Yggdrasil wrote:ObscenityFilter ate my formatting. Fixed
Beer28 wrote:That is the dumbest thing ever. If somebody is having a cell phone convo, you should be able to thrash them down without fear of being fired for not following protocol.
It's good to know that the "Who needs the police, I'm invincible!" mentality isn't confined to the common Israeli male only.
Tell me, Beer, what happens if you jump her and get shot? What happens if you jump her and the gun goes off and kills a bystander? Or even to stick to the least painful option - instead of giving her $3000, you jump her, the gun goes off and destroys a $5000 piece of equipment in the bank. In which of these scenarios SHOULDN'T the bank fire your macho (I need to watch my language)?
Regulations are there for a specific reason. For every one person who could jump the robber and save the day, there are 100 people who will do the hero schtick and make things worse.
Since there's no way to know who's who in advance, the banks do a very simple calculation and decide that they prefer to lose a pile of cash than deal litigation, settlements and the various baggage attached to dead people.
And you know who these would-be heroes are, Beer? They're you. You and the rest of the people who seem to derive their understanding of the world outside from action movies, just like you think Microsoft works like it does in Antitrust and Pirates of Silicon Valley. These are movies, Beer. Movies. In the real world, a bullet really really hurts, and people don't sit around cackling in mad laughter inside their impenetrable Fortress at Redmond.
This post SOOO puts the smack down on Beer28 that I am speechless from laughter, LOL. I gotta hand it to ya, Beer28, you are the resident homeless psycho of the Channel9 forums and you bring much colorfull discussion to our narrow, uneventfull lives.
Keep up the good work, Beer28!
