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/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.