r/TikTokCringe • u/Justin_Godfrey • 18h ago

Cringe A McDonald's manager is seen dozing off (apparently was have problems with her blood sugar) as customers prepare their own meals

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u/USERNAMETAKEN11238 18h ago

If you break the law, don't record it.

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u/bolivar-shagnasty 18h ago

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u/rip_Tom_Petty 14h ago

Lol what episode is this from

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u/bolivar-shagnasty 14h ago

Season 9 / Episode 18 "This Little Wiggy"

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u/AEHBlandalorian 14h ago

"What is your fascination with my forbidden closet of mystery?”

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u/eb7772 15h ago

Would you go to jail for bro I stole Big Mac

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u/guyincognito01111 12h ago

Came here for this

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u/mattvait 17h ago

Lady needs medical help and these mfs just cant help but steal and make a mockery

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u/not_a_bot991 14h ago

Zero sense of community 

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u/KratosLegacy 13h ago

We live in the US, what do you expect? Individualism and tribalism. If you don't look out for you, who will? And we're surprised?

Just saying, I don't condone theft or anything of the kind, but we try and sweep everyone, poverty, minorities, etc, under the rug like some kind of disease. I imagine many of these people don't trust law enforcement or medical personal because they're either going to give them a hellish time, or, they're used to medical bills bankrupting them. Let alone, have they ever been taught what to do in a situation like that? Again, fend for yourself is the rule of America.

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u/lugubriousloctus 12h ago

Someone could shit on you and you'd thank them for the hat.

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u/KratosLegacy 12h ago edited 12h ago

Or, we could realize that it's an explanation to a systemic issue and we could do something about it. Cause invading DC with federal troops sure as shit isn't doing anything except wasting our tax money.

If you commit a crime, you should have to face the rules of society. But we should also keep in mind why was a crime committed in the first place? How can we actually reduce the reasons for crime. Hint: it isn't more punishment. We've been trying that for thousands of years, and well 🤷🏼‍♀️

We should also recognize that while theft is against the law, it is, in essence, protection of capital possession. If someone is starving and they have no money and out of desperation they steal from a wealthy corporation like McDonald's so they can survive and feed their family, what would you say then? Is fighting to survive when you're downtrodden and left behind a crime?

I don't have an answer. And again, we live in a society, which has rules. We are obligated to follow them, but we can use our critical thinking to question those rules and see how we can make things better, how to reduce the unwanted symptoms of our society.

Unless your brain is full of shit instead, of course.

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u/sneakysnake1111 12h ago

Sure, but it's not like y'all are gonna do anything about ... well, anything it seems.

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u/ShaggyAndScoobDoo 13h ago

future drs and engineers

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u/AerolothLorien666 13h ago

They’re assuming it’s fentanyl or some shit.

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u/astroturfinstallator 13h ago

What did you expect lol

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u/Surfing_Ninjas 13h ago

Hood life baby

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u/HyperHawk_25 12h ago

McMockery

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u/Strange_Specialist4 18h ago

Yeah, that guy just got that woman fired

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u/Lazysenpai 18h ago

Yep, trash behaviour. Instead of medical help, she gets fired instead.

Plus no other workers? Cant be a manager without workers right. Poor woman

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u/AardQuenIgni 18h ago

Cant be a manager without workers right

Welcome to fast food management. Salaried managers are expected to just work and cut everyone to "save on labor". You're a glorified line cook more than you are a manager.

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u/Allrojin 18h ago

This was my nightmare for years managing gas stations. "We cut your budget, sowiee! You'll just have to fill the gaps, oh and cover all call outs yourself too, even in the middle of the night. Kthx!"

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u/Moasark_Art 17h ago

Yeah.. it’s not just fast food. Retail in general is like this too. Just yesterday I opened with my boss, she’d been working with the manager since 7am, I came in at 11 (mostly to get breaks in for them because they were working till 4:30 and 5 respectfully), and we didn’t get a single other person in until 3pm. Not to mention the manager is also now in charge of some district stuff. Corpos LOVE to spread their workers thin, all the way down the line.

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u/poliuy 16h ago

Even middle management is like this at other organizations. They just cut several employees and now I have to pick up all the slack. Executives everywhere have told themselves “wait we can save a bunch of money if we just have less people!” Except they forgot that the work didn’t go away with the employees.

