Walmart manager committed a mass shooting of employees in breakroom

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A Walmart manager in Chesapeake Virginia apparently just committed a mass/workplace shooting in a breakroom killing several employees. Reports have the shooter dead.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...ured-Virginia-manager-opens-fire-Walmart.html

It could be a sign of the pressure much of it contrived many are under this time of year especially in retail.

RIP victims

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When will these people learn that killing people is not the answer? It terrible that so many are doing this. Something has got to be done to stop it. Maybe the media could appeal to these disturbed people on how to cope without killing. They need lots of help and understanding but killers will not get that after killing. Anyone could crack up like this. Appeals for helping the very disturbed need to be done. I don't have any other answer.
 
Up to 10 people have been killed at a Walmart store in Chesapeake, Virginia, after a gunman - believed to be the store manager - opened fire just days before Thanksgiving.

According to witnesses at the scene, one of the managers entered the break room and started shooting at people inside the Sam's Circle Walmart, located just off Battlefield Boulevard, at around 10.10pm on Tuesday night.

Police said the gunman was dead when they arrived on the scene but did not confirm whether he died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound - though a Walmart employee claimed the shooter turned the gun on himself.

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Besides insane metrics, poor pay etc the corporate workplace has become a minefield of do not do or else. It adds pressure on the worksite. Decades ago if one had a beef with a co worker they could have a vigorous conversation but now even if a third party hears it the employees can get into trouble.

Management could also fire or suspend employees a little easier but now in the day and age of lawsuits not as easy to get rid of problem employees many of which know how to play the system. All this contributes to a hostile work environment.
 
Nathan said:
Mental instability and guns are a recipe for tragedy.
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I should have gotten the name of who just said this on the news but this guy sees less mental instability and more active suicidal ideation in his analysis and noted that we are unwilling to see this.
 
Pepper said:
It was more than that. Wish I had listened to whole interview. His ending point was that we as a society will not touch on that.
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This is something that seems to me to be a more probable reason for so much irrational/violent/extreme happenings. The person has lost all hope for a future in this life. Suicidal ideation can be transferred to killing others but is essentially happening in the mind of the killer. He wants death and a way out of his own mental illness.
 
It's nothing new, mayhem and murder in the workplace. Consider the term, "going postal", coined after some incidents at the post office.

In Detroit, violence in the auto plants was so commonplace, an incident would be on page 17 of the newspaper. Supervisor riding a guy too hard, coworker razzing another coworker incessantly, two guys getting into it about last night's football game? Guy would go to his locker, get his gun out of his lunch box and BAM!

With all the strain on sanity today and the ease of obtaining a gun, it's a miracle that it doesn't happen much more often.
 
Killing folks one way or another is getting to be pretty "trendy." If you live in the "good ole' USA, you use guns. If you live in frozen Canada, you use knives since guns are really restricted here. I personally don't approve of but it sure is trendy.

Many reasons for this recent trend. Yes, it could be pressure from work, could be financial suicide, could be too many people living together too close, could be road rage with some idiot cutting you off over and over or it just could be your neighbour with that stupid dog that barks and barks every night for a long time.
 
I have worked in places - and quit after a week or two because of how employees were treated by supervisors. I sometimes thought, "I wouldn't be a bit surprised if Mr. ___________ came to work & started killing people." Some supervisors & managers use their authority to harass employees & they never know how much harassment & bullying an employee can take before he snaps. An example:
This postal employee was the victim of constant bullying, harassment, ridicule & even sabotaging his work. Female employees would make fun of his bald, chubby appearance by pretending to invite him to company picnics & parties & asking him for a date, then laugh at him.
His "Supervisors" mixed up the mail in his mail bag, then wrote him up & threatened to fire him when he couldn't deliver all the mail on time.
After several months of that, he came to work with his .45 pistol & killed 14 coworkers & supervisors - only targeting the ones who tormented him, while telling others, "You never hurt me; just leave."

An example of "Poking The Bear," I'm sure his idiotic co-workers didn't know he was ranked "Expert Pistol Shot." Some of his victims were hit from 60 yards as they tried to flee.

In less than fifteen minutes, postal worker Patrick Sherrill pursued and shot several coworkers, killing 14 and injuring another six, before committing suicide. The deadliest workplace shooting in U.S. history at the time, Sherrill's attack inspired the American phrase "going postal".
 
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That's what I thought of when they said a manager did it. We know what going postal means but too many younger ones won't and 'going postal' would be an affront to them. Samething because it's a work place shooting. The manager either hated his job or his colleagues-there some long term resentment. They say he has 12 years with Walmart. Long time for a resentment to simmer.

And right on que many are say 'they knew' or 'thought' something wasn't right with him. After of course.
 
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Often, workplace violence involves employees getting violent against their managers. This is the first time I've heard a manager going after subordinates. :eek:

Walmart workers said he was weird and paranoid. He thought the government was watching him.
 

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