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Some jobs bring on more theft and violence than others. Crowded, high-stress environments, like large hospitals, are prime areas for assaults and theft.

Occupations in the U.S.A, with high homicide victims:

Occupation of Victim          -                Average Annual Number

Sales                         -                         327
Executive/Management          -                         154
Law Enforcement               -                          69
Security Guard                -                          60
Taxi driver                   -                          74
Truck driver                  -                          25

Non-fatal violence is high for nurses, police, corrections officers, high school teachers, mental health workers (I found that out the hard way), bar staff, bus drivers, fast food workers, convenience store and gas station attendants.

Gas stations, fast food restaurants and convenience stores are attractive targets for robbers. The most vulnerable periods are in the morning during opening and late a night during closing. If the fast food restaurant or convenience store is near a main freeway, then it is accessible to a quick get-a-away.

If you are a customer at a gas station or convenience store and some guy comes in very tense and looking around more than normal, then it might be a good time to leave or look for cover. Another bad sign is two guys entering and one standing by the door. It is time to make tracks, fast.

Often the robberies are done by or arranged by former employee. In one case, the employee was a moonlighting, female firefighter, working at a gas station. She always just happened to be working during the robberies. It turned out that two jobs were not enough to support her gambling habit. If you are a business owner or manager, consider that theft and robberies often have inside help.

Convenience and fast food workers are shot four times more frequently than police officers. You get both low wages AND high risk. If your work is one of those places with electronically controlled washroom access and/or special coloured lights to discourage drug users, then maybe you should work somewhere else, or at least ask for the day shift. I was in one neighborhood where the midnight to morning worker had been attacked at the donut and coffee shop where she worked.

Sometimes one's own co-workers can be a problem. Violent co-workers will tend to:

Withdraw,

Argue,

Have marital, money and drug problems

Just act plain bizarre.

They also tend to be obsessive with co-workers and cannot take criticism. Sometimes you can work at places amongst a whole pack of unstable employees. Guys who are constantly drinking or smoking dope on the job, gambling at lunch hour and/or complaining about court date, parole officers and alimony payments. They often put up with poor working conditions, because the company puts up with them.

If the work place mistreats employees, the company has a higher risk of being robbed. Watch for disgruntled employees. Places like fast food restaurants are notorious for being robbed by former employees.

When you get a bad feeling about a place or its people, it might be time to find another job. The extra few dollars are rarely worth the effort. Stay safe.

Doug Setter holds a Bachelor's of Human Ecology. He has served as a paratrooper and U.N. Peacekeeper, completed 5 full marathons, climbed Mt. Rainier and is the author of Stomach Flattening and One Less Victim. He instructs fitness, muscle-gain, weight-loss, "stomach flattening" and kick-boxing. He can be reached at: http://www.2ndwindbodyscience.com

The 16th Century Entrepreneur Who Created the Concept of the Taxi

The 16th century was a time of amazing transformation in Europe. The Dark Ages were gone, the Black Plague had run it course and Middle Age fears and superstitions were slowly disappearing. The printing press had been invented and it was completely revamping the way people communicated. Columbus had discovered the America’s and the great age of exploration was in full swing. Medical advances, the Reformation, the creation of the great Italian banking houses and the Dutch trading companies had completely changed the way people thought, worked and worshipped. 

And yet, there was one area in which there had been virtually no advance since the time of Christ: transportation. Horse or mule, horse drawn carts and boat were the methods of travel utilized to convey people, goods and foodstuffs. Travel was slow. It was uncomfortable. And, it was often very dangerous. Brigands and pirates faced little in the way of organized policing. A bandit pretty much had a field day during the period. 

Of all the difficulties a traveler faced, the most frustrating by far was speed: or the lack thereof. As the great Florentine, Venetian and Genoan merchant banks financed warfare, fleets, crops, expeditions and colonization, they had to continually factor a risk premium into their risk/reward computations before settling on the interest to be charged on each loan. The slowness of receiving news of progress, success or failure on the status of an investment vehicle was agonizing to all parties participating in an enterprise. Did the fleet sink, or is it close to home with a valuable cargo? Has the battle been engaged, and who won? Was a new land discovered, and what did it offer in minerals or trade goods as materials for profit? 

