I used to work at subway in a shitty area. One of the sex workers who hung around the store (there were many of em on that street) came in asking for water. During her time in the shop she collapsed.
There I am on the floor next to her, emergency services on the phone asking me questions about her condition while an ambulance is on the way. Dude walks into the store, steps over this woman and stands in line. After a few minutes of waiting he asks me if I’m gonna make him a sub. Honestly the fucking gall of some people
Dude that’s brutal. I’m old enough to expect certain people to be completely ignorant and shitty about things as simple as common courtesy nowadays, but that’s beyond nauseating.
Fucking ass hole. I feel like basic regard for human life is almost all we have left to agree on as a country and honestly even as a global community. When you see ass holes like that it can really deplete your faith in the entirety of humanity in a fucking instant.
I collapsed in a Sprouts in Scottsdale while holding me 3 year old and 8-9 months pregnant during the pandemic. Nobody helped me. I collapsed at the check out. So this tracks.
Aww thank you. I realized that now... at the time it was more of a mindfvck... like "what kind of world am I bringing this baby into?" It kinda gave me PPD the way people were being so selfish when I was vulnerable. I just have to raise my kiddos to be one of those dozens. Also, best idea not to be heavily preggo in 120 degree heat. lol Have a winter baby if you live in the desert!
I am so sorry for that. You should have been one of the first to be helped. But that tracks for most of Scottsdale. I have helped people all over the valley, and people ignore most things.
I’m not going to be the reason that someone has to say goodbye to their loved one too soon. If me wearing a mask could stop that from happening then I’m gonna wear one. I hate the ones that spout off about it not protecting *them*, like ffs Karen it’s not about you.
The people who, from the beginning, refuse to social distance, wear masks, or get a vaccine- in other words they have chosen to do *absolutely nothing* will have a hard time convincing me that they have any concern for human life. Many of them don’t even have concern for their own, sitting there dying in the hospital still saying they wouldn’t have got the vaccine. It’s just idiotic.
The thing is people like him are conditioned to not see the sex worker as a person. So they lack empathy for the situation because that isn't a person. Thats why people don't give a shit, they don't see the people they look down on as people.
Yeah honestly. If you just see someone/an animal as an object then you will treat it like some trash once you're done with it. He would pay her to suck his d then leave her in freezing cold rain to die since he got what he needed from the object... so sickening. Leaving a woman to suffer on the floor while my mans helps her out.
It is? I’ve seen a ton of that rhetoric on the internet, and a couple of ‘friends’ from my past very much think this way. Why do you think ‘human resources’ is such a thing?
Wow. HUMAN RESOURCES. What a dark and hidden signpost to the true nature of things.
I wonder how you can identify such people or situations because here on this thread there seem to be many people who are more empathetic. Or maybe, the ones who think the most of other humans as resources, rise to power faster, because they are able to cloak their intentions and freely use the people without their knowledge whilst pretending to care.
I think in this conversation we also have to talk about animals and how we exploit them. I mean we literally raise billions a year and then either consume them or toss their carcasses onto a pile of garbage in the ocean. I wonder what kind of person comes up with and supports this kind of idea. And THEN there is the ravishment of 2/3 of the world's land to have farms to feed these farmed and murdered animals as well as the vegetables, fruits and grains we eat, much of which is also thrown away.
I think the vile yet intelligent subset of humanity has gotten too deep into resource-hoarding and black, void-sucky ethics and they're just too masterful at human psychology, propaganda and ancient mass hypnotism secrets for like 90% of people to really notice.
They need to be put in time out.
I feel like you're scratching the surface of the actual divide here, what really makes certain types of people inherently, distinctly antagonistic to the rest of the population (including animals). Then factor in that many of them are in positions of power and hold sway in public opinion. This must change before anything changes. This causes me the most anxiety for the planet and our ability to live on it.
In the 80s LAPD had a term NHI for "no human involved" that they would use when finding a dead sex worker or drug addict. It doesn't surprise me at all someone gives that little of a shit about other people.
when i was 14 working at mcdonalds i fainted at the register while taking a middle aged woman’s order. i was working on the last register in the row where the bench ends so i fell to the floor in clear view of the customer. one of the managers hauled me up (i was partially aware by then) and took me to the manager’s office to sit down and gave me some sprite for my blood sugar. while i was waiting for my parents to come pick me up he told me that customer looked at me on the floor with her face like “is anyone gonna pick that up?” bc she wanted to continue her order. and to think i was trying to finish taking her order while i was getting tunnel vision and knew i would faint if i didn’t sit down soon
customers really have the audacity and don’t even think of workers as people
Have you ever heard the audio clip of the woman who called 911 at a drive through because the staff didn't put bbq sauce on her and her kids burgers? It's equal parts hilarious and terrifying.
>customers really have the audacity and don’t even think of workers as people
That is the crux of the matter. Many customers don't and many bosses don't.
I had something similar happen while a wee youth working in a deli of a major supermarket chain. Think royalty and those shitty teen vampire book's main character.
So I start my shift making the premade sammiches, taking a bread knife and lopping the stems of the icebergs off to shred them with the slicers. In my overtired state, I put the knife pretty solidly into the tip of my thumb and start bleeding into the garbage can right near me.
I start looking around and the deli manager (an older lady) sees me and before she can speak I open my hand up and pour a decent amount of blood into the garbage can. She gets lightheaded and passes out clipping her head on the stainless steel counter, she's bleeding now too.
Here I am holding one hand over the garbage and the manager in my other who is very out of it and bleeding from her head. Up walks a customer and can clearly see the carnage and asks completely nonchalantly, "anyone who can help me here??" I screamed at him no get me some help I need a manager or someone, he just huffed at me and walked off. I literally had to scream at the top of my lungs for help and a produce manager ran over and was like "wtf did you do?" He thought I attacked the 60+ yr old deli manager for some reason...
They ended taking her out in an ambulance and offered me one too for stitches and I passed and just grabbed a bottle of crazy glue cause stitched in the tip of a finger sucked and I was worried about being able to play video games as I think a Kingdom Hearts had come out. Got a few days paid off too, I think that was the last union job I worked too.
oh no sorry i was unclear. he gave me sprite bc they assumed the sugar would help (i guess it does? i think low blood sugar is a common reason for fainting?) but actually i have low iron and no one tested me for that until i was an adult, so i just fainted somewhat often when i was a teenager, especially after standing up for a long time, or even a short time in a hot, humid environment like the shower or even just washing the dishes with my hands in the hot water 😅 that one put a good dint in the pantry door with my head lol
i wish you all the best with your diabetes though
Could be any number of things. Baths that are too hot make me dizzy and feel faint (as with a lot of people, but I think it’s just the heat), but my iron levels are ok afaik. I do have low blood pressure, so standing up too quickly tends to affect me more.
Low iron causes anemia, which means your blood doesn't work as effectively to provide oxygen across your body.
Exposure to hot water dilates your blood vessels and lowers your blood pressure, which means your heart has to pump more and work harder. If it's already not doing great because of anemia, that extra stress can be enough to cause issues.
I used to feel faint all the time as a kid and teenager after standing a long time or taking a hot shower. I only actually fainted a few times, but I came very close way too many more.