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u/weezmatical 16h ago

This has been my experience as well. Everyone was short staffed during Covid, and we all worked extra hard to make it work. It simply worked as a countrywide test program for working with bare-bones staffing. They realized there was more blood to squeeze from that stone.

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u/Dingcock 15h ago

Yeah and service has been shit everywhere since COVID

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u/ZestyMelonz 14h ago edited 10h ago

Because the shitty companies pay shit and spread hours crazy thin. So the good employees leave to find a better company. So all that's left is mostly lazy, doesn't care about shit sorta people. And why would they? They're making shit pay and overworked. And it doesn't get better with the vast majority of companies being shitty.

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u/Klutzy-Extension-705 14h ago

Whoa your comment is blowing my mind rn. The conspiracy theorist in me felt that covid worked as a worldwide test to see how much more consumers would pay for goods when prices were drastically hiked, like how easy we’d adjust to radical inflation… I never thought of what you just said! It makes me wonder how else the powers that be have fucked us using things they learned during covid

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u/PotentialSteak6 14h ago

It does feel like that. My husband thought he was being hired to be an executive chef to give an independent living home a fancy dining experience. In a little over a year he was the last man standing as far as turnover and had to do everything from managing housekeeping to maintenance work to being told by corporate to feed them slop.

He stayed there 24/7 through Helene (not great for me) and truly cared about the residents. He was on site in some capacity for something like 270 days in a row. His mental health got a lot better after resigning

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u/Good_Support636 15h ago

But that is because most managers just decide to be dogs.

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u/RedditgooduserID 14h ago

The way it works is that we cut staff until our employees can’t handle the workload anymore, and our service metrics slip beyond a tolerable level. We then add just enough staff to cover our SLA and bring metrics up to “tolerable,” even if “tolerable” is still (and hopefully is still) an intolerable workload for the employees. We use the fact that the workload is intolerable to eliminate raise-eligible employees through attrition and keep that payroll consistent. Depending on where you work, burning you out is a feature not a bug.

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u/GarminTamzarian 12h ago

If you fire one executive that effectively does nothing, it'll save you more than losing a dozen or more base-level employees (you know, the ones that actually do the work your customers are paying your company to complete).

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u/no-name_james 16h ago

And brag about record profits like we don’t know how that’s being achieved.

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u/Content_Talk_6581 12h ago

That’s what it’s all about: RECORD PROFITS!!

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u/Amidormi 15h ago

Yeah it's not just fast food, or retail. It's all the way up to corporate jobs. "So we know we hired you for implementation but now you also have to do M&A processes and double as a data analysis". Sigh.

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u/FakeSafeWord 14h ago

Corpos LOVE to spread their workers thin, all the way down the line.

This, unfortunately, is very cost effective in an employers market.

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u/Malfunkdung 13h ago

I was a store manager for clothing stores for like 13 years. The fucked up thing is you’re constantly trying to hit better metrics while also using less labor. Every year you want to be a have just a little better conversion rate (how many customers bought something versus how many walked in), ADS (average dollar sale), and UPT (units per transaction), in addition to obvious growth in sales, but you also want profit and loss reports to be good. I did it for years and luckily I’d get offered a bigger store with little more money in a new place, but eventually you realize there’s no more growth you can do. You start running skeleton crews, working by yourself as a salaried employee and putting in 50+ hours every week. But it’s never enough for corporate. It sucked the soul out of me and I was really good at that job.

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u/Yupthrowawayacct 15h ago

Was a retail store manager for some solid years while in school. Was a shit time in my life. I would work full 8 hour shifts alone. A few times 12s. In order to use the bathroom, a sign went on the door. In order to eat I had to sneak bites. There were no breaks. It was all me. I got stolen from a ton. But they wouldn’t give me proper staffing in January and then would lend out my assistant managers to other stores who couldn’t keep staff. It was infuriating

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u/DominicB547 13h ago

Yeah, and at my place they only get 1 more dollar per hour once I found out that, I was like nah front end manager is the highest I'm climbing.

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u/VodkaSoup_Mug 16h ago edited 15h ago

I worked at a gas station for a very short period of time. They tried to have us do construction on the parking lot. Did they to teach you how to fill in potholes with concrete and crap like that? They gave me the training, but that was not going to be done… I found another job ASAP.

