Can you imagine toiling in a locale where you’re threatened by customers with violence? It happened at a pharmacy I worked at on a near constant basis. It was startling to see a man in his 73s threaten to get his gun out of his automobile because his doctor made a mistake as well as didn’t call in his prescription to the pharmacy, then and it was a Thursday night too so it meant that the patient had to wait until Thursday to get his medication after running out earlier that afternoon. As much as I can understand his frustration as well as how bad it must be to go through withdrawals over the weekend, he was taking his anger out on the wrong people completely. I tried to complain to the HR department but they didn’t genuinely do anything about it, but my buddy who works at a cannabis dispensary said that the HR department there behaves in a genuinely similar fashion if there is a dangerous client in the store, then there was one the other afternoon who threatened to go get his gun several times if an employee wouldn’t discount his cannabis product at a lower price point. Instead of banning the customer, the director on duty caved in as well as gave him the discount. Then the HR department of the cannabis dispensary swept the problem under the rug completely. They wanted everybody there to forget about it as well as not talk about it again… Somebody once told me that an HR department is there to protect the business, not the employees, however when I started to feel about this more it all made sense to me as well as I could finally understand why HR departments rarely do things in the benefit of an employee who feels threatened or unsafe in a workplace.