July 15, 2003

A nightmare on the job
Posted by tzannos@bostonworks.com">Svetlana Husseini at 9:41 AM -

From Newsweek:

The Meridian tragedy raises some troubling questions not just for Lockheed, but for any company with a disturbed and angry employee in its ranks (there have been other such shootings, like the one at a millwork factory in Goshen, Ind., in 2001 that left two dead and six wounded). In Williams’s case, his supervisors at Lockheed ordered him to attend a two-week anger-management course after he threatened a co-worker in 2001 and, more recently, sent him home when he donned a bootee on his head that looked like a Ku Klux Klan hood. Could Lockheed have done more? Can the victims’ families hold the company liable?

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