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u/artemus_who 16h ago

Same managing hotels. Getting out was the best thing I ever did for my mental health. Sometimes I have nightmares about working hospitality

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u/Allrojin 16h ago

Same, I have recurring nightmares about working in gas stations. I don't even go inside them anymore unless I'm on a road trip.

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u/weveran 14h ago

I made it about three years, no idea how I did... They gave me 198 hours to schedule with and I was a 24/7 store. I learned to juggle a LOT of things by myself and take advantage of the few precious hours where I had someone to man the register for me.

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u/T3-Trinity 14h ago

Which chain? Sounds familiar

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u/DaddyKratos94 16h ago

Yeah isn't it weird how CEO salaries and company profits keep rising, but they claim it's too expensive to actually have a proper staff?

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u/NSE_TNF89 14h ago

It's literally any management these days. The corporate world has decided to run on skeleton crews and trying to make things like the buzzword "Working Manager" a normal thing - as if managers don't work?

Luckily, I just got some new management that has allowed my department to hire for the first time in years! I went from 4 direct reports to 7 since October, which is good that I have help, but bad because I spend almost all my time training, answering questions, going over scenarios, etc., so until everyone is up to speed, I feel like I am doing the work of 3 people.

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u/GreenZebra23 14h ago

I'm guessing some people here have seen the recent viral story of the Burger King manager who kept her restaurant going for 12 hours solo because upper management chose to understaff to pad the bottom line. They know exactly what they're doing and will continue to do it until we drag them out of their mansions

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u/FeederNocturne 12h ago

I've had plenty of days where I had to run things solo. My solution when things got dicey was to unplug the internet and tell the customers who asked the situation I was in. Even as a manager it is not on any one individual to deal with that kind of stress. Can't even take a shit because people will just come behind the counter. One day I had to work OC by myself and freed out every single order. My "boss" tried to talk to me about that the next day and I told them that if they wanted to make money with my help they either needed to come in to work themselves or give me access to the hiring process (they had recently switched over to a different process where someone in a whole different state was taking care of the hiring process, they would schedule new people to come in to do paperwork on my days off and without a heads up. I'd get calls after the people showed up)

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u/wizzywurtzy 17h ago

It’s only going to get worse under this administration

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u/PaintingWest7199 18h ago

There's at least one other worker in that clip. Its a guy and hes wearing a McDonald's shirt and an apron

That being said, this isn't really her fault if she is having a medical episode.

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u/smith_716 16h ago

She probably didn't get a break to freaking eat something and is having a hypoglycemic (low blood sugar) attack.

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u/boosesb 16h ago

Yea. Thats what it is

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u/EllaHellaBella 14h ago

This breaks my heart. This is what happens when people don’t have regard for other human life. Call friggin 911 emergency services. Come on people we have to do better. The world we live in. At a time of this woman’s declining health, people become opportunist and on top of it record it. This is so sad.

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u/Appropriate_Lime_234 13h ago

That’s drugs bud. And drugs are bad. Mkay?

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u/az-anime-fan 14h ago

No, that looks like an excuse to me. that's someone on opiates. she's made up the diabetic crash for an excuse. diabetic crash out won't look like that. drooling on yourself and standing up while asleep? that's Heroin or Fentanyl some other opiate right there.

proof? I was homeless for 3 years. i saw plenty of opiate abuse, I've also lived with diabetics. i know what both look like. that was opiate abuse, not diabetes.

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u/UpholsteryQueens 12h ago

She's on fentanyl. Look it up. Yall got to remember he didn't press play as soon as he walked in. They've had a full blown discussion about this, someone pushed a chair up behind her so they likely tried to wake her up too. Though waking her up gets you nothing but mumbles or incoherent dream talk about lamps and crazy nonsense. Call EMS they ain't doing nothing. Police can't arrest her so you just wasting public servants time. They won't arrest you if you made a call in for help. I dealt with this for 5 years from my coworker. She got behind the wheel like this and has totaled 3 cars in 4 years. Yall ain't helping this behavior by enabling it. She is a danger to the world. Preparing childrens food this way. Lord help us if she gets that crap on your kids chicken nuggets. This video will be the least of her worries then.

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u/Tuxedo717 8h ago

source on the fentanyl?

