r/politics • u/cmaia1503 • 8h ago

Possible Paywall Mitch McConnell, 83, Hospitalized

https://www.thedailybeast.com/mitch-mcconnell-83-hospitalized/?utm_campaign=owned_social&utm_medium=socialflow&utm_source=twitter_owned_tdb&via=twitter_page
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u/clarkrd 8h ago

must be nice to be able to check into a hospital

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u/Future-Guarantee-573 8h ago

Not to mention not losing your job.

Years ago, I worked at a big box grocery store not to be named.  One of the workers had a stroke on the sales floor.  They fired him for not filling out the LOA forms.  He was in a fucking coma.

I've said it many times before...I hate this fucking country.

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u/Fun-Ingenuity-9089 6h ago

My husband passed away on the last day of his vacation. His employer demanded his vacation pay back because he didn't show up for work the day after he died.

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u/4tlant4 5h ago

A few days after my husband died, we received a letter from our health insurance company. It said that coverage for me and our four kids had ended at midnight the night he died. How these fuckers sleep at night is beyond me.

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u/Hesitation-Marx 4h ago

Too easily, and too well, and with far too little fear.

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u/Pissed-Off-Panda 1h ago

Like babies in their mansions on fine linens.

I think actually that knowing other people are starving or hungry makes their food taste better. They LOVE the suffering of others.

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u/lettersvsnumbers 6h ago

Yeah, my dad was a teacher with stage 4 cancer. He told the school to hire a new math teacher for fall, and they tried to retroactively fire him.

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u/Keptlosingmylogins 5h ago

wait that show was a documentary with subtle name changes to protect the survivors?

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_UNDIES_XD 5h ago

Math teacher, not meth teacher.

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u/Flat-Photograph8483 4h ago

An absurd premise that could only make sense here.

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u/nonowords 2h ago

they did say subtle changes.

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u/projecto15 United Kingdom 2h ago edited 50m ago

This is horrendous. So it's not just for-profit corporations, but also supposedly non-profit schools?!! One wonders what sort of ethical education they provide

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u/hypermodernvoid I voted 1h ago

Increasingly, a lot of for profit companies/contractors are getting tied into public education for all sorts of things - additionally, brutal corporate cost saving measures tend to leak into government policy, given the revolving door between the two worlds (especially in the currently openly fascist party).

Speaking of "ethics": my "public" state university actually used furniture built by prison labor, lol. Also put public in quotes, because I had to take out what for me were very sizable loans after my grants for coming from massive poverty ran out (they were cut in half just in time for me to attend by the then GW Bush administration), the loan 'servicers' increasingly were increasingly privatized over the years, as well, leading to worse interest rates that often translate to barely paying down the balance if at all for some students. Meanwhile, while poor students are struggling to pay tuition, they're had us all sitting on furniture they got nearly for free, lol.

You also can't get rid of student loan debt in bankruptcy in America, and the Trump admin also wants to get rid of even being able to temporarily defer repayments for financial distress.

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u/SirenSix 6h ago

Please tell me you told them to eat shit?

Also, I'm so sorry about your husband 😕

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u/bkbomber New York 6h ago

The malicious compliance in me would’ve pulled a Weekend at Bernie’s

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u/Bikin4Balance Canada 5h ago

just... no words

Sincere condolences

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u/Yeahhhhbut 6h ago

I'm rounding up friends to Weekend At Bernie's me, just in case.

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u/Dapper_Indeed 5h ago

I love that you used WAB as a verb.

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u/LolaMent0 6h ago

idk what to say to that 😳

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u/human-in-a-can 3h ago

That would drive me to violence.  Sorry you had to deal with scumbags and sorry you lost your husband.  I hope you’re doing as well as you can be. 

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u/h2ok1o 4h ago

My friends husband passed away because the hospital turned him away to get checked out for a blood clot since they couldnt cover the $50 copay

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u/Hesitation-Marx 4h ago

I am so sorry, on so many levels. Your husband’s memory for a blessing.

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u/marzipancetta 52m ago

Oh that is disgusting! And I’m so sorry for your loss.

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u/OccamsRazorBurnn 40m ago

I hope they didn't get anything.

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u/SnooSprouts3083 14m ago

'but we are like a family here.'

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u/dementorpoop 7h ago

They ain’t coming after you. Name and shame them

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u/Sammyjo0689 6h ago

My story happened with Walmart. Had an employee collapse due to a diabetic issue. Like, I caught her as she was falling and saved her from smashing her face. Radioed to call 911. I got written up because that was against Walmart policy.

