If someone is crazed enough to kill fellow employees a stupid rule isn't going to change it.
I think companies need to back of this God complex they have.
My friend, you forgot the banglist. It's taken care of.
Thank you Sam Bernstein and John Edwards.
Weyerhauser does not have sovereign immunity. If they can temporarily find a means to legally remove your right to self defense, then you can sue them for injury because they failed to protect you. And because they are not a public entity, they do not have the protection of statutory liability. It's just a matter of persistence in the courts. Sue the gun grabbers wherever they show up. One big win that hurts their ocket book, then they will give up. Just think. They won't let you park your car on their property with your weapon locked up. You get mugged on the way to or from work. It's their fault.
more PC corporate logic.
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This guy should be disciplined for shooting his firearm and then storing it without proper cleaning and oiling. Other than that, he sounds like an OK guy to me.
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Why am I not surprised. My company hasn't gone this far yet, but they have incrementally driven smokers out, all the while saying it would never happen. They just started drug testing. They're talking video cameras in offices. If it wasn't for the fact that I control all the computers, I'd feel just plain put out. Hell, I need to start my own business so I can get it down to just the government hassling me.
This can't be true! I just searched their web site and saw no mention of guns or firearms. I did see a link entitled "citizenship" and a comment on "aboriginal relationships" (means 'doggy-style for y'all in Rio Linda).
The streets ahould have been running with blood! /SARCASM
Hmmmmmmm. Think management will ever 'get it'?
Kind of an interesting conflict, that if during the hunting seasons you may do the same thing by leaving a firearm in your vehicle, and they (your employer) decides to do a surprise inspection on a Friday...
Once again...Its not about the guns...But that does not matter anymore to companies like Whirlpool and others that kow-tow to insurance companies requirements...
Just about every workplace shooting I have heard and read about, was not started by a "former" employee going out to their vehicle in the company parking lot and retrieving an "arsenal", and thus returning to the office or warehouse facilities and gunning down everything that moves...
Nope...Just haven't seen it happen like that...
I back the free market, no question. What I do NOT back is illegal restraint of trade or the company trying to manage workers' private property such as cars or what's in them. Weyerheuser and Corporate America don't understand how people feel about carrying guns in Red State America. Screw 'em.
I have to relate this anecdote someplace.
A lady I work with is a real knee-jerk, unreasoning anti-gun nut. ...even though her husband is a special agent with a government agency and frequently is issued automatic weapons and side arms on the job.
When she heard about the hunter shooting incident in Wisconsin, she automatically said that the weapon used(as reported), an "SKS 7.62 mm semi-automatic rifle", was way more weapon than any hunter needed.
I pointed out that it was simply a .30-caliber deer rifle, but she was just fixated on the long description of the rifle in the media, and is still convinced that the guy had a machine gun.
Anyway, her husband was promoted recently, and has been moved to the HQ of the security section of the Agency he works for. He (and she, to her dismay) has been told that part of his duties is to carry a concealed weapon at all times, at work as well as at home and on vacation.
It is to laugh, that a knee-jerk, ignorant, anti-gun nut has weapons around all the time, now.
"In late summer of 2002, Steve Bastible put three bullets into a dying cow at his ranch, threw the emptied rifle behind the seat of his pickup and forgot about it."
This retard forgot about where he keeps his firearms?
This can best be described as Bluzone pollution. Bluzone culture being carried with the corporations to the productive areas of the countries.
I blame TA female advocy attorneys.
A law requiring a business to allow firearms on that business's private property is no different than a law that prohibits smoking in bars and restaurants.
This is his property. He can do with it as he wishes.
I see no difference between this and what Weyerhaeuser did.
Just an aside: You should never shoot a gun and then leave it three weeks without cleaning it.
"gun-sniffing dogs"
Probably pretty tough to go bird hunting with one of those.
To be a liberal, one must first be stupid and lazy, and then believe that we should ban guns because of all the crazy killers out there but to desire a firearm for defense against those killers is just being paranoid.