How to survive a workplace shooting (strange video)

JonnyPistachioJonnyPistachio Florida Posts: 10,219
edited September 2012 in A Moving Train
This is just odd, and cost $200K in federal grant money. Are we at this point, where we need videos on how to survive this stuff?

http://lifeinc.today.com/_news/2012/09/ ... -work?lite

or: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VcSwejU ... r_embedded

"Children are taught to “stop, drop and roll” if their clothing ever catches fire. Now some authorities want adults to "run, hide and fight” if they’re ever at work when a gunman opens fire.

In an eerie video funded by the Department of Homeland Security, experts offer advice on what safely could be considered a worst-case scenario at the workplace.

"It may feel like just another day at the office, but occasionally, life feels more like an action movie,” intones the narrator as workers are seen holding meetings, making copies, taking coffee breaks or working in solitude within their cubicles.

Suddenly, a man dressed in black and wearing sunglasses takes a shotgun from his backpack and begins blasting away, starting with a security guard standing next to the elevator. (The video is a dramatization, but may be disturbing.)
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Comments

  • Odd video... and seemingly a waste of money.

    Granted, workplace shootings do happen every once in a while, but do you really need told to either get out, hide, or fight? What other options do you really have? Stay at your desk and finish your TPS report?
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  • hedonisthedonist Posts: 24,524
    Yeah, I'd think instinct would dictate any of those (re)actions.

    I could put $200K to much better use, for the love of Pete!
  • It seems to me that the same people that laugh this stuff off, etc are the same one that end up suing their company when something happens because they didn't have the proper training, etc.

    Just saying.
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  • A once off $200,000 Federal grant to produce a training video that will ultimately be shared by many to better prepare someone for a workplace shooting seems a small price to pay. This video has already been posted all over the web and watched by millions. $200,000 is a small price to pay even if it saves one life. I have no issues with this.

    Meanwhile, the war in Afghanistan is costing $300 Million per day.

    Outrageous.
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