So, You Walk Into Work...

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[quote]niksamaras wrote:

[quote]thethirdruffian wrote:
After being really sick for a week with the weird flu that racked the world. You had been so miserable and sick you hadn’t really turned on the TV and emails with work were sporadic – seemed like everyone had been sick. You’re fine, but kind of weak and crappy feeling.

Traffic is pretty light. There was a house fire and you saw cops driving like idiots the other way.

You get to the offfice; the door is open and lights are on, but the receptionist is not there.

You get to your office or cubical or whatever you work in when you hear screaming across the floor.

You look out, and there are two strangers, very pale, flesh falling from their face, eating a co-worker. Blood everywhere. One more is lurching down the hallway, walking away from you.

You are not noticed, and duck back into your office. What do you do now?[/quote]

At some points, I have WISHED that this would happen, my life is a lot stable, I don’t like, I like adventure. What I would do is find whatever I could use to help me survive in the office and get back to my car (scissors, some food, whatever). Then, see if I can find someone I know and trust. Call them on the phone or I can, pass by their house. If I can find someone, I will take them with me. If not, I am on my own. I go to the local gun shop, and get a gun and ammo.

If I have too, I will buy them, if I don;t see anyone inside, break in and take as much as I can, literally stuff my car with guns and ammo. Also, knives, swords, bows and arrows. Also binoculars. Guns are cool, but not really useful in my opinion if something like this happens. Too much noise. Then, do a raid in the city and get food (milk that last a long time, canned stuff etc) so I have something to eat. Then, off the woods or the top of building with no other buildings close to it (do someone can’t jump to my roof from the roof next to me.

Also, since I going to be on a building, water is not an issue, since roofs have drinkable water (at least where I live). And it’s on bitch, I am going to stay there and watch and still try to communicate with someone I trust. I would not take ANYONE I don’t know well with me. Not even a priest.[/quote]

You’re forgetting the other 200 million+ people in your country whowill have the same ideas.

“yes I can survive anything” - Trips on a paving slab and breaks the knee cap and nose on impact. Now you’re fucked.

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[quote]niksamaras wrote:

[quote]thethirdruffian wrote:
After being really sick for a week with the weird flu that racked the world. You had been so miserable and sick you hadn’t really turned on the TV and emails with work were sporadic – seemed like everyone had been sick. You’re fine, but kind of weak and crappy feeling.

Traffic is pretty light. There was a house fire and you saw cops driving like idiots the other way.

You get to the offfice; the door is open and lights are on, but the receptionist is not there.

You get to your office or cubical or whatever you work in when you hear screaming across the floor.

You look out, and there are two strangers, very pale, flesh falling from their face, eating a co-worker. Blood everywhere. One more is lurching down the hallway, walking away from you.

You are not noticed, and duck back into your office. What do you do now?[/quote]

At some points, I have WISHED that this would happen, my life is a lot stable, I don’t like, I like adventure. .[/quote]

Okay this needs some explanation please.

You are in a life you cant tolerate, so you want millions of people to die to “stimulate” you?

What the fuck is wrong with growing a pair and change your life now?

Why do the Walter Mitty day dreaming bullshit?

Not trying to be harsh, I just dont understand this type of thinking.

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[quote]browndisaster wrote:
^ new avi for me too???

side question:
top 3 tnation members you’d want to be stuck in this situation with[/quote]
I’d go with the combat crowd. They are good at things like shooting, swinging melee weapons and killing stuff with their bare hands.

Aragorn, SentoGuy, FightingIrish26, Robert A, Ranzo, devildog_jim, nighthawkz
Pick 3 of these and I bet you’ll be fine.

Also, according to what movies taught me the inexperienced teenager always survives and gets the womenz, so I guess my chances to make it are not that bad.

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[quote]Quiet Warrior wrote:

[quote]browndisaster wrote:
^ new avi for me too???

side question:
top 3 tnation members you’d want to be stuck in this situation with[/quote]
I’d go with the combat crowd. They are good at things like shooting, swinging melee weapons and killing stuff with their bare hands.