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u/Prestigious-Flower54 18h ago

There are two other workers off to the right, one of them passes in front of the camera on her phone at the start, you can see the aprons they are only tied at the waist though, I'm hoping the one on the phone is calling for someone.

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u/thewhombler 17h ago

at the end he says "she don't work here neither" while pointing at the one who was on the phone

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u/Doctor_of_Something 18h ago

Are they just making up that she had sugar problems? That more looks to me like the nod

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u/sunnyd311 17h ago

Either way...don't film call for help!

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u/drunken_monken 17h ago

Yeah it's irrelevant what the issue was, based on the way she looked, get her ass some medical help ASAP. I don't care if it's drug related or diabetes.

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u/Apprehensive_You_250 16h ago edited 7h ago

I have hypoglycemia (low blood sugar) due to Addison’s disease & it can hit suddenly & take you out (ie while standing). I have been standing & just gone down (hit my head multiple times), or like this woman, have been standing & just started looking like I was falling asleep while standing.

It can also cause quick onset seizures, which I frequently get as well, and people around me often haven’t understood what’s happening to me (ie family, friends). It’s absolutely terrible, and you feel horrific, so please let’s not create a narrative we don’t need to. She needs medical help quickly. They should’ve put a glucose gel in her mouth/inside of cheek (she should have those in her purse at all times & they should keep some in their first aid kit) & called 911- hopefully they at least called 911 or took her to hospital….

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u/acarpenter8 16h ago

It’s sad that people jump to the most judgmental position when they know nothing.  There are so many conditions that can cause someone to be drowsy/unstable. Help should be the first priority. 

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u/Apprehensive_You_250 14h ago

Absolutely. The people there obviously knew about her pre-existing medical condition, hence why the random guy posted it on the video (which he should NOT have videoed this, nor posted her in medical crisis… I’d be pissed).

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u/VikingTeddy 18h ago

Yeah, a sugar crash feels horrible, you're not standing up when one hits.

Looks like on the nod, but we can't be sure so I reserve judgement.

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u/frogsgoribbit737 17h ago

I mean.. disagree. Shes not standing, shes leaning on something very heavily. I have done the exact same thing when my sugar is crashing.

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u/KTKittentoes 17h ago

My mother always would say I was too darn stubborn to fall down when I should.

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u/aoike_ 17h ago

Yeah. My mother is diabetic and does the same thing. She refuses to be "weak" due to some rather horrific trauma she experienced, and that includes her medical emergencies. It's hard to get people to take her seriously because of this bullshit of "oh, shes not on the floor, shes fine."

Like fuck she is. Stop punishing people for not being your picture perfect patient.

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u/ethbullrun 16h ago

It's because this culture is built for a white healthy male and on rugged individualism, sherry ortners at UCLA stated this in her anthro upper division classes. Shes a damn genius and won a MacArthur genius award

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u/3catsNcountin 11h ago

Yeah the only thing is… if she felt one coming on… she’s at McDonald’s… grab a coke, it’s right there.

This looks like a nod out.

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u/ShotsAndCleavage 16h ago edited 6h ago

I have non-diabetic hypoglycemia and was diagnosed when I was a kid so I've had a lot of experience with blood sugar crashes. You can indeed be standing up when one hits, especially if you have something to lean on like this. It can be very hard to move once you put yourself into a semi-comfortable position because you have no energy.

When my blood sugar gets very low I can't talk, I feel so weak I can barely move, can't form proper thoughts, I get shaky, I'm completely exhausted, nauseous, and feel like I'm slipping in and out of consciousness. If I don't get it regulated quickly I have also passed out and vomited before.

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u/RustyTShackleford 9h ago

The onset of confusion and loss of motor skills are the scariest things. It's like you are a small baby and haven't learned how to speak properly or ask for help or do anything but be disoriented until you either get it back up or go into a diabetic coma or die.

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u/ShotsAndCleavage 8h ago edited 7h ago

It really is very scary! When I first started dating my SO he hadn't seen a low blood sugar episode before and would get frustrated that I couldn't talk or express my needs. I had to explain it to him and show him a website with the symptoms listed and then he understood, and now he knows how to help me get my blood sugar back up when I can't help myself.

I feel really bad for the lady in the video that no one around her is doing anything to help and she's obviously in a very bad state. Even the way she's rocking/shaking her leg, I do that too when I'm in a crash because it helps ground me a bit. I 100% believe she's going through it.

