Working Overtime

In Tarpon Springs, Florida, there was a shooting at a Publix food store. It seems that a woman that had just been fired returned with a 9mm gun and went Jack Bauer on a former co-worker. The story unfolds like this; the co-worker that was killed had indicated to the shooter that he was going to report the woman for a breach of company policy. The woman told the would be dime-dropper that if he did report her and get her fired that she would kill him. The victim in question made the report to his superiors, got the woman fired and eventually was shot and killed. Now, when I originally heard the story, I was upset that any person would come back to the store and use a gun to kill someone just because he reported her doing misdeeds at the store. I thought to myself, “what a tragedy, I wonder what he was going to report her for? Stealing? Rudeness to customers?” I really felt for this victim of this shooting. Imagine getting killed just because you reported a criminal to you managers! I then found out what was so important that he had to report to his boss. You see, the woman had been committing the horrifying offense of… working off of the clock. Yep, that’s right; she was too dedicated to her job. She cared too much about her work. Let’s see if I have this straight, an employee is so dedicated to her work that she wanted to get something done properly and didn’t feel as if her employer should pay for her time. This jackass co-worker of hers then decides to brown-nose a little bit and report her for giving up her personal time to help out her employer. Publix then fires her; I’m not so much upset with Publix because let’s face it, Publix is worried about liability. It just would have been nice for the manager to give her a little warning instead of canning her. I mean, don’t you want employees like this? People that are exceedingly loyal to your company? Let me tell you something; I’m not happy this rat-fink mother fucker is dead, but I do think he deserved a solid ass-kicking. I think that it is a shame that the woman that did the shooting wasn’t a good sized dude that returned and beat the piss out of this little puss instead of killing him dead, but I ultimately think he deserved it. The lesson to be learned here: mind your own fucking business. If someone is stealing or causing harm, you can report them. If someone is working off of the clock, shut the fuck up and keep your eyes on your own work. My number one question is; when does this woman get out of jail? I need a good employee, and I promise, I won’t fire you for working for free.