The age of rage has dawned in America and corporations are caught in the crossfire. Unfortunately, violence is seen more and more often as an acceptable means for settling disputes. The phenomenon has moved out of streets and into offices across the nation. Many dismissed workers, overstressed employees, and unhappy customers are getting trigger-happy in workplaces across the United States.
A few weeks, a fellow colleague shot his manager a financial firm to death. The employee upset with the manager because the manager did not responded to the employee's proposal. The employee became angry, left the firm, drove home (10 miles), and returned to store with his 357 Magnum. The employee then went to the manager's office and shot him three times in the back of his head while the manager was sitting at his computer.
Another story that hits a little closer to home is the Mark Barton.... A disturbed day trader wielding two handguns killed nine people and wounded 12 in an upscale office complex in Atlanta this afternoon, eluding police for several hours before committing suicide. The man is also suspected of the murder of his wife and two children, whose bodies were found today in a neighboring county. Mark Barton, a 44-year-old former chemist who a fellow stock trader said was upset about investment losses and marital problems, walked into the branch offices of All-Tech Investment Group in the affluent Buckhead section of Atlanta just before 3 p.m., spoke briefly with the office manager, then pulled out 9mm and .45-caliber handguns and began shooting. Barton, first shot the firm's two office managers and their secretary at close range before firing indiscriminately into the room where 30 to 40 people usually use terminals to trade stocks, sending people diving under desks and running for t!
he door, said officials at All-Tech headquarters in New Jersey. Those trying to escape threw a computer through a window. John Cabr
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