Annoying Co-workers.

[shmike]

Originally Posted by Trip

I was a co-chair of electrical safety committee for several years at my job. I live and practice electrical safety in everything I do, I would fire an employee for purposefully shocking another employee. I couldn't trust that employee with any jobs that are required to be in this field and therefore they would be completely useless to me. That is honestly the way I feel. It's not like he had a shock pen or something goofy like that, he literally used work equipment to play this prank. Of course, most people don't have the strict rules my position requires to maintain employment. You can't torque a bolt unless it is written in a step by step procedure with specific guidelines and vendor documents supporting those guidelines and the procedure along with the torque wrench itself having full traceability and testing to ensure it is in tolerance.

I can appreciate your stance on the subject at hand, especially coming from your point of view.

What I was debating was the "no matter how small / can't trust them" line of thinking.

Basically, if a co-worked WERE to zap you with a shock pen they are instantly deemed incapable of being trusted in a life or death situation.