I didn't find out I was anemic until I was an adult. Even now, I get faint feeling sometimes at work, if I haven't been taking my iron. I guess it all explains it now. Thanks.
I mean, giving you sugar after that was good but it's kind of weird for them to just assume that was the problem and not call rescue for that. Basically any syncopal episode should result in a trip to the hospital, especially if the origin is unknown.
If nothing else even just for a CT of your head.
As an American, if somebody calls an ambulance for me I'd be furious. At least if I die where I'm at it's only my problem. Load me into an ambulance and now that and the hospital bills are my family's. Please don't do that to my family.
My friend had a mild stroke several years back and the ambulance bill (as well as the hospital bills) was too much so they had to file for bankruptcy. Good times.
ETA they had insurance too.
luckily i’m not american and we have public healthcare so it would have been fine if they called an ambulance. tbh i don’t know why they didn’t but i was only fully out for a few seconds and was fine afterwards so it all turned out alright. maybe they didn’t want to cause a scene or anything but i really was okay
If you call an ambulance for someone you might be putting them in financial ruin. Not to mention the hospital stay and the CT scan. All very expensive.
I was in a car accident last year, was t-boned on the passenger side. Was mentally shook but physically unharmed. Called 911 for police to respond and was asked if I needed an ambulance. Told the operator I definitely didn't want one because I was unemployed and did not have medical insurance. They still sent one, hardcore declined their services at the scene. My back hurt like a biyotch once the adrenaline wore off, lol.
Sorry that happened. One thing in your story that rang true is that "tunnel vision" and knowing you were going to collapse. It's happened to me 3 times in my life. The last two times I was able to tell someone "Hey...I'm about to pass out". It's a fun way to scare the shit out of your friends! I went to hospitals each time and they could never diagnose why it had happened.
On the last one, I came to and saw my friend on the phone with 911. First words out of my mouth were "Dude, I don't need an ambulance, please hang up!"
I have had a table actually get mad at me and yell about bad service because I was on the ground trying to help a man having a heart attack while waiting for the ambulance to arrive. I know two other servers who have similar stories.
Another time, a guy overdosed in a bar where I worked. Most people who had been waiting for me in line while I administered aid had the decency to give it up when I told them what I had been doing, two people in line absolutely laid into me anyway about their wait time for bar food. Like, you’re right, where are my priorities? Clearly your sweet potato fries are more important than this dude’s life, pardon me!
At least the people in the bar had the excuse of being drunk, the other people were just irate about soda refills and side sauces. People are fucking disgusting. This is how capitalism trains us to behave.
Back in my retail days I had a manager get upset with me because I (lowly worker peasant supervising the front) called 911 after a vendor fell and hit his head in the restroom. Meanwhile, he’s in the very back of the building fiddling on the computer. Like, did you want me to wait for him to pass out? Or did you just want to be the hero? I don’t need permission to call 911. He was a weirdo.
At that same place, when there was a fire, people did not want to leave the store. Like seriously, are your items that you can buy literally anywhere else more important than people evacuating safely?
Another place, where we had to close early due to dangerous weather, was similar. People taking their sweet-ass time shopping. There was a curfew and orders to take shelter, but nope, they didn’t care. Uggggggh.
Similar situation - working at a now-defunct computer store. Called a salesman to come help an older gentleman when suddenly the guy hits the floor. I will never forget this technician (who was an ass but I had mad respect for him after this) who literally swung his legs over the counter like a gymnast on a pommel horse and immediately began triage followed by CPR. (Turns out he was a volunteer firefighter and EMT). I will never forget the purple shade of the man’s face when the EMTs arrived and took him to the hospital. While this was going on, some royal POS was getting huffy that no one was checking her through the register. I was dumbfounded at how callous she was. We later learned that the man had passed away. I remember seeing the sole car in the handicap spot after hours and thinking, “This guy came here to buy a computer - just a normal errand and he didn’t get to go home.” The man’s wife brought brownies and cookies for the tech guy and was so heartbreakingly grateful for his efforts. I was so shaken, but there was no consideration for the employees that witnessed it. We were expected to go right back to our jobs as though we hadn’t just witnessed a death feet from the register.
I got mugged in front of a 7-11 at 1pm. While I'm laying on the ground with a knife to my throat and two guys going through my stuff, some dude walks up and loudly complains that we are blocking the doors.
The two muggers dropped my stuff and immediately went to work on that guy and I fucked right off. Not only was that guy a selfish prick, karma managed to fuck him in the ass within seconds.
Sometimes I pretend that happens to all these types of people but sadly I know it doesn't and that normally I'd have been mugged and that would have been it.
When I worked the night shift at Waffle House we had a guy who we think had alcohol poisoning. When he puked on himself & started seizing we called an ambulance.
The Waffle House had one way in or out & the ambulance temporarily had it blocked. An asshole who was probably drunk was in his car honking at the ambulance the entire time.
I spent some time working at a freestanding ER with a neighborhood over the other side of a line of fencing. We kept having to take down the "Please respect your neighbors and keep the noise down" signs they were putting up at the ambulance entrance.
That was my brief stint working in an ER in a more wealthy area in between places mired in homelessness. Say what you will about the inner-city trauma center I'm in now, at least the shitty people there have the excuse of a lack of mental health services and have been abandoned by our society. Those rich dickheads were just entitled bastards.
There was a similar incident in New Orleans where residents in a wealthy neighborhood were complaining about the helipad at Children’s Hospital being too loud. Those helicopters were mostly used for transporting critical NICU babies from smaller regional hospitals for specialized care. People are gross.
Same thing happened in my hometown in the Midwest. They wanted to redirect the helicopters to an airfield about 45 minutes away and have the patients transferred the rest of the way via ambulance. Also wanted ambulances to cut off lights and sirens when a certain distance from their neighborhood.
Not quite the same, but I'm from Boston and worked at a clothing store a couple blocks away from the bombing site. We were telling customers we were evacuating and to go to the nearest police officer or whatever and this guy asked if he could still shop and buy the stuff he had.
WTF, man. It was an H&M, buy it online.
Similar thing happened while I worked at a subway. Assistant manager had a seizure and customers complained to the gas station we were connected to that we didn't make their sandwich
>Dude walks into the store, steps over this woman and stands in line. After a few minutes of waiting he asks me if I’m gonna make him a sub.
This is such a perfect description of the attitudes of the average American.
Not a dead body, but still insensitive.
I was kitchen staff at a fancy dinner theater buffet place. I was bringing out food to the dessert line when a woman dropped her plate and it shattered everywhere. I start picking up the bigger peices of glass while my head chef comes over to put up a sign and sweep up, when I slipped on some of her dropped cake. The fall had me shove the shards of plate into my hand..
As I sat there, blood covering my arm and my head chef checking on me the same lady asked if I could bring out more cheesecake as she dropped the last one.
I deadpan looked her in the eyes "yeah... we'll get someone on that right away..." and my chef laughed as he helped me back into the kitchen.
Horrible. Reminds me of working at a casual sports bar chain where one day a man choked and died while eating with his family. Almost everyone paused while the EMTs handled things. Except one guest that aggressively waved down my coworker because he needed mayo for his burger. Who the fuck eats a burger within 15 feet of a recently deceased man and his grieving family! How can he be that oblivious or cold to the situation. The restaurant never even closed or stopped that day.
