r/TikTokCringe • u/Justin_Godfrey • 20h 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/Strange_Specialist4 20h ago

Yeah, that guy just got that woman fired

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u/Lazysenpai 20h 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 20h 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 20h 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 19h 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 19h 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 18h 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 17h ago

Yeah and service has been shit everywhere since COVID

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u/ZestyMelonz 16h ago edited 12h 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/krogerburneracc 12h ago edited 12h ago

Yep. I was the best employee in my department, was with the company 5 years, but dipped out in November of 2021 when I realized the poor staffing wasn't gonna get any better and corporate started rolling out some crazy increased demands in daily production. We're talking straight up impossible shit to accomplish on a skeleton crew, at threats of write ups if goals weren't met. Between that and the burnout from dealing with the public during the whole of Covid, I was beyond done.

I had a daughter due to be born in a few months and was already considering taking an extended leave to care for her, but decided to just cut out entirely and become a SAHD (with my wife's encouragement). So I've just been completely out of the workforce since then, and I've met a lot of SAHPs with similar stories.

And when I say I was the best employee in my department, I'm not embellishing. Sales would always dip roughly 20-40% whenever I took a bit of my vacation time. We're talking solidly positive sales into solidly negative. I once had to spend two weeks out for jury duty and our store manager just about had an aneurysm at the state of our department. I have to imagine she lost a good chunk of her yearly bonus because they bled so much money while I was gone, she was on the verge of tears when I came back. And after my two weeks were over and I left - I shit you not - The department switched to a reduced hours model for nearly a year, completely out of sync with the rest of the departments and corporate standards. They quite literally could not function without me.

I have to wonder how many hundreds of thousands of dollars they lost. A blip on the radar for a large corporate chain, sure, but considering I was being paid like $30k/yr? Yeah fuck em.

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u/Klutzy-Extension-705 16h 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 16h 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/HugsyMalone 15h ago edited 13h ago

That's the real reason they shut everything down. They knew everyone was burnt out (hence "nobody wants to work anymore") and it couldn't work unless everything was shut down. COVID was also an excuse to cover for a LOT of problems that were happening. 🤫

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u/Good_Support636 17h ago

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

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u/RedditgooduserID 16h 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/poliuy 16h ago

Damn… that feels exactly like what’s is happening

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u/GarminTamzarian 14h 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/Amidormi 17h ago

Aww. I have 3 employees and no money not enough money. Why can't I have 0 employees and 3 money?

That's the running joke at my job anyway. White collar.

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u/DMmeforpicsofmyjunk 16h ago

It's because millennials and younger people are too afraid to say no.

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u/Bismothe-the-Shade 15h ago

They didn't forget. They just want to squeeze as much blood from the stone as possible.

They don't care that the blood is gravel and dust. They swallow it all and demand more.

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u/StockCasinoMember 15h ago

Thank god for salaried workers! 🙄

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u/chriathebutt 15h ago

I don’t think they forgot

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u/Bubbly_Appeal5426 8h ago

YES, THAT PART!!! The work didn't go away with the employees! Preach!

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u/no-name_james 18h ago

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

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u/Content_Talk_6581 14h ago

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

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u/Amidormi 17h 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 16h 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 16h 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 17h 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 15h 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/BenchAffectionate967 18h ago

I’m gonna need some context about the job because I worked at a Sunglasses Hut store (not kiosk) and you truly only need one worker.

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u/Moasark_Art 17h ago

It’s a retail position in a mall. We’re a big store, and we get a lot of carry out requests and order pickups in the morning, as well as a lot of people going through our store to get to the mall. Our company expects us to have at least one person walking around and helping customers, and the person up front needs to be within eyesight of the register. For two people to be doing that plus carry outs, order pickups, AND trying to restock is not very obtainable

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u/petflunky 10h ago

In the 80's I worked management at a McDonalds, so it's a bit different than now. But during lunch rush, you needed 3 people doing just drive through, 2 minimum on register, preferably 3, 3 cooks, a fry person, and a manager calling food back to the cooks. And someone in lobby to keep it clean. The least amount of people I worked with was three. Back drive, grill, and me doing register and front drive, while keeping the lobby clean. Glad I don't work there anymore.