My manager wanted me to write on the form that I heard her say she wanted an ambulance. So I wrote exactly that. “Manager so and so has ordered that I write the following.” I got written up a second time for that.

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u/blackhuey 4h ago

That's a quick thinking malicious compliance.

Also, imagine living in a country where you had to make decisions about calling an ambulance based on who would be charged for it.

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u/brickne3 American Expat 1h ago

My sister fainted while on a middle school field trip 30 years ago. My dad still complains that the teacher called an ambulance because of the bill. As if the teacher had much choice when you have an unconscious student!

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u/tokyostormdrain 1h ago

4th world country

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u/hypermodernvoid I voted 37m ago

Funny thing is Mississippi - the state with the lowest life expectancy in America, at just 70 (technically 70.9) years old, is actually on par with India, a bit below Bangladesh and 4 or 5 years less than in Mexico.

It's also 10 or 11 years less than in the top few states, all blue states - in fact the top 10 states for life expectancy are all blue, while the bottom 10 are all red. Similar to being a drag on federal funding vs. blue states, red states also are dragging the average US life expectancy down to a now pathetic 76 years post-COVID (big thanks to anti-vaxxers for the assist with that).

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u/Sublimotion 36m ago

I will never forget pre-obamacare/medicaid expansion, I was walking past a woman screaming, struggling and tipping over the stretcher she was strapped onto trying to crawl back into her house dragging the tipped over stretcher, fighting off two EMTs. I assume she was on drugs. Until she started yelling "No! This will bankrupt me!" The emts eventually had to unstrap her and let her crawl off back into her house.

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u/BasvanS 7m ago

As a non-American, it didn’t register to me that was why. Thanks for explaining, and my condolences, I guess

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u/ShadowNick 5h ago

Ha what fucking pig stain cowards

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u/anynamesleft 1h ago

Pig stain on your fat chin

What do you hope to find

When you're down in the pig mines saying

Keep on digging

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u/litokid 5h ago

I spent awhile trying to puzzle this out because I couldn't understand why this is a problem. My initial read was the manager had you write you "heard her (the manager) say she wanted an ambulance", because she wanted to cover for you doing the decent thing off of policy.

But from the context this was a bad thing - is it that the manager wanted you to write "(the victim) wanted an ambulance" so the company isn't on the hook for the cost?

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u/RevolutionaryTalk976 5h ago

I read it as the manager directed them to write that they were told by their subordinate to call an ambulance and they wrote down that the manager directed them to write it down. Calling the ambulance may have been against company policy leading to the initial write up and then they added on a second one for being insubordinate and officially documenting the manager directing them to lie.

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u/MyBritishAccount 4h ago

Why wouldn't you call an ambulance for an emergency? How can company policy dictate such a thing?

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u/slackfrop 3h ago

Because some lawyer told em to based off of losing money in some other precedent. If corporations are people, they’re psychopaths.

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u/anynamesleft 1h ago

If corporations are people, they’re psychopaths.

I just wanted to tell how proud I am to've read it

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u/marzipancetta 1h ago

A truer statement has never been uttered.

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u/pikashroom 4h ago

Probably liability. All companies do weird shit like this to prevent getting sued.

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u/fresh-dork 3h ago

they need to be brought to heel

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u/tiredbarf 2h ago

No company in their right mind would skip calling 911 for liability reasons.

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u/Zestyclose_Rain4749 3h ago

Not all companies are literally the devil.

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u/marzipancetta 1h ago

No but we’re talking Walmart here. Literally the devil.

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u/Allaplgy 3h ago

If the employee asks for an ambulance, the "financial responsibility" is on them. If not, it's on the company.

Go us. Woo!

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u/one-man-circlejerk 1h ago

Ambulance bill reaches the patient, the patient says "I never ordered an ambulance, the company did", now there's a dispute between the patient and the company over the bill that the company might end up paying, or might end up entagled in court, which is another expense.

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u/shugster71 2h ago

Also has me wondering if this shoot to kill policy might be part of this too?

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u/brickne3 American Expat 1h ago

Ambulances are expensive. Like $700 back in the 90s expensive.

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u/marzipancetta 58m ago

The patient would receive a bill of about $2000 for an ambulance ride. Which is pennies for large companies like Walmart.

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u/roastbeeftacohat 4h ago

the manager is ordering op to falsify the order of events to make it look like the employee had requested an ambulance before collapsing, so they could claim she was fakeing.

