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PeeJ52

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2. What would you do???

Reply to Aristus (Original post)

Wed Nov 21, 2018, 12:51 PM

Nov 2018

If just before a team meeting was to begin, before the supervisor arrived, and a few days after a mass killing with an AR-15 and on the anniversary of the Sandy Hook shootings, a co-worker that had been been bullying you and ridiculing you recently, pulled out his wallet and proudly showed the other members of his team a picture of the new AR-15 he had just bought himself for Christmas? The guy had never mentioned in the five years working with him that he was a hunter, either...

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Shit. My new clinic manager is a gun-nut and just found out I'm ex-military. [View all] Aristus Nov 2018 OP

Got him good. MrScorpio Nov 2018 #1

What would you do??? PeeJ52 Nov 2018 #2

Probably hurt............ MyOwnPeace Nov 2018 #3

You'd think he would have had the good sense not to get into gunz this early in a new job. Hoyt Nov 2018 #4

I presume he's no physician? malthaussen Nov 2018 #5

No, not a medical provider of any kind. Aristus Nov 2018 #7

Once you go BOOM, you'll never go bang! Ptah Nov 2018 #6

Did he tell you his military history? lunatica Nov 2018 #8

He's an ex-cop. Aristus Nov 2018 #9

He probably has cannon envy n/t hibbing Nov 2018 #10

When I was in the Army I hated going to the range JonLP24 Nov 2018 #11

I enjoyed rifle marksmanship well enough when I was in. Aristus Nov 2018 #12

This message was self-deleted by its author geralmar Nov 2018 #13

That happens to me frequently.... SKKY Nov 2018 #14