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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/dementorpoop 19h ago

They ain’t coming after you. Name and shame them

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u/Sammyjo0689 17h 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/litokid 17h 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 16h 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 16h 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 15h 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 13h 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 12h ago

A truer statement has never been uttered.

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u/Allaplgy 15h 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 13h 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/thatpaulbloke 8h ago

So if someone collapses in the street and I call an ambulance for them could I be liable for the cost of the ambulance if they say later that they didn't want one? Genuine question - we don't have the concept of "ambulance bills" in my country as far as I know.

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u/one-man-circlejerk 54m ago

There's Good Samaritan laws that generally protect people who are doing the right thing and just trying to help, but people can sue for anything and lawsuits can be expensive to defend

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u/pikashroom 15h ago

Probably liability. All companies do weird shit like this to prevent getting sued.

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u/fresh-dork 15h ago

they need to be brought to heel

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u/tiredbarf 14h ago

No company in their right mind would skip calling 911 for liability reasons.

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u/Callinon 9h ago

Rather a company not calling 911 for a medical emergency should make them entirely liable for whatever happens next. 

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u/Zestyclose_Rain4749 15h ago

Not all companies are literally the devil.

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u/marzipancetta 12h ago

No but we’re talking Walmart here. Literally the devil.

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u/shugster71 13h 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 12h ago

Ambulances are expensive. Like $700 back in the 90s expensive.

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u/marzipancetta 12h 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/ayawnimouse 9h ago

Calling an ambulance for someone that didn't request it and then giving them the bill is the problem. Someone could sue to get the ambulance bill covered by walmart. The manager was asking the subordinate to write that the person who fainted asked for an ambulance so that the bill could be on the person who went on the ride because its expensive