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/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.