You have my sympathies on the loss of your job. These jerks were obviously setting you up to fail.NcongruNt wrote:Yeah, I posted a thread about this when I was waiting for my license. I similarly talked to a lot of people about the CHL, and learned later the error of my ways. It's a natural thing to want to talk about, and I've since advised other folks who are getting their license not to do so, and explained why.
Basically, I was trying to check to see if there was 30.06 notice given in the employee manual, an asked a coworker (who I had talked to about guns previously, as she had mentioned she was looking for one for home) if she had a copy and why I was looking for it. She then (supposedly, according to my him) told my manager than I was bringing a gun to work, and I have no idea how she got that idea. I'd NEVER carried at work (duh, I didn't even have a license yet) and told them so when questioned about it. The ensuing discussion about CHL was a stupid emotional reaction by the other parties involved, and none of it had any grounding in facts.
I have suspicions that what happened at my workplace ultimately led to my getting fired - not officially for that reason of course, but the "reasons" (and circumstances that led to them) given never made sense to me. My workplace environment got more and more difficult due to scheduling changes imposed by my manager, until I was getting 3 hours of sleep per night due to my internal clock being scrambled because of the shifts I had to work. They then fired me for "performance issues" - which occurred because of the exhaustion I was experiencing. My manager would not listen any time I brought up my schedule in the many weeks prior.
You live and learn. Learning from others' mistakes is definitely better.
My direct family and in-laws (and very select members of my extended family) know I carry, but I am relatively tight-lipped otherwise. Some close friends know, but for the most part they only find out when I take them to the range for the first time, or (in some cases) they are looking to get a CHL of their own and come to me as the "gun guy" friend.
Here's my original post, for posterity:
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I know this may sound hollow having been fired, but I would not want to work for those people in the first place. I was fired many years ago (nothing to do with firearms) after fifteen years with the company. 
I now have twenty years in a better job at higher pay. 
From what I understand happened in the company after I left, it looks like they did me a favor. Moral, keep fighting don’t give up.We all have different situations though and some of us may be able to be more open concerning firearms, our CHL and other things. We have a Union where I work and it would have been extremely difficult if not impossible for a supervisor to do to one of us what those jerks did to you. I am also eligible for retirement and I could get my retirement papers through before they could go through the steps to fire me.
I suppose my point is that no one rule fits all.