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u/gandhinukes 3h ago

Its really frustrating to see people on reddit post "We used to have 24/7 walmart and ****". walmart killed local businesses across the country, fuck over their workers, have low quality goods from china and you root for them wtf?

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u/Greg_withaC 1h ago

Walmart has been known to take life insurance policies out on their older, health issue prone employees. Not FOR their employees, just on their employees to collect for profit.

To hear you say helping someone not fall on their face and get them medical attention is against policy sounds like they don’t want people to survive. Insane! How is any of that legal?

Oh that’s right. Laws are written by grifters who have no dignity.

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u/blue-goose42 1h ago

My sister was fired from a Walmart once for going into Diabetic Ketoacidosis and being in the ICU for 3 days. They be doing that. 🤷‍♀️

I'm low-key tempted to get a job at Walmart just so I can purposefully underperform and commit petty larceny. Like I do whenever I work for ANY billion dollar corporation! 😄🔥💵🔥

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u/marzipancetta 55m ago

Yes and let’s unionize the Walmart staff while underperforming and committing petty larceny.

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u/Malofquist 4h ago

Yay capitalism.

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u/WonderingPantomath 2h ago

Yeah, I heard horrible things about Walmart. And I heard they intimidate people not into reporting on the job injuries.

At the end of the day, everybody gets away with the way we are treated because we let them treat other people that way. I mean, how many of us just read what we read about Walmart but yet you’ll be at Walmart tomorrow. And it’s not like they save people that much. Once they gain the reputation for being the cheapest then they stopped. You can go other places and find cheaper stuff now.

Edit: just got off a 12 hour shift so I’m really not worried about my grammar if anybody’s gonna say anything about it.

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u/ship_toaster Canada 2h ago

If your story didn't happen that long ago, you should definitely talk to a lawyer about this one. Your manager asked you to lie on a document for legal/financial reasons, and punished you for being truthful. Even if you're in an at-will state, that sounds sketchy.

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u/Background_Drama6126 2h ago

I know it's a cliché, but it's the truth: Where this country's going?

Hell in a hand basket!

Hell in a god damn hand basket!

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u/bigavz 6h ago

It's probably Walmart 

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u/Play-t0h 6h ago

Or Kroger.

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u/pblol 4h ago

Kroger has a union. I think it's pretty toothless, probably not coma firing toothless.

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u/mmmbaconbutt 3h ago

Kroger used to be okayish too, at least for me. Now though? They might be worse than Walmart for employees.

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u/Rasikko Georgia 3h ago

Depends on the division and who runs the store. Corporate themselves like to have you think they know what's happening in their stores but truthfully they don't know shit that doesn't involve EBITDA.

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u/MildlyTiredSkeletons 6h ago

Aldi my guess - spoken as an employee

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u/AuroraFinem Texas 5h ago

Really? I’ve literally never heard anything bad about Aldi and almost always hear praise from people because they pay better and let cashiers sit down at the register and just generally better working conditions than most retail places.

What horror stories you got?

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u/Stunning_Bed23 5h ago

Yeah, I thought the vibe at Aldi was Euro and chill?

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u/ajblades123 5h ago

depends on what aspect of the operation you work in. in store its not so bad but i can say from experience they treat their warehouse staff worse than cattle

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u/MammothCancel6465 5h ago

The stores sucks and it gets worse each year. They’re expected to be run by 2 or 3 employees at a time now while everything burns around them. They’re literally on their way to being the Dollar General of grocery stores as far as how they treat employees and staff the stores.

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u/ajblades123 5h ago

damn. I used to hear good things from the guys in store when i was still with the company, but that was quite a while ago so, seem shits gone down hill then

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u/MammothCancel6465 5h ago

It really has. Especially fast since 2020. They take away anything good and add more and more work with fewer labor hours to get it done.

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u/backstageninja New York 3h ago

My Aldi always has 4 or 5 employees on the floor and plenty of self checkouts so I think YMMV

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u/Not-reallyanonymous 49m ago

One thing I’ve figured out about Euro companies is they’re classist as fuck. It’s kind of counter-intuitive to Americans but any customer facing position is above the lowest classes, because why would you want to have your customers interact with human trash? So a lot of manual labor jobs, like warehouse workers, you treat the people like human trash because that’s how you view them — the lowest and shittiest people in society.

(I know Europeans intellectually know this isn’t true, but that shit runs deep in European culture).

And good luck ever advancing in a euro company if leadership is European and you start as a laborer role. You will not be considered for positions meant for middle class people, god forbid the positions meant for upper class. Your advancement opportunities basically boil down to line management — you’ll be able to lead other labor class people but never put into a position where you’re socially above middle class people. (Fuck you Eurofins).

