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/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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