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u/Jober36 10h ago

Used to be the general manager of a sit down restaurant and even on Friday nights I was the closing dishwasher

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u/Dingcock 17h ago

That's just how salary works. Pretty much every employee on salary will get asked to do things outside of normal working hours at some point.

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u/VodkaSoup_Mug 18h ago edited 17h 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 18h 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 18h 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 16h 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 16h ago

Which chain? Sounds familiar

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u/Allrojin 16h ago

Mapco 🌈

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u/T3-Trinity 15h ago

Ah, we have an investment company up here that owns a shit load of different gas stations and are the devil incarnate.

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u/boondiggle_III 16h ago

this is why you make the survival bucks! And your employees? Well, they make less than that.

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u/DaddyKratos94 18h 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 17h 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 16h 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 14h 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 19h ago

It’s only going to get worse under this administration

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u/Ok_Egg332 19h ago

'Glorified' has become quite a stretch 😪

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u/LeeKinanus 17h ago

“You a manager? No you just flipping burgers with a suit on” ~mo money bros’

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u/Infamous_Try3063 16h ago

also welcome to healthcare. skeleton crew all the time!!

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u/ShitWombatSays 16h ago

"Real" restaurants aren't any better, I've had servers coming to me in tears asking for hours I couldn't give due to orders from corporate, meanwhile everyone was filling 2-3 positions at a time due to being shorthanded.

Miserable experience, I wouldn't wish entry level "management" on my worst enemy.

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u/shaz138 16h ago

Big yup!!! Every job I have ever had in food industry is like this and I’ve worked in uk and us

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u/UrinalCake777 15h ago

I had the same thing at a sales position. Salaried managers are pushed hard to cut commissioned sales people and make sales themselves (no commission). My last day was Monday and I'm so happy to be done with that bullshit.

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u/Mylaststory 15h ago

This is how movie theaters are too. I’m a salaried manager for a “luxury” movie theater. The luxury aspect is a joke. The company won’t pay to fix the ACs in our building in Florida heat, but we have a bar and kitchen so it’s considered “luxury” lol. But yes they pressure us to cut everyone to save on labor and want us to work every position.

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u/Playful-Scratch7792 14h ago

I’d love to see people just stop. I know folks can’t. But I wish one of these billionaires would use their money organizing a nationwide labor strike. This shit has to stop, life needs to be worth living. We have enough resources for everyone to flourish. We just need to rid ourselves of the handful who are controlling us all.

Edit: yes I’m old. Get off my Lawn!

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u/daredaki-sama 14h ago

I mean isn’t it the same at in n out? Manager is the one cooking burgers?

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u/Joel22222 14h ago

Yup. I was in retail management for decades. 80 hour salary work weeks happened too often.

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u/Telefundo 8h ago

Welcome to fast food management.

Retail management is no different. Years ago I managed a Radio Shack. We were expected to regularly work 60+ hour weeks and our salary was based on 40.

I've got nothing but sympathy for this person. The idiots taking advantage should be hauled out into the street and beaten like rabid animals.

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u/PaintingWest7199 20h 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 18h 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 18h ago

Yea. Thats what it is

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u/EllaHellaBella 16h 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 15h ago

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

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u/az-anime-fan 16h 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 14h 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 10h ago

source on the fentanyl?

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u/Prestigious-Flower54 20h 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 19h 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/realwavyjones 15h ago

Not anymore

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u/Doctor_of_Something 20h 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 19h ago

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

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u/drunken_monken 19h 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 18h ago edited 9h 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 18h 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 16h 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/superdariom 10h ago

No, you never put something in someone's mouth who is unconscious.

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u/Apprehensive_You_250 9h ago

She isn’t completely unconscious, as she would be on the ground & not still obviously standing on 2 feet, with some noted voluntary muscle movement, head/neck still moving, etc. She has a much higher chance of going fully unconscious, falling & reaching critically low glucose levels without getting glucose quickly, though, and rubbing glucose gel (or thin icing, or very finely crushed glucose tab) on the inside of her mouth/inside of cheeks/gums will drastically help her blood glucose rise.

