hystericblue replied to your post “Violent Intruder Safety”
Please update us on this lecture, I feel this is going to be the highlight of my day.
It actually turned out to be a different team, which was refreshingly devoid of casual sexism!
It was a decent presentation inasmuch as it could be. The issue of course is that there is no standard protocol for an active shooter -- there are sign to look for that may or may not actually occur, and things you maybe can do to head someone off before they go on a spree, and there are like...best practices for hiding, but basically it’s a roll of the dice, which they were polite enough to acknowledge. And they were also like “we can’t even give you a specific place to hide because odds are the person shooting at you will be someone you work with or someone who is attending this training.” Which is...creepy, but honestly, if someone were to plan a spree killing while still working here, they’d definitely attend the How To Stop A Spree Killing workshop, you know?
After the “hey, report this person if they’re joking about shooting everyone or you see them struggling with violent impulses” segment, they had a segment called Run - Hide - Fight which are not sequential instructions but rather diminishing options -- run if you can, hide if you can’t run, fight if you can’t run or hide.
They showed us a video (warning for violence/intense imagery) which was unintentionally amusing in that it had a super dramatic movie-trailer style narration throughout.
vitupera replied to your post “Violent Intruder Safety”
Our "active shooter trainer" advised us to find a safe place to hide, and I had to struggle not to laugh, b/c lolololol, our office is tiny and both of its exits open into THE SAME HALLWAY. We dead.
Yeah, about 80% of the interior walls of our building are glass, including all offices and conference rooms; the copy rooms and kitchens are “open plan” and have no doors on them. Literally the only non-glassed rooms in the building are the bathrooms (which have no locking exterior doors) and the storage closets (which are frequently locked).
kestrel337 replied to your post “Violent Intruder Safety”
because women can't take off their shoes, right? Everyone knows our feet are like barbie's, and we have to go around on tippy toe ALL the time.
white-throated-packrat replied to your post “Violent Intruder Safety”
and because it's not strong encouraged for women to wear heels to 'look professional'
Yeah, it’s pretty bullshit.
I’ve always made a point, when sending out reminder emails about fire drills, to warn women not to wear heels that day or carry anything in their hands, because the consultants who give us a speech after the drill like to single out women and harangue them. I think possibly the message eventually got through to management because the last drill we had was the first time in eight years it didn’t happen.
I should have just borrowed a pair of heels and worn them really ostentatiously every time they held a drill, I’m so bummed now that I didn’t think of it until this moment.
