So I won't be buying my gas from Circle K any more.

[captdave77]

I remember being angry at Exxon for the Valdez disaster. I'm old. And then I realized they are no worse than any other oil company. Hello BP.

Please let me know what retail companies allow employees to carry guns? Crickets chirping. Of course gun stores because they are very second amendment friendly. Oh wait, most of them don't allow their customers to carry on their premises.

If you allow principles to guide your life you'd never leave home. Or you would be in jail or dead.

Most gun stores nowadays ask customers to keep loaded weapons holstered, but you are right about retail shops. I don't know of any retail chain allowing employees to carry or any large business for that matter. If you buy a coke out of the machine at a gun store, you are supporting a company that does not allow employees to carry.

 

[T-Roy]

He admitted he was aware of the policy, but claimed his manager had looked the other way after another clerk was murdered at the store a few years ago.

"Everybody knew that I carried a weapon and I've been here three-and-a-half years and they knew from day one that I had a gun," he insisted. -Quote from story

Maybe one of our legal eagles will throw in their 2¢ (okay $50) but I think this is tremendously bad for the employer. His manager created a de facto policy allowing employees to arm themselves and opened a wrongful termination case potential.

I think you're really on to something with this Dave. If he can prove his manager knew it and condoned it that negates the company policy, at least that's what I've been told during my illustrious retail career.

 

[roryred]

I think you're really on to something with this Dave. If he can prove his manager knew it and condoned it that negates the company policy, at least that's what I've been told during my illustrious retail career.

In a "right to work/fire" state does it really matter?

 

[Patronus]

Well, it will get the manager fired too. That's helpful.

 

[T-Roy]

In a "right to work/fire" state does it really matter?

If I instructor allow my employees to violate company policy its my ass not theirs.

 

[captdave77]

Well, it will get the manager fired too. That's helpful.

It could establish a basis for litigation.

 

[T-Roy]

In a "right to work/fire" state does it really matter?

That, and most large companies that operate across state lines have policies that abide by the most restrictive laws they operate under. Once there by like their own policy they are open to civil litigation even if it wasn't illegal.

My job got so much harder when we open stores in California.

 

[captdave77]

In a "right to work/fire" state does it really matter?

Yes. You can still be sued in a right to work state.

 

[Triathloncoach]

Anyone care to wager how difficult it's going to be for him to find another job? More fallout.

 

[captdave77]

Anyone care to wager how difficult it's going to be for him to find another job? More fallout.

I am shocked that he has not been offered a better position already.