Run, Hide, Fight !

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Today was day one of my new job and day one of two days worth of orientation. Lots of paperwork to go through, read and initialize. It only took me an hour of casually looking over the information and carefully double checking that my information was correct. After all the paper work was sorted through, I started on the computer part of reading through further information and watching videos about the companies policies and procedures. There were the usual videos on work place situations and scenarios. One of the videos was about what if while at work I find myself in an "Active Shooter" situation. I thought to myself, "Whuh? Seriously?" The video basically said- Run- Just get yourself out of the building and don't worry about others, just worry about yourself. Unless you can help them get outside without slowing you down. Hide- If you for some reason can not run out immediately, hide until you can get a chance to run safely or wait for police to show up. Fight- As a last resort, use what ever you can around you as a weapon. Improvise if you must. I started to laugh a little, not at the advice, but at the corny acting out of the scenarios. But I do have a slight problem with this policy, for one, I don't run, not just cause i'm chubby, but because it's not really in my nature. I would also find it hard to leave an injured co-worker or customer behind to the assailants mercy. Hide- I can do that, maybe. Fight- oh hell yeah! I also laughed at the part in the video of "try to find something around you that you can use as a weapon", trust me, there's going to be plenty of "improvised weapons" waiting to happen around me if the "active shooter" scenario ever occurs while i'm working there. Have any of you had an "Active Shooter" section put into your companies guidelines and procedures handbooks ? Photograph- Taken/Owned by me, Plethos