Knowledge is power, and speed provides the edge that makes this power so important. If I know today, what my enemy or rival will not know for several days, I have a decided advantage on strategizing to my advantage and profit. In the 16th century an industrious Belgian family developed the first international service to address the ages old problem of slow communication.

The Tassis family had obtained the rights to handle a rudimentary postal service in several Duchies in what is now Belgium. The service promised a decent living for the Tassis family by the standards of the time. However, they wanted to do more, expand and create a service that could become the international standard. 

The Tassis family divided the work responsibilities between family members and had them disperse throughout Europe. The key to their success was a cohesive, standardized system of fleet horses, experienced, responsible riders, a network of terminals to change horse, rider and re-route mail and packages, and scheduled delivery times. Spain, France, Italy and Germany were little more than a polyglot of feudal city states during this time. There was no central government to handle a service like mail delivery that we consider routine today. The opportunity for a private company to organize and manage an international operation of this import and scale was a wonder. 

The Tassis’ received contracts to handle the delivery of mail throughout most of continental Europe. From Naples to the Danube, and Gibraltar to Copenhagen, the family built a delivery network that managers at DHL, UPS, or FedEx would admire and recognize today. A treaty, legal contract or purchase order that took five weeks to reach Genoa from Madrid, could now be delivered in seven to 10 days. As the loads increased the price was lowered and this only accelerated the use of the service. 

The family became rich, powerful and across Europe became members of the aristocracy. The name Tassis in the German language is spelled “taxis”.

Today, everywhere in the world, people call for a taxicab when they need to transport themselves for a fare. The taxi service created by the Tassis’ was an important part of the development of the Renaissance. 

The Tassis are responsible for one of the most elemental and important service enhancements in history. The ability to accelerate the movement of important commercial, legal and governmental communications enabled decisions to be made more quickly and on a grander scale. The entrepreneurial innovation that the Tassis family introduced enriched their family, business, government and, most importantly, the working class that benefited so much from the rapid expansion of capital and trade. Even today, we can still learn from the historical record that the ability to offer a novel new benefit pays off in so many ways.

About the Author

Geoff Ficke has been a serial entrepreneur for almost 50 years. As a small boy, earning his spending money doing odd jobs in the neighborhood, he learned the value of selling himself, offering service and value for money.

After putting himself through the University of Kentucky (B.A. Broadcast Journalism, 1969) and serving in the United States Marine Corp, Mr. Ficke commenced a career in the cosmetic industry. After rising to National Sales Manager for Vidal Sassoon Hair Care at age 28, he then launched a number of ventures, including Rubigo Cosmetics, Parfums Pierre Wulff Paris, Le Bain Couture and Fashion Fragrance.

Geoff Ficke and his consulting firm, Duquesa Marketing, Inc. (www.duquesamarketing.com) has assisted businesses large and small, domestic and international, entrepreneurs, inventors and students in new product development, capital formation, licensing, marketing, sales and business plans and successful implementation of his customized strategies. He is a Senior Fellow at the Page Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, Business School, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio.

How is it legal for taxis to look like police cars?

I've noticed a lot of taxis in my neighborhood that are white Crown Vitorias that have a blue stripe on the side. When I see them, I often confuse them for police cars. Isn't it illegal to drive a car that looks like a police car?
No, I was gonna buy a white crown victoria with a searchlight when I retire and spend my golden years laughing at people that slow down when they drive by me. Is that inpersonating a police officer?

No, it isn't illegal because Taxi cabs are de-commisioned police patrol cars I believe. It is by no means illegal to drive a Crown Vic as long as you aren't putting POLICE stickers on the car and putting sirens on the top lol

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