# Executive job w\\ body armor manuf. open, but you have to agree to be shot with BA on once a year **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 18, 2013, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/executive-job-w-body-armor-manuf-open-but-you-have-to-agree-to-be-shot-with-ba-on-once-a-year/666573 "2013-08-18T17:38:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![hotflungwok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/edb3f5/32.png) [@hotflungwok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hotflungwok)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2013, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/executive-job-w-body-armor-manuf-open-but-you-have-to-agree-to-be-shot-with-ba-on-once-a-year/666573/21 "2013-08-19T17:10:10Z")
Would they let the employees do the shooting? Cuz I think that would be good for morale. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2013, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/executive-job-w-body-armor-manuf-open-but-you-have-to-agree-to-be-shot-with-ba-on-once-a-year/666573/22 "2013-08-19T18:47:06Z")
> [@aNewLeaf](#): > > Maybe we can draw numbers and just shoot one exec? To encourage the others? ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2013, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/executive-job-w-body-armor-manuf-open-but-you-have-to-agree-to-be-shot-with-ba-on-once-a-year/666573/23 "2013-08-20T05:55:11Z")
> [@ducati](#): > > Wow. What does that thing weigh? I just guessed 10k lbs, and figured about 80 square feet of contact patch. That’s roughly 125 pounds/square foot. Make the tires soft, and it’s almost doable, but add a 40,000 lb machine and I’m out! :eek: It’s been decades since I worked on the project, but the “tires” are actually huge rubber tubes, the ends clamped with disks. The bags are inflated to some very low PSI, and they are driven from above with a roller. The vehicle steers with a hinge in the middle and a pair of pneumatic pistons. The video was very cool. They could drive this thing up a sand dune, then back down the other side where they can been digging the sand away. They are used by companies that modify golf courses - you can drive right over a green without tearing it up. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2013, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/executive-job-w-body-armor-manuf-open-but-you-have-to-agree-to-be-shot-with-ba-on-once-a-year/666573/24 "2013-08-20T05:58:01Z")
If the idea is for making promotional advertisements (as the OP suggests), then I’m sure it would be done with staged acting, performed by hired professional stunt actors playing the roles of CEO, CFO, etc. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2013, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/executive-job-w-body-armor-manuf-open-but-you-have-to-agree-to-be-shot-with-ba-on-once-a-year/666573/25 "2013-08-20T06:19:31Z")
> [@hotflungwok](#): > > Would they let the employees do the shooting? Cuz I think that would be good for morale. The shooting itself might not have any major effect on morale. But you have to figure an executive would work on making sure employee morale is high before letting one of them point a gun at him. ---
**Author:** ![aNewLeaf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ac91a4/32.png) [@aNewLeaf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aNewLeaf)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2013, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/executive-job-w-body-armor-manuf-open-but-you-have-to-agree-to-be-shot-with-ba-on-once-a-year/666573/26 "2013-08-20T11:13:47Z")
> [@](#): > > Maybe we can draw numbers and just shoot one exec? > [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > To encourage the others? “Winner of the Sales Event will get to wear the vest at this year’s picnic.” “Hooray!!” ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2013, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/executive-job-w-body-armor-manuf-open-but-you-have-to-agree-to-be-shot-with-ba-on-once-a-year/666573/27 "2013-08-20T13:07:56Z")
A guy in the graduating class above me made his friend shoot him while wearing a flak jacket (because he thought it was bulletproof I guess?) and died. That was pretty stupid. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/executive-job-w-body-armor-manuf-open-but-you-have-to-agree-to-be-shot-with-ba-on-once-a-year/666573.md?page=1)