Can you guess what Country I live in? This was during training to be a cashier.
humanRun. Hide. Fight. True retail veterans know.
My last retail job that made me sit through the videos was in 2012 and I don't remember them having one like this, it's crazy they have to prepare you.
My daughter just finished up Kindergarten. She has been through shooter drills. They don't call it that to the kids, but when she came home, she told me about the wolf and shepherd drill (or something like that)...fucking hell. The wolf being a shooter, the teacher being a shepherd.
My 6yo daughter has been taught how to try to not be a lamb to the slaughter. I've been through some shit in my life, but this really fucks me up.
had to read those first two sentences 8 times
Yep, that's about how I felt the day she told me about it. The school didn't send home any advanced notice that the kids would be doing that.
Don't get me wrong, it's an important thing...but it fucking sickens me that it is. I'm glad the school takes it seriously and takes measure to to try to help staff and students be prepared (as much as you can be for something like that anyway), but it was still such a gut punch. I just wish they'd notified parents in advance so I could have been mentally prepared and be better able to talk about it with her.
Last year I had a kindergartner and two young elementary aged kiddos. My partner and I had been discussing school shootings throughout the day and after dinner I decided I had the spoons to tactfully talk to my kids about a few things revolving around them.
I asked if they’d done any sort of drills, like “intruder alerts” or anything (that’s what they were called when I was in middle school 20 some years ago). My third grader immediately said “We have tornado drills and active shooter drills” I followed up with asking how they did the drills. I then asked “what do you do if someone knocks on your classroom door and says they’re the police and they ask if anyone is in the room, or tell you to open up?”
My fucking second grader tells me “we stay very quiet.”
I asked why? He said “because we don’t know if it’s the real police or the shooter.”
I held it together just long enough to finish the conversation and get them off to bed on a higher note with a bedtime story before I had to go and sob outside on my deck.
I hate it here.
It's so hard. Obviously it's so important to talk to them about it. The odds of it happening are relatively low...but still much fucking higher than it should be. I'm sure parents in places like Newtown and Uvalde never thought it be would them, their town, their kids school.
I want my daughter and stepdaughter to be informed and preared. But it's such a hard line to walk. The knowledge is important, but you don't want to make them afraid to go to school or to live in fear. My 6yo is petty anxious, which makes it tough. Tbh, my 14yo stepdaughter is too. Selfishly I want to teach them not to try to be heroes. I think about how I wouldn't hesitate to run in there myself (like the poor Uvalde parents tried to do, fuck you Uvalde PD), but so desperately want my kids to just hide and stay quiet.
Ugh, I truly hate that this even a scenario we have a reason to think about. Sorry, getting myself all caught up in my feels. Doesn't help that I watched the movie "The Fallout" the other day. Centered on how two high schoolers (Jenna Ortega and Maddie Zeogler) survive a shooting hiding in a bathroom stall and trauma bond over it and how they cope after.
Makes me hate the world we live in sometimes. Np child, parent, teacher, anyone should ever have to go through that.
rightly so man im glad theyre preparing but its just the surreal realisation that it needs to be done. sick fucks being able to shoot up a school full of infants being a real threat is just... what the fuck even is america...
At least they don't traumatize straight up the kids by saying it's a shooting drill, but damn. That's not normal to make this kind of thing "normal" for school
Prior military and I have a daughter doing these drills. It hits hard on what she has to deal with. It’s a shame the people on a big blue rock want to kill each other at times.
I remember seeing them in 2015 or 2016. I thought it was unbelievable then too as well
They have been doing this for a looooooooooooong time, just haven’t enforced the training. It’s not as terrifying as you’d think. There’s protocols and training for dealing with chemicals but that doesn’t mean you’re gonna work with them frequently. Same with this
Just the idea of it being a common enough thing that it has to be in the training is what's terrifying. I didn't post it because I think it's going to happen in my area, but the fact people have been in situations like this is the scary part.
Yea, it’s better to have an inkling on what to do than to have no idea. For example people may think it’s smart to pull the fire alarm to let everyone know there’s danger a lot faster, it gets peoples attention and it would instruct people to exit the building, but that’s not what you should do because it will send people towards the attacker, make lots of noise making it hard to think and hear where the attacker is, etc. Something like that should be in there and most wouldn’t think about that if they weren’t trained.
There are too many people not prepared.
Avoid. Deny. Defend.
Well said
Buddy we open every meeting with a safety message including run hide fight if there’s a shooter in the office. Colleagues from Europe and Asia calling in must be like “Wtaf”
If you can't run, if you can't hide, you must FIGHT! Sad that it's a thing that has to be taught in our workplaces but we all have to go home at the end of the day.
Not just retail. I work in healthcare and we have this training annually. We’ve even had “practice shooters”.
This shit used to only apply to Black Friday tramplings. Ffs
They use the same model in elementary schools.
Part of college orientation now too
Or anyone who has gone to school in the US from 2000-2024