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So Flo · 10-19-2006, 06:29 PM

I took my wifes suv in to have a tire patched and a tire rotation. I went to the Goodyear store up the street from my office.

As I walk in I see a pictogram of a revolver with the circle and line through it and the words "No Firearms!"

Since I made a special trip and time was of the essence, I had to leave it for them to work on. While there I asked about it and the guy said "yeah, corporate sent that out a while ago. We don't figure it'll stop someone from coming in to rob us, though...and we don't enforce it."

When I went to pick it up, I was talking with the manager and he tells me that part of the reason for the policy was for their employees...so they don't keep a gun in their tool box, etc. While we were talking, a plain clothes cop comes in...so as we are talking I asked him what he thought about it. First he said that concealed carry is concealed carry and no one would know you had it...second, he said that it is not Florida law, only corporate policy and the customer can choose to ignore it if they want to.

I told the manager that today would be my last trip to the Goodyear store due to their policy. He handed me his card and encouraged me to contact corporate to share my thoughts with them on the subject.

**PackerfanXD** · 10-19-2006, 06:41 PM

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Originally Posted by So Flo

I told the manager that today would be my last trip to the Goodyear store due to their policy. He handed me his card and encouraged me to contact corporate to share my thoughts with them on the subject.

Maybe you should. 'Corporate' needs to hear from 'real' people once and a while.

So Flo · 10-19-2006, 07:03 PM

The email has already been sent! I'll let ya'll know what they say...if they reply at all.

Neomet · 10-19-2006, 07:12 PM

See, the employee with a gun in the toolbox arguement doesn't work. Any company can have a policy that prohibits employees from bringing firearms into work at peril of being fired. Mine does, its perfectly legal and I hate it.

LUVMYSIGP225 · 10-19-2006, 07:29 PM

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Originally Posted by So Flo

I told the manager that today would be my last trip to the Goodyear store due to their policy. He handed me his card and encouraged me to contact corporate to share my thoughts with them on the subject.

If you want me to say something I will. I am literally sitting in the shadows of the Goodyear Corporate office right here in Akron, Ohio. LOL. I have to look at that fargin' crusty building every single day!! LOL!

Mark M · 10-19-2006, 08:04 PM

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Originally Posted by So Flo

Since I made a special trip and time was of the essence, I had to leave it for them to work on. While there I asked about it and the guy said "yeah, corporate sent that out a while ago. We don't figure it'll stop someone from coming in to rob us, though...and we don't enforce it."

Since the manager himself isn't concerned at all, and you were carrying concealed anyway, it sounds like a "wink wink" sort of sign that doesn't practically apply to customers.

It also doesn't sound like the manager asked you if you were armed and therefore didn't care, so why take your business elsewhere?
Maybe other Goodyear stores in the area have managers who are anal about "the rule", but since this one is cool with it, I'd continue to spend my money there to support the manager if nothing else.

Timmy44221 · 10-19-2006, 08:08 PM

the problem however is that its Goodyear policy. THerefore none of us should support them in any way to protest the issue.

xd4life · 10-19-2006, 08:15 PM

Hey the postal service has had that no guns allowed at work policy and what have we seen there???

jimbo2 · 10-19-2006, 08:18 PM

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Hey the postal service has had that no guns allowed at work policy and what have we seen there???

saltysquid · 10-19-2006, 08:44 PM

The postal service? The fact is that it's safer to work there than the private sector. It's the third largest employer and per employee has less violcence than the private sector. It just gets more publicity when something happens.

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*Despite a number of highly publicized post office incidents, a Postal Service commission reported in 2000 that postal employees are actually less likely to be homicide victims than other workers. The phrase “going postal,” which the commission noted has become a pejorative shorthand
phrase for employee violence, is a “myth,” the report said. (Source: Report of the United States Postal Service Commission on a Safe and Secure Workplace, quoted in U.S. Postal Service AnnualReport, 2000.)

http://www.fbi.gov/publications/violence.pdf

http://www.usps.com/history/plife/pl011697/cover.htm

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Originally Posted by xd4life

Hey the postal service has had that no guns allowed at work policy and what have we seen there???

10-19-2006, 06:29 PM	#1
So Flo XDTalk 10K Member Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Wellington, Florida Posts: 12,329	Goodyear Tire stores not gun friendly! I took my wifes suv in to have a tire patched and a tire rotation. I went to the Goodyear store up the street from my office. As I walk in I see a pictogram of a revolver with the circle and line through it and the words "No Firearms!" Since I made a special trip and time was of the essence, I had to leave it for them to work on. While there I asked about it and the guy said "yeah, corporate sent that out a while ago. We don't figure it'll stop someone from coming in to rob us, though...and we don't enforce it." When I went to pick it up, I was talking with the manager and he tells me that part of the reason for the policy was for their employees...so they don't keep a gun in their tool box, etc. While we were talking, a plain clothes cop comes in...so as we are talking I asked him what he thought about it. First he said that concealed carry is concealed carry and no one would know you had it...second, he said that it is not Florida law, only corporate policy and the customer can choose to ignore it if they want to. I told the manager that today would be my last trip to the Goodyear store due to their policy. He handed me his card and encouraged me to contact corporate to share my thoughts with them on the subject. __________________ No Guns, Know Crime. Know Guns, No Crime! http://militarysignatures.com/signatures/member3984.png

10-19-2006, 07:03 PM	#3
So Flo XDTalk 10K Member Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Wellington, Florida Posts: 12,329	The email has already been sent! I'll let ya'll know what they say...if they reply at all. __________________ No Guns, Know Crime. Know Guns, No Crime! http://militarysignatures.com/signatures/member3984.png

10-19-2006, 07:12 PM	#4
Neomet XDTalk 1K Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Made it to Scottsdale, AZ Posts: 1,402	See, the employee with a gun in the toolbox arguement doesn't work. Any company can have a policy that prohibits employees from bringing firearms into work at peril of being fired. Mine does, its perfectly legal and I hate it. __________________ Who said that? Who the freak said that? Who's the slimy little communist $hit, twinkle-toed rocksucker down here who just signed his own death warrant? Nobody, huh? The fairy freaking godmother said it. Out-freaking-standing. I will PT you all until you freaking die!

10-19-2006, 08:15 PM	#8
xd4life XDTalk 2K Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Back in HOTLANTA Posts: 2,251	Hey the postal service has had that no guns allowed at work policy and what have we seen there??? __________________ "A fine is a tax for doing wrong. A tax is a fine for doing well." Rick Hebert "The best victory is when the opponent surrenders of its own accord before there are any actual hostilities.... It is best to win without fighting." Sun-tzu 300 B.C Bob Barr FOR PRESIDENT

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10-19-2006, 08:08 PM	#7
Timmy44221 XDTalk 500 Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 797	the problem however is that its Goodyear policy. THerefore none of us should support them in any way to protest the issue.