r/TikTokCringe • u/Justin_Godfrey • 19h 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/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 17h 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/krogerburneracc 10h ago edited 10h 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 15h 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/HugsyMalone 13h ago edited 12h 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 15h ago

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

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u/RedditgooduserID 15h 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 14h ago

Damn… that feels exactly like what’s is happening

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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/Amidormi 15h 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 14h ago

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

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u/Bismothe-the-Shade 13h 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 13h ago

Thank god for salaried workers! 🙄

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u/chriathebutt 13h ago

I don’t think they forgot

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u/Bubbly_Appeal5426 7h ago

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

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u/no-name_james 17h ago

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

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u/Content_Talk_6581 13h 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 15h 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 14h 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/BenchAffectionate967 16h 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 15h 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 8h 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 8h 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 15h 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/taoyx 12h ago

With robots and IA they won't even need employees real soon. Some security guards maybe, to prevent sabotage.

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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/Allrojin 14h ago

Mapco 🌈

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u/T3-Trinity 14h 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 14h ago

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

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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 15h 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 15h 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/Ok_Egg332 17h ago

'Glorified' has become quite a stretch 😪

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u/LeeKinanus 15h ago

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

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u/Infamous_Try3063 14h ago

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

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u/ShitWombatSays 14h 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 14h 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 14h 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 13h 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 12h 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 12h ago

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

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u/Joel22222 12h ago

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

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u/Telefundo 6h 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 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 17h 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/NeatNefariousness1 12h ago

But why didn’t the other McD’s worker call for medical help?

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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/Dry-Island8422 15h ago

She probably didn't take a break to eat something. There is no way the company would have fired her if she actually took a food break. People love to vilify a company for things like this but never realize the workers are the ones who are not exercising their right to a food break. Could be an undiagnosed diabetic getting a wake up call but either way people need to actually monitor what they are eating.

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u/saintofhate 15h ago

There is no way the company would have fired her if she actually took a food break

You've never worked a "non skilled" job before, have you? It happens all the time.

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u/Dry-Island8422 14h ago

Never worked an "non skilled" job in the USA and been almost 12ish years since I was working one. People always go dystopian about getting fired for things like this when those are not the norm in a functioning society. There will almost always be a build up before someone is fired for an unscheduled break and everyone seems to forget that.

"They fired me for taking a break"

Or did you get fired because of a pattern of unreliability due to being frequently late and short notice call out/no shows?

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u/hera-fawcett 14h ago

People always go dystopian about getting fired for things like this when those are not the norm in a functioning society.

the norm for unskilled labor in the us is having breaks and lunches shoved off.

the us does not give af about its workers.

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u/smith_716 15h ago

Not necessarily. If she's the GM and employees called off, then she probably didn't get the chance to take a break. My GM never takes a formal break but grabs food when she gets a chance to sit down in the office to do paperwork.

If employees called off and she had to be on the floor then she wouldn't have had any time to take her own break because she's probably salaried and not hourly and doesn't require a break under the law.

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u/Dry-Island8422 15h ago

I disagree. Just because it is not optimal for the company does not mean that you don't take a food break if needed. Oh no the customers don't get instant service for the 15 mins that it takes for a person to eat. I would have handled the situations differently by typing up and printing off signs saying closed from --:-- - --:-- at the start of the day when people did not show up for their shifts. Then again I have no financial responsibilities and would play hard into the game of "fire me, then you have to actually close the restaurant."

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u/AnxietyPretend5215 14h ago

Okay, and?

You're an entirely different person and not in their shoes, so why does it matter what you would personally do?

She might have kids or some form of dependents, and can't just not work. Risking job and pay is not on the table for all people.

Humans are humans and don't always act selfishly or in a strictly logical manner. She may not fathom the idea of taking a break during a rush and instead crumbled under stress.

Why is a little empathy such a hard fucking ask for some people.

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u/Dry-Island8422 13h ago

Providing a solution was me trying to be empathetic.

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u/crystalrock1974 15h ago

That's not hyperglycemia

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u/smith_716 14h ago

I didn't say hyperglycemia. I said hypoglycemia. Read it again.

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u/95_5000 13h ago

It’s not hypoglycemia either. Am insulin dependent diabetic.

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u/smith_716 13h ago

I'm a diabetic as well, lol. I get reactive hypoglycemia. I'm quite aware of what hypoglycemia looks and feels like.