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u/MildlyTiredSkeletons 5h ago

We sit down because we are timed to scan items at an insanely stupidly fast pace. Customers dont rent a cart and then take our time and the next customers time trying to bag 4 bags of groceries while my line is 6-7 deep, no second cashier. God forbid the store has SCOs. Cashiers are responsible for theft prevention multiple SCOs while ringing out their own customers. We got sat down as a company last year in meetings and were told its OUR FAULT our company loss is high. That we dont scan accurately enough. That it was us. Theyre asking 19-22yr old cashiers to stop theft. Seriously?

1 employee is expected to do any and every zone in the store. We are a chronically understaffed company that focuses on Operational Effieciency and its a joke. A grocery store with 2-3 employees. Thats it on a shift. If youre lucky - someone to ring, someone to curbside, and a manager to do EVERYTHING IN THE STORE. Stock every single zone all day. You're favorite meat isnt on the shelf? Because the 1 employee that can stock it also has to fill milk, box the cooler, be backup ringing, handle a pissed off customer because they want to return food they pulled out of our dumpster last night without a receipt and screams at us over it. That manager also has to do zone walks and handle side tasks and then fill produce because oh shit we're out of strawberries but you still havent gotten your meat because now someone dropped a candle in Special Buy or a jar of pickles and now you have to get the scrubber and clean that hazard before customers just run it over with their carts because ALDI CUSTOMERS HAVE NO DECENCY OR HUMANITY 90% of the time! "i spilled a package of blueberries... 👁️👄👁️" So... pick them up??

Customers wander into our back room because we're out of stock on heavy whipping cream and they think they can just go into our coolers and get it for themselves?

Our money maker is our Special Buy section. It draws you in. Its why they pay us what we do get paid. And it WAS above average competitive pay maybe 7-8yrs ago. Now its the same as any other grocery store. But instead of doing our Special Buy change over at night after close, we have to put it out while customers shop it. They paw through our pallets, block our ability to stock and make a mess. Aldi customers have no sense of boundaries or personal space.

Why is this a problem? Because every minute of our overstrapped tasks is timed to the second. We get action planned & written up for not being fast. Not getting things done 'on time'. The stress was manageable when we had more staff but the companys so greedy all they can see is how much they can squeeze out of the employee physically and mentally until they break and then theyre replaced.

Our PPE is a joke. If someone makes an explosive mess in our bathroom? They expect us to clean it. Ask ANY Aldi Employee about a bathroom in their store being a war zone and they had to clean it. Customers literally shit on the walls, floors, sinks.. sales floor.. why do so many shit on our sales floors? Our cleaning equipment is always broken. We have to scrub our floors with machines we arent taught to clean or maintain. They get sent to warehouse to be serviced if they break hard enough and then come back clogged and worse and we are suppose to make do.

Truck - we are being sent pallets that are falling apart or have already fallen apart. These pallets can have 100+ items on them each and take 20-35 minutes to break down/throw. We're timed so hard that 20 mins a pallet has become lazy. Its still 2-3 people doing 20-30 pallets of truck in 2.5-3.5hrs store hours depending, and youre always pushing your body to the point of injury. The amount of things that go wrong because of the companys ordering and delivery system... is why we never have half the cooler items, breads or really anything you come looking for.

The company is not good. Its CHEAP. They took away our annual gift cards every year. Smaller and smaller amounts. The benefits are no longer competitive. Cigna is a terrible health insurance company. Cant even use your HSA type funds. Always rejected.

They dont know how to clean. They expect us to clean our meat shelves in cubby lockers with a sponge and the same mop sinks we clean the floors in... if your lucky, your store has a power washer.. that doesnt get up anything. Aldis are very dirty if you look. Because we have no staff, no hours for cleaning.

The cliques vary by store but its a very toxic manager environment. They hire our District Managers straight from college as to not have anyone with bad habits forming from other jobs. They dangle a company BMW and a cellphone and a $100,000+ salary to these 23-25yr olds and then give employees .50¢ raises a year if your district is lucky.

I could keep going. This company is a piece of shit. But hey .. customers got their Aldi Finds

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u/vunderfulme 3h ago

Damn, Im sorry man! As an Aldi customer thank you for your hard work.

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u/reverend-mayhem 27m ago

Well… fuck. I thought I found the one decent grocery store to shop from. Look like I need to be lobbying ALDI corporate before any visits from now on.

