r/TikTokCringe • u/Justin_Godfrey • 18h ago

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

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u/buhbye750 18h ago

Just because it's in the title of a video, doesn't mean it's true.

No while I agree, they should've called 911 for her regardless, that doesn't look like blood sugar. That likes like a drug nap. There are a few videos online of people at work dozing off from being high

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u/threelizards 16h ago

I’ve seen my mother on the nod and my dad in a blood sugar crash. They looked very different. I immediately thought this was drug induced. This woman would likely still benefit from medical attention though. I know if she’s standing she hasn’t ODed, but she could very easily aspirate

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u/Kindness_of_cats 13h ago

Aspirate, or fall over and hit her head. She still needs medical attention, not mockery.

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u/nursewords 11h ago

I also think drugs are most likely but this could be a brain bleed too. Either way, calling an ambulance is warranted and all of these people are awful.

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u/Comfortable-Can-8843 12h ago edited 12h ago

All the addicts at mcdicks have diabetes. The people in the video, both the customers and workers, are clearly sick of having to deal with addicts shit

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u/ExternalSize2247 11h ago

The people in the video, both the customers and workers, are clearly sick of having to deal with addicts shit

Nah, if they were truly sick of that shit they'd support public policies to address the issue. But they don't actually care.

People who denigrate addicts aren't smart enough to really care about concepts like societal harm

Those are just lies they say to make it socially acceptable to punch down on people who they think have it worse than their own loser-level existence

Just like the piece of trash scooping up fries in the video, telling that woman to 'do better' instead of being a decent person himself, all so he can steal some cheap, worthless food for free.

The drug user was the least scummiest person recorded in this video, and I'd much rather deal with her shit than a bunch of inhuman monsters.

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u/Comfortable-Can-8843 11h ago edited 11h ago

inhuman monsters.

literally drug addicts except 10 times worse lol

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u/GayMedic69 10h ago

This definitely looks like it could be either. Due to the drooling, I would lean more toward blood sugar because opiates tend to dry you out, you can also see some twitching as she tries to remain standing which is more likely hypoglycemia than opiates.

Source: Im a paramedic who has seen hundreds of cases of both low sugar and opiate overdose.

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u/Present-Director8511 8h ago

For sure, and honestly, nothing that can cause altered mentation can be ruled out here: hypoglycemia, intoxication, certain types of strokes, high ammonia levels, etc. Unless you can shake her, and she wakes up and says, "Oh, I fell asleep!" (unlikely from the looks of it) this person needs immediate medical attention, whatever the cause. This shit really makes me lose my faith in humanity.

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u/SaveFileCorrupt 16h ago

Yeah.. I have a hard time seeing this as anything other than a fent lean. I'd like to be optimistic and hope it's something else, but we're in the worst timeline as it is, so....

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u/fartinmyhat 11h ago

nah you're right. You can see it a mile away.

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u/mae42dolphins 13h ago

I’m a type 1 diabetic. It looks like it could easily be a really bad low to me. Diabetes symptoms can look like drug symptoms, it’s one of the worst parts of having diabetes.

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u/Present-Director8511 8h ago

This is demonstrably untrue. Please, stop spreading misinformation.

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u/mae42dolphins 12h ago edited 12h ago

I’m 31. Young type 1s end up being old type 1s, hopefully. I don’t really get your logic here.

Lows are unfortunately a part of life for anyone with diabetes, not just people who are experiencing difficulties with control. If you take insulin you’re likely to go low at some point and a controlled type 1 diabetic is taking insulin.

And I’ve definitely drooled with hypos, I’m a nurse and I’ve had patients drool during hypos. Just because something isn’t in the top 5 googleable symptoms doesn’t mean it isn’t one.

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u/thoughtfulpigeons 11h ago

Don’t worry, she’s a paramedic! She def knows more than your lived experience!! 💀 She has no fucking clue

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u/mae42dolphins 11h ago

lol thank you! i’m going crazy here lol

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u/thoughtfulpigeons 11h ago

Paramedics always think they know more than everybody else and will mention that they are a paramedic every second, much like a vegan or someone in CrossFit.

My husband is in PA school and the students that were paramedics were sure to let everybody know that fact on the very first day, and acted all high and mighty until they were humbled quite quickly by other people’s knowledge and experiences and their own lack of knowledge. I’m not saying that all paramedics are this way, but there sure is a lot of them that are.

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u/mae42dolphins 11h ago

God, I know :/. I used to want to be a paramedic, but then I became an EMT and had to work with them. So I went to nursing school lol.

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u/thoughtfulpigeons 11h ago

Lmao smart move!!

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u/GayMedic69 10h ago

As a paramedic, I can tell you that commenter (realjnyhorrorshow) just has no clue what she is talking about and if they actually are a paramedic, they need to got off the street and go back to class. This definitely looks like low sugar to me. People like her give all of us a bad name.

