We Want Justice: Still "Going Postal" in the Workplace?

Media News seldom if ever does any background pieces on a disgruntled employee that 'suddenly' goes postal. Perhaps they figure the repeated carnage photos is a greater rating grabber.

With American Corporations routinely going overseas for cheaper and more dispensable workers, the few remaining in America are routinely treated in the most demeaning ways. And if they don't like or appreciate the mental or physical abuse, they can quit or get fired.

All too often, American Corporations are rewarded for pushing out a employee within a 5 year period to recoup any of its matching 401K funds to split among its staff. They'll hire another waiting employee for far less, a win-win for them.

Behind nearly all of the 'going postal' violence, there's a extremely egregious employer, manager or shop foreman that has heaped loads of abuse on that person until they finally exploded.

Is Media News simply too lazy to do any investigative reporting on these celebrated postal acts? Or is it simply poor taste to place egregious and hyper-abusive employers in the spotlight?

No excuse for the actions he took, but as far as this statement: "After all, despite the hard times we’ve encountered, this government still provides assistance and unemployment benefits to help Americans get back on their feet", that isn't entirely correct. You also stated that the company "put a kink" in his efforts to draw unemployment. So that option was off the table for him. Assistance can be found, but it is a long and tedious process to receive help for even the basics after losing a job, and jobs are scarce.

Again, no excuse, but that statement doesn't accurately portray the plight of people who find themselves termporarily without means to support themselves.

Nancy, fantastic,
If Pedro would"t have recorded ,would it even made a diffeence. This was entertaining, sooo bizzarre. How stupid could she be. She told the cops she was having long, enjoyable ,consensual sex,sex / with the lawn guy. I thought you might get pre-empted. all together too much. Hes worth 10 mill and this charade was for 50 g or what?
Thanks for telling everyone to thank our Lord for thanksgiving,so important,many have forgotten
GOD Bless

Nancy Iove your show, watch it whenever I can. However, if I was a juror on that case, the tape alone would not convict this woman.
There are too many inconsistencies in that story, he knew he was taping the conversation, she didn't and he's telling her what he wants her to say and she sound to me like if she was trying to play along with this guy.
1. How come he's doing most of the talking and the only one who knows the plan of what he wants her to do?
2. If they were lovers, how come he only saw her naked in the shower once.
3. How come he's the one telling her what's on the media concering her case, I would think that she would have access to TV/internet if left alone in a hotel room.
3.He's the only one telling her about the text that was send from her mother and husband, why didn't she see them?
4. How come she had no idea where the car was parked and that it was backed up and where was she when the helicopter was overhead, he was the one describing the details.
5.he mentioned on the tape that when he walked up to the house he didn't expect her to be so friendly, later on he mentioned when she was taken, what's the significant of this?
There are several other information on the tape that could go either way, its going to come down to who the juror will believe on that tape and i'm not an attorney but I would use that tape to win the case, if that's the only prosecution evidence.
She's a victim who's playing along or an academy award actress.

Your show is the best on HLN.
Patricia

In the article it is explained that the shooter was deined unemployment benefits. Then later it is rationalized that no one should go postal becuse of all the benefits available...

Am I going crazy or did the author explain something and then turn around and offer a contradicting rationale?

How can you point to unemployment as something this person should have utilized AFTER first explaining how it was deined. Please explain... ?

I once had a coworker that was behaving erractic. She was unable to perform her job, even though she was experienced. I would even show her precisely how to perform a task and she still couldn't do it. She began to accuse me of sabotaging her career and spent most of her time pouring over emails and accusing me of withholding information from her. I would spend an hour every morning answering to these accusations. I felt that some morning she was going to come over to my desk and kill me. I finally said something to my boss and her solution made me quit my job. She had the coworker move her desk so it would be directly across from me. It was obvious to me that the boss felt it easier to appease the coworker than to address her erratic behavior. I think the whole probably with my coworker was that she was a control freak and didn't like me being the lead. She untimately got her way and got taken off the project and asked to lead an area that she knew nothing about.

A.SMITH ORGEON

I was planning to write something along the sam line as you but you beat me to it but i amin 1000% percent agreement with your postin on hereas it pertained to employees rights within the workplace for in my opinion employees in the workplaces in these united states no longer have any rights what so ever. as a matter of fact it has gotten to the point thatemployees don't even have any human rights within the workplace as to being able to stand up to mangament even when mangament is blataly wrong an even possibly commiting fraud agains the taxpayers of this country with their wron gdoings . but it appears to me as you state that thhe media just refuses to highlight thes wrong doingd by any coporate enity anywhere thank you

When oh when will Americans understand that guns kill people. Yet you insist on a miss-understood statement in your Constitution that every person has a right to have a gun, in many cases, people have several guns. So if a person gets pissed off, naturally he reaches for his gun, or in childrens' cases, a gun in the family home.
I’m not saying no guns = no killings. But I do believe no guns = means a lot less killings.
These killings are reported as if they are inevitable; it’s expected to occur. A plane crashes and a detailed investigation is commenced to find out why, to try to prevent it happening again. A person shoots many people, usually for no reason, yet no one thinks "what can we do to stop this”.

Coing postal, It's about time the American people wake up and take control of there country. When do we use TAX Payers money to remove tattoos from people going to court that has been charged with a crime just to make the person more presentable in court.

We must STOP the BS and get back to basic. We are the bigist wastful country in the world. Hold all our repersentives accountably for what they do. The underminding and stealing this country bling.
When is anough is anough.

If the American people unite we can be the America we use to be.

I am a huge fan of your show, I watch on a regular basis.....But I find it kinda disturbing, that since the Tigar Woods crap is going on your show has been covering that topic, I believe way to much. Espesially when there is so many beautifal kids, women, and men missing or going through meanigful things...He is a star with billions that cheated, big deal it happens to regular people everyday, and he is a Great Golfer that has now became a stastistic.