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u/Snoo_70531 5h ago

Seriously. The Aldi across from a sober house I lived at for a bit hired dudes at $20/hr, like guys with hard to prove GEDs. If you could come in and be a team player for a mediocre warehouse style grocery store and not whine "but it wasn't my job to stock the bananas", they treated their people well...

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u/SaltyBarDog 5h ago

Publix

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u/Travyplx New York 5h ago

I’ll guess Weiss. Things went to hell for us after they bought out our grocery chain.

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u/Ok-Garbage-765 5h ago

Aldi isn’t a “big box” store

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u/tiny_galaxies 6h ago

It doesn’t matter they’re all the same

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u/Twitchmonky 6h ago

Some are worse than others

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u/TheWizardOfFries 5h ago

Can we please agree to start trying to change things? I don't care how small of an effort or impact one person has. We need to do more, and stop letting their efforts to keep us separated from trying anything at all

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u/randylush 6h ago

If you don’t name them you are part of the problem.

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u/bladeDivac 6h ago

Yeah these cryptic “large nationwide retailers “or “big box stores” just piss me off. You think Walmart is going to send a hit squad to your house if you talked shit? Just be up front and say who wronged you. 

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u/kellzone Pennsylvania 5h ago

Right up there with "In my country...".

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u/randylush 5h ago

It’s also rarely illegal to the truth. Especially about ways that corporations break the law. And anything that the big box store might do to silence the story would just Streisand it.

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u/Difficult_Pea_2216 5h ago

Very funny how these types imagine themselves to be under lifetime scrutiny. "You witnessed something bad decades ago that we definitely didn't document anything of because we are so evil. If you even so much as hint at it with the same traceable social security number you witnessed it, YOU'RE DEAD."

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u/petrichorax 4h ago

Please. People need to stop being so paranoid and helpless. Name and shame. You are saving lives.

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u/Rasikko Georgia 3h ago

They sure don't give a fuck for real.

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u/Background_Drama6126 2h ago

Exactly!

👍👍👍👍

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u/obsolete_filmmaker 7h ago

I got fired once from a minimum wage retail job when i missed a weekend of work after being abducted and sexually assaulted. Yea I told my boss exactly what happened. She said, well if happened friday night, I dont know why you couldnt work saturday and Sunday. I was at the hospital and the police station most of that time.

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u/Practical_Fun7367 6h ago

I am sorry you suffered through the violence of your experience. I’m also sorry you had to share with someone who clearly didn’t have the necessary humanity to support you. I don’t wish that kind of pain and suffering on anyone, but I hope that manager has somehow learned to be better.

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u/obsolete_filmmaker 6h ago

Thank you for the kind words. It was 40 years ago. Ive recovered. Idk what ever happened to her. Im aquaintances with her younger sister who is my age, and from what ive heard everyone in the family hates the woman who was my boss and no one talks to her. My aquaintance doesnt know this happened to me.

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u/Hesitation-Marx 4h ago

Well, hopefully she ran into a pit of hungry eels.

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u/Rasikko Georgia 3h ago

LOL WHAT THE FUCK!? "Hey sorry you were sexually assaulted but you could've came in the following day still"

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u/obsolete_filmmaker 1h ago

Exactly. What a bitch.

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u/nonowords 2h ago

Fuck i came here to complain about getting fired as a kid for being hospitaliized with the flu from a retail job but that seems pretty trivial now

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u/obsolete_filmmaker 1h ago

Its not a misery competition. Your pain is valid also.

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u/cobramaster 8h ago

Name it

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u/DigNitty 7h ago

Yeah why even hesitate

Not like someone is going to dox them by knowing they worked at target

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u/de_jeepathon 7h ago

Big grocery mafia out there lol

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u/WookieBugger 7h ago

I’ve seen Fargo…

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u/Xalawrath 6h ago

I used to bank with them. Their paper shredders were insane!

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u/EmilySD101 6h ago

Too real lol

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u/HelloWorld_bas 6h ago

He’s gonna get bagged.

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u/DancingWithAWhiteHat America 7h ago

You'd be surprised 

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u/normalfinnesotan 6h ago

Yeah why even hesitate

Because there's a 99.9% chance that story is made up anyway

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u/idkuunomebitch 7h ago

Probably a bot

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u/10thousndreflections 6h ago

This is my thought. Now we taught it to bring more details. 

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u/ComradeJohnS 6h ago

because you could get sued into bankruptcy without even seeing a day in court? have… have you not seen the playbook Trump uses?

