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    Alright, so this week marks my second week at Tar-Jzay (Target). Well, I go in last night, and there were two cops parked outside the staff entrance. So, I walk right passed them on my merry way, take a few last sips of my precious coffee before I have to throw it in my locker until break time. Then, we all punch in and head to receiving where we'll get our placements. I get softlines-kids. Yay!

    While we're back there, the supervisor informs us that we'll be starting "Lockdown" from 12:30-5:00am. This means no one can come in or go out after our first break until 5. She then tells us that a co-worker of ours was terminated and taken into custody, and the whole "lockdown" thing is a security measure. She didn't go into any more detail than that.

    So on the first break, we're all outside talking, and we found out what happened. It seems that co-worker had threatened the lives of the supervisor and a few other employees (to other people, not to them directly), and was arrested because the dude was serious. He had even talked about bringing a gun to work. Gods, what an idiot.

    Moral of the story:
    If you want to vent, do it AWAY from work, not to other EMPLOYEES. Even if the dude wasn't going to go through with what he said, it causes a bunch of crap.

    Well, that was the most exciting night I've had with this job thus far.. Can't wait to see what happens tonight.. LOL

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    Yikes! LOL... People are soooo frig'n stupid........


    Thanks for sharing your story......



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    That's just crazy! When I was in high school I worked part time at a gas station and one time this guy came in and wanted me to give him some matches, so I did and then he grabbed a pen and for no reason was trying to stab me with it. I was trying to push him away from me when one of the mechanics saw and came to the rescue...yes conflict or violent talk is a mess at work! I remember that my boss made me file a police report and because I was a minor my parents had to come to work and fill out some paper work too, my parents hardly spoke any english so we had to get an eterpretor. YES...always a mess!


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    Between Columbine, 9/11, etc., comments that were considered "venting" only a few years ago are now taken very seriously by employers, security personnel, etc., and even though are not meant and are harmless 99.9% of the time, are now being followed up on and acted upon. And while most people don't realize it, depending upon what's said and where it's been said, you can actually be charged with a crime and prosecuted for what would have previously been laughed off as just "blowing off steam."

    Anyway, Rhi's definitely right re "moral of the story." Be very careful what you say no matter how angry you are and no matter how ridiculous the idea of your actually doing anything like it might be - due to the events of the past severqal years, the world's changed and we've decided as a society that we can no longer afford to not take every such comment seriously.
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    Ya know I've threatened the lives of several bosses and fellow employees in my time, for some reason they don't seem to care for it too much...they even had the gall to ask me to not come back to work for it....go figure

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    You must live in the nice part of town. When I grew up, it was Tar-getto.

    ha ha.

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    That sucks, corpo-lockdown! I had a customer of mine threaten to shove a telephone down my throat and burn down my building when I worked at Dell. They put the law down on his ass, yeah!

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    Sitri, my friend who lives in Arizona now works at a Target they just built. She used to work at a Targhetto in the older part of Mesa. Never thought anyone else actually used that term to describe them lol.

    Rhi, guess they were being cautious rather than have anything more unfortunate happen. The last thing a nationwide chain needs is that kind of negative publicity. Don't know if you remember but there have been a bunch of workplace shootings, especially in high stress environments. The most famous of which is in the US Postal Service. Disgrunted workers going "postal." At work we had a dartboard with the picture of the company SVP, our very own "pointy-haired boss." Other than that, our venting was done off premises, across the street at the local bar and grill.

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    After Columbine things have changed.Comments, threats are taken very seriously.Too many nuts out there.

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    Yeah...um...I could burn this place down...you know....I want my stapler....
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    LOL Milton rocks!!!

    Well, just got home.. Nothing interesting happened, except for all of us evil smokers getting ready to riot if they didn't let us out to have a cigarette. LOL.. They broke down and let us go out 5 minutes before they were supposed to open the doors. Of course, that was after making us wait in the breakroom for 25 of our 30 minutes. Arg!

    I'm glad they're being cautious though. You can definitely never take these types of things lightly. Supposedly it was serious enough to keep him in the clink. As of this morning, he's still there. A few people had to fill out statements (the ones that he actually talked about this to).

    Hopefully we've all seen the last of him though. Very creepy.

    PS: Targhetto! I LOVE it! lmfao

    (Oh, the only really interesting thing that happened was I broke 2 freakin nails trying to pry a box open, one was even a bleeder. Oy.. AND I cut myself with my trusty boxcutter. I cut myself with that just moments after snickering that the older gentleman *I think he's 70-something* cut himself. Yeah, I know.. Payback. LOL)
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    Rhiannon, I like your decriptive writing,I feel like I'm there with you. A friend gave me a book mark that has this quote on it:

    "To Read A Writer Is For Me Not Merely To Get An Idea Of What He Says,But To Go Off With Him,And Travel In His Company".-Andre' Gide {1903}

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    LOL Thank you, SB..

    I just got up from my "Nighttime", so when I first read your post, I thought it said "Decrepit" hahaha.. Didn't have enough time to wake up I don't think. Hahahaha

    Is it Friday (er... Saturday Morning) yet? I need my day off.. LOL

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    decriptive
    YW Rhi I just noticed I had spelled it wrong too begin with. Descriptive damnitt!

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