Message #11279

[jahdra]

Those numbers do seem awfully high. I'm sure those statistics include police officers, paramedics and others who deal with the public, the unstable public at that.



Assaulted? Spitting on someone constitutes an assault. I want more specifics on the statistics.



As for the murders at work, are these co-workers murdering their co-workers? Sometimes domestic violence comes into the work place as well. I've seen that happen before, just at the stalking level, frightening, but not related to "work" per se.



I'm not saying it doesn't happen or that it couldn't happen here, but I want numbers on things that happen internally, not when the public or people's personal lives follow them to work.



I could easily see someone snapping under the work load they have here, but they usually just get another job when the stress level gets too high. Maybe that will change as the economy slows down, but it might also be a product of the fact that they blow off steam quite regularly in healthy ways AND because the people here work so closely together, it would be pretty easy to notice if someone was going off the deep end. Although they occasionally go off the deep end together as a group...but that's a different story.