the critical lesson of how to learn from their failures – a lesson more valuable than learning how to achieve. And when a child has no skill set that can address failure; no skill set to derive a lesson from the failure so as to turn that failure into a victory, into a learning experience, into a success, what the “system” has created is an angry, frustrated individual possessing an entitlement mindset but who is less the critical thinking tools to affect achievement on an individual level. The Progressive education “system” has been producing individuals who believe they are entitled to everything and responsible for nothing.
When we understand the tactics used by the Progressives to affect a generation of those who they can enslave to entitlement, we can more clearly see just how much damage they have already done.
As British new media columnist John Phelan points out in addressing the riots engulfing the streets of Britain:
“There was always the danger that people on the left would seek to use this unrest as a vehicle for their own pet causes. Ken Livingstone proved again just what an irrelevant lump of 80’s nostalgia he is by blaming, not the current government, but that of Margaret Thatcher. Others have consulted their A-level sociology textbooks and pinned the blame on the rioting youths’ ‘disenfranchisement’ or ‘deprivation.’
“None of this third rate Marxist rubbish holds up if you leave the lecture hall and come face to face with the rioters. It is almost impossible to think of a way these people are disenfranchised. Each and every one of them has the franchise. When they reach 18 they will have the right to vote. They may choose not to use it, but that’s up to them.
“Neither did the rioters I saw look particularly deprived. The closest things they have to uniforms are Franklin & Marshall jumpers, which retail for about £60 each. Most of them were filming their rampages on iPhones which can retail at over £400.
“The poverty these kids have is moral, not financial. Many of them come from broken families which derive most of their support from the state. Neither they, nor their parents, have ever had to face consequences or take responsibility in their lives. If a girl gets pregnant the state pays. If they’d rather pose about like a gangster than get a job, the state pays. And if they commit a crime state punishment is often a joke. So, they behave as they please.”
“None of this third rate Marxist rubbish holds up if you leave the lecture hall and come face to face with the rioters. It is almost impossible to think of a way these people are disenfranchised. Each and every one of them has the franchise. When they reach 18 they will have the right to vote. They may choose not to use it, but that’s up to them.
“Neither did the rioters I saw look particularly deprived. The closest things they have to uniforms are Franklin & Marshall jumpers, which retail for about £60 each. Most of them were filming their rampages on iPhones which can retail at over £400.
“The poverty these kids have is moral, not financial. Many of them come from broken families which derive most of their support from the state. Neither they, nor their parents, have ever had to face consequences or take responsibility in their lives. If a girl gets pregnant the state pays. If they’d rather pose about like a gangster than get a job, the state pays. And if they commit a crime state punishment is often a joke. So, they behave as they please.”
From Birmingham, UK, to Milwaukee, Wisconsin to Santiago, Chile, the scene plays out the same. Progressives have succeeded in creating a “Dependent Class” out of a generation of intellectually manufactured narcissists, all in the name of “social justice”; all under the wicked institution of social engineering; all at the hand of Socialism. Today, that “Dependent Class” is angry because the utopian promises made by glad-handing Progressive politicians and elitists to create an all providing nanny state has failed at the weight of the cost of those promises…and the world pays the price.
The unrest in the West is not racially motivated. It is not a battle between the “haves” and the “have nots.” It is the result of a reckless experiment in social engineering executed by the power-hungry that used our children as guinea pigs. What we are witnessing is the natural result of a failed Progressive ideology and the intellectual destruction of a generation. What we are witnessing is the result of a true crime against humanity.
Sadly, no court in the world will hold the Progressive monsters accountable for their crimes…because, my friends, Progressives own the courts.
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yep I've read that. Then this as well:
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/fired...ry?id=13705438
he's a hero.
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/fired...ry?id=13705438
he's a hero.
One of my buddies up north is a FFL. He says it is better to be judged by 12 than carried by 6. I mean…the guy got fired from Walgreens, but at least he is alive along with the others in the store.
I guess Walgreens feels that had the employee shot and injured a robber that they could then be sued hence the economics dictate putting their employees at risk rather than the bad guys.
Think about this…if you are at HOME…and masked strangers enter at 4:30 AM with ill intent…you can shoot to kill (if I understand correctly) and you are a hero. If the same thing happens at work you are fired and likely effectively "banned" from similar employment due to the "incident". I mean a competing "Big-Pharmacy" store like CVS which is probably across the street is not going to hire this man.