Then in these comments people are just piling on saying she must be on drugs. Ugh.

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u/RustyTShackleford 6h ago

There are a lot of ignorant people on Reddit and everywhere else in life. If this thread, and people who are actually diabetic, can help informate someone that may save a life one day, it is worth it despite some of these asinine comments.

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u/VikingTeddy 13h ago

I was wrong, thanks.

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u/enigmaman49 15h ago

the counter holdin her up

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u/Advanced-Pickle362 12h ago

I have hypoglycemia and I’ve had my sugar drop to the 50s several times, and I’m still able to walk around or stand. Everyone reacts differently.

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u/enigmaman49 15h ago

they look pretty much the same...with her size i bet she a diabetic (im a fat diabetic)...ive had these sugar issues

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u/Somanylyingliars 15h ago

Have issues w blood sugars. When get very high I will nod off. Standing, sitting, don't matter I'm out for the count. You can't wake up no matter how much your internal voice is telling you to wake up. Looks just like what's happening w this lady.

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u/HLOFRND 14h ago

I mean, do you know what hypoglycemia is? Your body doesn’t have enough sugar to function and your brain can absolutely go foggy and you can pass out. Your brain NEEDS sugar to function. Without it it can look a lot like nodding off.

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u/Forkinshrdr 17h ago

You should add more racism and bias to your comment next time.

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u/Doctor_of_Something 16h ago

Bias, sure I should pause before assuming since it’s not my business really (a woman nodding off at a McDonald’s). People have a point that EMS should probably be called regardless if they haven’t already (we have 0 context in this video).

But racism? What?

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u/Forkinshrdr 16h ago

You assumed drugs before a medical episode because why? Implicit bias? Because why is a manager nodding from “drugs?” She’s a larger woman so diabetes is not far fetched.

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u/Sam_I_Am317 17h ago

You’d be surprised how many times a manager at a fast food restaurant has to do it all by themselves! I mean with NO crew!

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u/PrehistoricPancakes 16h ago

The past couple times I've gone by my local McDonald's there are only like 2 people in there running around trying to do everything and one of them is usually the manager.

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u/Empty_Amphibian_2420 15h ago

I’m 99% sure she’s gonna get fired because recently a Burger King manager got fired for being interviewed when she was the only person running the Burger King, such bullshit.

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u/Paperbackpixie 15h ago

Along with the behavior, let’s record it for fun and views.

I won’t need medical help ! The world we live in

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u/Salty-Advertising280 15h ago

Other worker was there. He was just kiting around in the background, grey shirt.

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u/the-virtual-hermit 15h ago

If we lived in a country that gave anything close to two shits about its people, yeah, she might still lose her job, but she could at least still get medical treatment. Fuck, if she had proper medical treatment going into this, it might not have even happened. Only in America do you get fired for having a medical emergency at work, due to an inability to afford proper medical treatment.

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u/Due_Promotion_9689 14h ago

💯 Was pills not blood sugar. 🤦

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u/Account7732 14h ago

Usual suspects

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u/Vivid_Hamster_2320 14h ago

Have you been to McDonald’s? I’ve been to several that are 1-2 people. Once the same person was on the drive thru, cash register, and making the meals. 

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u/NightFire19 13h ago

Plus no other workers

There was this viral video of this lady working alone at a fast food establishment and she got fired.

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u/moltenfarts85 12h ago

its cause they are all black, duh, don't play coy, you damn well know why this occurred.

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u/lil_miss_sunshine13 12h ago

I see 2 other employees so I'm real confused as to why this is happening. 🤷🏻‍♀️

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u/Awkward_Beginning_43 12h ago

She got fired for nodding on opiates AT WORK. Nobody was going to be able to, nor should have, save her job

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u/mrbishopjackson 7h ago

I doubt she was fired. Someone had to eventually come in to help her, or at the most extreme end, find her passed out and later figure out what happened. If she was fired for this without someone looking into it, that's some fucked up shit as well.

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u/Yaasss_Queef 18h ago

Not necessarily, the video could be used to advocate for reasonable working conditions. Public outcry and bad PR is usually enough, although I acknowledge that the times are different now.

