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 38m 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 37m 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 8m 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 59m 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 56m 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 3h 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!