Saltwater60
20×102mm Vulcan
What a shame. These guys are huge targets lately. Amazon needs to change their policy. Amazon Driver 'Deactivated' After Shooting Knife-Wielding Attacker
Amazon deactivates worker for defending himself with a firearm while making deliveries
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spat
.950 JDJ
Quite an Orwellian term for firing someone too.
I guess it does reflect their attitude towards their workers though. They view then as disposable robots right to the end.
If one of their drivers gets murdered for the packages he's carrying, is he classified as "deactivated" too ?
I guess it does reflect their attitude towards their workers though. They view then as disposable robots right to the end.
If one of their drivers gets murdered for the packages he's carrying, is he classified as "deactivated" too ?
Corporations don't care about your safety. Hell, the company I work for has gone so far as to claim that employees cannot even have a firearm locked in a car in the company parking lot. I'm debating on whether or not to ask the CEO to provide me with his personal guarantee of safety and to affirm that an armed attacker will never be able to access the building, and that the parking lot is totally safe and gunshots will automatically stop and the bullets fall to the ground upon crossing the property line. Amazon specifically? They barely care whether or not they process a return - their attitude is to drop it all and run away, and don't want the negative publicity with the WOKE world if a driver has the temerity to believe their life "matters."
ManualF150
.308 Win
Glad to see the delivery driver had a tool that saved his life.
Knives are what scare me the most. Silent and deadly. Heck I don’t even like paper cuts...
Knives are what scare me the most. Silent and deadly. Heck I don’t even like paper cuts...
C3D
.338 Win Mag
He’s alive, screw the shitty Amazon job he lost.
If I had operations in Ohio I would hire this guy.
If I had operations in Ohio I would hire this guy.
ManualF150
.308 Win
Me too. From the sounds of it he handled his gun appropriately and used only the force necessary to allow him to escape to safely. He also had situational awareness.
With the way packages are today they are high value more over than not. Similar to Brinks handling money. I am surprised that it hasn’t been recommended to carry and to include training.
Some of these delivery trucks have well over $100k on board in packages with everyone buying online. More so during the holidays.
Working in the warehouse is totally different than doing delivery operations where you have no coworkers or warehouse to keep check on things. You are literally out there on your own.
FRANKIE
.308 Win
Gino Grove Amazon delivery driver:
Saltwater60
20×102mm Vulcan
Missing life saving hero.
repete
.338 Win Mag
Because he's been "deactivated" he's not even eligible for unemployment benefits. Trucking companies have been doing this for years, they don't lay you off they just rescind your safety certification and don't let you drive, and it starves you out and you quit.
libertysnake
.338 Win Mag
I took one of the tactical med courses posted on here with @Dr. Evil a while back. The videos of knives killing people they showed from police footage was absolutely terrifying. People think a knife isn't too bad. Half the videos of people getting stabbed in the class were people who were on the ground in probably a minute or so after taking a hit, if not less, from the time of the strike without applying some sort of tourniquet to themselves.
You have so little time from the time of a deep strike to react and save your only life, it's insane. Unless you have the tourniquet on you, staged, ready to go -- you may as well have taken a bullet to the head cause you're gone at that point.
Acer-m14
20×102mm Vulcan
good guy with a knife .. Cali Laws ..
Carlos Hathcock
.450/400 Nitro Ex
Departed
Dr. Evil
20×102mm Vulcan
Your life or your job at Amazon. Another reason to hate Amazon.
Deplorable Me
.700 Nitro Express
From the article:
"According to xtown.la, the number of crimes committed against delivery workers has increased. Just from 2019 to 2020 there’s been a 56% spike, with at least 20% of those crimes being violent. "
"According to xtown.la, the number of crimes committed against delivery workers has increased. Just from 2019 to 2020 there’s been a 56% spike, with at least 20% of those crimes being violent. "
He can fight it and win.
Deplorable Me
.700 Nitro Express
I wonder if Amazon has life insurance on their employees and pays funeral expenses.
MothMan
.338 Win Mag
Probably not, but I heard they get discounts on these.
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repete
.338 Win Mag
Win, win what? Unemployment? Even if you win that's not much of a win, kinda like 'winning' a fortune cookie at a cat in the box restaurant.
So no money is better than some money. I am out good day.