Feel good moment of my morning.
We are warned never to fight back. Let the police handle it.
I worked for a few years after retirement delivering pizza. We had the official Pizza Hut and Papa John’s policy posted – do not resist. Give up your money. Call the robber “Sir”.
We were a smaller local area company, and did not have the “absolutely no weapons allowed” policy. After a cop was killed in a sting gone wrong posing as one of our drivers, many of us started to carry – illegally, but our lives were at stake. Branch managers started carrying in the shops. After a few bad guys died we no longer were targets. Other companies were still fair game – but not us.
I later worked as a cab driver. The same thing – respect the bad guy, give up your money and don’t resist.
It got to the point where drivers were being robbed, shot and killed on a regular basis. Yellow Cab drivers decided that as we would be killed no matter what we did, we might as well fight back. Several bad guys were seriously injured, to the point where they were easily caught. The bad guys quit trying to rob Yellow Cab – but continued to hit the other companies.
One thing these two occupations have in common – the money being stolen was not “company money”, but the drivers’ money. The company had nothing to lose. If robbed, the driver had to make it up.