Some jobs bring on more theft and violence than others.
Crowded, high-stress environments, like large hospitals, are prime areas for assaults and theft.
Occupations in the U.
S.
A, with high homicide victims:
Occupation of Victim-Average Annual Number Sales - 327 Executive/Management- 154 Law Enforcement -69 Security Guard-60 Taxi driver -74 Truck driver-25 Non-fatal violence is high for nurses, police, corrections officers, high school teachers, mental health workers (I found that out the hard way), bar staff, bus drivers, fast food workers, convenience store and gas station attendants.
Gas stations, fast food restaurants and convenience stores are attractive targets for robbers.
The most vulnerable periods are in the morning during opening and late a night during closing.
If the fast food restaurant or convenience store is near a main freeway, then it is accessible to a quick get-a-away.
If you are a customer at a gas station or convenience store and some guy comes in very tense and looking around more than normal, then it might be a good time to leave or look for cover.
Another bad sign is two guys entering and one standing by the door.
It is time to make tracks, fast.
Often the robberies are done by or arranged by former employee.
In one case, the employee was a moonlighting, female firefighter, working at a gas station.
She always just happened to be working during the robberies.
It turned out that two jobs were not enough to support her gambling habit.
If you are a business owner or manager, consider that theft and robberies often have inside help.
Convenience and fast food workers are shot four times more frequently than police officers.
You get both low wages AND high risk.
If your work is one of those places with electronically controlled washroom access and/or special coloured lights to discourage drug users, then maybe you should work somewhere else, or at least ask for the day shift.
I was in one neighborhood where the midnight to morning worker had been attacked at the donut and coffee shop where she worked.
Sometimes one's own co-workers can be a problem.
Violent co-workers will tend to: Withdraw, Argue, Have marital, money and drug problems Just act plain bizarre.
They also tend to be obsessive with co-workers and cannot take criticism.
Sometimes you can work at places amongst a whole pack of unstable employees.
Guys who are constantly drinking or smoking dope on the job, gambling at lunch hour and/or complaining about court date, parole officers and alimony payments.
They often put up with poor working conditions, because the company puts up with them.
If the work place mistreats employees, the company has a higher risk of being robbed.
Watch for disgruntled employees.
Places like fast food restaurants are notorious for being robbed by former employees.
When you get a bad feeling about a place or its people, it might be time to find another job.
The extra few dollars are rarely worth the effort.
Stay safe.
Crowded, high-stress environments, like large hospitals, are prime areas for assaults and theft.
Occupations in the U.
S.
A, with high homicide victims:
Occupation of Victim-Average Annual Number Sales - 327 Executive/Management- 154 Law Enforcement -69 Security Guard-60 Taxi driver -74 Truck driver-25 Non-fatal violence is high for nurses, police, corrections officers, high school teachers, mental health workers (I found that out the hard way), bar staff, bus drivers, fast food workers, convenience store and gas station attendants.
Gas stations, fast food restaurants and convenience stores are attractive targets for robbers.
The most vulnerable periods are in the morning during opening and late a night during closing.
If the fast food restaurant or convenience store is near a main freeway, then it is accessible to a quick get-a-away.
If you are a customer at a gas station or convenience store and some guy comes in very tense and looking around more than normal, then it might be a good time to leave or look for cover.
Another bad sign is two guys entering and one standing by the door.
It is time to make tracks, fast.
Often the robberies are done by or arranged by former employee.
In one case, the employee was a moonlighting, female firefighter, working at a gas station.
She always just happened to be working during the robberies.
It turned out that two jobs were not enough to support her gambling habit.
If you are a business owner or manager, consider that theft and robberies often have inside help.
Convenience and fast food workers are shot four times more frequently than police officers.
You get both low wages AND high risk.
If your work is one of those places with electronically controlled washroom access and/or special coloured lights to discourage drug users, then maybe you should work somewhere else, or at least ask for the day shift.
I was in one neighborhood where the midnight to morning worker had been attacked at the donut and coffee shop where she worked.
Sometimes one's own co-workers can be a problem.
Violent co-workers will tend to: Withdraw, Argue, Have marital, money and drug problems Just act plain bizarre.
They also tend to be obsessive with co-workers and cannot take criticism.
Sometimes you can work at places amongst a whole pack of unstable employees.
Guys who are constantly drinking or smoking dope on the job, gambling at lunch hour and/or complaining about court date, parole officers and alimony payments.
They often put up with poor working conditions, because the company puts up with them.
If the work place mistreats employees, the company has a higher risk of being robbed.
Watch for disgruntled employees.
Places like fast food restaurants are notorious for being robbed by former employees.
When you get a bad feeling about a place or its people, it might be time to find another job.
The extra few dollars are rarely worth the effort.
Stay safe.
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