When I got my first job in 2016, I worked in a warehouse that packaged sports merchandise. I worked with a former Marine who was going through hard times with PTSD. Long story short, my boss fired him, and he lost his girlfriend, and turned a shotgun on himself.
When my coworker told my boss about the news, he fucking laughed like someone told him the best joke ever. It was no secret he didn’t like him, but no one thought that would be his reaction.
All I could ask my self is “if instead of killing himself, what if he turned that gun on you for the mistreatment?” Would you have been laughing if he decided he was fine with throwing his life away to see yours end?
With covid, and seeing people mistreated, thrown away, and their mental health deteriorate because companies would rather make record breaking profit then care for their workers, that question is more relevant in my head.
I mean you can only mistreat people so much and make them go without for so long till they just have nothing left to loose, and once that person blames his boss for his suffering, then shit can get real quick.
But the ironic thing is, if workplace shootings, and bushwhacking of CEO’s became as common as school shootings in the US, you would see all of those lobbyists and republicans pushing for gun legislation.
It’s a very sad reality we live in in this country.