Employee resignation escalates into vicious beating
SEATTLE -- What started as a routine resignation quickly escalated into a business owner drawing a gun on an employee who had just finished beating him over the head with an electrical box, according to the Seattle Police Department.
The whole Human Resources nightmare took place around 5:50 p.m. last Wednesday at Seattle Fabrics in the 8700 block of Aurora Avenue North.
According to the police report for the incident, an employee informed his boss he was putting in his two-weeks notice and asked him to sign a resignation form.
The employee became angry and decided to quit on the spot when, after asking about vacation benefits for later in the year, his boss informed him he didn't have any because he was resigning.
The boss asked the employee to return a large pair of the company's scissors the employee had in a holster on his belt. But, the employee refused, saying they were his, according to the report.
A fight ensued, and the employee grabbed a power cord with an electrical box at the end and whipped his boss in the head with it multiple times, leaving bumps and open wounds, according to the report.
The boss later told officers he thought he might black out, so he grabbed the gun out of his holster and told the employee to get on the ground.
According to the report, the employee refused, instead threatening his boss and saying he wished his neck was slit.
When officers arrived, they cuffed the employee, who didn't want to talk about the incident.
Witnesses told officers they saw the employee hit the boss with a power cord and threaten to stab him with scissors.
The employee was booked into King County Jail for investigation of assault and harassment.
I think the whole story was fabricated.
Guess now the lefties will be demanding a ban on 'high capacity' electrical boxes.
 @SeaRick S Give it up. That ship sailed.
Wow... and I was just surprised to hear of two dudes working in one fabric store....
Good luck collecting unemployment...A reference from this employer might go something like this "Joe was always at work on time and a good worker, until the day he turned in his resignation when he bashed in my face"
I'm guessing that there won't be a glowing review from this employer...
Well, that escalated quickly.
Guess the perp better leave THIS job off his reference list... dumdum.
Good thing the Boss had a gun
My guess is that he doesn't have to worry about quitting anymore.
Some court ordered anger management is coming.
 @jowsuf for both of them, I hope......
Does this mean i lose my sick leave ?
i be worried for his future boss.
This employee was obviously not cut from the same fabric as the rest of them.
Who knew Fabric stores needed armed bosses...
I find it hard to believe the employer had the gun on him all along and the employee still chose to wield an improvised weapon. It seems like there must have been some gap between those two events. However, we'll probably never get the whole story.
 @cdm1973 Probably was concealing it in his desk or on his person. When I carry one of my smaller sized handguns you could never tell I was armed unless you patted me down or used a metal detector.
 @dg54321  @cdm1973 That sounds plausible to me. The whole thing sounds like a bad action movie.
Come shop at Seattle Fabrics where the fun never ends.
I wonder if he'll give him a good reference on a future job.....
ALL RIGHT... powerstrip num-chucks are now going to be banned from all offices to protect us all ... didn't think employee know the crap about not running with scissors?
I guess this would be a bad time to ask about COBRA?
GREAT! Now we have to have a "power cord with an electrical box " control debate in the Senate; I have a right to have a "power cord with an electrical box" and the Gov't is not going to take it away!
Well, it's a good thing the employee didn't have a gun.. just sayin' a power strip causes far less damage.Â
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 @MizIMO Very true; but now there is scissors in the mix.....where will it end?
bye bye power strips... Dang it..
Must be a tough environment to work in, since the boss appears to have a gun readily available.
 @J LAKE And I bet everyone working there knew he had a gun. Which makes some of the comments below a little funny.
Sheesh! Thank god he didnt ask about his 401k!
I feel like I just read the transcript from a South Park Episode
Sooo..., about that letter of recommendation....
Good restraint by the boss.
Another employee of the month leaves.
If the guy was that bad of an employee why not just let him walk?
 @whitewings2003 Did you read the entire story? It was a voluntary resignation, the boss was requiring proof of it, so if the guy came back and said he was terminated or some other reason for applying for unemployment. Makes perfect sense to me, but I own a business.
I guess he just couldn't cut it.
This happened at Seattle Fabrics?!?! Who knew the fabric world was so high stress!
 @tats76 Seams it is.
 @Getov Mylon  @tats76 I hope this alteration between the employees didn't tear the fabric of the work environment. Maybe they can iron everything out moving forward. Â
 @lakeview  @tats76 Swatch out for bad puns.
Another case of a gun saving a life. Good on the business owner for packing for his protection....and he didn't even have to shoot the maniac.
 @dg54321 So the part where the employee thankfully didn't have a gun didn't occur to you? Way to cherry-pick parts of the story to make a moronic argument.
 @Rentonese How is it moronic to make a point that this man's gun saved his life, even without having to be discharged? There is no cherry picking involved. These are the facts to the story plain and simple, anything else would be speculative and moronic.
