My work when we were still in the office hired some cops to do "active shooter" training. They got us all to watch a presentation then we got told that next week they would randomly test us. Well the test turned out to be the cops dressed out like shooters taking over the building and scaring everyone to death. I am sure the cops love getting paid extra to stick what are hopefully fake gun in office workers faces.
Any problems that were caused by the "training" were swept aside because we got a threat from a terminated employee. There was a general email sent out that if you had issues you could contact HR and they would let you know when to take the day off. They probably thought that would have covered them. I was actually told beforehand that I could take the day off by my boss because he knows I am autistic and something like this would not be good for me at all.
This is just so bizarre to me. America just seems so foreign, I can't imagine anything like the cops doing an active shooter dry run happening in my neck of the woods, that's wild!
Would it blow your mind to find out that most were okay with it and some even thought it was cool? There were even a few programmers that are tacticool libertarian types who probably got hard over the experience.
yea I don't even have a response to that. Do they do that kinda shit in schools too? We had practice lockdowns here but it was just teachers going around checking if the doors were locked and stuff like that, but I'm wondering if it's more "realistic" down in the states
That was probably a different person, but I also have a bad memory. This story is actually common where I am from because its a wasteland of corporate offices.
My work when we were still in the office hired some cops to do "active shooter" training. They got us all to watch a presentation then we got told that next week they would randomly test us. Well the test turned out to be the cops dressed out like shooters taking over the building and scaring everyone to death. I am sure the cops love getting paid extra to stick what are hopefully fake gun in office workers faces.
What the fuck!? Cops in America play active shooter to "train" people? Like a school lockdown but with dudes waving guns around?
What happens if someone they're "training" or a bystander is armed, tries to be the "good guy with a gun", and starts blasting?
Any problems that were caused by the "training" were swept aside because we got a threat from a terminated employee. There was a general email sent out that if you had issues you could contact HR and they would let you know when to take the day off. They probably thought that would have covered them. I was actually told beforehand that I could take the day off by my boss because he knows I am autistic and something like this would not be good for me at all.
This is just so bizarre to me. America just seems so foreign, I can't imagine anything like the cops doing an active shooter dry run happening in my neck of the woods, that's wild!
Would it blow your mind to find out that most were okay with it and some even thought it was cool? There were even a few programmers that are tacticool libertarian types who probably got hard over the experience.
I went to school in the 90s so I dont know what the current trend is, but it would not surprise me if they did something close to it.
They get a pass
Was it you or someone else who made a post about this like a year or two back?
That was probably a different person, but I also have a bad memory. This story is actually common where I am from because its a wasteland of corporate offices.