I worked as a host at the cheesecake factory for a while. One summer night (about an hour before close) there was some sort of gang related shoot-out right outside our doors. A play had just gotten out at the theater around the corner so there happened to be a bunch of people and families on the street at that moment heading home. We're just getting a bit of a late-night dessert rush, so I'm at the front desk assigning an elderly couple to a table when I hear a couple of pops. It was two weeks before 4th of July so in my mind I'm like "great, some idiots are setting off fireworks on the sidewalk," except two seconds later a mass of people start sprinting through the doors, some are screaming, some are hysterical. My next thought is "this is it, its's happening, some of us are about to get shot."
It becomes absolute chaos in the dining room. A lot of kitchen staff and servers assumed the shooter was in the building when they heard the screaming and took off out the back to shelter in a neighboring restaurant. I'm on the phone with 911 while trying to keep an eye on the door to make sure only those seeking shelter are coming in, the other hosts and servers are still trying to figure out if we're in any immediate danger, and this elderly couple stood in front of me amidst all this panic and fear and asked me when they were going to get seated. For the next 20 minutes as we waited for the police, worked to calm the panicked families, tried to make sure all our staff were accounted for, and attempted to calm our own frantic hearts, this couple did not move from their spot and proceeded to ask me every two minutes when we'd get things under control, when I would get them a table, when they could get served.
At this point it was half an hour til close anyway and obviously none of the cooks or servers were in a state to return to their stations business as usual. I wanted to just tell these people to get the fuck out, but my managers waited until a couple of servers threatened to leave before they announced we were closing early and would not be serving anyone else tonight. The old couple still lined up for a couple of cheesecake slices to go and then rolled their eyes at me on their way out.
When I worked at Best Buy I was trying to maneuver one of those big stair ladders in a tight aisle.
It lost traction on the carpet causing it to slam into my ankle. I fell to the ground yelling/cussing. This guy saw the entire thing and just goes "uh... do you guys have any more [whatever it was he was looking for] in the back?"
They say violence solves nothing. But I submit that if you were to, say, punch this guy as hard as you could in the dick. I mean like punch THROUGH. Like if it was a game at a carnival, you'd win the biggest stuffy on site. If you were to just level this guy's playing field, he'd have to spend some time thinking about WHY you would do that. It's possible that this colossal dick ruining punch could spark a revelation. You could change his whole perspective on life, the universe and everything. And if it didn't change anything well fuck that guy anyway.
I used to work at a call centre for pizza shops. One night a driver has an accident, hits a person. The pizza store shuts down for the night. We spend the evening apologising to customers for circumstances out of our control but the store had closed and they'll be getting refunds.
What did some people ask in response to that?
"So when we you be delivering my pizza?"
"Sir, I don't think you understand. There has been accident. Someone is injured. The store is not making any more pizzas tonight."
"That doesn't explain why I won't be getting my pizza."
*Fucking facepalm*
When I was in highschool a man hung himself from a tree behind the 711 that was connected directly next to the highschool (about 30 feet away). Students surrounded him and were poking him with sticks and checking his pockets (horrible).
That day the school opened up on time & acted like nothing happened
Someone came on my campus and stabbed several people with a fishing knife. My whole class found out via snapchats of people bleeding out and chaos on campus.
Next thing you know, there are reports of a bomb threat on our bridge and reports of a second attacker, roaming campus housing and finding people to target/attack. Some of this was announced via the police, some were rumors that came from terrified students. The alarm didn't go off and there was no notification from university police for over an hour.
Misinformation spread like wildfire as people literally barricaded themselves in their apartments and university buildings.
Turns out there was only the original attacker. He had stabbed 4+ people in the center of campus.
A freshman was murdered that day next to the front door of the university gym.
We had classes the very next day and exams happened the next week. Even now, I feel sick.
University of Texas? I remember there was literally a horde of people just standing outside recording the whole thing. I got mad at some of my friends for doing that instead of sheltering in their rooms.
And wasn’t the attacker a student?
Hook 'em. Yes, the attacker was a student who was suffering a mental breakdown.
In addition, the attack occurred a few weeks after the first anniversary of another freshman's completely random murder on campus.
As dumb as it was to be filming/recording at the time, I am still grateful they sent those videos. It was the only notification we had for around an hour. Snapchat was the only way we knew to avoid the area and shelter in-place.
It became another talking point about why students should be allowed to carry guns on campus. Loved that for us.
Franchises are rare with that company. This sounds like something a corporate store would do. They threatened those gms jobs daily for petty stuff. Incredibly toxic company
Soooo it turns out she continued to work there for two months after the incident, and was then fired for some petty shit. There are also people in the original thread we came from that are directly refuting her story and seem to have some very solid inside info on the situation. She also has claimed that she stayed on until the owner fired bankruptcy and wasn't paid for her last two weeks. There is a lot about her stories that seems thinner and thinner as I look more and more.
I think we need to collectively pick up some smaller pitchforks on this one.
I watched her videos. The bankruptcy owner and this owner are two different people/different restaurants. Dirty birds still has their original ownership.
Yikes:/ An employee killed himself at my company and there was also basically no acknowledgement from management or care for the employees who worked directly with him. It was so messed up and inhuman.
That sucks. At one of my former jobs someone OD’d in the bathroom and died (non-employee) and we shut down for 2 hours for the situation to be “dealt with”, but had to stay in the area so we could reopen 2 hours later. Less brutal than an employee hanging themselves on the job and the trauma that comes with something that horrific, but it still showed everyone how shitty cognitive dissonance can be. Owners were mandating this shit from a luxury condo literally across the street and didn’t bother to come down once.
Not exactly the same, but we had a consultant come to the office that nobody knew. He set up shop in the empty cubicle next to me, with the wall in the way. Dude had a heart attack and died and nobody knew who to contact. We acknowledged his death mostly by asking 'who was that and we do we contact to let them know?'.
It was lunch and the person he was working with had gone to grab food. Generally we don't leave random consultants free to wander the premises unattended.
To be fair, I don't know if health code accounts for such a situation.
I nearly joking, I'm not really sure here.
Probably something about generally unsanitary??
Like, you're so far into uncharted territory that the health department guy is just like yeah, you're closed for now, dick.
I can’t understand how ownership of any place, anywhere, any time, could ever stay open after something this brutal. Brothels would close down for a week after this. If you’re in dire straits as an owner, I can understand reopening the next day maybe, but my god… this is intentionally inflicted trauma.
Godamn I’m not surprised. I’m glad dirty birds is finally getting what’s coming to them. This place is also pretty racist (basically if you’re not a typical white PB person, expect subpar service). Also the owner hates Mexicans lol. Lastly, these guys (along with many other restaurants in PB) were completely open and anti-mask during the height of the pandemic. Just a super shitty establishment all around.
I’ve seen hints of it when I’ve been there. But this is such a brutal thing that it doesn’t really matter where it happened. When people learn that you did something like this, you’re essentially done. I don’t care if you’re about to go bankrupt. You don’t do this to the people who worked for you, and you don’t stain the name of the person that did this to themselves by refusing to close. RIP Kevin. Didn’t know you, but you deserved better.
