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txinvestigator wrote:Does your position give you control over the premises? Can you control access of those who can enter?

The manager of Dillards has control over the premises, the girl in the men's clothing department does not.

I don't know if I can answer that directly, but I can tell you more about where I work. My position doesn't grant me any special authority, like a manager, but I have been trusted with keys so I can have access whenever I need it. We do not deal with customers directly. There is no front desk or anything where a random person would need to come in and place an order. Under most circumstances, no one outside the company is in the shop. In fact, the owner discourages that kind of thing because of trade secrets. If I were there alone, I could turn away anyone I wanted because they don't need to be there (except other employees) since the business side is not conducted at the shop. I have not asked the owner about this directly, but I know he would support me doing this (turning away people, especially at night). Thanks for any more help.

It may be worth adding that the shop I work at is not a strip mall or shopping center. It's an industrial area composed mostly of automotive shops and manufacturers. We have about 5 employees.

Also I'm not the owner or leasee. Would the owner have to work out the details (with the landlord) for me to open carry there?

How far doesn that "control of the premises" extend?

I work in a small manufacturing plant and have keys to the shop. If I go to work at night, I'm often the only one there. Do I have "control of the premises?"

Reason I ask is that the shop is in a low income/high crime area with almost frequent robberies and at least one justified self defense shooting at the building next to us.

An extension to this, could I open carry with the shop owner's permission? At this point, no one there knows I carry.