Originally Posted by Jeff Higgins
I've asked several times now just what sort of "controls" an employer should have in place to effectively prevent this kind of an occurrence. No one has been able to answer, no one has been able to enumerate realistic, effective controls that a company can put in place to prevent this. There is a very simple reason for that that none of you can bring yourselves to admit - it's because there simply aren't any.
No one, no company, can control aberrations of human behavior such as we have seen in this case. It is simply impossible. As such, the responsibility to control one's self lies with the individual, not with the company. We have societal norms, expectations of behavior, that transcend one's employment - all too obvious things that do not have to be codified as "company policy" or anything like that.
So, again, those of you blaming Popeye's need to enumerate exactly what they should have had in place to prevent this. No generalities like "providing a safe place to eat", or "don't hire thugs" - those are concepts, or goals - not specific controls to achieve those goals. Some of you understand the difference. The rest of you will, of course, resort to hyperbole, false equivalencies, wild exaggerations, explaining to me what I really think, and maybe even an insult or two, as you have already. Save it - I'm not interested. Instead, tell us exactly what Popeye's (or McDonald's, or Burger King, or whoever) does from here to definitively, effectively, forever prevent a reoccurrence of this?
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