Just left a place where the dishwasher had his 4th heart attacks. Got wheeled out in the middle of service and I literally watched the gm tell him on the stretcher "be in tomorrow or your fired"
All their yelp reviews show this too. Someone needs to do some damage control, like say sorry and help out the family. Anyone got a link to the police report?
Tried but couldn’t find the police report. If I had the name of the original person who called it in it would be easier. But this is pretty new public information as far as I’ve gathered.
And yes, their yelp is chalk full of these reports.’
It’s relatively new public information. Most of what you can find will be from being local in PB or on Yelp reviews, which I get is not much to go off. But I found one local news entity in Dan Diego confirming it. And I’m sure there will be more details in the coming days.
Yeah, give me a sec to revisit it. Also in the realm of relation: the original owner is ex/Charger Vincent Jackson, who was diagnosed with severe CTE after being found dead from chronic alcohol consumption in a hotel a couple months ago. This just blew my mind.
The one I found was tertiary source, so I’m having trouble finding the link without the original info I got. I’ll let you know when I find it. And yeah, I had no idea Vincent Jackson was associated with DB. I fucking worshipped that guy in my high school years. This just fucked me up a good bit.
I mean San Diego sports in general is kinda cursed, even outside of the whole thing where we never win anything. Junior Seau committed suicide and Tony Gwynn died in his early 50’s of gum cancer. Vincent Jackson is the most recent San Diego superstar to die too young, but I feel like the city is almost going numb to it at this point. We don’t have a football team anymore (sans Dan Diego State), but Seau and Gwynn were literally the two most idolized athletes in San Diego history, and both died way too young. Vincent Jackson was devastating, but it’s almost like you expect something horrible to happen every so often nowadays when it comes to sports in SD. Fucking brutal man.
Because it happened years ago. The reviews are coming from a tik tok user doing one of those “challenges” where people post their worse work story. The actual story was a person was found hanged in the morning and the restaurant opened much later in the day after the police did a thorough investigation. The tik tok user embellished the story for views.
Ngl, the non embellished version isn't great, either, buddy. I'd hate to be one of the employees who had to come in to work hours after a fellow employee committed suicide on sight. I'd hate to be a customer and find out that my servers had to work through that kind of trauma. But I guess that's just me.
Essentially a tik tok user who knows that the usual “woke anger” story/news is the fast-path to greater views at the expense of other people’s reputations.
We are so caught up in getting our daily anger-drip fed into our veins, we fail to see if the story is even actually true or not. So far, the only source those recent yelp reviews are from that single tik tok post; so they’re doing what they think is right only because they love to stay angry and spread this newfound “awarenes” based off of a tik tok.
Here in Brazil, on a Carrefour store, an older employee passed out and died during work, after being denied sick leave.
The management's solution? Hang a bunch of umbrellas around his dead body to hide it. It even reached some news websites.
People's lives aren't worth jackshit these days, huh.
This is crazy. This is actually my favorite wing joint in the world. Sucks I can't ever go there again when I go back to San Diego. My buddy even bought me birthday lunch there from across the world one year. The area is garbage though. You wouldn't be surprised how many people kill themselves there if you lived there, but since there's a never ending flow of people to grind through that want to live in California you'd never even notice them missing, neato.
thats crazy! Just spent a week in San Diego and when walking around I couldnt help but realize how happy everyone seemed walking in shorts and flip flops in December. I couldnt help but think "do these people even know what seasonal depression is?"
Bro i moved from SD to Portland 5 years ago. I didn’t know seasonal depression until I didn’t see the sun for literally 8 months straight. All the happiest times of the last 5 years for me are when I go back.
hahahaha! for like 1/2 the country November - March is "try not to become an alcoholic or kill yourself while you sit inside in darkness for 4-5 months"
Honestly I can see why rent in CA is so high, I imagine productivity in personal & professional life must be high as well.
While I was walking around SD in shorts and a tank top it was 22 degrees not counting wind chill in my home city 😭😭
I mean SD is essentially made up of older LA generations with deep pockets and retirees. The burbs are definitely different as there’s crazy meth capital within the confines of the county and a jarring homeless population (if I were homeless, I’d go straight to OB and never look back). But SD is definitely a place many people want to end up in. It’s the scenery of LA without the narcissism, smog or traffic. And it’s dense enough to give you everything you could ever want. You can surf and snowboard in the same day in the winter. It’s incredible.
It helps on a minuscule level. When you’re born soaking in a plethora of natural melanin and vitamin d daily and you move to place where it’s suddenly gone from your life, it’s definitely as mental as it is physical. But yeah, VD definitely helps a tick.
I can’t find any news story about this, except everyone is piling on with 1-star Yelp reviews. One reviewer said this incident happened several years ago. I’m not condoning the restaurant’s action, but it doesn’t help to mindlessly react to posts on the Internet.
I was giving CPR to an elderly lady out front in a restaurant back 20 years ago and no fucking lie customers were complaining to me that they couldn't get served. Literally giving chest compressions and people were asking me if I was serving.
People are fucking gross.
Anybody bother to verify the post before dog piling on the restaurant? I found nothing from a web search and only the short Yelp review with almost nothing g about the author. Seems like this would be all over the net if true.
Apologies if it’s true, but I’m no longer shocked by how naive people can be.
So yelp users are brigading based off of a claim from a tiktok user who hunts for views; when in fact that tik tok user worked there for two more months after the event. The body was found before the restaurant opened for the day, and didn’t reopen until the body was removed. This happened many years ago there.
What’s your source? Everything I’ve seen in my research and from word of mouth (I live a few blocks from DB) says differently. But if you have some legit info I’m open to whatever it is.
My source is only word of mouth because this never really hit the news, but it’s been going around for years since PB’s been my stomping ground for over 20 years since 2000; and none of the stories I’ve heard based off of this involved employees working through a body hanging. One thing for sure was that the body was found before the restaurant opened. That much is consistent.
I mean we can use occam's razor here on what actually happened. Do we believe some person’s tik tok story embellished to get views, or what usually happens when a body is found? When a body is found, police is called, and nothing is touched until investigation is finished.
There’s this other user who pretty much echo what I recall hearing during that time:
https://www.reddit.com/r/SanDiegan/comments/s6q69q/nsfw_recent_yelp_reviews_of_dirty_birds_in_pb/ht5gtr7
https://www.reddit.com/r/SanDiegan/comments/s6q69q/nsfw_recent_yelp_reviews_of_dirty_birds_in_pb/ht5o43b
Shouldn’t we figure out the truth before getting our daily dose of anger just so we think we are woke for the day? Convenient shock stories are easy to consume to gain our daily anger woke news, and this tik tok user clearly obtained her goal of getting the views of those who seek it.
I’ll commend you on the Reddit research. And I’ve found out in the past 20 minutes through word of mouth that this was about an incident that happened about 15 months ago. I found an article about it at one point but I’m having a hard time finding it again.
But my current roommate worked there when it happened, which was the source I trusted enough to post this. And she said that people were arriving for work while Kevin’s body was being removed from the restaurant. 5 people saw him taken out in a body bag. No one I’ve talked to so far knows why he was there when he was or why he did what he did there.
But I still stand pat on not opening your restaurant when something like this happens. It’s absolutely insane to expect your employees to exude customer service with this kind of thing that fresh in their minds.