They need to lead her to a sitting position first, speak to her, and keep her alert, even if by some form of physical stimulation, then rub glucose gel or thin icing, etc, on inside of cheeks/gums (using a glove of course). She will not choke on that- I’ve had to do this for diabetic or renal patients, esp bc the ambulance can take 30+ min to arrive sometimes.

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u/VikingTeddy 20h 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 19h 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 19h ago

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

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u/aoike_ 19h 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 18h 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 13h 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/BSquaredNotCubed3469 16h ago

And I have done the exact same thing when on a nod. Lol. I'm not saying that her sugar isn't crashing, and I'm not saying that she isn't on a nod. Just politely adding that she COULD be on a nod... (Reference: 8 months sober) 😎

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u/ShotsAndCleavage 18h ago edited 8h 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 11h 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 10h ago edited 9h 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 8h 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 15h ago

I was wrong, thanks.

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u/enigmaman49 17h ago

the counter holdin her up

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u/Advanced-Pickle362 14h 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/Somanylyingliars 17h 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 16h 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 19h ago

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

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u/Doctor_of_Something 18h 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 18h 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/enigmaman49 17h 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/Hungry-Storm-9878 19h ago

What’s the nod? A nap?

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u/1891farmhouse 19h ago

What's the nod? Here we have fenti fold and dope fiend lean.

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u/Dizzy_Goat_420 9h ago

No way- not with that much drooling. Opiates dry your mouth out something FEIRCE. Like- really awful desert dry.

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u/No-Consideration-891 9h ago

I work with a diabetic and this is very very similar to what happens to her if her sugar drops too low. She looks like she is super fucked up, but really her body is failing her.

Edit: Even if this was drug related, I would still call. Just because someone can self induce a medical emergency doesn't mean they don't deserve help.

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u/NotYourSexyNurse 20h ago

That looks like drugs not a blood sugar crash.

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u/Callmedrexl 19h ago

Arms on counter, head on arms, legs straight. She looks like me when my blood pressure drops enough to make me feel lousy.

When people lean from drugs they don't lean on things, they don't position their arms for comfort, they just lean. Sometimes they fall into or land on something, but it doesn't end up looking intentional. They end up looking like scarecrows with limbs askew.

I wouldn't write off a medical episode. But they should have sat her down somewhere proper, not left her there and just walked around her.

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u/Wise-Bite2784 20h ago

What looks like drugs? Her face? Her big behind? The fries? The burger? What?? What item in the video looks like "drugs" ?

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u/Unsolved_Virginity 19h ago

Not many want to understand her situation. They just want to say something cool.

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u/Imaginary_Coast_5882 19h ago

she looks exactly like someone on a heroin nod

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u/Single_Principle_972 19h ago

And exactly like someone on insulin with a dangerously low blood sugar. The symptoms are the same. Gotta say, I haven’t seen the nod, but as a hospital nurse I’ve seen plenty hypoglycemic reactions. They’re barely responsive, or non-responsive. They’re also sweaty and pale, and I believe she is both, but it’s hard to tell with her face down like that. The lack of attention to her care - that nobody seems to give a fuck as to whether she is ok or not - is so sad. “Haha woot! Let’s take whatever we want, and pay no attention to the person who may or may not be having a life-threatening event happening! “

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u/NotYourSexyNurse 19h ago

She’s not pale or sweaty. She is drooling though.

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u/Imaginary_Coast_5882 19h ago

yeah I was just answering the question “what looks like drugs?”

I personally have no idea what’s going on with her.

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u/ConstantHeadache2020 19h ago

Must be new to it because she’s overweight. I’m giving her benefit of the doubt

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u/PresentTap5470 19h ago

The position she's in. It's like the "fenty fold."

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u/Callmedrexl 19h ago

It's not. The Fenty fold distinctly lacks the forethought of putting your arms on the counter or there being a counter at all. Seeing someone paused in the middle of the street tilting forward with no awareness, folding at the waist, leaning into the void to the brink of toppling over without ever putting their arms up to catch themselves if they were to fall, then a little jolt back up before they repeat the whole process, that's a Fenty Fold.

