I may have gotten someone fired lol

So January 15th I started a new job at a school as part of the site team. So I’ve been here for just under a month.

Now, schools are all about safeguarding and I went through a few training sessions on safeguarding, I didn’t think within a month I’d be bringing up a safeguarding issue. However, I did.

Basically, yesterday I was in our workshop and I saw a bag, didn’t think much of it. It looked strange but paid it no mind. However, over the course of the day I became more and more curious, went home and slept on it. I came in today and gad to go into the workshop to get some keys for some contractors, and at that point my curiosity and noseyness got the better of me so I opened up the bag and saw it was a rifle, a fucking rifle.

So I went and found my boss and asked why there was a rifle, she had no idea about it. She knew the other caretaker brought an air rifle in last summer over the weekend to deal with a squirrel population, but she thought he took it back home. Apparently not because it was in its bag just by a desk, not locked up, not in a safe place. Sure the workshop gets locked but human nature says sometimes people forget to do simple things like locking doors. Anyway, we told the headteacher and some other DSL people, they’re now bringing in armed response to take it away.

I think I may have got my colleague fired, I mean it’s a school he shouldn’t have a rifle on site even if it is just an air rifle. But still, I feel kinda bad about it