Aragorn, SentoGuy, FightingIrish26, Robert A, Ranzo, devildog_jim, nighthawkz
Pick 3 of these and I bet you’ll be fine.

Also, according to what movies taught me the inexperienced teenager always survives and gets the womenz, so I guess my chances to make it are not that bad.[/quote]

Well, this movies are aimed at an inexperienced teenager target crowd, so some wishful thinking may be involved.

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Only some…

We could all just hang out at Bill Murray’s house, and this time not shoot him.

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[quote]Quasi-Tech wrote:
Only some…

We could all just hang out at Bill Murray’s house, and this time not shoot him.[/quote]

Stoner pseudo-zombie Murray would be my favourite apocalypse partner.

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[quote]csulli wrote:

[quote]thethirdruffian wrote:

[quote]csulli wrote:
Find a way to affix blades to the top of your wrists. Go outside, turn your car on and start blaring badass music. Prepare yourself for the hours long zombie melee about to ensue. Proceed to defeat a horde of zombs in single hand-to-hand combat. Once the battle is won, stand atop the pile of corpses you have created and shout “Ihr seid verfluchte hunde!” at the top of your lungs whilst you hurl one of their severed heads onto the blood-slicked streets below.[/quote]

You have blades in your office?[/quote]
Hmm good point. I need to find a way to make/acquire bladed cestus or katar before I begin the epic zombie melee.[/quote]

Paper cuters make a great blade. Very sharp and has a handle.

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Remember the Punisher movie what he did with that thing?

Sadly, it also showed that it may be a “1 use” item because it gets stuck and takes time to unjam. Not meant to perform clean cleaves on flesh. Make your way to the local midevil armory and get your gear there.

And yes, I think watching a Ghostbusters marathon in Bill Murray’s private home theater would be the shiz during a Zombie Apocalypse.

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[quote]Derek542 wrote:

Why do the Walter Mitty day dreaming bullshit?

Not trying to be harsh, I just dont understand this type of thinking. [/quote]

FWIW, because my company contracts on federal/BLM leases in NM, we had to go through a workplace violence training put on by some bitch from California.

She used this zombie scenario (in the first post) to start a discussion about “what to do in workplace violence.”

My response was, “get the Glock from my top drawer and my mags and ammo and make sure my carry Glock (a smaller .40) was secure in my jacket. Get the .380 from my secretary’s desk or the 9mm from her purse if she had come to work. Put it all in a backpack. Assess the perimeter and secure the building if possible; arming the unarmed (if any, unlikely in my office) with the extra two/three pistols. If the receptionist desk was clear, get her .357. Proceed to vehicles to either flee or obtain our rifles from trunks/back-of-seat/toolbox wherever if we felt we could secure the area and provide help.”

She was horrified to learn that basically everyone in the room, from our office staff to the tool pushers had a handgun on him or her at that exact momement in time.

I pointed out to her that NM was an open-carry state, that I paid to get my employees certified for concealed carry, and that I operated on tribal land and, as an Apache (like 1/3 of my workforce), we could carry a fricken .50 Ma Duece if we were inclined, and that the best way to stop an armed intruder was to kill him or her.

She definsively asked about our training. Well, another 1/3 (not particularly overlapping) were combat arms veterans, including an old fuck who was a tunnel rat in Vietnam and probably the only person I’ve actually be afraid of in my entire life.

Messed up her entire presentation about the best solution was to crawl under your desk and pray for Obama to help.

Photo of desk drawer for effect. Knife is a cheap give-a-way from some random service company I use to open letters.

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[quote]thethirdruffian wrote:

[quote]Derek542 wrote:

Why do the Walter Mitty day dreaming bullshit?

Not trying to be harsh, I just dont understand this type of thinking. [/quote]

FWIW, because my company contracts on federal/BLM leases in NM, we had to go through a workplace violence training put on by some bitch from California.

She used this zombie scenario (in the first post) to start a discussion about “what to do in workplace violence.”

