Lay the blame

By jobless - 13/09/2015 14:07 - United States

Today, a guy came into my gas station, showed me the gun on his hip, and asked me to kindly empty the register. My asshole boss claimed afterwards that because we live in an open carry state, and because the guy didn't point the gun at me, that there was no actual robbery and I just gave him free money. FML
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XxDanno316xX 27

Your manager is an idiot. Period. Fyl OP.

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lvg_fml 10

Better not to work for someone who values money more than your life

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worldclassrager 39

I bet you anything he would have done the same thing...

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christopherwilli 14

At least he asked kindly. But for real though your boss is an idiot.

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TomeDr 24

I hope you called the police anyway.

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earlytermination 34

That's bull shit. You probably don't want to be working for someone like that anyway. The upside is that since you worked at a gas station you could probably find another job relatively easy. Jobs like that tend to have a high turn over rate. Good luck, OP!

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exoticwaved 9

Time to quit. That guy doesn't value your life.

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Selene1090 26

The threat was obviously there, even if he didn't point the gun at you. It would have been stupid and asking to get shot if you had waited until the gun was pointed at you.

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foxmatrix15 8

Well in Texas we don't wait so you should have sounded alarm and pull out a gun and waited. If you do live in Texas you should be ashamed of yourself

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Selene1090 26

You should be ashamed of yourself for encouraging the stereotype.

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acerredrum 23

I worked in a gas station in Texas and if I ever brought my gun to work, I would be fired, banned from the premise, and possible arrested.

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username13344 6

my dad use to work at a bank, if someone just says give me all the money(as a threat ) you have to give them the money.

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corky1992 33

I used to work at one too and we had the same concept. They didn't want anyone risking their lives over the money.

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pengyvan 21

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exoticwaved 9

The guy asked for money to which he doesn't have title to...which implies it's a robbery. And he possessed a firearm in the commission of a crime which is a a major felony in some states. Why should OP wait for the crook to point the gun in his/her face when the robber's finger would be on the trigger?

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Britt125 16

I don't live where you can openly carry guns, but since the general idea here is that you don't even need to see a weapon, I'm going to say OP was right and their boss is an idiot. You give the robber money and get them out ASAP. You don't try refusing, if you've seen the weapon that may aggravate them enough to use, if you haven't you may find out the have one as they pull it out to use. Also people can hurt others without a weapon. So there's always cause to believe they may hurt you. Robbers do not want a robbery to take longer than it has to (more chance for witnesses or cops to come by), so if you protest and delay them it aggravates them which can turn ugly fast. Since OP says they showed them the weapon, I'm guessing they specifically pointed it out to OP and OP didn't just happen to notice it because it was visible (though that may have happened too). Which implies that they wanted OP to know they have it and scare OP into thinking they would use it, that is a threat and OP was definitely right to hand over the money.

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pengyvan 21

53/64 although chances are practically 100% that the robber would have actually threatened op if denied money, he didn't. And that's what matters. So yes, it does suck for op, the robber has a strong case supporting something like he's poor and was just begging for money and not threatening op. Also, if the robber was showing op the gun from his belt and wasn't holding it in his hands, that's legal too. Kinda ****** up because technically it wasn't robbery since op willingly handed over money.

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acerredrum 23

You clearly have no idea how the law works. If I walk into a store, demand the money in a register it doesn't matter if I have NO weapon, it is a ******* robbery.

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