Good news everyone!
15My workplace received a phone call yesterday that a shooter was on its way. While we were lucky that it was a false alarm, this happens all too much in education. I am so grateful that we have an amazing police force that made sure we were all safe.
Needless to say, I was stressed out last night. To top it off, I missed the fuko.
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With as much as how people want to portray the police as being incompetent, rude, harrassful, etc, they still put their safety on the line to protect people.
Good to hear that it was a false alarm.
Out of curiosity, where you work, has this happened much?
@PlacidPenguin it has happened three times in the 9 years I’ve been there.
@PlacidPenguin Like with most jobs, by far most of them are diligent, hardworking, honest and overall good people. But with police in particular, the really bad ones are seriously alarming, as they have a lot of power and are permitted to carry lethal weapons pretty much anywhere.
@conandlibrarian
So v glad and relieved it was nothing this time.
Thank you for what you do.
May all your alarms be false ones.
I’m glad to hear everything worked out and nothing came of the threat. Stay safe!
Glad to see that you were not in the news this morning. I agree that most cops are great people, however the one in ten rule applies. That is one out of every ten people is an asshole. So simple math, the more cops, the more asshole cops per square foot.
@cranky1950
Still a minority compared to everybody who’s not a cop.
@PlacidPenguin Exactly
@cranky1950 You’re cranky.
@conandlibrarian Are you allowed to conceal carry at work? If you could, would you? Just curious. I’ve heard the majority of higher-ed folks would oppose this. I think mostly because it would mean the students could also carry. The worry, as far as I can tell, is things may escalate quickly if there is any civil discourse over the subject matter being discussed or perhaps over what grade the student should be getting. “I got a D on that test, eh? Check out his bulge in my pocket. That makes it look more like a B now, doesn’t it?”
@medz no, we are not. I can’t even own one because I live on a separate college campus that does it allow them.
@medz @conandlibrarian I can think of a couple of times that if students could carry I’d likely be dead. I had a graduate student screaming at me so loudly (over her grade on a multiple choice test so go figure that, especially since she had the second lowest grade in the class - how is that my fault?) that someone called security and then when she left she slammed my door so hard once stuff fell off the walls in my office and the offices on either side of me. I had one student throw a rock through my living room window over a D. That one also slashed another faculty member’s tires over his grade that term too.
@Kidsandliz
Oh but no millennial feels entitled. They tell me that themselves. Must be true.
@Kidsandliz Yikes. That sort of thing happens everywhere though. I’ve been yelled at over stupid stuff. (ex: I demand a refund for the chicken I allegedly bought even though I ate it all and I don’t even have a receipt) I’ve also had disgruntled customers wait in the parking lot and follow me in their vehicle because they were upset they got kicked out of the store for being destructive. Higher Ed was probably the most chill work environment I’ve had, but I suppose I didn’t work directly with students in a one-on-one scenario nor did I decide the fate of their future based on a single grade. I’m pretty liberal, but I do normally carry my piece on me. The only reason I got the conceal carry permit in the first place was because all the crazy people have guns these days and you don’t even need a permit to legally conceal carry in this state. Too easy to get a gun and just waltz around with it here. But I digress…
@medz I don’t own a gun. Now that being said when I was couch surfing waiting for hud to have an opening, I was taking care of a farm while the people went on vacation. They had a loaded shotgun by the backdoor that fell over when I moved a bike to get at the rabbit to feed it. That shot a hole in the roof which I fixed by duck tape. Scared the crap out of me. I had no idea people would casually leave a loaded gun propped against the wall and not warn me.
@Kidsandliz that’s just plain stupidity. Sadly, stupid people purchase guns just like smart people do.
I used to have a friend. He was cleaning his gun. He forgot to unload it. He shot a hole through the wall into his kid’s room. Luckily, the kid wasn’t home.
A year later, he asked his wife to bring his gun to him, an hour away. She unloaded the magazine. She couldn’t pull back the slide to check that it was empty. So, just to make sure, she pulled the trigger and the bullet went through her shower glass door and stopped in the tile. These people were both paramedics, and one was also a firefighter. You’d think they’d have some common gun safety.
@Kidsandliz A friend of mine, that amazing teacher who goes in early and stays late to tutor kids that are struggling, sweet natured and frickin’ drop dead gorgeous (think a real world Emma Stone, every guy I knew was mad for her), some students poured sugar in her gas tank.
When they were installing a new security system at my kids’ school they accidentally triggered an active shooter alert. Lots of cops. Fun times.
@sammydog01 that happened to us about four years ago. Of course, the report was that it was happening in my building.