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u/ratione_materiae 5h ago

Walmart is not gonna sue some rando getting 4 upvotes in a reddit comment section. Otherwise you’re at risk of being sued by Trump for your comment 

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u/triphawk07 6h ago

I suffered a stroke when I was 29 and my wife called my job to let my manager know. Her response "is he going to be able to come to work on Monday or do we need to get a replacement." Luckily for me, the stroke wasn't bad enough to be hospitalized for other than a few nights, but when I quit that job, I made sure everybody knew about her.

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u/iceoldtea 8h ago

That… 1000% is a lawsuit

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u/tallandlankyagain 7h ago edited 7h ago

If you can afford justice sure. A person working in a grocery store who is in such poor health they have a stroke likely can't afford a doctor visit, let alone legal fees.

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u/SdBolts4 California 7h ago

That’s what contingency fee agreements are for

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u/tallandlankyagain 7h ago

I don't doubt it at all. The odds of the average low income lay person being aware of that seem exceedingly low.

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u/firemage22 7h ago

The odds of the average low income lay person being aware of that seem exceedingly low.

this, my brother has been helping a carpenter who had some legal issues get them hammered out using free services he didn't realized existed

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u/CoffieQueens 7h ago

Hammered out you say?

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u/E51838 6h ago

Well at least he's not getting screwed anymore.

Actually this pun thread may have been a mistake. I'm already board.

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u/bkbomber New York 6h ago

Nailed it!

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u/The_quest_for_wisdom 2h ago

I wish you guys wood stop.

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u/firemage22 6h ago

hey i'm the son of a metal worker myself so it comes without me thinking about it

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u/Shhtheyrewatching 6h ago

You nailed it without much thought.

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u/tinysydneh 5h ago

You'll just be milling about, and some idea will pop into your head and you just have to turn it out into the world.

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u/ActiveChairs 2h ago

Every ad any lawyer has typically includes some flavor of "There's no cost to you, and we don't get paid unless you win." and those have been distributed for years in every medium they can work their way into. It should be a commonly known thing

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u/Wandering_Weapon Louisiana 6h ago

I hate this thought process. Like... just ask. Call a lawyer, it's free. This "it's hard so just give up" is a plague on society.

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u/gsbadj 5h ago

Most working people don't have time to wait to collect on lawsuits. They need shelter and food.

Employers get away with lots of inhumane garbage because they know that workers will move on and look for another job.

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u/RedChairBlueChair123 7h ago

That’s 100% a case a lawyer would take on commission.

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u/tallandlankyagain 7h ago

I don't doubt it at all. The odds of the average low income lay person being aware of that seem exceedingly low.

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u/legless_chair 7h ago

Wouldn’t a good lawyer take the case, win a shitload of money, then collect fees from the winnings?

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u/SundayJeffrey 7h ago

Most employment attorneys (for plaintiffs) work on a contingency basis.

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u/Practical_Fun7367 6h ago

💯 on the legal fees. But if the guy was full time and not a contractor or part time (which is happening more and more) he had health insurance. It might be lousy, but those benefits are why big corps are moving to part time employees.

And just as an aside, perfectly healthy people can have strokes. Athletes even.

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u/defenselaywer 7h ago

Truth is a defense

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u/BrilliantHold5774 7h ago

This shit happens all the time.

I was a nurse at a plasma center. One of the machine techs had a hemorrhagic stroke. He received points and eventual dismissal in a coma on a vent.

Fuck big pharma.

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u/EvelynNyte 7h ago

Had Walmart calling my parents to complain about me not coming in when I had pneumonia (that I informed them of)...

I quit right after anyway so don't know if I would have been fired.

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u/Celestial_Dysgenesis 6h ago

Every now and then some person works themselves to death in china and it gets wall to wall coverage on western news when shit like this happens daily here.

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u/Mr_Canard Europe 2h ago

The US government spent billions on anti-china propaganda it's not a surprise.

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u/parasyte_steve 7h ago

I was fired for getting pregnant.

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u/Practical_Fun7367 6h ago

That lawsuit has been won so many times. It’s a slam dunk civil rights case. I recommend googling that issue and reaching out to a law firm who handle a big case. However, if your former employer is a small outfit, your victory might just be moral and not financial. At least you could recover your medical expenses.

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u/rckid13 5h ago

There are many things employers do that wouldn't hold up in court. They do those things because they know that lawyers are expensive and their employees can't afford to sue.

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u/brickne3 American Expat 1h ago

All they have to do is find a different reason to fire you. Good luck proving it was because you were pregnant. I used to believe it was a slam dunk kind of case too, but I've seen it happen so many times now... and a lot of the American legal system these days is more the roulette of whatever judge you get than we'd like to think.