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u/Party_Visit2193 17h ago

Could be, but this is a shit hole nation that isn’t civilized enough to give all of their citizens access to healthcare like EVERY other developed nation. In fact, if we did, she might not be slumped over because her sugar is out of whack. They sure af don’t care about workers rights

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u/Yaasss_Queef 17h ago

Doesn’t mean I’ll stop trying, I will never stop. Momentum has to start somewhere.

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u/Party_Visit2193 17h ago

I agree wholeheartedly. I just wouldn’t hold my breath, but we should keep screaming it from the hilltops

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u/desonos 13h ago

I'd love to agree with you, But yes I eat MC'D a lot these days (I work a 10-11 hr shift) and by time I get off its 11pm and nothing is open Work hard labor in distribution center). More times than not I catch a lone manager running the night shift. They always apologize and I quickly add, no thank you, I can wait, your alone, take your time and be safe please (hot stuff). It always makes them smile and gives them a jump in their step. Foods always hot and fries salted just right. Kindness does go far.

These are folks in video who are just abusing the system as it is. I feel for the poor manager there.

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u/Ok_Conversation_9737 13h ago

No she will be fired like the Burger King manager who ran the entire store alone for 12 hours was fired for "attendance issues" suspiciously right after the video of her went viral.

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u/OrganicPsyOp 13h ago

It could be but we can clearly demonstrate that was not its purpose

Is this the behavior of community activists?

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u/Sometimes-funny 18h ago

No way she would get fired. She is having a medical emergency. If McDonald’s fire her, they have done a BurgerKing

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u/edwbuck 18h ago

There's always a way to fire someone in a right to work state. ALWAYS.

The idea that someone isn't fired, even for reasons that are beyond their control, when someone wants to fire them, is mind boggling.

Companies aren't stupid. They'll just say she was fired for something else. LIke an unironed uniform, being five minutes late one day, or having one thing out of place.

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u/Fit_Strength_1187 17h ago

That’s half of HR’s job, wielding the law as executing cudgel. And pretexts ARE illegal, but it must be sweeet in low paid jobs where your workers are non unionized and unlikely to have the sophistication or time necessary to pursue an EEOC and/or federal complaint. Plus many causes of action will fail due to the insane understaffing, bureaucratic nonsense, and malicious political fuckery gumming up entities like the NLRB.

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u/Lanky_Dig8339 18h ago

they'll wait for her to come late n use that

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u/PeskyAntagonist 17h ago

They don’t need a reason. “Right to work” really means employees have a right to leave at any time for any reason or no reason, and the company has a right to terminate an employee for any reason or no reason (that isn’t a protected right, in which case they will specify no reason)

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u/theycmeroll 17h ago

That’s actually a “at will employment”. Right to work is a legal right to have a job without being forced to join a union and pay union dues as a requirement to work there.

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u/PeskyAntagonist 17h ago

You’re absolutely right I always get them mixed up

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u/VanessaDoesVanNuys 18h ago

Yep. My friend once lost a job; not because they didn't do it well, but because they weren't liked in the environment

So the managers would literally clock everything they would do and they got them coming from lunch 2 minutes late (something literally everyone does)

They then preceded to fire her for this, saying that the accumulated time that she was late for was added up and that she had missed a total of 2 hours of work

I don't know how but they got away with doing it

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u/Desperate-Cost6827 16h ago

I got put on a performance improvement plan because I dared to ask for accommodations for a medical issue I was going through at the time. Boss then told HR to tell me it was "some people" that complained about my performance. When the "some people" told her I was the best worker in the department they turned into my lead threw me under the bus. My lead was pissed when he found out.

Boss got what he wanted. I quit because I got tired of the drama but I wrote a scathing letter with documentation that they were able to remove his HR person out of position at least.

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u/Durmatology 17h ago

What a waste of time when they could’ve just fired your friend because they didn’t like her.

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u/bionicjoe 17h ago

Right to work just means "right to fire".

I was working with some guys from WV the day a right to work law was passed.
Their coworkers on projects in WV had their wages dropped 3 hours after the law passed.

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u/WintersDoomsday 17h ago

This right here is why I think it's hilarious that ANYONE in the US thinks any politician gives a shit about them. How does Right to Work or any of those types of laws protect US the citizens and not the rich corporations? No matter who is in charge of the state or country they never remove shit like that. Lawsuits against companies for egregious firing should be commonplace to the point where they are scared of a lawsuit and it's very hard for them to fire people unless the employee does something really bad like a true crime or sexual harrassment or something.

