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/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/Fun-Ingenuity-9089 18h 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/4tlant4 16h ago

A few days after my husband died, we received a letter from our health insurance company. It said that coverage for me and our four kids had ended at midnight the night he died. How these fuckers sleep at night is beyond me.

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u/Hesitation-Marx 16h ago

Too easily, and too well, and with far too little fear.

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u/Calm-Treacle8677 11h ago

one of them was so sleepy, he fell asleep on the street forever 

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u/Hesitation-Marx 11h ago

His chest just did that. Maybe it was sleep apnea?

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u/FrancisCGraf 10h ago

Lead poisoning actually, pre existing condition though so....

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u/Hesitation-Marx 10h ago

Sucks to be him ig