This is why a safer policy would be that employees are to respond in a manner to avoid harm to people (or something generic like that) and leave it to the employee to decide what to do.johncanfield wrote:While I applaud and support the clerk's action to mitigate the potential harm to himself I also understand the company policy of no resistance which is the safest policy for them. Safest for them doesn't necessarily mean safe for the employee at risk. I distinctly remember one of my college business classes about creating company policy and handbooks - the best policy is one left unstated, then you have the flexibility of making decisions based on the specific (and probably unanticipated) situation. With a formal policy, you are locked in to whatever it states until changed.
Convenience store clerk has to be one of the riskiest occupations out there - right up with lumberjack and EOD.
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- Tue Jan 03, 2012 10:35 pm
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- Fri Dec 30, 2011 11:49 pm
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Re: Circle K fires clerk who disarmed robber
I think that quote should have read "it was company policy to allow robbers to kill their employees."ELB wrote:http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z1i29rxjKl
Catching a moment of rare opportunity, the 30-year-old grabbed the gun pointed at him by one of the alleged robbers and slammed her to the ground
Mr Henderson claims he was given no choice but to act to save his own life but it was company policy not to provoke, chase or engage a robber.
He explained that one of the robbers told her accomplice to shoot him as she stood behind the register.
A spokesman for Circle K contacted by Fox10-TV says they stand by their decision to fire Mr Henderson.