Defending yourself and your property is very different than doing the same for a company who has decided they don’t want their employees risking their lives on the job.
[Defending yourself and your property is very different than doing the same for a company who has decided they don’t want their employees risking their lives on the job.]
I agree. I think it’s dangerous for untrained bank tellers to try to take on a bank robber on a whim, thinking they’ll be a hero and, in general, I agree with the bank policy of discouraging their employees from doing so.
But this goes too far. The policy is to forbid anyone from trying, no matter what the circumstances, and it punishes those who do try with termination of employment.
In short, it is a policy that is motivated not by an immediate concern for employee safety but by the immediate fear of lawsuits. And it comes at the expense of long term consequences to employee safety.
Consider that this is the same policy that airline flight crews had with regard to hijackers.
Let them take the plane. Don’t get in their way. Do what they say. Let the professionals on the ground handle it.