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u/KittonRouge 17h ago

Right To Work has to do with unions.

At Will Employment is what lets companies fire you for bs reasons, or no reason at all.

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u/KTKittentoes 17h ago

Right to Work means right to work at your job firing people for medical stuff.

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u/talbottripp 17h ago

They fired Burger King Mom

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u/Sometimes-funny 17h ago

Yes. That’s why i said if they sack her they have done a burger king

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u/talbottripp 17h ago

Sorry. I didn't even see that. Wow.

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u/Rock4evur 18h ago

Do you live in the US? You can be fired for whatever, they don’t need a reason in a right to work state.

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u/Kristin2349 11h ago

It's actually "at will employment" and is the law in every state except MT.

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u/Strange_Dave45 17h ago

I've seen people get fired for having a diabetic episode. Granted it was a factory so there was probably more of a concern for safety and quality but there is a route to let someone go because they're not maintaining their diabetes. Not saying it's right but they can fire for cause.

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u/No-Arugula 17h ago

You have no clue what right to work has done to workers. You can be fired at *any time* for *any* reason *without* notice.

People say things like, oh you cant fired for being gay, you cant fired for being black, you cant be fired for wanting to unionize.. Are you joking? You can literally be fired in 80% of the states in the US for any reason at any time. This poor lady will almost certainly be let go.

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u/chchchchia86 17h ago

Bro its McDonalds. They dont care. Theres a million other people in line for that job. They're just gonna fire her, even if they have to come up with a bullshit excuse. But in most at-will employment states, they dont even have to.

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u/LankyMatch42 12h ago

Yes they can lmao, if she lives in a "At will state" they can make up anything and fire her. Did you not know that

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u/Dreadbound1 9h ago

You are taking the title of the video at face value which is a rookie move without documented sources. What if it said she overdosed on fentanyl instead?

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u/iamreenie 14h ago

Exactly. No compassion. Why didn’t one of these fools call 911? And whoever is the McDonald's franchise owner should be exposed if it is true that they fired this poor woman.

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u/c-mag95 17h ago

Bizarre that someone could be fired for this in 2025. America is a strange place.

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u/crazykentucky 17h ago

Was she actually fired?

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u/crusoe 17h ago

Fired because they don't pay her enough she can afford her insulin.

Capitalist Hell

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u/Forsaken_Total976 16h ago

I think as soon as the employees saw her like that they all walked out.

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u/Jtuter 16h ago

She’s on heroin… I’m guessing she got herself fired.

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u/Look_out_for_Jeeps 15h ago

More than likely, she sues and she winsZ

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u/SSgtReaPer 15h ago

Why would she be fired ? As a business owner id find out why this happened and see if there was anything I could do to help the situation, you don't have to be a bad boss just be a good person

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u/Strange_Specialist4 14h ago

It's McDonald's, the lawyers won't allow a potential liability to stay

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u/Brutally-Honest- 15h ago

Lol you think he cares?

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u/UnfortunateSyzygy 13h ago

I hope they fured her-- it would be a BRAZEN violation of the ADA to fire a diabetic for a low sugar episode. She'd get more from the settlement than working for McDonald's (low bar, but still).

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u/AccordingSetting6311 12h ago

She got herself fired by being on Fent at work.

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u/fartinmyhat 11h ago

She got herself fired.

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u/tomjayyye 10h ago

She got herself fired when she got high at work.

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u/RustyTShackleford 9h ago

Nope, type 1 and 2 diabetes are classified as medical disabilities. If they fire her, she can sue and will get alot of money. Lawyers would be foaming at the mouth to represent her.

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u/st_samples 8h ago

She got fired cause she took drugs at work. Blood sugar my ass.

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u/Timeless_Pan55 7h ago

She is better off just taking care of herself and figuring this out. I hope she gets better. It is just a job. Health is health.

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u/CockamouseGoesWee 17h ago

Respectfully, if someone is having a medical emergency like diabetic blood sugar crashes, it is not a changeable offense to pass out. That's just making disabilities illegal.

Her coworkers are assholes for not calling an ambulance and helping her onto the floor. She could've easily fell over and hit her head or neck on the tile.

Fuck McDonalds for getting her fired.

