Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Will My Employee Go Postal?

I just read an interesting article in this month’s edition of Men’s Health magazine. The article talked about whether or not one of your employees might go postal.
Mark Safarik, a 23-year veteran of the FBI, offered the following tip for spotting that pre-postal employee:
“Look around his cubicle. If his walls are plastered with pictures of his family and him fishing, he’s probably not a risk. On the other hand, if the walls are blank, or push-pinned with complaints, or everything appears obsessively neat, he bears watching.”
I started to think about our employees. I started to check off, in my mind, who in the office has pictures on the walls. Only one person failed the test. A nice young girl we hired about nine months ago. Nine months. Nothing on her wall. Now I’m worried. Her office is also obsessively neat.
I must admit, I don’t have anything on my walls but the obsessively neat thing pretty much takes me out of contention.
Then I remembered. This young lady just hung something on her wall a few weeks ago.
A Chicago Cubs banner.
The ONLY thing hanging in her office right now is a Chicago Cubs banner.
That can’t be a good sign.
I hope her family doesn’t own any firearms.

3 Comments:

At 9:41 AM, Blogger Michael Walsh said...

What makes you so concerned about the Chicago Cubs banner?

 
At 10:59 AM, Blogger Ron Ameln said...

Michael, it's the Cubs. How stable is this employee going to be come September when the Cubs blow yet another season in some horrific (never see that again) fashion. I know, I know...Cubs fans are used to being losers. Mentally, Cubs fans have been knocked around for 100 years. It is bound to take its toll.

 
At 11:17 AM, Blogger Darrell said...

I've been at my job just over 4 months and the only thing on my wall is a portrait of Wrigley Field (pre-lights). Your young employee is merely showing support for her team...a few weeks ago was the start of the baseball season. Perhaps she's a little wary of expressing herself too much in this Chicago-phobe atmosphere. Absent any other signs, I wouldn't worry about her!

 

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