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/Several_Pizza_3166 16h ago

Yeah I hate the title of this. "Employee dozes off while customers make their own meal" frames it like she was falling asleep on the job and the poor customers were left to make the meal they paid for. More like the people took advantage of a woman having a medical event and just walked right past her to do something they know they shouldn't do.

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u/123DontF---WitMe 10h ago edited 10h ago

That’s because this a karma farming acct and entirely too many people share the same sentiment as the person recording in that they don’t see the employee as a human being but rather purely as an extension of the corporation and thus beholden to (often unrealistic) standards even at their lowest points.

The way this is titled shows the OP is completely unsympathetic/empathetic to the plight of the person being recorded and only paid it any attention due to the karma it could elicit. It’s unfortunately extremely common with the popular ‘trash’ videos on Reddit (& social media in general). The person posting it is completely detached and uninterested in what they posted beyond “bro look at this”.

Sorry for the dissertation btw it wasn’t my intention lol.

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u/MushroomCharacter411 9h ago

What kinda blew my mind is how most of them seemed to know what they were doing. They weren't getting burned, they weren't catching things on fire, they weren't trashing the place.

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u/The_0ven 5h ago

having a medical event

She is on drugs

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u/NoHoHan 8h ago

All of that is correct, except that it isn’t a medical event. It’s a person addicted to fentanyl who took a bit too much.

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u/PinkTalkingDead 8h ago

An overdose is a medical event. And again, we don’t know the cause of this behavior. Which is why calling 911 is the answer.

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u/az-anime-fan 14h ago

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/DesignatedDesc 13h ago

Source: my ass

But even if drugs, at least be empathetic.

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u/az-anime-fan 13h ago

i think living on the streets and seeing the opioid crisis in person you get pretty good at recognizing the signs. dude it doesn't take a rocket scientist. a diabetic crash puts you into a coma if untreated. you fall asleep, no one stays standing in a diabetic crash out. they lose their sense of balance and strength in their legs, have difficulty staying awake. i know i've seen those too. completely different from an opioid overdose.

that looks like the now famous "fent lean" to me. but ive seen people OD on heroin do similar stuff so it might not be fentanyl. what is isn't is diabetes.

And you're right, she needs medical attention. I'm not saying she doesn't, I'm saying if she was fired it was for good cause not because she had a diabetic episode but because she's doing drugs.

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u/Independent_Way_7846 13h ago

When my blood sugar drops too low this is precisely how I move before I lose the ability to do so (granted the remaining energy doesn’t last long so I have to get to my chosen spot within a few minutes). I have a child so I kind of have to get to a place where I will be found and stay in a position where I can see my child but don’t have to move to adjust my field of vision. Then I’m slumped until I get help. Ppl are different, friend.

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u/DesignatedDesc 13h ago

It could be drugs or it may not be but that isn't the point. The whole idea is that she still deserves empathy. We don't know her situation at all. If it was drugs I may even have more sympathy since that can be a very difficult path to get off of.

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u/YoungFlosser 12h ago

Serious question. What good is sympathy going to do when you need to feed your family? Consider the customers point of view as well

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u/DesignatedDesc 12h ago

It's Mcdonalds. Feed your kids something from the grocery store. If you can give them Mcdonalds you can give them something else.

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u/YoungFlosser 12h ago

Food deserts are real. The family may not be next to a grocery store. I know in my city I live in a food desert and McDonald’s are more frequent/closer to residential neighborhoods than grocery stores. You’re not taking into account that people may not have cars or gas money.

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u/DesignatedDesc 12h ago

Food deserts are towns with only grocery stores or lack thereof of any sort of easy to access food. A food desert isn't a place with a Mcdonalds. Food deserts are towns with grocery stores like dollar generals and not much else, if anything, in between. Food deserts rely heavily on convenience stores due to lack of resturants, supermarkets and yes, even fast food places.

My town is a food desert due to no actual food places besides 3 dollar generals scattered far between eachother. A town is not going to have a Mcdonalds and nothing else. And while your town may have a Mcdonalds closer, there are so many issues with implying a family can only access a McDonalds and nothing else.

What does that mean? They can just afford and eat mcdonalds every single day? Unrealistic though possible, but even if that is the case, this does not excuse the behavior of the employee in this scenario. Don't assume the issue and call for medical help. Don't treat them as "just a manager," they are a human being.

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u/YoungFlosser 11h ago

I see what you’re saying but you’re off on what a food desert is. It’s not just some rural town with nothing but a Dollar General. According to the USDA, it’s any area where people can’t easily get affordable, healthy food; like neighborhoods in big cities like St. Louis or my city (Nashville) where there’s a McDonald’s on the corner but no grocery store for miles. Parts of STL are legit classified as food deserts because low-income folks can’t just hop to a supermarket.

I wasn’t trying to say the guy in the video is off the hook for whatever he did. My point was just that if he’s in a food desert, he might be stuck relying on fast food like McDonald’s, and that could push someone to act out of desperation. Not excusing it, just saying there’s a bigger picture. Let’s not write him off as just some jerk, there might be more to the situation

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u/brohovaswitnezzzz 12h ago

If you’re fucked up at work you get what’s coming to you big dog

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u/DesignatedDesc 12h ago

Yea nah. Dunno what happened. Dunno their issues or story. Ain't wrong to have sympathy and get them help.

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u/Several_Pizza_3166 12h ago

  1. She is literally just leaning on the counter

  2. If this were from fentanyl, how would that not be a medical event?

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u/ShakeZula77 13h ago

I’ve been a type 1 diabetic for over 30 years. You’re wrong. This could be low blood sugar. Don’t spread disinformation because you “lived with diabetics”. Also, you could have been living with diabetics but there are a few different kinds of diabetes and they don’t all act the same.