• BigBenis@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    Now imagine, successful GoFundMe campaigns for everybody but funded by taxes on the rich instead of random working people’s well-meaning but arbitrary intentions.

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      It means he showed up and cooked food even while sick, putting the rest of us at risk. But I can’t blame him because the other option is probably poverty.

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      Never missed a day/shift, probably no sick days. Never seen it celebrated at a job, just in elementary school

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        Used to have a job that would pay you double time for any sick time you didn’t use but they never celebrated this shit lol

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    I would be a social worker or a cook if I could live off the pay.

    I have to work for myself to make enough to live, i don’t have the option to help my community through my work.

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    8 days ago

    Working food service at a major airport and never called in sick. Dude was undoubtedly a super spreader.

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      For sure, and all because the US has zero federally required sick days and that energy is directed at the little guy, especially immigrants. He was probably scared to call in sick and/or too poor to be able to miss the pay for the lost hours.

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          People who live with people with compromised immune systems and take great care not to spread germs can absolutely avoid catching colds for decades.

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            If you interact with other people, you can’t will yourself out of exchanging some bacteria and viruses with them. The only way to kind of avoid it is to totally isolate yourself from any contact, total 2 meters away from everyone forever, which a person working at an airport physically can’t do

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    Went to look for his food truck in Nevada to check it out and there is a lot about this 1 year old story that doesn’t add up. For a guy who never missed a day of work for 29 years and allegedly bought a food trailer named “K27Y”, there’s no business listing or web presence at all. His Facebook page even looks fabricated. Very very odd. Either something happened that caused him to change his mind and quit working and/or he took the money and ghosted his supporters. Something just seems off about this story.

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    So what’s the moral of this story? That you should miss some work days or that you should keep grinding in the hope of going viral one day?

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      I see 2 morals to the story. Firstly, don’t work at BK for 27 years because they don’t give a shit about you, and you could probably make a better living at many other jobs in that time. Secondly, that rage-bait gathers attention on the internet and can possibly lead to riches if you promote your story of injustice to the public and solicit donations.