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"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music"
an alchemist?
First off, what a pussy for going back to get a weapon.
Secondly, if he's already beating people with a metal object, take the jaw off that annoying blond cunt.
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The "women" crossed the line. Literally. When they came across the counter, it was obvious they had intent to do him (and possibly others) bodily harm. The argument was started when the customer tried to pass a "questionable" $50 bill (if counterfeit, that's already a felony) These women are NOT by any means good, upstanding citizens. The employee was being charged at by two violent women- there was no way for the employee to know if they had weapons. While he did have time to "escape" momentarily, it wasn't like he could just keep running indefinitely. Would it have been better for him to be chased by them into a dark parking lot? Grabbing the piece of metal to defend himself, and his co-workers, was a reasonable stance.
Similarly to Rodney King, the women kept trying to get up- most likely to keep fighting. Should he give up his upper-hand in the fight when he was facing two unknown, hostile attackers? I don't think so. As long as they continued to be aggressive, and remain behind the counter, I think he was within his rights to keep hitting them.
While this is a public relations mess for a big-bucks mega-restaurant, I think the corporation, and the franchisee, are being chickenshit assholes to an employee caught in a bad circumstance. It is FAR easier for them to turn their backs on a disposable, minimum wage employee than to stand up for the guy. Certainly, it would have been preferable for them if the guy just took a beating, got stabbed, shot, or whatever from the two women and did absolutely nothing. If he had gotten seriously injured in the attack, the company wouldn't even give him paid time off- and workman's compensation doesn't usually kick in until the worker has been unable to work for somewhere between 1 week, and 1 month. Medical for a minimum wage worker? Yeah, right.
Unfortunately, none of what I have said will really matter. The company has already fired the worker, and will most likely reward the violent bitches with a nice cash settlement. Fucking bullshit, if you ask me...
Originally Posted by IdolEyes787
If you go around getting all aggressive and violent towards other people, you should expect that sooner or later you'll meet someone who will give you a fucking good seeing to... well done that man.
It's not as good as the other story CNN are carrying... look women raping men in Zimbabwe... maybe OlegL should go for a holiday in Zimbabwe.
Last edited by NotLettingItGo; 10-16-2011 at 09:49 AM.
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megabyte there's usually a procedure that staff have to do when they're in such situations. I wonder if the self defense card will be used in court.
"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music"
an alchemist?
Well, this particular corporation has to appeal to gutter trash in the U.S., it's a large part of their consumer base.
And about the weapon, I'm just saying why even let the bitch make it over the counter. Just grab her by her weave and introduce her face to the cash register. An appropriate line would have been, "*slam* look this is real money, let's take another peek *slam*. You see that? *slam* Real money! *slam*" If any of those bitches did make it over, introduce them to the deep fryer (showing them the real dangers of entering a kitchen workspace recklessly).
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I'd have to question how out of control he was when even his own colleagues started to back away from him... sure, I agree with being able to defend yourself and giving the good news to anyone who's stupid enough to leave you feeling threatened... but when members of your own team start to back away, then you have to ask if the level of violence is proportionate to the event it's trying to stop.
IMO he went a little over the top
an alchemist?
It's possible they just don't know him that well. I've never worked in a place with such a quick revolving door as McDonald's, but I have worked in a pizza chain location. Even after working there for months, my temper was tested only once and it scared the hell out of everyone (who all had only perceived me to be an amicable guy).
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Very true, but nicely illustrates my point in that the guy possible went OTT with his immediate justice. I'm not arguing that the 2 lasses didn't deserve a bit of a wake up call, but the reaction of everyone around kinda leads me to believe that he went above and beyond with his eagerness to protect those burgers and fries... surely if he was relative in giving them a slap it should only have taken someone to give him a tug on the arm and say "enough's enough now" and he would have stopped?
He'd already been verball assualted, physically assaulted, and advanced upon by two extremely aggressive individuals... how much more abuse should he have endured before picking up the metal bar and defending himself? Should he have waited until one of them had hit him to the floor and the other one was busy kicking his head about like a football? Or maybe until one of them found one of the kitchen knives and decided they should implant its blade in his body to get their ire across?
If they didn't want him going all "out of control" upon them... maybe they shouldn't have gone all out of control upon him. They got what was coming.
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