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If anything it shows that people h**l bent on doing harm will use what ever is available.
 @aintno1special  @Rentonese I even fail to see the poster's point. If the employee had a gun available, I bet the business owner would be even MORE glad he had his gun available to him so he could defend himself. Thanks to Rentonese for backing up my statement. You know you are dealing with an anti, lacking in logic, when they inadvertently lend credence to your point instead of theirs with their post. No matter the armament of the assailant....the truth remains that guns in the hands of good people serve as a deescalation of violence, despite all the histrionic filled claims to the contrary.
 @dg54321 Oh really? Because I read it as a maniac was one step away from grabbing the gun off the boss and not only shooting him, but shooting the nearby employees, as well.  But that doesn't fit your narrative.Â
@DT @dg54321 Sew, they employee had scissors holstered.. and chose to grab a different weapon...
The boss, had a gun holstered, and chose it over going for a different weapon...
I read it as don't take a power cord and hit someone who is carrying a firearm, Even if you are carrying scissors...  LOL
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How els could we spin this... Lets help the mainstream media with Ideas... and have fun with this..
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I hope the boss wasn't hurt to bad, and recovers quickly from his injuries..
 @Mr. H  @DT  @dg54321 Don't bring a power cord to a gun fight!
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i'm very glad Nobody was seriously injured! i'm not sure i'd have been able to show this kind of restraint, Nor would the law require me to.Â
 @DT You need to work on your reading comprehension.
 @DT  @dg54321 Yes, because the smart thing to do would be attempt to GRAB A GUN FROM A PERSON POINTING IT AT YOU. Maniac or not, statistically if he had tried that he would be dead, and the Business owner would be well within his legal rights.
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Quit pushing your anti-gun agenda that has no basis in reality.
 @DT In your version does he do this while yelling "yippee ki yay mother f*****"?
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Seems like a fairly subjective (if that is even vague enough of a word to use) tale you spin there DT.
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 @what? Ever hear of tone matching? DT comments are frequently trivialized and dramatized, and I just pointed out this may have been one of her best. Calling someone's dramatized post "drivel" isn't offensive. By pure connotation her comment is drivel.
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That isn't any more insulting than your sarcastic comment to me!
@komotriedtosilenceme @Getov Mylon Yeah, who'd have ever seen that comming... Must have been your glowing personality that was horribly missconstrued.
 @Getov Mylon HA HA HA the powers that be have done it again. No where in my post was I hostile, off topic, untruthful, not civil, or irresponsible, but My comment has been deleted. Must have been my calling DT's fantasy drivel. And not even a warning or otherwise that my post was gone. Sweet on a 2nd amendment topic my 1st has been controlled.
 @Getov Mylon :) well we would always have "sb in seattle".
 @komotriedtosilenceme "Oh man your drivel may have peaked on this one."
I hope she never leaves KOMO because where would I get my daily dose of Deluded Sycophantic Leftist Drivel? If anyone has a poster of President Obama, gotta be her.
 @DT But that didn't happen. And the truth doesn't fit your anti gun slant....and you just can't deal with that, can you? Even though the victim would have been well within their right to draw and fire to defend their life, the victim used restraint. Nobody got shot. Nobody died. Not exactly the "itching to shoot someone" you people portray us gun owners as, hmm?Â
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Sorry the truth proves you people wrong, time and time and time again. One would think you would eventually learn that you were wrong and change your story. I guess you'll just have to keep believing that if you tell the same lie one more time it will magically become the truth. It's yet another story of a law abiding citizen defending their life with a gun. Happens every day. When the hysterics stop and the logic takes hold, perhaps we can have a real, adult conversation about ways to stop crazy people from getting guns, how to keep guns out of the hands of children, etc. But with attitudes like yours, we know than any such conversation is a farce, quickly devolving into attempting to infringe on our rights in order for you to "feel safe". Another lie....being unarmed and vulnerable is anything but "safe".
 @dg54321 How did that part get left in the story? In the past it has always been omitted.
The high school shooting in Atlanta the mall shooting in Clackamas etc.
 @komotriedtosilenceme  @dg54321 I'm trying to win you commenters over. Is it working?
 We're a tough crowd. Extra points to you for facing the music.
 @Blindman  @MichaelHarthorne  @komotriedtosilenceme  @dg54321 I second the notion, but I'll be appeased by good reporting ;P
 @MichaelHarthorne  @komotriedtosilenceme  @dg54321 Free beer would win more of us over if this is a popularity contest.lol
 @MichaelHarthorne  @dg54321 :) Well this is a locally written piece. Not AP, so yes you are getting respect from some of us!