As per usual, Sunday’s are my wife and I’s night to watch documentaries. So for our selection we watched Murder 9 to 5 : Violence in the Workplace, which is a documentary about people who obviously inflict harm on their old/current coworkers. Here’s a small blurb about what it entails.

Each year almost one million violent crimes are committed in the workplace. Some of them are fatal; many could be prevented. In investigative profiles of several infamous incidents, this program combines chilling footage with interviews of assailants and victims to explore the minds and motives of men and women who commit violence against their fellow workers. Forensic psychiatrist and FBI consultant Dr. Park Dietz interviews Richard Farley, currently on death row for killing seven coworkers, and Wanda Rogers, who is serving a life sentence for attempted murder. At the end of the program, Dr. Dietz provides guidelines for the early detection and prevention of workplace violence. Contains offensive language. Viewer discretion is advised. An HBO Production. (49 minutes)

Taken from Films for the Humanities and Sciences

The topic struck a chord in me, as it more than likely does with many others, since we all happen to see that one disgruntled employee…the one that acts out…the one that resents being told what to do…the one who has an infatuation with another employee and can’t seem to understand the word ‘no…the one that stays to themselves, looking at you like they’re plotting something…the one that you fire and find pictures of guns and swords drawn on their notes. (okay, some of us are just fanatics about Fantasy books and D&D, but we’re talking about people who can’t keep it in a book here).

Anyways, if you get a chance. Find a copy and watch it! Totally worth watching.

For those of you who know anyone that seems a little off kilter, notify your supervisor/boss/higher ups, and if you have to, go to the police. The people in the documentary didn’t take the time to do that and dismissed them. But a year later, one man got shot right between the eyes at his desk at work by a woman he more than likely had set aside. It does happen. Almost 1 million deaths is quite a bit. Let’s leave it to nature to kill us instead, huh?

Let me know how you feel about workplace violence or signs of it?