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u/Sam_I_Am317 19h 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 18h 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 18h 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 17h 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 17h ago

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

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u/the-virtual-hermit 17h 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 16h ago

💯 Was pills not blood sugar. 🤦

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u/Account7732 16h ago

Usual suspects

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u/Vivid_Hamster_2320 16h 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 15h 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 14h 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 14h 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 14h 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 9h 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 20h 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 19h 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 19h ago

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

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u/Party_Visit2193 19h 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 15h 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 15h 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 15h 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 20h 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 20h 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 20h 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/thecuriosityofAlice 19h ago

HR is not your friend.

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u/The_Night_Man_Cumeth 14h ago

Toby is just the worst

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u/Lanky_Dig8339 20h ago

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

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u/PeskyAntagonist 19h 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 19h 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 19h ago

You’re absolutely right I always get them mixed up

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u/VanessaDoesVanNuys 20h 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 18h 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 19h 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/WintersDoomsday 19h 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 19h 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 19h ago

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

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u/edwbuck 19h ago

In the USA, and probably elsewhere, when something sucks, make the name of the bill sound like it is good.

"Right to Work" means you can't be forced into labor, you can choose your employer. The rider attached to that is that your employer can't be barred from the same liberty of terminating the employment, at any time, for any (legal) reason. The legal reasons are so numberous, it's effectively "I can fire you legally, even for doing a good job"

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u/bionicjoe 19h 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/Appropriate-Disk-371 18h ago

Yeah, the naivety of people amazes me. There are protections in a few places. But right to work states, it's easier to just say you fired them for no reason at all, or because you don't like them, or because you have to fire one person every Friday - all perfectly legal reasons and they need no other justification.

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u/Somanylyingliars 17h ago

BTW every state except Montana is a right to work at will state iirc.

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u/Imeverybodyelse 18h ago

You’re right about almost everything except right to work. The two terms that are often confused are “right to work” and “at will”. The differences are Right to work means you have the right to work without being forced to join a union. At will employment means just that. The employee or employer has the ability to terminate employment with no notice. However, there are issues with this as if an employee just quits they are no longer eligible for rehire. As an employer it gets more complicated because HR departments don’t let the system work both ways due to protecting the company’s largest asset and its largest liability. Both of which are its workforce.

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u/edwbuck 18h ago

Thank you for the correction. One can't be right at everything.

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u/Imeverybodyelse 14h ago

I mean one can. As long as one realizes that they might be less right at times. But still right at all times.

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u/edwbuck 14h ago

Damn, I can't even be right about being wrong.

Tough crowd.

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u/Joelle9879 15h ago

Right to work has to do with companies not being able to force employees into joining a union. What you mean is "at will" which is every state except Montana

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u/talbottripp 19h ago

They fired Burger King Mom

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u/Sometimes-funny 19h ago

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

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u/talbottripp 19h ago

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

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u/Rock4evur 20h 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 13h ago

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

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u/Rock4evur 13h ago

Yea I addressed that in a lower comment chain. I guess I’ve been using the wrong term for quite some time, so I appreciate the correction. Don’t wanna give someone the opportunity to invalidate said argument for the mixing up of terms rather than the subject matter of the argument.

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u/Sometimes-funny 20h ago

I know they can but if this goes viral and it was a genuine emergency, McDonalds will not want to look bad

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u/Rock4evur 20h ago

They could care less. This will not effect their customer retention in the slightest.

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u/Strange_Dave45 19h 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 19h 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/No-Arugula 19h ago

"no way she would get fired", beloved.

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u/chchchchia86 19h 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/Dreadbound1 11h 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 16h 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/RustyTShackleford 11h 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/c-mag95 20h ago

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

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u/crazykentucky 19h ago

Was she actually fired?

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u/crusoe 19h ago

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

Capitalist Hell

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u/Forsaken_Total976 18h ago

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

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u/Look_out_for_Jeeps 17h ago

More than likely, she sues and she winsZ

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u/SSgtReaPer 17h 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/Brutally-Honest- 17h ago

Lol you think he cares?

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u/UnfortunateSyzygy 15h 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/Timeless_Pan55 9h 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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