Pizza Hut Worker Fired for Shooting at Armed Robbers (FL)

Paladin · Post by **Paladin** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 12:33 pm

Pizza Hut Worker Fired for Shooting at Armed Robbers

Last Edited: Tuesday, 12 Jun 2007, 10:33 PM EDT
Created: Tuesday, 12 Jun 2007, 10:33 PM EDT

Pizza Hut Shooting
Orlando, FL -- A pizza hut employee says he feared for his life when he shot at armed robbers. But the company says he violated policy and fired him.

Story and Video here:

http://www.myfoxorlando.com/myfox/pages ... geId=3.2.1

pbandjelly · Post by **pbandjelly** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 12:42 pm

tactically speaking, dude shoulda just taken cover, not tried to follow them outside.
but, he did hit one, so +200pts for him!

should he get fired? of course! he violated Pizza Hut policy. course, maybe he shouldn't have been working there if packin' heat was a priority for him. don't know what Florida law is, but maybe ol' SB533 would be a good idea for them.

HighVelocity · Post by **HighVelocity** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 1:17 pm

I'd rather be fired from Pizza Hut than be carried by six... or something like that.

Don't take that story as gospel. No doubt there are plenty of inaccuracies in it. The main stream media has a bad habit of slanting the story.

Venus Pax · Post by **Venus Pax** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 10:16 pm

My husband worked delivery for two different pizza restaurants while in college. I know that at least one of them had a weapons policy. (Drivers couldn't have weapons on them or in the vehicle while making deliveries.)

This policy bothered me. A kid I went to high school with was shot while making a delivery to another high schooler. (It's no surprise that the thug that shot the delivery kid is now a registered sex offender.)

Pizza delivery people are at a somewhat compromised position when it comes to robbery. I think they should be encouraged to carry.

stroo · Post by **stroo** » Sat Jun 16, 2007 10:41 pm

My understanding is that a lot of pizza places have policies agaimst carrying but generally look the other way unless a driver actually has to use it. Then they fire the driver. There was a case history in Chris Bird's latest book about a pizza driver in Indianapolis who had this happen. A couple times I think.

KBCraig · Post by **KBCraig** » Sun Jun 17, 2007 2:34 am

stroo wrote:My understanding is that a lot of pizza places have policies agaimst carrying but generally look the other way unless a driver actually has to use it. Then they fire the driver.

They can only fire you if you're still alive.

Fair trade, in my book.

HankB · Post by **HankB** » Sun Jun 17, 2007 1:39 pm

A couple of years ago Pizza Hut fired a driver for shooting an armed perp who attacked him.

Police said it was a good shoot.

Nonetheless, Pizza Hut fired him - in the warped little world view of Pizza Hut executive management, it's better for an employee to be injured or killed than it is for him to violate "policy."

There are other - better! - places to get pizza; whenever possible, I boycott blatantly "anti" businesses like Pizza Hut.

seamusTX · Post by **seamusTX** » Sun Jun 17, 2007 2:53 pm

HankB wrote:... in the warped little world view of Pizza Hut executive management, it's better for an employee to be injured or killed than it is for him to violate "policy."

Many companies nowadays don't even pretend to value their employees, and Pizza Hut is obviously one of them.

Their pizza [deleted], too.

- Jim

Paladin · Post by **Paladin** » Sun Jun 17, 2007 9:32 pm

seamusTX wrote:Many companies nowadays don't even pretend to value their employees, and Pizza Hut is obviously one of them.

Sad but true. Apparently Pizza Hut does see their employees as expendable.