Anti-Gun Employer

[Tomcat088]

Originally Posted by Siobhra

Most companies have security cameras on the outside of buildings. They see you remove the gun from your car safe and put it in your holster. Or a cow-worker sees you. Every day you move it from your body to the safe when you get to work. And every day you move it from the safe to your body after work. You have to be seen sooner or later. Two chance's per day.

The odds will get you.

Something that you could try out, depending on where the camera is, is the sunshades. If you have some big ones that cover your entire windshield, I don't think they could see you reach under your seat or down low to get in your safe and put it in your holster. Then you could just take down the sunshades and take off like normal. I just thought it was something that might help them not actually see you with the pistol or putting it on you. When you're removing, just make sure you put the sunshades up and then do it and get out. Just an idea that I had.

[Cole]

Company policy at my Fortune 500 employer is that carrying a weapon on company property is grounds for termination.

I feel very secure from external threats, because of the security firm our company hires to protect us. I think most of our security guards are women over the age of 60 and several in their 70s and 80s.

To be honest, I'm more worried about the people that I work with than anyone coming in from the outside anyway. I just lock the door to my office each morning when I come in and do my work hiding under my desk.

When I visit our clients, who are other Fortune 500 companies, they generally frown on me carrying as well. It would be tough to explain to a client that I could not make the meeting because their security wanded me and found a pistol.

When I work from home, my wife allows me to carry . . . and I don't even have to wear pants.

[pghplr]

For some of us, it's not the threat at work, it's the area that you need to drive thru to get there. My work is safe, the nieghborhood I work in is one of the worst in my city. Stopping at red lights and stop signs are sometimes nerve wrecking. A couple weeks ago, gangbangers popped 6 rnds off 30 feet from where we have to go out to smoke. The police station is a block away! But before some one mentions the hazards of smoking, the point is it's not always about the job, its the journey.

[41 Redhawk]

Gotta love the northside don't you plr!

[lucky1]

Originally Posted by Tomcat088

Something that you could try out, depending on where the camera is, is the sunshades. If you have some big ones that cover your entire windshield, I don't think they could see you reach under your seat or down low to get in your safe and put it in your holster. Then you could just take down the sunshades and take off like normal. I just thought it was something that might help them not actually see you with the pistol or putting it on you. When you're removing, just make sure you put the sunshades up and then do it and get out. Just an idea that I had.

What about just using said pistol to shoot out the security camera?

[dmg1969]

Somehow, I think the employer would mind that a little bit more than simply carrying the firearm. Something just tells me........

[Siobhra]

Also all you need is just one cow-worker who hates guns to find out you own guns to be spying on you. The first time they see anything they run to the boss.

[Frenchy]

Originally Posted by 41 Redhawk

Gotta love the northside don't you plr!

I went driving once with the wife, we went from the highway in Ohio to a nowhere looking for an office the company i used to work for had in Youngstown... You think the northside is scary.. take a drive with a brand new car in Youngstown, you shortly realize ppl are not looking at you so much as the car and what they could do with it.

Im not racist, dont get me wrong, but you just know when you hit the wrong 'Hood". Sort of reminded me when I got off the train in Harlem NY wearing a Kilt in 1977... You know some thing is wrong when people pay more attention to you then they do to any thing else, including driving or walking...

[41 Redhawk]

Ummm, a kilt in Harlem....you get any offers?

I hear Y'town is pretty rough. There used to be a lot of organized crime there as well.

[kyle]

Originally Posted by Siobhra

Also all you need is just one cow-worker who hates guns to find out you own guns to be spying on you. The first time they see anything they run to the boss.

A few years ago a co-worker gave me a non-firing machine gun, some wwii relic with the firing pin soldered shut. I didn't know what to do with it, so I put it under my desk in my office. It's been here for three years. Every night the cleaning people come and vaccume right around it. Nobody's said a word. Weird I guess....