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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

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[–] supafuzz@hexbear.net 38 points 2 years ago (1 children)

the objectively funniest would be to choose that day to go postal

please don't actually do that though

[–] Rashav3rak@hexbear.net 49 points 2 years ago (1 children)

someone already said to my boss "oh they're getting us all in a room so we're fish in a barrel?"

[–] FloridaBoi@hexbear.net 26 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Makes you feel safe at work huh

[–] supafuzz@hexbear.net 31 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

you know you live in a healthy society when people use gallows humor to cope with their potential for violent death at the office

[–] FloridaBoi@hexbear.net 25 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 9 points 2 years ago

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