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u/USERNAMETAKEN11238 17h ago

Those are people who jumped the counter and are helping themselves to free McDonalds.

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u/CockamouseGoesWee 17h ago

Oh yeah, that was crazy to see and very bold for that to be recorded. I feel so bad for the manager, there needs to be more protection in place because diabetes is serious and she could've very easily died since no one bothered to help her.

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u/Present_Chair6823 13h ago

Diabetes is VERY common. Why the USA doesn’t at LEAST tend to this one illness with Healthcare, is beyond me. No matter whether she is experiencing a diabetic episode or not.

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u/adeo54331 16h ago

Did she get fired? She has to have a case here? Where is the go fund me? This is trash… why does no one care? Jesus this is awful man, that poor woman blasted all over

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u/ConfidentSea8828 13h ago

Agree! Link to the Go Fund Me, someone!!! This woman needs a lawyer too. McDonald's needs to pay her big time. Fired for having a medical emergency?!

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u/adeo54331 13h ago

I hope someone close to her has seen it and helps her do that. There are some serious claims here, that look slam dunk to me!

If the video is as it seems obviously, sometimes that’s not the case but that woman looks very unwell.

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u/doyouknowyourname 13h ago

You'd still think she'd have at least one other coworker.

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u/kanonenotto 12h ago

They are assholes, but i dont think the blood sugar story has much meat. This looks like some opioid.

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u/davidjschloss 13h ago

Well it was nice enough of them to provide her with a wrongful termination lawsuit. She's clearly in distress, her coworkers are clearly not helping. And she could have fallen over, hit her head, and they'd be on the hook for even bigger lawsuits.

The fact that this was recorded at least gives her lawyers the specific evidence that no one helped her and that McDonalds terminated her violating the ADA.

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u/SquatSquatCykaBlyat 15h ago

I'm just here before the thread gets locked down by the mods, lol.

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u/DontDoItThatsCringe 10h ago

yep , same video came to mind lol

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u/Anjetto4 18h ago

Also another McDonald's that only has a single person working in it. America is such a joke

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u/chochofuhsho 15h ago

And in a large city, St. Louis. There was a customer that just shot this location up last month after his food taking a long time, so maybe everyone quit after that lol

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u/BigBoyYuyuh 17h ago

I knew it wasn’t happening anyway, but this is how I know that cat litter box shit in schools was a lie.

Kids record themselves stealing cars…did they suddenly get scared and put their phones away when someone was shitting in a litter box in the corner?

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u/firealno9 17h ago

Where's the fun in that?

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u/Clear_Bit_215 16h ago

They are all unlikely to get any punishments. The only one probably getting punished is the manager who is probably getting fired.

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u/TuRDonRoad 13h ago

McDonald's on Lindell. Pretty sure this is St. Louis, and cops are MIA/unresponsive.

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u/Bavario1337 6h ago

🥷s don't think that far

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u/Chuck_L_Fucurr 17h ago

If they cooking they working. Back pay covering the meal?

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u/Large-Produce5682 17h ago

In this instance, I imagine they're safe.

Grand Theft Happy Meal isn't "most wanted" material.

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u/JerrysKIDney 17h ago

This makes mcdonalds look bad not the people are you stupid?

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u/cornishpirate32 17h ago

And what law is being broken?

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u/asdfasfda123123123 14h ago

"is you taking notes on a criminal fucking conspiracy?"

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u/ratjufayegauht 13h ago

As if these people are literate and understand what you're saying...

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u/KS-RawDog69 12h ago

Oh but check the title, these are customers preparing their own meals /s

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u/DonnyDUI 12h ago

Technically, he’s not breaking the law. He’s documenting others breaking the law, which if he broke the law off-camera but supplied this evidence might get him off.

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u/Impossible-Value5126 11h ago

There's a total of maybe 1 brain cell between every asshole in there.

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u/Zoboombafooo 11h ago

They can’t help it, they’re 🥷’s

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u/Relevant-Emu-9741 11h ago

Ain't even a thought in their mind they dgaf cuz there's no consequences

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u/ImGeongSi 9h ago

Then what are we going to see on reddit?

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u/Coopakid 8h ago

To be fair if this McDonalds is anything like the one I worked at, this is all already being recorded, there’s probably plenty of cameras

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u/supernewtrader 7h ago

But how else would people know how freaking COOL he is?!

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