WAL-MART FIRINGS

Another perfect example of the lack of common sense so prevalent in America today.

For those of you who didn't catch this on the news: Wal-Mart security people caught a guy shoplifting a laptop and various other things. They had him in the security office awaiting the arrival of police when he pulled a gun and threatened to kill them all. These brave guys jumped him and got the gun away from him. What does Wal-Mart do? Fires them for not following company policy, which says they are supposed to back off and stand down when confronted with any weapon. Excuse me??? They're supposed to just let the guy kill them???? The actual policy makes sense in a lot of scenarios, ie: the guy is in the middle of the store with customers around and the security people are more than an armslength away. However, this was certainly not the case here, and the security personnel were immediately at risk of losing their own lives.
The Wal-Mart executive who made the decision to fire these guys must have gone to the same college as the school administrator who had the spit ball boy arrested, the administrators who expelled the sick child because her mother sent a couple of children's aspirins to school with her, etc. etc. Oh, what am I thinking, our schools are all the same today, turning out virtual idiots who cannot think for themselves by the millions.
Why do we suffer from these no common sense allowed zero-tolerance idiocies? Anyone with half a brain realizes no one can formulate a policy that foresees every possibility. This whole subject reminds me of two things. Something my dad used to tell me when I was a kid. "If you're buddy Jeff jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge, would you follow him over just because he did it?" And the Nazi death camp guards who were "just following orders".

Hoping that all of you continue to use the brain God gave you for more than a place to hang your hat. (Another favorite of my dad:-)

Dumb Farmer