My response was, “get the Glock from my top drawer and my mags and ammo and make sure my carry Glock (a smaller .40) was secure in my jacket. Get the .380 from my secretary’s desk or the 9mm from her purse if she had come to work. Put it all in a backpack. Assess the perimeter and secure the building if possible; arming the unarmed (if any, unlikely in my office) with the extra two/three pistols. If the receptionist desk was clear, get her .357. Proceed to vehicles to either flee or obtain our rifles from trunks/back-of-seat/toolbox wherever if we felt we could secure the area and provide help.”

She was horrified to learn that basically everyone in the room, from our office staff to the tool pushers had a handgun on him or her at that exact momement in time.

I pointed out to her that NM was an open-carry state, that I paid to get my employees certified for concealed carry, and that I operated on tribal land and, as an Apache (like 1/3 of my workforce), we could carry a fricken .50 Ma Duece if we were inclined, and that the best way to stop an armed intruder was to kill him or her.

She definsively asked about our training. Well, another 1/3 (not particularly overlapping) were combat arms veterans, including an old fuck who was a tunnel rat in Vietnam and probably the only person I’ve actually be afraid of in my entire life.

Messed up her entire presentation about the best solution was to crawl under your desk and pray for Obama to help.

Photo of desk drawer for effect. Knife is a cheap give-a-way from some random service company I use to open letters.[/quote]
Lol

And I agree but you know what I was refering to, be prepared is expected, hoping for the fall of society is psychotic

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[quote]thethirdruffian wrote:

[quote]Derek542 wrote:

Why do the Walter Mitty day dreaming bullshit?

Not trying to be harsh, I just dont understand this type of thinking. [/quote]

FWIW, because my company contracts on federal/BLM leases in NM, we had to go through a workplace violence training put on by some bitch from California.

She used this zombie scenario (in the first post) to start a discussion about “what to do in workplace violence.”

My response was, “get the Glock from my top drawer and my mags and ammo and make sure my carry Glock (a smaller .40) was secure in my jacket. Get the .380 from my secretary’s desk or the 9mm from her purse if she had come to work. Put it all in a backpack. Assess the perimeter and secure the building if possible; arming the unarmed (if any, unlikely in my office) with the extra two/three pistols. If the receptionist desk was clear, get her .357. Proceed to vehicles to either flee or obtain our rifles from trunks/back-of-seat/toolbox wherever if we felt we could secure the area and provide help.”

She was horrified to learn that basically everyone in the room, from our office staff to the tool pushers had a handgun on him or her at that exact momement in time.

I pointed out to her that NM was an open-carry state, that I paid to get my employees certified for concealed carry, and that I operated on tribal land and, as an Apache (like 1/3 of my workforce), we could carry a fricken .50 Ma Duece if we were inclined, and that the best way to stop an armed intruder was to kill him or her.

She definsively asked about our training. Well, another 1/3 (not particularly overlapping) were combat arms veterans, including an old fuck who was a tunnel rat in Vietnam and probably the only person I’ve actually be afraid of in my entire life.

Messed up her entire presentation about the best solution was to crawl under your desk and pray for Obama to help.

Photo of desk drawer for effect. Knife is a cheap give-a-way from some random service company I use to open letters.[/quote]

HAHAHAHAHA!!! Cool story, bro. Are you hiring?

We had a training about a month ago about what to do if armed shooters were in our building. I kinda rolled my eyes and said to myself, “either I’ll hide, try to run away, or fight”. You really don’t have too many other options. Our desk, walls, and doors aren’t going to stop bullets. Either I make a run for it, make myself small and pray I’m not found, or pull a United Flight 93 and take on my attackers.

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Somebody did a desk pop at my work years ago and now we can no longer have firearms in the work place :frowning:

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[quote]Ripsaw3689 wrote:
Somebody did a desk pop at my work years ago and now we can no longer have firearms in the work place :frowning: [/quote]

How stupid on both the part of the employee and employer.

