If you where at work, and the bodies of the recently dead returned to life, and started attacking the living could you survive? could you make it home across town? if not where would you hold up at? What items at your workplace could you turn into a weapon to destroy the brain of the flesh eating ghouls? You can apply this to both Romero style shambling zombies, Dawn of the Dead 2004 fast running zombies, or Rage virus victims.

If the dead started to walk while you are at work could you survive?
#2
Posted 04 July 2008 - 04:46 PM
I work at a pizza place when I'm not fixing computers so there are a lot of available weapons around there. We have this big machete-like knife that is weighted on the back... I've never seen anyone use it so I don't know why we have it. But my house is just a few blocks away. I could run it if I didn't have a car for some reason.
#3
Posted 04 July 2008 - 07:19 PM
Seeing that I work in a city with over a million people, and work on new home construction job sites 20-30 miles from home most of the time. Im pretty much screwed trying to get home. Especially on southern California freeways. Most of my tools I use could kill a zombie. If they are the fast moving DOTD04 zombies, Im pretty much dead. Plenty of materials to board up an empty new home with real tight, but no food, or lack of water would be a major problem. one + most construction workers can handle themselves prety good if they had to kill the undead, most carry guns in thier trucks to.
#4
Posted 05 July 2008 - 12:42 AM
I work in a large machine shop . the place itself is a weapon. I also take 2 guns with me and at least 50rds of ammo for each. my house is less than 2 miles from my work and I could use yards to get home if the way home was blocked for some odd reason. 4X4 is handy for that as is having my house on the edge of town close to my work thats just out of town.
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#6
Former Member: Behemoth
Posted 06 July 2008 - 12:04 PM
No problem, although i would rather the outbreak took place when i was working my full time job ( large motor dealer ) i would just take one of the 4X4,get home grab my things & let it begin.
#7
Posted 06 July 2008 - 06:46 PM
I am so screwed, I work at Wal-Mart. No weapons to speak of, unless you count those cheap machetes we sell. The only problem is I work on the other side of the store.
I stopped fighting my inner demons. We're on the same side now!
#8
Former Member: Screwballgunnut
Posted 06 July 2008 - 11:40 PM
Hell yeah!
I, for one, could survive if the dead start walking while I'm at work. There's 7 spare 1911 mags within arms reach & a locked & cocked 1911 all loaded with 200gr Speer Gold Dot +P's, a .38 revolver, and a whallopin stick in the front seat. In the trunk, there is several extra of boxes of ammo for each handgun, a loaded Benelli 12ga, and several boxes of 00Buck & slugs. Plus, there are two added bonuses I failed to mention....... 1) I usually hear about things as soon as they start happening and 2) I'm never more than about 5-10 minutes away from the house, and a REAL stockpile of guns & ammo :evil:
I, for one, could survive if the dead start walking while I'm at work. There's 7 spare 1911 mags within arms reach & a locked & cocked 1911 all loaded with 200gr Speer Gold Dot +P's, a .38 revolver, and a whallopin stick in the front seat. In the trunk, there is several extra of boxes of ammo for each handgun, a loaded Benelli 12ga, and several boxes of 00Buck & slugs. Plus, there are two added bonuses I failed to mention....... 1) I usually hear about things as soon as they start happening and 2) I'm never more than about 5-10 minutes away from the house, and a REAL stockpile of guns & ammo :evil:
#9
Former Member: Dawna Of The Dead
Posted 07 July 2008 - 01:07 AM
I work as a secretary, and god knows there aren't any guns where I work, but my boss does keep a handgun in his desk for reasons he has yet to tell me, and my apartment is only a mile away. So I have two options, both of which would most likely come back to bite me in the ass.
#10
Posted 07 July 2008 - 01:38 AM
I'm a government worker in a refugee camp.
I'd head on over to the technical area, get some tools, team up with some co-workers and form a posse. Then I guess we'd go from home to home or something, or I could just get my beemer from the parking lot and try to drive home. It's only a 15 minutes drive.
Though, hysteria would prolly clog up the roads and intersections, so maybe the posse idea would be better, then again... A posse would be a nice flock of snacks and draw alot of attention... aargh... :x
I'd head on over to the technical area, get some tools, team up with some co-workers and form a posse. Then I guess we'd go from home to home or something, or I could just get my beemer from the parking lot and try to drive home. It's only a 15 minutes drive.
Though, hysteria would prolly clog up the roads and intersections, so maybe the posse idea would be better, then again... A posse would be a nice flock of snacks and draw alot of attention... aargh... :x
#11
Posted 07 July 2008 - 11:42 AM
Zombie_215 said:
I am so screwed, I work at Wal-Mart. No weapons to speak of, unless you count those cheap machetes we sell. The only problem is I work on the other side of the store.
Your wal-mart doesn't sell guns? Raw deal. The one I work at sells bolt actions, shotguns, 22s, and Ruger Mini-14s.
Surely though, you carry knives, bow and arrows, axes, baseball bats, and hammers?
#12
Posted 07 July 2008 - 12:12 PM
I would be pretty damn well off if I was working when the undead have risen. I'm currently working as a landscaper as a summer job! We're always driving HUGE diesel trucks which can hold tons of supplies and survivors (along with being a temporary shelter if it runs out of gas), there are always weapons around like shovels and pickaxes, most of the places I do yardwork at are in nice suburban neighborhoods that can be used as shelters, and while my house is over 45 minutes away from work, it wouldn't be any problem to drive through traffic in one of the work trucks (which are always fully stocked with gas by the way).
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#13
Posted 07 July 2008 - 01:22 PM
mattifikation said:
Your wal-mart doesn't sell guns? Raw deal. The one I work at sells bolt actions, shotguns, 22s, and Ruger Mini-14s.
Surely though, you carry knives, bow and arrows, axes, baseball bats, and hammers?
Surely though, you carry knives, bow and arrows, axes, baseball bats, and hammers?
Yea I think just about every Walmart in Colorado quit carrying firearms. I'm sure that everyone in Denver has at least. But saying that a Walmart doesn't have anything to use as a weapon is like saying Toy's R Us doesn't have anything for a pre-schooler.
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#14
Posted 07 July 2008 - 04:29 PM
I would be sitting nice if zombies attacked while I was at work. Working at a restaurant provides you with a plethora of knives and mops. My parents live less than a mile from my job. So if I needed to find some quick shelter it would be easy to get there. My apartment is around 7 miles away from the restaurant. Whether I drove or rode my bike that day wouldn't matter.
There are only around 225,000 people who live in my town. Only about 1.7 million in the whole state of Nebraska. After living in a larger city for a summer I have realized how easy it is to actually get around my town.
There are only around 225,000 people who live in my town. Only about 1.7 million in the whole state of Nebraska. After living in a larger city for a summer I have realized how easy it is to actually get around my town.
This post has been edited by zmbvan: 07 July 2008 - 04:36 PM
#15
Posted 07 July 2008 - 07:37 PM
I'd be pretty hard up cause I'm currently workin at the army recruiting center. As such everything is nice, friendly and politicly correct in our office. I ride my bike to work so don't have a great way of getting away either.. may be in a great deal of trouble tryin to get out. At least we've got secure doors and shatter-proof windows as the exterior must be protest resistant. We get regular anti-war demonstation and such. The hippies and protesters are kinda like zombies. We get a lot of paint bombs and meat thrown at our windows so the initial zombie apocalypse wouldn't be too much of a shock. It'd be a different story if I were at the Armoury or at home where we have weapons when this happens...but would I be so lucky?
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#16
Posted 08 July 2008 - 02:24 AM
I work at a research lab at my uni. Undergrads are the oompa-loompas of science, and I bet we get paid the same XD. If the outbreak didn't actually start THERE in one of the microbiology section workstations, then...
No weapons to speak of, no weapons allowed, but many sections of the building are reinforced, the whole place is easy to button up, and it has its own power generator, gas reserves etc. Best of all, a storehouse with some useful chemicals in it. I don't know, really, could go either way but it would be tricky.
No weapons to speak of, no weapons allowed, but many sections of the building are reinforced, the whole place is easy to button up, and it has its own power generator, gas reserves etc. Best of all, a storehouse with some useful chemicals in it. I don't know, really, could go either way but it would be tricky.
"Imagine"? "nothing to kill or die for"? Having nothing worth dying for, or killing for, is having nothing worth living for.
#17
Former Member: DoorstopIdol
Posted 08 July 2008 - 02:09 PM
I dunno how well I'd do. I currently work at a video game store. The back door is heavily reinforced and leads into a hallway connecting the rear exits of all the other stores and restaurants on my side of the plaza...so as long as nothing was in there it wouldn't be too hard to get supplies from next door. However if that hallway was filled it wouldn't be a good thing at all.
As for the front of the store, it's all glass of course, but it wouldn't be too hard to pull down the security shutters and lock those in place. I'm pretty sure they'd hold up even if the windows somehow managed to shatter. But there really aren't any weapons in my store itself, so that'd be a let down. And if we couldn't get to the other stores around us...well, food and water would be an issue before too long. Not that I'd want to stay there if I could at all avoid it.
Priority numero uno would be getting to my car and getting to my apartment, not that it would really be any safer, but at least then I could get my girlfriend. I don't really think she'd be too safe on her own. Of course its also a half an hour drive to my apartment from work...so that's not really a safe bet either. Pretty much no matter how I slice it, I wouldn't want to be at work when the zombie apocalypse started. And don't even get me started on my real job (teacher)...
As for the front of the store, it's all glass of course, but it wouldn't be too hard to pull down the security shutters and lock those in place. I'm pretty sure they'd hold up even if the windows somehow managed to shatter. But there really aren't any weapons in my store itself, so that'd be a let down. And if we couldn't get to the other stores around us...well, food and water would be an issue before too long. Not that I'd want to stay there if I could at all avoid it.
Priority numero uno would be getting to my car and getting to my apartment, not that it would really be any safer, but at least then I could get my girlfriend. I don't really think she'd be too safe on her own. Of course its also a half an hour drive to my apartment from work...so that's not really a safe bet either. Pretty much no matter how I slice it, I wouldn't want to be at work when the zombie apocalypse started. And don't even get me started on my real job (teacher)...
#18
Posted 08 July 2008 - 03:38 PM
Well I'm a police officer and i Work about 3 miles away from my house and at the police station there are many weapons like batons and standard issue handguns and shotguns and of course bullet roof vests and stab proof arm guards and leggings and are doors and windows are reinforced so I think id be well off.
#19
Former Member: jim96sc2
Posted 10 July 2008 - 04:37 AM
Work at a hospital.. I'll try and be gentle when I bite.
#20
Former Member: Running From Zombies
Posted 10 July 2008 - 12:12 PM
I wouldn't bother trying to make it back home. Wherever I was, work or elsewhere, the best thing to do would be to stay put if the area could be blockaded or find the closest building that could be. Barricading the doors and, windows would be the first order or business. And if the building has more than one floor (which it should if you're staying there to defend against zombies!) destroying the staircase after climbing them would be the next.
Assuming the zombies can climb and jump, theres going to be a need for defense. Thick clothing or protective gear is a must, anything that will impede a zombie bite may well save your life. Weapons would be more difficult. I probably wouldn't have a gun, and meleeing isn't easy against a fast zombie. I'd probably try to have a makeshift shield to keep them at bay while i had a knife or fire poker of some sort to bring it down.
Would I survive?
Slow zombies: yes, quite easily.
Fast zombies: hard to say. Events could take a course in many possibilities.
Assuming the zombies can climb and jump, theres going to be a need for defense. Thick clothing or protective gear is a must, anything that will impede a zombie bite may well save your life. Weapons would be more difficult. I probably wouldn't have a gun, and meleeing isn't easy against a fast zombie. I'd probably try to have a makeshift shield to keep them at bay while i had a knife or fire poker of some sort to bring it down.
Would I survive?
Slow zombies: yes, quite easily.
Fast zombies: hard to say. Events could take a course in many possibilities.
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