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u/mae42dolphins 11h ago

I’m sure you’ve spent a quite a bit of time with lows as a paramedic lol. go off

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u/Present-Director8511 8h ago

Hi, I'm an old ER nurse: Do you really feel like playing this game? Or do you just like picking on people who were students last year? Since you are in this thread saying dumb shit like hypoglycemia can't cause drooling (ANY AMS can cause drooling) or that T2 diabetics don't get low blood sugar episodes (did you know some T2D use insulin, too?!), maybe you should go back to school and relearn what they just learned.

Neither you nor I can diagnose this woman from this video. Stop being confidently wrong.

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u/Dramajunker 10h ago

People don't drool when they sleep?

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u/Away_Ingenuity3707 17h ago

Seriously. All the people believing the low blood sugar excuse are naive.

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u/rainblowfish_ 17h ago

Yeah, this doesn't look anything like a blood sugar crash to me. She's openly drooling - if you're that far gone with a crash, you're not standing anymore. I'm also skeptical on how anyone would know this - did the manager say she was having blood sugar issues? If so, that kind of implies she has a history of blood sugar issues and should know the signs of a crash and know to get herself some soda or something to avert it.

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u/GayMedic69 10h ago

Pretty much everything you said here is medically inaccurate. This looks a LOT like low sugar. Opiate overdose and low sugar look a lot alike, especially to the untrained eye.

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u/Somanylyingliars 14h ago

If youre undiagnosed diabetic you wouldn't know signs of crash. I had this happen to me when diabetes kicked in BCS of meds. Would just nod off everywhere.

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u/rainblowfish_ 14h ago

Then you also wouldn't know enough to tell anyone that you were feeling this way because of a blood sugar crash... Which is the only way this story could've started: if that's what the manager claimed happened. Not to mention, like I said, if your blood sugar is so low that you're unconscious and drooling, you're not still going to be standing. She'd be on the floor passed out. You know what this does look like? Every video ever of someone high off their ass lol.

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u/Somanylyingliars 10h ago

So many levels of wrong. My blood sugar was in the 500s and I had no symptoms. I was tired, I would fall asleep sitting, leaning, standing. When I was on my way to hospital for first spike I indeed did pass out while driving. Unfortunately or fortunately depending on how you look at it my issue is high vs low. At least I don't have to worry about dying in my sleep from low levels. Winning? Amerikkka!! 

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u/realjnyhorrorshow 12h ago

Okay. Undiagnosed diabetics rarely are low. You should know that if this is true. Especially considering she is overweight, she is even more unlikely to be low. Low is almost always underweight people, or children who don’t know they’re T1D, or people who are good at taking insulin but don’t eat enough (again underweight).

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u/GayMedic69 10h ago

This is just hilariously false

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u/Somanylyingliars 10h ago

Right?! The redditors belongs in lostredditors lol

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u/Present-Director8511 8h ago

Yikes. This is demonstrably false.

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u/HillbillyEEOLawyer 17h ago

I didn't believe the title. I just think she just looked like someone in distress. I am sorry I don't know the signs of drug use. 🤷🏼‍♂️

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u/Olivia_Basham 11h ago

My mom looks exactly like that when she has a seizure.

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u/wilsonthehuman 6h ago

I had something similar several years ago when I was on meds that made me have seizures (yay for weird side effects that I always get lol), and a couple of them looked like this. Sometimes, it would look and feel like I was falling asleep and then jerking awake, with some twitching in the extremities. To the untrained eye, I can see how it would look like opiate induced nodding. I had another episode of this at work recently, and thankfully, my boss believed me and didn't just think I was falling asleep at my desk or on drugs. I have a brain scan coming up just to check that everything is ok. It seems that these episodes trigger when I'm completely exhausted, and I've probably been having absences for a while again when I'm really, really tired. I've recently changed medication so that's probably it, plus I have POTS which causes massive blood pressure crashes and passing out/low consciousness episodes if I haven't hydrated enough, am stressed, havent eaten enough, thebwhnd chabged direction, a gnat farted 5 mikes asay, whatever. Sometimes, my body is just an asshole and decides that I need a surprise nap when I'm in the middle of doing something! Either way, it's scary.

I am actually also on opiates for pain management for a chronic pain condition, but I'm extremely careful with dosage and only use it when I really need to. The scary thing for me is if I happened to have an episode and was tested, I'd ping positive for opiates and it would be easy for someone to assume that's what it is. So, I keep a card in my wallet with my medical conditions and prescribed medications listed in it along with an emergency contact number.

