Found out we’re doing a mandatory active-shooter training at work. It’ll be “non interactive” which I guess means no fake guns or practice takedowns or whatever they do to scare people. At least one of my coworkers has already expressed adamant opposition to this, so I have at least one ally. I’d be more opposed if I were going to have fake guns pointed at me, but if it’s just sitting in a room listening to someone talk, I don’t mind being paid to listen to their bullshit. Anyway, beyond what I’ve said, I don’t know much about these trainings, so what are some funny ways I could derail it? Don’t hold back
the objectively funniest would be to choose that day to go postal
please don’t actually do that though
someone already said to my boss “oh they’re getting us all in a room so we’re fish in a barrel?”
Makes you feel safe at work huh
you know you live in a healthy society when people use gallows humor to cope with their potential for violent death at the office
The normalization of it is baffling. I brought up how even the idea of this occurring makes me want to avoid the office especially since I knew two people who brought guns for a potential “good guy with a gun” scenario
The odds of this actually happening are vanishingly low. The overwhelming, overwhelming majority of gun violence is still murders and “gang violence”
“Oh this gun I brought it to kill a coworker if they attack the office”
a sign that someone has a bad attitude towards their colleagues