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[quote]thethirdruffian wrote:

[quote]Ripsaw3689 wrote:
Somebody did a desk pop at my work years ago and now we can no longer have firearms in the work place :frowning: [/quote]

How stupid on both the part of the employee and employer.[/quote]

Will Ferrell movie reference joke :frowning:

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Was that really her solution?

You should have added with distaste that you would locate any pansified hiding liberals and use them as a meat shield in the front lines to ensure more successfully escape and to provide a barrier.

I see nothing wrong with what your workplace has, Apache or not. Its true, the best way to deter a criminal is for them to be aware that any one of their victims could be armed. Then they go in it knowing they may quickly become the victim. I applaud you sir.

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[quote]thethirdruffian wrote:

[quote]Ripsaw3689 wrote:
Somebody did a desk pop at my work years ago and now we can no longer have firearms in the work place :frowning: [/quote]

How stupid on both the part of the employee and employer.[/quote]

Everyone carries guns in their cars though, so there is hope.

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[quote]Quasi-Tech wrote:
Was that really her solution?

You should have added with distaste that you would locate any pansified hiding liberals and use them as a meat shield in the front lines to ensure more successfully escape and to provide a barrier.

I see nothing wrong with what your workplace has, Apache or not. Its true, the best way to deter a criminal is for them to be aware that any one of their victims could be armed. Then they go in it knowing they may quickly become the victim. I applaud you sir.[/quote]

I second that. Any criminal will search for an easier place to rob if they know everyone in the building is armed to the teeth.

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I always thought it was funny that lawyers can use threatening yard signs to show “intent to harm potential criminals” and basically try to spin the home owner as a radical. You know those signs like, “owner is armed,” or “things in my home are not worth your life,” or “I am handgun proficient to the end of my yard and rifle proficient to the end of my street.”

Stuff like that. In my mind, that’s the point. Deterence. If someone is still stupid enough to try, its their own fault. I’d say you’re doing the world a favor, being humorous and letting people know to stay the hell out if they want to live.

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[quote]Ripsaw3689 wrote:

[quote]Quasi-Tech wrote:
Was that really her solution?

You should have added with distaste that you would locate any pansified hiding liberals and use them as a meat shield in the front lines to ensure more successfully escape and to provide a barrier.

I see nothing wrong with what your workplace has, Apache or not. Its true, the best way to deter a criminal is for them to be aware that any one of their victims could be armed. Then they go in it knowing they may quickly become the victim. I applaud you sir.[/quote]

I second that. Any criminal will search for an easier place to rob if they know everyone in the building is armed to the teeth. [/quote]

One of the best things I have ever seen on screen was, when debating a mass shooting someone said that “we dont want to turn this city into the Wild West” when it came to carrying guns.

To which the NRA representative replied:

“In the Wild West he would have shot one, maybe two. Then, he would have been riddled with bullet holes”.

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Indeed, I’ve been reflecting on the following and without trying to derail this thread I’ll mention it and then we can get back to zombie-stomping… unless that was indeed the intent for this thread to trend in this direction.

Throughout our history, conservatives have wanted to preserve what we have, maintain what is perceived as balance in things - like gun laws. Liberals have wanted to change and improve things, move away from “old things of the past” that are no longer needed and move forward.

So in this time period, we have on group holding a stance and another constantly pushing on that stance. Inevitable due to how politics, numbers, favor, etc. work, the Liberals do push the Conservative views and get changes over time (however drastic or slight). Unfortunately, Conservatives seem to continue to hold that “line” that is continually reset and pushed further and further away from the original starting point. Instead of pushing to go BACK to where we started, Conservatives attempt to continue to hold the current level/state. So you have one side pushing forward and another side trying to stand in front of it instead of pushing it back. So Conservatives continue to lose by standing ground and Liberals will win because they push forward.

How far has the US “shifted” especially in various states, from where it originally started? Is it because Conservatives have continually re-accepted the new line drawn and tried to work with it, while the Liberals continue to push their ultimate agenda by chipping away at the current status-quo?