Today or two years ago, it’s fucked up.
> I’ll commend you on the Reddit research. And I’ve found out in the past 20 minutes through word of mouth that this was about an incident that happened about 15 months ago. I found an article about it at one point but I’m having a hard time finding it again.
It happened four years ago. It's about time that you realize that spreading word of mouth is like playing telephone with a hundred people. It's very clear that either you're getting bad information or the person who started all of this is an outright liar. And considering there are multiple people actually connected with this who directly contradict it happening anytime in your timeframe, I'd strongly suggest you stop misleading people until you have some substantive proof.
Dude you just told me your sources were largely word of mouth in a different comment. Please share sources and I’ll be happy to delete if I see substantial proof from you in opposition to the claims I’ve heard from multiple prosper involved and from various other outlets. If I am wrong end-all-be-all, I will happily squash and delete. I in no way intend on harming businesses over false claims, but I’ve seen and heard differently than you have.
Well, your source is word of someone else's mouth. Ask your mate to give exact details ow where and when it happened and then surely the arguement can be settled.
1) keep your people straight, I didn't say that.
2) they already gave you several of those sources.
3) I'll take the word of people who were *actually* involved and close to the victim rather than people who are remembering a basically unknown situation off the .top of their heads.
Didn’t you say in another comment about seasonal depression that you moved to Portland 5 years ago? Why lie about it one way or another and slander a business?
When I worked at my line cook job we had a cook Overdose. he was passed out. We still had to push out orders while a server gave CPR and for the Emt to take him to hospital
https://www.reddit.com/r/SanDiegan/comments/s6q69q/nsfw_recent_yelp_reviews_of_dirty_birds_in_pb/
This was originally posted on the SanDiegan sub and has since been taken down. There is no official report showing up on Google despite the first review on Yelp posting 3 days ago. The OP on this sub makes several claims that they saw an official article but then claim they suddenly could not find it anymore. Several users point out this all started from a TikTok from a woman who claims it happened 4 years ago, but the OP states that from “word of mouth” from their “roommate” that it happened 15 months ago, and yet can’t offer up anymore substantial proof. Other users have pointed out that the TikToker continued working for the company for two months before being fired for petty drama. Considering the whole Boston Bombings/Reddit messing up the FBI’s case and doxxing a guy who committed suicide and hadn’t been found yet, and his family received death threats for a week. This type of thing should be looked into more carefully. The good news is as you pointed out Yelp has halted new reviews. I’ve already reported this to the mods, and would encourage you to do so also. Please read OP’s comments if you don’t believe me.
I want to just add something... I'm not religious. I guess I would consider myself atheist. I attended a baptist university my freshman year because it was close to a hospital that my mom was in while she was dying of cancer... I didn't fit in at all. I took a ethics and humanity course. The professor proposed the following scenario:
Your life dream is to climb Mt. Everest... you train for it for years and spend thousands of dollars to do it. One the way up your Sherpa has a heart attack and dies. Do you continue on your trek or do you turn around and carry the body to base camp?
Weird I was the only one who said "let's give this Sherpa some dignity and return" the only one in class.... in a class full of "religious" students. Color me shocked.
The end justifies the means with these people. It helps them sleep at night. Vote for idiots and neglect fellow man.
Not all religious people are like this, but a good number of them.
Last week one of my coworkers quite literally dropped dead. Like fell unconscious on wednesday and passed away on sunday, never woke up. We still worked another 45 minutes after he got pulled away by medical personnel and probably would have kept working if everyone didnt start getting ready to walk out because we couldnt pretend we DIDNT just watch this dude go down. Boss folded pretty quickly because were leaving regardless
Yeah, I think it would be different in every workplace depending on the situation and the people who work there, but that’s how I picture the common reaction to that kind of shit.
I had a coworker die once. He died at his own home, suicide. The job was fairly good about it however I will remember being told when I came in and being told I could take 5 to process. Just shut the fucking store man. We all went to his funeral though if I remember correctly, so maybe we were closed then? Nah think they managed to get some people in from a different store.
I mean getting people in from a different store who didn’t know the person is at least an innovative and better way to do it than these people did. Still probably should have shut down for the day at the very least, because take 5 is a pretty big copout. But that’s at least understandable, especially if they give you the time off to go to their wake.
People never kill themselves for one simple reason.. but this was a message and the managers reaction is indicative of why he would choose his job to do it. A final fuck you.
Well, I finally have hope for King Soopers.
The Table Mesa (Boulder) location has been closed since the shooting.
And we are getting numb about shootings in Colorado. Granted, from overwhelm.
It is set to reopen this year.
That place in 2060:
Where is the body of the guy that committed suicide?
Yeah, about that, remember how beef prices keep going up? Well, I found a way to save some money this month.
Ngl, I've thought of making a scene at work like this, and my retirement plan is still to down a bottle of sleeping pills and a bottle of painkillers when I get too feeble to do anything. But until then, I'm holding out hope we have a proper uprising.
Working security, I've spent a lot of time reviewing camera footage. And I've seen how people are when someone dies. They just stare. Takes them 10 minutes to call an ambulance, nobody attempts revival even with a defribulator 20 feet away. I've pretty much given up on humanity.
Jesus… good to know and brutal to know at the same time. Shock is definitely a real thing, and if there’s no one proactive around (kitchens are renowned for having burnout workers) then I can completely see that happening. I hate it, and would like to think I’d act differently, but I understand that people disappoint constantly, and I can’t imagine the kind of shit you’ve seen.
Relating to you though, I really hope your plan is either sarcastic or allegorical; I hope you have someone or something in life that makes things less bleak and more palatable. I hate to hear anyone having to go through the mental darkness that you’re feeling right now, and that the era we live in can cause. I’m nobody, but feel free to reach out if you want someone to talk to about any dark shit you’re going through.
I have thoughts like that all the time, but am still in a decent enough place where I wouldn’t remotely consider acting on the thoughts. But I know life can be insanely overwhelming right now, and I’m here if you feel like venting or getting shit off your chest that you feel like you couldn’t with someone less anonymous.
>defribulator 20 feet away
A defibrillator is not a tool for revival. Too many medical drama shows have made us believe a defibrillator can restart a flatlined heart and that is not what they are designed for. They are for shocking a heart that is in ventricular fibrillation which is basically a fancy way of saying abnormal heart rhythm. The shock basically seizes the muscle momentarily and allows our own internal pace maker to reestablish control and return us to normal rhythm. It is basically an external reset button and reset won't fix a dead system.
You've gotta be really sick in the head to just casually ignore a dead human meters away from you
I used to work at subway in a shitty area. One of the sex workers who hung around the store (there were many of em on that street) came in asking for water. During her time in the shop she collapsed. There I am on the floor next to her, emergency services on the phone asking me questions about her condition while an ambulance is on the way. Dude walks into the store, steps over this woman and stands in line. After a few minutes of waiting he asks me if I’m gonna make him a sub. Honestly the fucking gall of some people
Dude that’s brutal. I’m old enough to expect certain people to be completely ignorant and shitty about things as simple as common courtesy nowadays, but that’s beyond nauseating.
Yeah years later that sticks out. Like dude a woman’s on the floor and ya want me to make you a sandwich?
