Ohio State shooter complained bosses were unfair

[The Northerner]

Source: Associated Press

COLUMBUS, Ohio – An Ohio State University janitor who shot two supervisors, one fatally, and then killed himself had complained that he was being treated unfairly, though records show he slept on the job and was late to work during his probation.

Nathaniel Brown was days away from losing his job when he opened fire with two handguns early on Tuesday in a maintenance building at the nation's largest university, police said. No students were hurt.

Brown, 51, had a criminal history that included serving about five years in prison on a charge of receiving stolen property, records show. He lied about it on his job application, and it wasn't immediately clear whether Ohio State had completed a background check on him.

Ohio State released documents from Brown's personnel file showing that supervisors complained he was tardy, slept on the job and had problems following instructions. The university sent him a letter March 2 informing him that his employment was to end on Saturday.

Brown had been scheduled to work his normal third shift on Tuesday, campus Police Chief Paul Denton said. Brown arrived for work dressed in dark clothing, wearing a hooded sweat shirt and a backpack. Police didn't say what was in the backpack. About a half-dozen other employees were in the building when the shooting began about 3:30 a.m.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100310/ap_on_re_us/us_ohio_state_shootings

[WriteDown]

1. Who doesn't do a background check?

Ugh.

[jody]

2. We need a law that prohibits convicted felons from possessing a gun.

:sarcasm:

[denverbill]

6. Yes, because if a law doesn't stop one felon that means it doesn't work.

Society would be much better off if we let crazy people and felons buy all the guns they want!:sarcasm:

[peace13]

3. Best way to fire someone is to call them into the office and let them go.

Don't give them time to go home and load the revolvers, pack a lunch and come back for the hunt. Very sad for everyone concerned.

[old mark]

4. Well, I have worked for unfair employers much of my life and never shot any of them.

What's wrong with me?


mark

[myplace]

5. I wonder what his freeper screen name was

and what books he had on the shelf and who he listened to on the radio. He looks like a Faux News type to me.

[Beavker]

7. There's a winger in my office that is almost an inevitability to do this

I refrain form telling you who I work for, but I've told friends and co-workers that are off site, that someday this guy may be in the news for this kind of thing and I hope I live through it. It's been avoided I think, because my company just seems to simply refuse to fire this guy. He complains to HR if someone says something that's just to Liberal for him (I'm in a Red State), but yet it runs rampant the other way around in this office (yet I keep my trap shut). He has likewise had numerous complaints and run-ins with Management, one time even asking one of them to "step outside". Yes, yet he still works here. He's just plain weird, and per conversations on the phone, he has friends that have had their friends refuse to go places because he was going. I've worked here for 5 years and never spoken to the guy, as when we cross paths, he doesn't look at me nor give the 'nod' to say Hello. I hold the door for him if he is behind me, and he says nothing.

My wife and I work for the same company. She sits on the other side of the wall from him. We both have good Life Insurance policies needless to say. I've even sent anonymous suggestions to my company's suggestion box, asking "how many times does XXXXXX need to threaten a Manager before he is fired?". Just to let them know they have employees that are concerned. I guess he'll be let go after he kills some of us.

[Mopar151]

11. I had a co-worker the boss called "McVeigh"

Sounds like the same guy - or at least cousins. And he's not the only one around.

[apnu]

13. Beavker, dust off your resume and look for something else.

Do it quiet and on the side and tell no one that you're doing it. Regardless of the freeper in your office, that sounds like a poorly managed operation doomed to fail. You need to get out of there, that isn't professional nor is it safe.

[slackmaster]

8. Not fair?

[hughee99]

9. Of course it's not fair...

just because an employee lies on an application, shows up late, sleeps on the job, doesn't follow instructions is no reason to treat them unfairly. :sarcasm:

If the guy put half the thought and effort into his job that he did into his revenge, he probably wouldn't have had trouble at work in the first place.

[Jimbo S]

10. When you terminiate someone

escort that person to the door and never let him/her back in.

What's this "we're letting you go at the end of the week" stuff?

[slackmaster]

12. Yes, when you terminate for cause you DO NOT GIVE NOTICE!

And never do it alone.

[apnu]

14. Sounds to me the system failed him.

This guy needed help, lots of help. But our society is too deaf to hear the howling of madmen.

[WriteDown]

15. Maybe he just missed the lessons during nap time?

:shrug: