I found Joyce Marcel's story on the Brattleboro Food Co-op killing [Special Focus, July 17] an amazingly thoughtful and thorough piece. Not very often do we read about such real-life, adult situations as what goes on at the workplace.
I have never been through what Richard Gagnon endured at his job, and I cannot imagine being driven to the point of murder over anything. But work makes up more of our lives than we probably even realize and I, like most working people who need the money, have been battered by workplace tensions that at times I really did not think I could get through.
The advice to not “bring it home” is easier said than done, and the prospect of looking for another job in the United States of 2013 is a scary prospect to most.
Something went terribly wrong at the Co-op, but the atmosphere that might have contributed to such a tragic and final outcome is something most of us, unfortunately, can probably relate to.