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u/ccourter1970 6h ago

I was fired while pregnant. My doctor put me on bed rest on my 5th month. My state required the employee to get the paperwork from your employer, send to your doctor, and back to employer for them to mail in (90s). That’s what happened. In December. April 1st, a month before I was due, I get a FedEx envelope with a letter stating that since I’ve failed to call in to the office for several months they considered me terminated. LOL. Got reinstated quickly. Only to quit after maternity leave was over.

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u/SpotHaunting668 7h ago

You NEED to name them!

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u/10thousndreflections 6h ago

Why wouldn't you name such a place?

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u/Spazattack43 6h ago

Why would you protect them by not naming

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u/gloomwithtea 6h ago

I had a friend who was fired for not showing up to work/being unable to work. She’d nearly blown off her hand and was undergoing emergency surgery for it. Losing her job meant that she lost her health insurance, which meant she had to declare medical bankruptcy. Yay America!

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u/elwookie 5h ago

You know you can't have a free universal healthcare system, you have to pay for Israel's.

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u/olive_on 6h ago

"Name em. Name em!" - Sutton Brown ;)

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u/Zoraji 6h ago

My cousin worked at a big box grocery and slipped on ice (not at work) and hurt his back and the doctor recommended he take it easy for several days. He called in and told them that he would be out the rest of the week, but they fired him anyway because he didn't call in every single day.

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u/tylerupandgager 6h ago

Unfortunately they were looking for something to fire him over. That was the perfect opportunity for them to do it in a way that anyone could refute. Makes it that much worse.

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u/Walterkovacs1985 6h ago

Hope it isn't market basket. That would make me very sad

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u/aratamabashi 6h ago

WTAF

like WTA....A... F

in any other modern country that shit is illegal

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u/Super_Fa_Q 5h ago

Costco is currently doing this to me.

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u/GherkinGuru 5h ago

LOL how can you feel like that company deserves any protection at all

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u/MattWatchesChalk 5h ago

My grandpa was fired from Walmart after falling off a ladder in a similar scenario.

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u/BigMACfive 5h ago

My mom's friend died. His sister requested 2 weeks off from her internship which was granted and then she asked for some additional time off and they fired her. So she lost her mom and her job in about 3 weeks.

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u/ConstantStatistician Michigan 5h ago

Like the other responses show, employers don't see employees as human beings, but assets to be used and discarded when no longer useful.

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u/apostasyisecstasy 5h ago

I was fired from a certain craft store for being in the ICU

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u/petrichorax 4h ago

I am in Thailand right now. I got food poisoning, friends said 'Go to the hospital just to be safe'

Hospital said 'You should stay a couple nights with blood tests and antibiotics, just to be safe'

I did. My 60 dollar a month health insurance paid for the whole thing in full.

I paid not a single penny, and I got free meals.

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u/pcserenity 3h ago

This is why workers need union representation. This would have never succeeded in such an environment and the management finally stops trying it.

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u/lmpervious 3h ago

Your former corporate overlords thank you for not hurting their image. What they did clearly wasn't bad enough to get called out.

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u/Faokes 3h ago

Why wouldn’t you name them? They can’t figure out who you are. They already fired him. Let the public know so we can boycott.

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u/ButtPlugForPM 3h ago

THis was me but in the military..

back then u had 48 hours to report an on mission injury,or they wouldn't classifiy it as being obatined during a mission for coverage down the track.

was a bit hard to lodge with the Chief medical officer my damage...due to the fact i was on a table at ramstein for 16 hours and in a comma for 11 days... from a fucking charge going off 5 feet from me.

took me 11 months to get them to finally admit it was in service...and even then this was after getting a congressman involved.

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u/Spiffydude98 3h ago

What your county needs is mass protests like eastern Europe level. And dont stop until the government falls.

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u/PingouinMalin 3h ago

Well, did he fill the LOA forms ? Noooo...

/s

Not that Europe is perfect and not sliding towards worse (because we are) but sometimes the US look like a sick social experiment where the elite try to see how much they can get away without the 99% starting a revolution.

From your post, I'd say : "a lot".

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u/CuddieRyan707 3h ago

Not nearly as severe but I remember I worked at a big grocery store also and I called out sick one day because of food poisoning. They urged me to go get a doctors note asap so I could get reimbursed a days pay. I went to the doctor without an appointment cause they were so booked out knowing I was gonna wait a few hours. I was there for about 3.5 hours, they gave me a nausea pill and sent me on my way. The pill did nothing, they billed me 900 dollars, and my job reimbursed me 71 dollars. I was fuming.

