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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 920751" data-attributes="member: 14668">And, given the benefit of calm, analytical 20/20 hindsight...you are probably correct.The clerk didnt have the opprotunity for calm, analytical, 20/20 hindsight. He wasnt sitting behind a nice safe desk. It wasnt some abstract intellectual debate for him; he was the one with a gun pointed at him, not your or I.Thre are two issues here; the first being the wisdom of his decision and the second being whether or not he deserves to LOSE HIS JOB for that decision. Reasonable people can disagree on the first issue but the second one is a no-brainer. The clerk is not the criminal, he didnt ask to be put in that situation, and it isnt fair to fire him.TOS---if an identical situation occured involving a UPS driver who you represent as a shop steward...would you still advocate terminating his employement? Would you still be so quick to side with management? Or would you be able to put your own personal predjudices aside and be an advocate for the driver instead of throwing him under the bus?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="soberups, post: 920751, member: 14668"] And, given the benefit of calm, analytical 20/20 hindsight...you are probably correct. The clerk didnt [I]have[/I] the opprotunity for calm, analytical, 20/20 hindsight. He wasnt sitting behind a nice safe desk. It wasnt some abstract intellectual debate for [I]him[/I]; [I]he [/I]was the one with a gun pointed at him, not your or I. Thre are two issues here; the first being the wisdom of his decision and the second being whether or not he deserves to LOSE HIS JOB for that decision. Reasonable people can disagree on the first issue but the second one is a no-brainer. The clerk is [I]not[/I] the criminal, he[I] didnt [/I]ask to be put in that situation, and it [I]isnt[/I] fair to fire him. TOS---if an identical situation occured involving a UPS driver who you represent as a shop steward...would you still advocate terminating his employement? Would you still be so quick to side with management? Or would you be able to put your own personal predjudices aside and be an advocate for the driver instead of throwing him under the bus? [/QUOTE]

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