I think the map should have been pitted. The geographic siren used it’s charms on a victim who was helpless to avoid it’s charms. 
Well, yes. Because “Don’t slash up your boss with a razor,” isn’t going to generate much debate, and hence lead to a very short lived thread. “Should Wal-Mart conduct poop checks on its employees?” is, as you can see, a much more fertile subject.
That makes sense to me. If one gets engrossed in the pictures, one might not be as aware of ones surroundings as one should be.
I’m trying out a new policy of using “one” instead of the general “you”. On rereading that last sentence, doing so may be a mistake. That reads pretty insufferably pedantic, doesn’t it?
I think you’re right. They were probably going to go after him for stealing (WAG, of course), never expecting to get slashed in the process.
Hey, I already predicted it!
(And before anyone says he wasn’t leaving the store, taking merchandise into the restroom if it’s not paid for is forbidden in most places. Plus, would YOU want to buy a map or a magazine that some guy had been reading on the shitter?)
Is it just me, (and I hate to say this), but um, does he look developmentally disabled?
Which of course, brings us back to the Seinfeld episode. “I’m sorry, this book has been flagged.” 
Well it depends. At my job, which is in your standard office environment, I wouldn’t get up from my desk in the middle of the morning or afternoon, and take obviously recreational reading material into the john. But if I’m on my way in or out, or coming back from lunch and I happen to have a novel with me that was reading, or plan to read on my break, then I don’t think there’s anything wrong with reading it while I sit. We don’t have a stipulated anti-reading policy.
Every time i need to do number 2 (at home or anywhere else), i take some reading material with me to the bathroom. Having this reading material does not in any way increase the time that i spend on the toilet; it simply makes my stay more interesting. I don’t see what the big deal is. It’s ridiculous rules like this that serve no purpose except to make an employer look like a cheap, controlling sonofabitch.
It actually took me about 3 weeks to get used to it, when I worked at a cabinet factory. You almost made it!
Damn line never stopped moving, and if you fell behind it was all sorts of not good. And barring emergencies, you couldn’t really use the rest room until it was time for your break. Makes Walmart almost seem benevolent.
But I agree, the policy would make more sense as a time limit, not a “you can’t bring stuff into the bathroom.” The only exception would be unsold merchendise (gross).
Not necessarily. I work in a grocery store and we always have fast response times from the cops. The reasons for this are many: our parking lot is one of the places cops meet up and do whatever cops do when they pull next to each other in a parking lot; the police station is less than a mile away; the neighborhood directly behind our store has an above average crime rate; and finally a lot of the cops shop at our store when off duty or on break and have become friendly with a bunch of the staff, which makes me wonder if they respond faster just because they like us personally.
Any of the above reasons could be responsible for rapid police response, and that’s assuming it wasn’t just luck that the cops were passing by.
And for the record, I hate Wal-Mart and don’t shop there, so it’s not like I really wanna go out of my way to defend them.
I think you might need to pencil in a few more minutes for “psychotic ranting.” If I were angry enough to assault my boss with a box cutter, I’d probably have a whole lot of issues I’d want to get out in the open air with him before I left. I wouldn’t just cut and run.
…and I hate to say this, but…“What does developmentally disabilities have to do with this?” To tell you the truth, looks are deceiving either way. Very rarely do people with dev. disabilities resort to violence unless there is a dual diagnosis of developmental disabilities and a form of mental illness. Certain mentally ill people are more likely to be violent, with or without a developmental disability.
I too am guilty of looking at maps and calculating mileage for potential vacations while on the can. Thankfully though, I am very regular and do it at home in the right after I wake up in the morning.
Boooo.
There is a reason that the convenience store I worked at gave the police free coffee and reduced pastries. They were always nearby. I pity the unlucky shmuck that decided he was gonna knock over that store. Kinda like deciding it would be a good idea to hold-up a firearms shop at gunpoint.
To distract me from thinking about the fact that half the fat, hairy, sweaty buttocks in my company have pressed their assflesh against the seat I’m currently using.
I can think of a circumstance where the reprimand would be justified (and frankly, fairly light): if he “borrowed” one of the maps/books/magazines on sale at Walmart and took it into the bathroom with him. Yuk. I don’t want to buy a magazine/map/book that someone else has covered with aerosolized poop. (I’m not expecting things to be 100% “boy in the plastic bubble” sanitary, but still)
IF it was the store’s book/magazine/map (the article didn’t make that clear), I woulda made him buy it.
Other than that one circumstance, it’s a total bullshit rule.
Fenris, toilet reader (and who doesn’t object to his own aresolized poop…just other’s)
At first I wondered who in the hell needs a map to take a shit but then figured he was probably just getting his jollies by sticking to map scale bar up next to his privates.
Nah, it was on his “to do list”
1.) Get map and plan out escape route
2.) Slash managers while alerting fellow employees that managers are actually spies for Martha Stewart and her advance fleet of reptilian lifestyle consultants.
3.) Flee store following preplanned safe route and flag down passing UFO from the Nordic aliens in order to inform them that Martha Stewart’s moving in ahead of schedule.
His problem is that he didn’t count on the police being so closeby, thus thwarting his escape.
It was a map of Eastern Pennsylvania.
The area around Climax.
If you’ll look on the first page, I already noted this.
Although if you think about it, at least it was a map, and not Cosmo. :eek:
(Oh, btw, I finally read The Dispossessed, which you reccomended me after I read Atlas Shrugged. GREAT book!)