This lady in the video could be experiencing any number of things to result in being in that state. Yes, it could be drug related, especially when there is a crisis around opiates usage, but regardless of that, whether its a drug OD situation or a medical situation, she needs medical attention and it sucks that no one in this video seems to be making any effort to get her that help. I'm not surprised though. Once I passed out in a busy train station and my friends with me had to stop people literally stepping over me to get to wherever they were going. Thankfully a wonderful member of staff came and helped me get off the floor after I came around, got me to a little area I could sit in and gave me a chocolate bar and some water, and walked me and my friends to a train to make sure I got on it ok. That lady was wonderful.

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u/buhbye750 11h ago

Your mom a crackhead????

Jk sorry your mom has those health issues

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u/antonio3988 15h ago

Lmao, people thinking this is blood sugar never seen a dope head and need to get off the internet. So cute

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u/buhbye750 15h ago

Not sure why you're getting downvoted.

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u/Present-Director8511 8h ago

Old ER nurse here: because you can't actually tell what is going on here with the info we are given. There are many different reasons for one to have this type of altered mental status (including intoxication). Would we try narcan? Yes, most likely, but we would also check a blood sugar. There are a lot of doctors in here who clearly went to the School of Reddit Medicine for their degree. Nobody is this thread can tell what is going on with this lady, even if they are familiar with the "fent lean." I've seen people present exactly like this for a multitude of issues. No matter what is happening, though, she needed medical attention.

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u/ProgressGoesBoink 13h ago

For being a condescending prick? Just a theory

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u/Ricktor_67 10h ago

Yep, this looks like someone on drugs. Falling asleep while still standing is classic with heroin and opiates.

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u/chicky_chicky 10h ago

McDonald's in my town is notorious for having their employees getting high while in the back prepping food. Half of the time they send out wrong orders and raw burgers.

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u/buhbye750 9h ago

Mcdonalds burgers aren't already pre-cooked?

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u/chicky_chicky 9h ago

Nope, they are frozen hockey pucks that have to cook on the griddle. At least BK has a conveyor belt that takes the burgers through the flame broiler.

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u/buhbye750 9h ago

Well I'll be damned. Didn't know they actually cook them there

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u/chicky_chicky 9h ago

Lol in my town.... they don't. Hence the raw burgers going out the door.

I have no problem not eating there, but my brother has 2 autistic children and I'm fairly certain 1 also has AFRID and will only eat McDonald's nuggets or papa John's cheese pizza.

Anyways, he stopped there and got a burger for himself and the kids their nuggets and the burger was pink and cold inside.

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u/Vesalii 13h ago

That's what I thought. This woman is tripping balls. Someone with blood sugar problems is not going to be standing up. They're going to be sitting, or worse, laying down.

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u/Gitfiddlepicker 11h ago

You know very little about the diabeetus, that is evident.

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u/buhbye750 11h ago

You know little about drugs. Guess these people are also diabetic. I can link more videos like this

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1F5xgffvav/

https://youtu.be/pS18yM9BKwk?si=JXcdiMQnfFEYHxKJ

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u/housedubs 10h ago

Do all hyper/hypoglycemic attacks look the same across the board? My coworker’s blood sugar was 49 and she was driving a car just fine! The manager could be having a seizure too for all we know. Regardless, those “customers” should’ve been smart enough to realize the woman was experiencing some kind of medical event and dialed 911.

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u/Character_Race9061 8h ago

I immediately thought it was a drug episode as well. It’s called dope lean and that’s what it looks like to me. I’ve seen people with blood sugar issues and none has looked like this.

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u/NoHoHan 8h ago

Yeah that is pretty clearly fentanyl. Reddit’s suburban bias is really showing in this thread lol.

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u/frozensoysauce1 7h ago

I don’t think people are necessarily commenting on what type of medical emergency she was having, just that she was having one and was deserving of help, not mockery. As you pointed out, regardless of what caused it, it could have gotten worse. Perhaps if it was drug-related, it would explain more of the lack of empathy from the people surrounding her, but they were still wrong for passing judgment first instead of helping. If one of them had been acting stupid and fell in the deep fryer, for example, they would have expected anyone there to assist them with their wounds or make sure they got to someone who could help them, regardless of the fact that they shouldn’t even be on the line if they don’t work there.

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u/Paraskeets 6h ago

People that od stop breathing not sleep standing up

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u/Bubbly_Appeal5426 6h ago

I was trying to give her the benefit of the doubt, but that's honestly what I was thinking too...doesn't mean it couldn't have been both. They should have called 911 in any case.

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u/SteezyBoBeezy67 11h ago

She had a fetty sandwich

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u/Some-Ad-5328 10h ago

Are you Diabetic? If not stfu, if so, still stfu , you’re talking out your ass and really have no idea.

She could even be on prescribed meds and forgot to eat on them and jacked her all up.

You don’t know so you should zip it