Knowledge of weapons makes you a threat...

Company policies like these are much like our laws. They pass so many laws that are so broad they have something to "catch" you with. This kind of policy helps companies in states like MD where it is impossible to fire someone. It just provides another "hook" to go after someone they don't want working there.

Now, I think it is a stupid rule, but they aren't going to fire someone who is a good worker because they have guns at home...

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Oh I'm not necessarily concerned that I'm going to get fired for owning guns, BUT it still puts me, and most people, in a category in which we just don't belong. I'm considering using this as a foot hold to start questioning and possibly changing the current policies.

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So I recently got a new job with a rather large corporation, and as I expected, they have a no weapons policy for their employees. Interesting to note is that employees are forbidden from possessing any kind of weapon PERIOD while on company property, even while not on the clock (no open carry while shopping I guess).

Anyway, under the section describing "dangerous individuals" and "threatening activity", they provided a list of "warning signs" that are supposed to be red flags for a dangerous person. Among the various signs was this:

Knowledge of and/or access to weapons.

So apparently because I amknowledgeable about weapons like firearms, swords, and knives (just to name a few), I am considered a dangerous person that should be reported immediately. :? Not to mention the fact that I obviously have immediate access to a whole lot of them.

Am I the only one that thinks this is ridiculous? Unfortunately I can't access corporate policy on my home computer, but I'll try to post the rest of the policy up here when I can.

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Well of course, they have no say or control over you when you are not on company time, so the idea that "even while not on the clock" just ain't gonna fly. Were that the case, one heck of a lot of people all over the country would be in a heap of trouble.

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SouthernBoy wrote:

Well of course, they have no say or control over you when you are not on company time, so the idea that "even while not on the clock" just ain't gonna fly. Were that the case, one heck of a lot of people all over the country would be in a heap of trouble.

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The policy says the employee isn't allowed to have weapons whileon company property, on the clock or not. No, they can't tell me what to do while I'm not at work and not on the clock, but if I decided to wander in their on my day off carrying openly, their policy says they can terminate me.

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...Interesting to note is that employees are forbidden from possessing any kind of weapon PERIOD while on company property, even while not on the clock (no open carry while shopping I guess).

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I'm reminded of an autobiography I read recently - At Stalin's Side - by Valentin Berezhkov. He started off as a lowly tour guide for Intourist (the Soviet state tourist board) and ended up becoming a principal translator for the Soviet heads of state through all the purges and WWII. He ended up with a job at the Kremlin, down the hall from Stalin himself, carrying a pistol without any permit, and without even being a Communist party member initially. So - "no guns" policies have a way of getting circumvented, perhaps even moreso in totalitarian states, but you never know (I know you meant the post sarcastically, but weird things happen)...

Perhaps weirder yet, Berezhkov survived to tell the story, and just died of natural causes a few years ago as a professor in California.

-ljg

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So I recently got a new job with a rather large corporation, and as I expected, they have a no weapons policy for their employees. Interesting to note is that employees are forbidden from possessing any kind of weapon PERIOD while on company property, even while not on the clock (no open carry while shopping I guess).

Anyway, under the section describing "dangerous individuals" and "threatening activity", they provided a list of "warning signs" that are supposed to be red flags for a dangerous person. Among the various signs was this:

Knowledge of and/or access to weapons.

So apparently because I amknowledgeable about weapons like firearms, swords, and knives (just to name a few), I am considered a dangerous person that should be reported immediately. :? Not to mention the fact that I obviously have immediate access to a whole lot of them.

Am I the only one that thinks this is ridiculous? Unfortunately I can't access corporate policy on my home computer, but I'll try to post the rest of the policy up here when I can.

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DreQo wrote:

So I recently got a new job with a rather large corporation, and as I expected, they have a no weapons policy for their employees. Interesting to note is that employees are forbidden from possessing any kind of weapon PERIOD while on company property, even while not on the clock (no open carry while shopping I guess).

Anyway, under the section describing "dangerous individuals" and "threatening activity", they provided a list of "warning signs" that are supposed to be red flags for a dangerous person. Among the various signs was this:

Knowledge of and/or access to weapons.

So apparently because I amknowledgeable about weapons like firearms, swords, and knives (just to name a few), I am considered a dangerous person that should be reported immediately. :? Not to mention the fact that I obviously have immediate access to a whole lot of them.

Am I the only one that thinks this is ridiculous? Unfortunately I can't access corporate policy on my home computer, but I'll try to post the rest of the policy up here when I can.

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That makes the majority of Americans a threat. If I were you, I would quit. I would tell the manager that you own guns and that this part of the employee manual is extremely offensive to you, and you refuse to work for such a discriminating company. At least that is what I would do. You can find another job, but staying at this one just tells them that this kind of discrimination is tollerable.

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