carterbeauford
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This might be rather long and detailed, but it is an interesting read.
I work primarily as a commercial truck technician and safey inspector at my family's small trucking company. At 24, I am the youngest employee here. With my position comes a certain amount of responsibility and authority over the rest of my coworkers. Not all of said coworkers like this.
Having pursued a degree in applied sociology for the past 5 years, I have become a rather tolerant and accepting person, also learning a lot about social class and stratification. I have concluded that there are two classes of people who work here, civilized and uncivilized. Level of civilization might correlate with socioeconomic class, but I do not judge you by how much money you make, I judge you by how you act, and how you treat my family's property.
This in not to reflect badly on commercial truck technicians in general, I admit we do not pay the best wages and in turn we do not have the best technicians. Most of the technicians I have dealt with at other companies are not like this. Meet Zeke: not exactly someone you'd want to have lunch with. He makes his own rules and does not follow any of ours. He is also untrained in the skills of flushing a toilet and using a trash can. Thus, I would classify him as uncivilized.
I was given the responsibility of cleaning up our shop. Over the course of a year I cleaned it 3 or 4 times, disposing of a total of over 10 cubic yards of garbage accumulated mostly by Zeke. After the most recent cleaning, I asked him to please start using a trash can because I cannot keep cleaning up his messes. Angered by the fact that I had thrown away his week old half full BK cup full of soda, Zeke posted a sign on the wall reading:
CAUTION: DRINK CROSSING. BROKEN FINGERS AHEAD.
I turned the sign into management (my dad) who advised me to inform Zeke that we do not do this sort of thing here. I politely asked Zeke whose fingers he planned on breaking, he said "yours if you touch any more of my stuff." and advanced towards me. I backed off and advised Zeke that if he tried to break my fingers or so much as touched me he would get a free pass to jail and not have a job when he posted bail. I then left the room.
Now, the open carry part. I had, and still have, my P11 loaded with 11 rounds clipped inside my strong side pocket in plain view. I evaluated the threat as serious, his eyes looked pretty angry, but the distance between us was to my advantage. In hindsight it would have been a very poor decision on his part to follow through with the threat... aside from being armed, my dad was in the next office over and would have been there in seconds. This might sound childish, I am a big guy and can take care of myself, but parental protectiveness never really seems to go away. I don't think it's a good idea to assault anyone while their parents are around, regardless of their age. Goes both ways, if someone assaults my dad they are going to have to deal with me.
I have been thinking about it all afternoon and I don't think I would have shot him had he assaulted me. You might agree or disagree, but I do not think he would have intended to put me in fear for my life, and uncivilized scum like this is not even worth the cost of one 9MM hollow point.
Bottom line, everyone went home at the end of the day and I am in the process of recommending Zeke's termination. Sad that grown men have to act like this, there is sometimes a stark contrast between educated, civilized men and uneducated, uncivilized men in environments such as this. Perhaps you have experienced it yourself.
I work primarily as a commercial truck technician and safey inspector at my family's small trucking company. At 24, I am the youngest employee here. With my position comes a certain amount of responsibility and authority over the rest of my coworkers. Not all of said coworkers like this.
Having pursued a degree in applied sociology for the past 5 years, I have become a rather tolerant and accepting person, also learning a lot about social class and stratification. I have concluded that there are two classes of people who work here, civilized and uncivilized. Level of civilization might correlate with socioeconomic class, but I do not judge you by how much money you make, I judge you by how you act, and how you treat my family's property.
This in not to reflect badly on commercial truck technicians in general, I admit we do not pay the best wages and in turn we do not have the best technicians. Most of the technicians I have dealt with at other companies are not like this. Meet Zeke: not exactly someone you'd want to have lunch with. He makes his own rules and does not follow any of ours. He is also untrained in the skills of flushing a toilet and using a trash can. Thus, I would classify him as uncivilized.
I was given the responsibility of cleaning up our shop. Over the course of a year I cleaned it 3 or 4 times, disposing of a total of over 10 cubic yards of garbage accumulated mostly by Zeke. After the most recent cleaning, I asked him to please start using a trash can because I cannot keep cleaning up his messes. Angered by the fact that I had thrown away his week old half full BK cup full of soda, Zeke posted a sign on the wall reading:
CAUTION: DRINK CROSSING. BROKEN FINGERS AHEAD.
I turned the sign into management (my dad) who advised me to inform Zeke that we do not do this sort of thing here. I politely asked Zeke whose fingers he planned on breaking, he said "yours if you touch any more of my stuff." and advanced towards me. I backed off and advised Zeke that if he tried to break my fingers or so much as touched me he would get a free pass to jail and not have a job when he posted bail. I then left the room.
Now, the open carry part. I had, and still have, my P11 loaded with 11 rounds clipped inside my strong side pocket in plain view. I evaluated the threat as serious, his eyes looked pretty angry, but the distance between us was to my advantage. In hindsight it would have been a very poor decision on his part to follow through with the threat... aside from being armed, my dad was in the next office over and would have been there in seconds. This might sound childish, I am a big guy and can take care of myself, but parental protectiveness never really seems to go away. I don't think it's a good idea to assault anyone while their parents are around, regardless of their age. Goes both ways, if someone assaults my dad they are going to have to deal with me.
I have been thinking about it all afternoon and I don't think I would have shot him had he assaulted me. You might agree or disagree, but I do not think he would have intended to put me in fear for my life, and uncivilized scum like this is not even worth the cost of one 9MM hollow point.
Bottom line, everyone went home at the end of the day and I am in the process of recommending Zeke's termination. Sad that grown men have to act like this, there is sometimes a stark contrast between educated, civilized men and uneducated, uncivilized men in environments such as this. Perhaps you have experienced it yourself.
). Now had he broken my finger, I'd fear for mylife since I couldn't shoot as well. Of course I have a back condition that makes me look at situations differently. Zeke, made a bad choice posting his sign. He'll be fired. You made a good choice enlightening him that his actions include consequences... He breaks your fingers, he goes to jail. He threatens you (too late