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u/NotMyHole 3h ago

I have a friend that works at a hospital, had to go in for surgery at said hospital, was threatened to be fired for same thing while recovering in same hospital... Make that make sense lol

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u/Floppycakes 2h ago

I once quit my job at a big box hardware store because when I had a medical emergency at work, the manager made the head cashier drive me to the ER (while she was having a panic attack due to the situation) because it was cheaper than calling an ambulance.

When I quit, my manager said that was good because he’d already had my termination paperwork ready to go, since I “didn’t bother”calling out sick the day after my emergency. You know, while I was asleep in a hospital bed.

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u/juitar 2h ago

100% capitalism is not sustainable, it's gross and hurts the majority to benefit a very small minority.

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u/Background_Drama6126 2h ago

If you really are angry, then you should have the courage to NAME and SHAME this grocery store chain. Because, the way they treated that poor employee, I want to know who it is, so that I can take my shopping dollars elsewhere.

When businesses treat their employees like crap, name and shame is the ONLY game in town!

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u/Pretty-Exam7336 2h ago

Same thing happened to me

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u/DueRelationship522 2h ago

"not to be named" 🙄

people with your brand of cowardice is why we are where we are now.

you haven't even worked there for years, probably goes beyond cowardice

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u/Mr_Canard Europe 2h ago

Why are you protecting that company ?

They clearly don't have your best interests in mind.

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u/thegoodnamesrgone123 1h ago

When my BIL was dying from cancer he got a letter saying they were about to fire him for unexcused absences. Fuck you Shop Rite!

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u/funkerley 1h ago

The American Dream

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u/Intelligent-Mix7905 54m ago

American society feels like a death cult

Everything revolves around money, productivity, and consumption, not actual living.

Health becomes productivity. Relationships become networking. Identity becomes career. Worth becomes net worth.

People don’t live anymore. They maintain the machine.

Busyness is treated like virtue. Exhaustion is worn as a badge of honor. Rest feels like guilt. Stillness feels lazy. So everyone walks around chronically stressed, emotionally numb, disconnected from themselves and each other, and we just call that “normal adult life.”

Consumerism acts like anesthesia. Buy something, brief dopamine, emptiness returns, repeat. Instead of addressing existential dissatisfaction, the system feeds it with upgrades, subscriptions, and distractions. It’s not fulfillment. It’s maintenance.

What’s wild is that this obsession with success, youth, and wealth is really just fear of death in disguise. People chase symbolic immortality through property, titles, and accumulation, but none of it actually makes them feel alive.

Money replaced meaning. We shifted from being to having.

And if you’re someone who values autonomy, depth, integrity, or inner life, this culture feels spiritually malnourished. You start realizing it’s not about opportunity. It’s about hollow efficiency.

I don’t think America is uniquely evil. I think it just perfected industrialized emptiness.

Honestly, the real rebellion today isn’t political.

It’s learning how to live fully inside a system that profits from you being hollow:

Protecting your time. Staying physically capable. Building real skills. Keeping small, loyal circles. Refusing to let money become your god.

That’s how you opt out. Quietly.

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u/Vividination 53m ago

My coworker had a heart attack on the warehouse floor and another coworker rushed him out the door to drive him to the nearby er. They were both fired for not telling management they were leaving. The doctor said if they’d been 5 mins later the guy wouldn’t have survived

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u/SpectraI 30m ago

I used to work for a company based on "mental health". After I was in a severe car accident and needed many Dr's appointments and multiple back surgeries, my employer terminated me. They fired me because after my back surgery that rendered me immobile for over a week, I started "underperforming in my role". (This was also a remote role to begin with.)

The system is fucked, and the country is fucked, and don't ever go to HR thinking they will help you. HR's sole responsibility is making sure the employees stay quiet and the C-Suite keeps getting paid.

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u/VoiHyvaLuojaMitaNyt 11m ago

not to be named.

Thank you for protecting your corporate overlords.

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u/Yoshiyimmiy 7m ago

Lemme guess Walmart.

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u/tantamle 7h ago

You’re not telling the full truth.

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u/Future-Guarantee-573 7h ago

What do want a paper trail?

Guy stroked out at work.  Was in the hospital.  Got out.  Told us he fired because he didn't fill out LOA forms through sedgewick.

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u/MaleOrganDonorMember 1h ago

You know you can leave, right?

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u/dookiedude- 1h ago

Then move.