I just read where a young woman 7-Eleven clerk shot an assailant that was trying to strangle her.

Of course, corporate ordered her to be fired. I would imagine the firing will stand as it was a clear violation of corporate policy when she carried a firearm to work. It's a pretty good bet that if management knew she was carrying beforehand she would have been canned.

Let's look at how corporate looks at things or at least let's look at how I think corporate works. Corporate is all about making money.

The bean counters have figured out that occasionally being robbed and having employees murdered is cheaper than paying out a large lawsuit for a bad shoot. Besides arming people means training and that's an expense. I seriously believe that to corporate the human costs means little or nothing.Of course they will probably say otherwise. 

Google says that claims go through Workman's Compensation which I take to mean corporate pays little or nothing. 

This means the reward for thwarting a robbery and saving an employee's life is getting fired.

It is what it is. However there is a hidden reward here.

To be fired from a job means you are alive so the way I figure it, the woman got away with her life. That's a reward in itself. I'm sure she can find another job somewhere and very possibly a better job.

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I've been retired for some time now and I can afford to speak up. After all, what are they going to do? Fire me?

Early on in my career I carried to and from work. I never brought a firearm aboard the vessel but instead left it well hidden in my vehicle when I parked it in the fenced in company parking lot. 

At no time during my career was my vehicle searched and had it been I doubt the pistol would have been found as it was hidden in the air cleaner. I'd hide it just before I entered company property and remove it when I left.

After my first decade of employment I rethought things because sometimes I would find myself having to drive in New Jersey, Maryland and Delaware and risk criminal charges.

By that time I had my march routes down to a science and considered carrying a firearm to be more trouble than it was worth under the circumstances.

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