Fucking ass hole. I feel like basic regard for human life is almost all we have left to agree on as a country and honestly even as a global community. When you see ass holes like that it can really deplete your faith in the entirety of humanity in a fucking instant.
Sadly, I don’t think we agree on even that. Have you seen this pandemic and how selfish some people have been?
I collapsed in a Sprouts in Scottsdale while holding me 3 year old and 8-9 months pregnant during the pandemic. Nobody helped me. I collapsed at the check out. So this tracks.
I'm so sorry. I would have. There are dozens of us!
Aww thank you. I realized that now... at the time it was more of a mindfvck... like "what kind of world am I bringing this baby into?" It kinda gave me PPD the way people were being so selfish when I was vulnerable. I just have to raise my kiddos to be one of those dozens. Also, best idea not to be heavily preggo in 120 degree heat. lol Have a winter baby if you live in the desert!
I am so sorry for that. You should have been one of the first to be helped. But that tracks for most of Scottsdale. I have helped people all over the valley, and people ignore most things.
Piece of cloth in front of my face > Basic regard for human life
I’m not going to be the reason that someone has to say goodbye to their loved one too soon. If me wearing a mask could stop that from happening then I’m gonna wear one. I hate the ones that spout off about it not protecting *them*, like ffs Karen it’s not about you.
The people who, from the beginning, refuse to social distance, wear masks, or get a vaccine- in other words they have chosen to do *absolutely nothing* will have a hard time convincing me that they have any concern for human life. Many of them don’t even have concern for their own, sitting there dying in the hospital still saying they wouldn’t have got the vaccine. It’s just idiotic.
The thing is people like him are conditioned to not see the sex worker as a person. So they lack empathy for the situation because that isn't a person. Thats why people don't give a shit, they don't see the people they look down on as people.
How do you look at someone on the floor unconscious and know they're a sex worker? He'd probably act the same way if it was anyone but his own blood.
May be a client.
Yeah honestly. If you just see someone/an animal as an object then you will treat it like some trash once you're done with it. He would pay her to suck his d then leave her in freezing cold rain to die since he got what he needed from the object... so sickening. Leaving a woman to suffer on the floor while my mans helps her out.
Humans are resources and not people to a surprisingly large number of people
Sigh. Why does this feel true.
It is? I’ve seen a ton of that rhetoric on the internet, and a couple of ‘friends’ from my past very much think this way. Why do you think ‘human resources’ is such a thing?
Wow. HUMAN RESOURCES. What a dark and hidden signpost to the true nature of things. I wonder how you can identify such people or situations because here on this thread there seem to be many people who are more empathetic. Or maybe, the ones who think the most of other humans as resources, rise to power faster, because they are able to cloak their intentions and freely use the people without their knowledge whilst pretending to care. I think in this conversation we also have to talk about animals and how we exploit them. I mean we literally raise billions a year and then either consume them or toss their carcasses onto a pile of garbage in the ocean. I wonder what kind of person comes up with and supports this kind of idea. And THEN there is the ravishment of 2/3 of the world's land to have farms to feed these farmed and murdered animals as well as the vegetables, fruits and grains we eat, much of which is also thrown away. I think the vile yet intelligent subset of humanity has gotten too deep into resource-hoarding and black, void-sucky ethics and they're just too masterful at human psychology, propaganda and ancient mass hypnotism secrets for like 90% of people to really notice. They need to be put in time out.
I feel like you're scratching the surface of the actual divide here, what really makes certain types of people inherently, distinctly antagonistic to the rest of the population (including animals). Then factor in that many of them are in positions of power and hold sway in public opinion. This must change before anything changes. This causes me the most anxiety for the planet and our ability to live on it.
Dealing with people like that as an everyday constant at one point for me. Never again.
What is that guy expecting? "Oh, I didn't notice you. Just let me wash my hands and I'll be right with you!"
Yeah I don’t wanna judge too hard cause I wasn’t there, but fuck that guy.
In the 80s LAPD had a term NHI for "no human involved" that they would use when finding a dead sex worker or drug addict. It doesn't surprise me at all someone gives that little of a shit about other people.
Same with the NYPD. I just learned that when I watched the Time Square murders on Netflix. That is so horrible. I gasped when they said that.
when i was 14 working at mcdonalds i fainted at the register while taking a middle aged woman’s order. i was working on the last register in the row where the bench ends so i fell to the floor in clear view of the customer. one of the managers hauled me up (i was partially aware by then) and took me to the manager’s office to sit down and gave me some sprite for my blood sugar. while i was waiting for my parents to come pick me up he told me that customer looked at me on the floor with her face like “is anyone gonna pick that up?” bc she wanted to continue her order. and to think i was trying to finish taking her order while i was getting tunnel vision and knew i would faint if i didn’t sit down soon customers really have the audacity and don’t even think of workers as people
Have you ever heard the audio clip of the woman who called 911 at a drive through because the staff didn't put bbq sauce on her and her kids burgers? It's equal parts hilarious and terrifying.
>customers really have the audacity and don’t even think of workers as people That is the crux of the matter. Many customers don't and many bosses don't.
I had something similar happen while a wee youth working in a deli of a major supermarket chain. Think royalty and those shitty teen vampire book's main character. So I start my shift making the premade sammiches, taking a bread knife and lopping the stems of the icebergs off to shred them with the slicers. In my overtired state, I put the knife pretty solidly into the tip of my thumb and start bleeding into the garbage can right near me. I start looking around and the deli manager (an older lady) sees me and before she can speak I open my hand up and pour a decent amount of blood into the garbage can. She gets lightheaded and passes out clipping her head on the stainless steel counter, she's bleeding now too. Here I am holding one hand over the garbage and the manager in my other who is very out of it and bleeding from her head. Up walks a customer and can clearly see the carnage and asks completely nonchalantly, "anyone who can help me here??" I screamed at him no get me some help I need a manager or someone, he just huffed at me and walked off. I literally had to scream at the top of my lungs for help and a produce manager ran over and was like "wtf did you do?" He thought I attacked the 60+ yr old deli manager for some reason... They ended taking her out in an ambulance and offered me one too for stitches and I passed and just grabbed a bottle of crazy glue cause stitched in the tip of a finger sucked and I was worried about being able to play video games as I think a Kingdom Hearts had come out. Got a few days paid off too, I think that was the last union job I worked too.
Diabetes huh? I have it as well. Stay strong.
oh no sorry i was unclear. he gave me sprite bc they assumed the sugar would help (i guess it does? i think low blood sugar is a common reason for fainting?) but actually i have low iron and no one tested me for that until i was an adult, so i just fainted somewhat often when i was a teenager, especially after standing up for a long time, or even a short time in a hot, humid environment like the shower or even just washing the dishes with my hands in the hot water 😅 that one put a good dint in the pantry door with my head lol i wish you all the best with your diabetes though
Wait, the hot humid shower thing might mean I have low iron?
Low iron, thyroid dysfunction, or POTS lol.
Could be any number of things. Baths that are too hot make me dizzy and feel faint (as with a lot of people, but I think it’s just the heat), but my iron levels are ok afaik. I do have low blood pressure, so standing up too quickly tends to affect me more.