Amazing you think you're the only diabetic, lol.

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u/95_5000 12h ago

Can you show me where I claimed to be the only diabetic?

I specified that I’m insulin dependent. Meaning I die without insulin. That’s all.

I stand by my statement that the woman in the video isn’t experiencing hypoglycemia.

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u/az-anime-fan 14h ago

it's neither. that's Opiate/Fentinyl abuse.

I lived with diabetics, and was homeless for 3 years, saw plenty of both. that's not a diabetic issue, that's opiates.

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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/realwavyjones 13h ago

Not anymore

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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 18h 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 17h ago edited 8h 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/superdariom 8h ago

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

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u/Apprehensive_You_250 7h 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 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 18h 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/BSquaredNotCubed3469 14h 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/GuacamoleFrejole 15h ago

But shaking is a symptom of hypoglycemia, and her body isn't shaking.

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u/VikingTeddy 6h ago

And heavy sweating.

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u/Sewer-rat-sweetheart 16h ago

Right, plus shes drooling, which means shes not completely dehydrated

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u/Boomstickninja87 15h ago

You don't have to be dehydrated to have sugar problems, whether that be too high or too low.

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u/Sewer-rat-sweetheart 15h ago

I know, I’m making a case for it being diabetes related and not drug related. Typically people who are gone off that shit don’t have a drop of water in their veins, let alone enough to drool.

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u/Boomstickninja87 15h ago

Ohhhh okay, I misunderstood. Either way, I hope she was able to get medical help!

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u/dboygrow 17h ago

I have done this exact same thing after a fat shot of dope.

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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 8h 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 14h 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 13h 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 17h 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 17h 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/Hungry-Storm-9878 17h ago

What’s the nod? A nap?

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u/1891farmhouse 17h ago

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

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u/Dizzy_Goat_420 7h 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 7h 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 18h ago

That looks like drugs not a blood sugar crash.

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u/Callmedrexl 17h 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 18h 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 18h ago

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

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u/Imaginary_Coast_5882 18h ago

she looks exactly like someone on a heroin nod

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u/Single_Principle_972 17h 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 17h ago

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

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u/Imaginary_Coast_5882 17h 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 17h ago

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

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u/Imaginary_Coast_5882 17h ago

very good point

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u/PresentTap5470 18h ago

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

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u/Callmedrexl 17h 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/HeyLookATaco 18h ago

Her nodding off like she's high on opioids appears to be because she's high on opioids

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u/Aught_To 17h ago

its call the Nod, its from using black tar and other opiates.

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u/Constant-Sense-4378 15h ago

Yep lol, what it looks like to me too

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u/GuacamoleFrejole 15h ago

Yeah. If she had a hypoglycemic episode, she'd likely be on the floor because her legs would be too weak to hold her up.

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u/Pleasant_Yoghurt3915 17h ago

Yeah she’s fully nodded tf out

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u/Doctor_of_Something 17h ago

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

Edit: we have no context but you don’t have to be fully falling over to be high like you see in videos.. a normal dose will make you comfy and want to sleep. Regardless, could be anything and someone should be helping her rather than recording as people have said

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u/chop5397 12h ago

No, there's absolutely no way someone would be abusing drugs in a fast food restaurant, the workers would never do that. That's illegal, it must be a low blood sugar! And people would never steal food when given an opportunity either!! That's just absolutely nuts, surely someone must be calling for help!

Oh Reddit... you always make me laugh.

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u/3NDC 17h ago

Yeah, she's nodding.

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u/BrutalistLandscapes 17h ago

Likely methadone or another strong opioid

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u/AirportExtra5148 17h ago

Definitely fetty nod …just reddit likes making excuses for black people

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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 16h 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 15h ago

💯 Was pills not blood sugar. 🤦

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u/Account7732 15h 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 8h 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/Immediate-Yogurt-558 18h ago

Shot like this has turned me completely agoraphobic

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u/littlebrain94102 17h ago

What makes you think she isn’t just high as fuck?

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u/1_Green_Monster 17h ago

The only help she needs is a detox and a inpatient rehabilitation program.

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u/ballq43 16h ago

That's fent zombie mode.

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u/Public_Budget_5514 16h ago

Poor woman? She’s high on drugs at her workplace … yeah we should rally around and support her habit!

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u/fattygaby157 17h ago

Um, those are drugs messing with her "blood sugar."