Fireball1394
Plinker
Well, I guess the best way to start this thread is with my own personal experience. I work for a local storage facility company. The company I work for is very strict with their weapons/firearms policy. They do not allow us to weapons/firearms while working. We may leave them in our vehicle while at work, but that's it. In November, I was offered an on-site position. Now, the company policy still applies in the on-site living quarters, but it was hard to pass up the offer for a free apartment with all utilities paid for and no commute to work. Plus it gave me more money for ammo and such. Now yes, this technically means I cannot have a firearm or weapon in my apartment.
This leads me to the main part of this discussion. To those of you who work for a company like mine that is very strict on it's weapons in the workplace policy, do you follow it?
Personally, given my position here, I get a free climate controlled storage unit right outside my door. Makes it a great spot to store anything (ammo, parts, etc.). However, I do keep a firearm or two inside my apartment here. I know the consequences that will come if my employer ever finds out, however I'd rather lose my job than lose my life. Now I do not carry at my workplace, due to the fact that I cannot and do not own a handgun because of my age. But with that day approaching fast, I wanted some insight from those that do conceal carry at work when it's against company policy.
Now given we are a small company and there's only 2 of us that work at each site, and I know my co-worker very well, I'm not worried about him coming in one day and, lets just say losing his cool. The bigger issue would be our customers/tenants. A few weeks ago, we had a tenant threaten to, "bomb the office one day when we least expect it". Now this was likely just him upset over the late fees he owed us and didn't mean it, but the PD took the threat seriously and did their investigation. By doing our jobs, we often **** off a lot of people because they owe us large amounts of back rent, or we sell their items off in an auction (it's nothing like storage wars on TV). They day may come where I need to have something more to protect myself, and I'll be willing to lose my job over my life. But what's everyone else's stand point on this?
This leads me to the main part of this discussion. To those of you who work for a company like mine that is very strict on it's weapons in the workplace policy, do you follow it?
Personally, given my position here, I get a free climate controlled storage unit right outside my door. Makes it a great spot to store anything (ammo, parts, etc.). However, I do keep a firearm or two inside my apartment here. I know the consequences that will come if my employer ever finds out, however I'd rather lose my job than lose my life. Now I do not carry at my workplace, due to the fact that I cannot and do not own a handgun because of my age. But with that day approaching fast, I wanted some insight from those that do conceal carry at work when it's against company policy.
Now given we are a small company and there's only 2 of us that work at each site, and I know my co-worker very well, I'm not worried about him coming in one day and, lets just say losing his cool. The bigger issue would be our customers/tenants. A few weeks ago, we had a tenant threaten to, "bomb the office one day when we least expect it". Now this was likely just him upset over the late fees he owed us and didn't mean it, but the PD took the threat seriously and did their investigation. By doing our jobs, we often **** off a lot of people because they owe us large amounts of back rent, or we sell their items off in an auction (it's nothing like storage wars on TV). They day may come where I need to have something more to protect myself, and I'll be willing to lose my job over my life. But what's everyone else's stand point on this?