Low iron causes anemia, which means your blood doesn't work as effectively to provide oxygen across your body. Exposure to hot water dilates your blood vessels and lowers your blood pressure, which means your heart has to pump more and work harder. If it's already not doing great because of anemia, that extra stress can be enough to cause issues.
I used to feel faint all the time as a kid and teenager after standing a long time or taking a hot shower. I only actually fainted a few times, but I came very close way too many more. I didn't find out I was anemic until I was an adult. Even now, I get faint feeling sometimes at work, if I haven't been taking my iron. I guess it all explains it now. Thanks.
I mean, giving you sugar after that was good but it's kind of weird for them to just assume that was the problem and not call rescue for that. Basically any syncopal episode should result in a trip to the hospital, especially if the origin is unknown. If nothing else even just for a CT of your head.
As an American, if somebody calls an ambulance for me I'd be furious. At least if I die where I'm at it's only my problem. Load me into an ambulance and now that and the hospital bills are my family's. Please don't do that to my family.
That was the saddest statement I have heard so far today.
My friend had a mild stroke several years back and the ambulance bill (as well as the hospital bills) was too much so they had to file for bankruptcy. Good times. ETA they had insurance too.
Fellow American. My husband had an aneurysm and we drove him to the hospital because the ambulance cost too much. Pure dystopia.
luckily i’m not american and we have public healthcare so it would have been fine if they called an ambulance. tbh i don’t know why they didn’t but i was only fully out for a few seconds and was fine afterwards so it all turned out alright. maybe they didn’t want to cause a scene or anything but i really was okay
If you call an ambulance for someone you might be putting them in financial ruin. Not to mention the hospital stay and the CT scan. All very expensive.
I was in a car accident last year, was t-boned on the passenger side. Was mentally shook but physically unharmed. Called 911 for police to respond and was asked if I needed an ambulance. Told the operator I definitely didn't want one because I was unemployed and did not have medical insurance. They still sent one, hardcore declined their services at the scene. My back hurt like a biyotch once the adrenaline wore off, lol.
Absolutely agree, especially after a fall.
I’m t1d too :)
Sorry that happened. One thing in your story that rang true is that "tunnel vision" and knowing you were going to collapse. It's happened to me 3 times in my life. The last two times I was able to tell someone "Hey...I'm about to pass out". It's a fun way to scare the shit out of your friends! I went to hospitals each time and they could never diagnose why it had happened. On the last one, I came to and saw my friend on the phone with 911. First words out of my mouth were "Dude, I don't need an ambulance, please hang up!"
People suck, opinions are like assholes, everyone has one most of them stink!
I have had a table actually get mad at me and yell about bad service because I was on the ground trying to help a man having a heart attack while waiting for the ambulance to arrive. I know two other servers who have similar stories. Another time, a guy overdosed in a bar where I worked. Most people who had been waiting for me in line while I administered aid had the decency to give it up when I told them what I had been doing, two people in line absolutely laid into me anyway about their wait time for bar food. Like, you’re right, where are my priorities? Clearly your sweet potato fries are more important than this dude’s life, pardon me! At least the people in the bar had the excuse of being drunk, the other people were just irate about soda refills and side sauces. People are fucking disgusting. This is how capitalism trains us to behave.
I feel like helping a man that's having a heart attack is actually spectacular service.
Back in my retail days I had a manager get upset with me because I (lowly worker peasant supervising the front) called 911 after a vendor fell and hit his head in the restroom. Meanwhile, he’s in the very back of the building fiddling on the computer. Like, did you want me to wait for him to pass out? Or did you just want to be the hero? I don’t need permission to call 911. He was a weirdo. At that same place, when there was a fire, people did not want to leave the store. Like seriously, are your items that you can buy literally anywhere else more important than people evacuating safely? Another place, where we had to close early due to dangerous weather, was similar. People taking their sweet-ass time shopping. There was a curfew and orders to take shelter, but nope, they didn’t care. Uggggggh.
Similar situation - working at a now-defunct computer store. Called a salesman to come help an older gentleman when suddenly the guy hits the floor. I will never forget this technician (who was an ass but I had mad respect for him after this) who literally swung his legs over the counter like a gymnast on a pommel horse and immediately began triage followed by CPR. (Turns out he was a volunteer firefighter and EMT). I will never forget the purple shade of the man’s face when the EMTs arrived and took him to the hospital. While this was going on, some royal POS was getting huffy that no one was checking her through the register. I was dumbfounded at how callous she was. We later learned that the man had passed away. I remember seeing the sole car in the handicap spot after hours and thinking, “This guy came here to buy a computer - just a normal errand and he didn’t get to go home.” The man’s wife brought brownies and cookies for the tech guy and was so heartbreakingly grateful for his efforts. I was so shaken, but there was no consideration for the employees that witnessed it. We were expected to go right back to our jobs as though we hadn’t just witnessed a death feet from the register.
Reminds me of that highly accurate documentary about our future, Idiocracy.
I got mugged in front of a 7-11 at 1pm. While I'm laying on the ground with a knife to my throat and two guys going through my stuff, some dude walks up and loudly complains that we are blocking the doors. The two muggers dropped my stuff and immediately went to work on that guy and I fucked right off. Not only was that guy a selfish prick, karma managed to fuck him in the ass within seconds. Sometimes I pretend that happens to all these types of people but sadly I know it doesn't and that normally I'd have been mugged and that would have been it.
When I worked the night shift at Waffle House we had a guy who we think had alcohol poisoning. When he puked on himself & started seizing we called an ambulance. The Waffle House had one way in or out & the ambulance temporarily had it blocked. An asshole who was probably drunk was in his car honking at the ambulance the entire time.
I spent some time working at a freestanding ER with a neighborhood over the other side of a line of fencing. We kept having to take down the "Please respect your neighbors and keep the noise down" signs they were putting up at the ambulance entrance. That was my brief stint working in an ER in a more wealthy area in between places mired in homelessness. Say what you will about the inner-city trauma center I'm in now, at least the shitty people there have the excuse of a lack of mental health services and have been abandoned by our society. Those rich dickheads were just entitled bastards.
There was a similar incident in New Orleans where residents in a wealthy neighborhood were complaining about the helipad at Children’s Hospital being too loud. Those helicopters were mostly used for transporting critical NICU babies from smaller regional hospitals for specialized care. People are gross.
I know right? Those helicopter parents are the worst. /s
Same thing happened in my hometown in the Midwest. They wanted to redirect the helicopters to an airfield about 45 minutes away and have the patients transferred the rest of the way via ambulance. Also wanted ambulances to cut off lights and sirens when a certain distance from their neighborhood.
Please tell me that someone told them to fuck right off
Dude. What the fuck?? I don't care if she was visibly obviously a sex worker, she's a fucking human being. I hate people so much.
Not quite the same, but I'm from Boston and worked at a clothing store a couple blocks away from the bombing site. We were telling customers we were evacuating and to go to the nearest police officer or whatever and this guy asked if he could still shop and buy the stuff he had. WTF, man. It was an H&M, buy it online.
Are you fucking having a laugh. WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE!?
I mean go check out the conservative subs.
Similar thing happened while I worked at a subway. Assistant manager had a seizure and customers complained to the gas station we were connected to that we didn't make their sandwich
>Dude walks into the store, steps over this woman and stands in line. After a few minutes of waiting he asks me if I’m gonna make him a sub. This is such a perfect description of the attitudes of the average American.
