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No firearms on company or customer property, Fed Law no firearms in a Commercial vehicle. We are not allowed to protect ourselves with the high risk of being high jacked or robbed.
Does your job let you carry?
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I work for a large bank in a secure facility. We are not allowed to carry at work, but the facility has card access control and a guard at the front door. Technically, per our hand book, we are not allowed to have a weapon on company property, but state law allows me to have it in my vehicle, so I take it off when I get to work, put it in the glove compartment, lock it, and take it out when I leave.
My boss knows I have CCDW and he informed me of company policy and state law after I got it. He said if I was caught with it on at work, I would be terminated, but they couldn't keep it out of my vehicle nor could they ask or search it. I respect the company policy because i like my job.
My boss knows I have CCDW and he informed me of company policy and state law after I got it. He said if I was caught with it on at work, I would be terminated, but they couldn't keep it out of my vehicle nor could they ask or search it. I respect the company policy because i like my job.
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reddoginga
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Now when you guys are saying cause of state laws your allowed to have it in your car, what do you mean?
HDP
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Like others have said, where I work will get you escorted out and immediately terminated for having any type of weapon. We do have security at both entrances, though. They are armed with walkie talkies. Great security, not!
Protected One
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Same way at DTE (Detroit Edison).
Wee Hooker
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I work for the Federal Government. They are WAY left on the interpretation of any law or cause with the exception of the second amendment which stops at the front gate.
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reddoginga
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They kind of insist on it
My first post said, if your not a officer or security of some kind lol. I always wanted to do Security but never have. well I got a job as a un armed one once, but my car broke down the day I was suppose to start and they fired me
Larry64
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I am not an LEO but I do carry at work, and I have an issued weapon. I'm a city Fire Marshal. No other firefighters are allowed to carry at work. I do have to qualify with our PD, same course of fire. I also carry off duty with a CPL.
If you don't get the right job security sucks.
I'm a third party contractor for the local utility company. I've been there 8 years. I spent 2years working nights at a power plant that's 20 miles from town 18 months working nights as a guard at a Petrochemical storage facility that was on the other edge of town and 3 years as the supervisor on the same site. During the first 18 months I literally never had any visitors and during the 3 years of days I had maybe 20 a month.
Then they "rewarded" my service by sending me to a more "high profile" post for a year and a half and I hated it.
Now I work nights as a rover and I spend my whole shift driving all over the county checking substations,lift stations and natural gas meter stations (including my old site) all by myself in the middle of the night and I'm happier than a pig in the poop
Grayfox
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Well here's an example of how one person can spoil it for everybody. 
Background: I was a mechanic for the small city where I live for 25 years (retired now). Officially the policy was no guns. Unofficially, nobody cared. It wasn't at all unusual for a person to bring in his latest acquisition to show off. Occasionally guys would sell or swap guns at work. And while nobody ever said outright, I suspect there was more than one in toolboxes around the place.
Those of us who were "on-call" often took a gun with us if we had to go out in the middle of the night.
Heck, the mayor we had for many years would bring his car in for service and standard procedure was to reach between the front seats, remove his Model 36 and put it in the office until the job was done.
Like I said, nobody cared.
But then one day a guy walked into the Public Works office with a complaint. It seems he was a bit upset and got a little boisterous. Turns out that he was an armed guard and in uniform. Now, mind you, this guy never once so much as touched his weapon or threatened anyone. But, one of the ladies got scared just because the guy was armed and complained to her boss.
The next day the sign department was plastering No Guns signs on every city building.
Background: I was a mechanic for the small city where I live for 25 years (retired now). Officially the policy was no guns. Unofficially, nobody cared. It wasn't at all unusual for a person to bring in his latest acquisition to show off. Occasionally guys would sell or swap guns at work. And while nobody ever said outright, I suspect there was more than one in toolboxes around the place.
Those of us who were "on-call" often took a gun with us if we had to go out in the middle of the night.
Heck, the mayor we had for many years would bring his car in for service and standard procedure was to reach between the front seats, remove his Model 36 and put it in the office until the job was done.
Like I said, nobody cared.
But then one day a guy walked into the Public Works office with a complaint. It seems he was a bit upset and got a little boisterous. Turns out that he was an armed guard and in uniform. Now, mind you, this guy never once so much as touched his weapon or threatened anyone. But, one of the ladies got scared just because the guy was armed and complained to her boss.
The next day the sign department was plastering No Guns signs on every city building.
The hospital I work at has a no gun policy, but state law permits it being stored in our "personal mode of conveyance" even on employer-owned parking lots. Inside the building is a no-no. All four of the folks in my department own at least one, the cardiologist's nurse owns at least one, and the CEO of the hospital was showing my director his new Alien Gear holster last week.
That being said, my job does not lend itself to carrying while working. Scrubs won't hold the weight of a gun, and with the lead protection that we wear (sometimes for 4hrs at a time), it would get very uncomfortable very quickly. Having a gun fall to the floor from the waistband/belly band holster during a sterile procedure would be very, very bad.
That being said, my job does not lend itself to carrying while working. Scrubs won't hold the weight of a gun, and with the lead protection that we wear (sometimes for 4hrs at a time), it would get very uncomfortable very quickly. Having a gun fall to the floor from the waistband/belly band holster during a sterile procedure would be very, very bad.
Our state law says that employers cannot ban guns from employees' "personal mode of conveyance" even on employer-owned property. Meaning: we get to lock it up in our car. I will have to try and find it again, but when our law was changed to allow this, there was at least one woman who testified before the committee that the law needed to be that way so she could protect herself from her estranged SO before she reached her house. If work banned it from her car, she had no way to protect herself between work and home, thus effectively negating the 2nd Amendment and our state constitution.
wingriderz
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I am medically retired, with over 35 years in autoservice (half the time in management) I worked small mom and pop and they where fine with carry .And the largest. Tire Kingdom. They would fire ya if they found out they didn't. The large companies. have no regard for employees or management.Many got robbed takeing the store deposit to bank. I carried every days 14 hours plus.
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DevilDog72
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No..... I work at a major airport and TSA does not have a since of humor at all........ go figure... argggh
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I'm retired now but rather be fired, than not able to defend my self.
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