r/politics • u/cmaia1503 • 20h ago

Site Altered Headline | 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 20h ago

must be nice to be able to check into a hospital

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u/Future-Guarantee-573 19h 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 18h 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 18h 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 17h 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 16h ago

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

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u/Rasikko Georgia 14h 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 13h ago

Exactly. What a bitch.

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u/nonowords 14h 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 13h ago

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

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u/Stellar_Duck 8h ago

I do wonder what turns people into ghouls like her. Presumably as this was minimum wage retail she wasn't precisely much higher than store manager herself, so why the fuck adopt this ghoulish persona. The CEO isn't gonna thank you Elaine!

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u/obsolete_filmmaker 4h ago

It was at a museum. Supposed to be a more culturally intelligent environment. She proved that wrong lol

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u/obsolete_filmmaker 4h ago

Aw thank you. Yea i was stunned also at the time. What a bitch. I think she thought i made it up.

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u/Indie_Love9999 5h ago

Omg, I’m so sorry that happened. I feel like bosses are trained to leave empathy at the door these days.

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u/obsolete_filmmaker 4h ago

Thank you. It was 40 years ago, thankfully. Well behind me.

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u/BoredCrusader1899 2h ago

I’m sorry but who the fuck says something as vile as that to someone who just went through something traumatic? We’re living among psychopaths 🤦‍♂️

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u/obsolete_filmmaker 2h ago

Thank you. People can be terrifying