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The Workplace Threat Assessor

sitting down at their desk they open up the manila folder of the recently “let go” & muster up the audacity to draw up a psychological profile of said individuals based on what little had been documented of the personal lives of these ex-employees & the work history which was exemplified prior to being cast out into the garbage can (the US labor pool). still to this day, s/he finds it interesting that those who fill a gym bag with weapons & then walk into their past place of employment with a list & a trigger-happy finger, were laid off or fired a few days before. it makes you wonder if the threat assessor has ever been fired, laid off or “let go” from a job--- certainly they take their place with the movers & the shakers in this country who get to choose when they leave as opposed to getting flushed down the toilet. the workplace threat assessor may be able to pinpoint who caused said workers the most frustration, they may even be able to make a list of those most likely to be targeted, if anything went haywire, however, outside the place of work, they are useless. why the authority figures at corporations or head honchos at smaller places of employment feel that they are somehow untouchable, simply because they have an assessor working for them at the work place, should amaze the rest of us. if you contribute to the destruction of one’s life, then you may feel the boomerang come back around & slam you right in the neck--- and it is especially easy to act so impulsively when you have nothing to lose, now that everything has been taken away.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2012




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