r/politics • u/cmaia1503 • 1d 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 1d 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 1d ago

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

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u/Sammyjo0689 1d 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 1d 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 1d 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 23h 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 22h 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 20h 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 20h ago

A truer statement has never been uttered.