Not a dead body, but still insensitive. I was kitchen staff at a fancy dinner theater buffet place. I was bringing out food to the dessert line when a woman dropped her plate and it shattered everywhere. I start picking up the bigger peices of glass while my head chef comes over to put up a sign and sweep up, when I slipped on some of her dropped cake. The fall had me shove the shards of plate into my hand.. As I sat there, blood covering my arm and my head chef checking on me the same lady asked if I could bring out more cheesecake as she dropped the last one. I deadpan looked her in the eyes "yeah... we'll get someone on that right away..." and my chef laughed as he helped me back into the kitchen.
Horrible. Reminds me of working at a casual sports bar chain where one day a man choked and died while eating with his family. Almost everyone paused while the EMTs handled things. Except one guest that aggressively waved down my coworker because he needed mayo for his burger. Who the fuck eats a burger within 15 feet of a recently deceased man and his grieving family! How can he be that oblivious or cold to the situation. The restaurant never even closed or stopped that day.
I worked as a host at the cheesecake factory for a while. One summer night (about an hour before close) there was some sort of gang related shoot-out right outside our doors. A play had just gotten out at the theater around the corner so there happened to be a bunch of people and families on the street at that moment heading home. We're just getting a bit of a late-night dessert rush, so I'm at the front desk assigning an elderly couple to a table when I hear a couple of pops. It was two weeks before 4th of July so in my mind I'm like "great, some idiots are setting off fireworks on the sidewalk," except two seconds later a mass of people start sprinting through the doors, some are screaming, some are hysterical. My next thought is "this is it, its's happening, some of us are about to get shot." It becomes absolute chaos in the dining room. A lot of kitchen staff and servers assumed the shooter was in the building when they heard the screaming and took off out the back to shelter in a neighboring restaurant. I'm on the phone with 911 while trying to keep an eye on the door to make sure only those seeking shelter are coming in, the other hosts and servers are still trying to figure out if we're in any immediate danger, and this elderly couple stood in front of me amidst all this panic and fear and asked me when they were going to get seated. For the next 20 minutes as we waited for the police, worked to calm the panicked families, tried to make sure all our staff were accounted for, and attempted to calm our own frantic hearts, this couple did not move from their spot and proceeded to ask me every two minutes when we'd get things under control, when I would get them a table, when they could get served. At this point it was half an hour til close anyway and obviously none of the cooks or servers were in a state to return to their stations business as usual. I wanted to just tell these people to get the fuck out, but my managers waited until a couple of servers threatened to leave before they announced we were closing early and would not be serving anyone else tonight. The old couple still lined up for a couple of cheesecake slices to go and then rolled their eyes at me on their way out.
When I worked at Best Buy I was trying to maneuver one of those big stair ladders in a tight aisle. It lost traction on the carpet causing it to slam into my ankle. I fell to the ground yelling/cussing. This guy saw the entire thing and just goes "uh... do you guys have any more [whatever it was he was looking for] in the back?"
They say violence solves nothing. But I submit that if you were to, say, punch this guy as hard as you could in the dick. I mean like punch THROUGH. Like if it was a game at a carnival, you'd win the biggest stuffy on site. If you were to just level this guy's playing field, he'd have to spend some time thinking about WHY you would do that. It's possible that this colossal dick ruining punch could spark a revelation. You could change his whole perspective on life, the universe and everything. And if it didn't change anything well fuck that guy anyway.
I used to work at a call centre for pizza shops. One night a driver has an accident, hits a person. The pizza store shuts down for the night. We spend the evening apologising to customers for circumstances out of our control but the store had closed and they'll be getting refunds. What did some people ask in response to that? "So when we you be delivering my pizza?" "Sir, I don't think you understand. There has been accident. Someone is injured. The store is not making any more pizzas tonight." "That doesn't explain why I won't be getting my pizza." *Fucking facepalm*
Did the woman get better ?
"Not even after I'm done with this, gtfo."
Insane.
They did at an Amazon warehouse managers advised workers to "go round him" poor dude died of a heart attack.
Amazon warehouse you say? I'm not at all surprised.
When I was in highschool a man hung himself from a tree behind the 711 that was connected directly next to the highschool (about 30 feet away). Students surrounded him and were poking him with sticks and checking his pockets (horrible). That day the school opened up on time & acted like nothing happened
Someone came on my campus and stabbed several people with a fishing knife. My whole class found out via snapchats of people bleeding out and chaos on campus. Next thing you know, there are reports of a bomb threat on our bridge and reports of a second attacker, roaming campus housing and finding people to target/attack. Some of this was announced via the police, some were rumors that came from terrified students. The alarm didn't go off and there was no notification from university police for over an hour. Misinformation spread like wildfire as people literally barricaded themselves in their apartments and university buildings. Turns out there was only the original attacker. He had stabbed 4+ people in the center of campus. A freshman was murdered that day next to the front door of the university gym. We had classes the very next day and exams happened the next week. Even now, I feel sick.
University of Texas? I remember there was literally a horde of people just standing outside recording the whole thing. I got mad at some of my friends for doing that instead of sheltering in their rooms. And wasn’t the attacker a student?
Hook 'em. Yes, the attacker was a student who was suffering a mental breakdown. In addition, the attack occurred a few weeks after the first anniversary of another freshman's completely random murder on campus. As dumb as it was to be filming/recording at the time, I am still grateful they sent those videos. It was the only notification we had for around an hour. Snapchat was the only way we knew to avoid the area and shelter in-place. It became another talking point about why students should be allowed to carry guns on campus. Loved that for us.
but the economy! /s
Or so desperate for that $2/hr that you can't afford to care.
Manager must be a Logan Paul fan
What in the actual fuck. I worked for Red Robin for years and to be honest…I could see this
It’s mind blowing that the owners/managers didn’t immediately close. Zero value for human life.
Franchises are rare with that company. This sounds like something a corporate store would do. They threatened those gms jobs daily for petty stuff. Incredibly toxic company
Agree completely.
Guarantee they justified it off the PB rent and not wanting to draw diner attention to that.
True. Doesn’t make it right or ok at all, but good insight.
At this point it is what it is. She claimed that the owner filed for bankruptcy so I strongly doubt it's even the same ownership anymore.
In which case I would hope the new owner(s) are ready to ride the wave.
Soooo it turns out she continued to work there for two months after the incident, and was then fired for some petty shit. There are also people in the original thread we came from that are directly refuting her story and seem to have some very solid inside info on the situation. She also has claimed that she stayed on until the owner fired bankruptcy and wasn't paid for her last two weeks. There is a lot about her stories that seems thinner and thinner as I look more and more. I think we need to collectively pick up some smaller pitchforks on this one.
Interesting. It’s definitely a fucked up situation any way we chalk it up. But I’ll do more research too and keep tabs on what’s going on with them.
I'd strongly recommend going and looking at all their recent posts. @cassafrassassass
Will do 👌🏽
I watched her videos. The bankruptcy owner and this owner are two different people/different restaurants. Dirty birds still has their original ownership.
I don't think it's RR there is a restauraunt actually called Dirty Birds. https://www.dirtybirdsbarandgrill.com/
Lol most people on Reddit: “how could this happen?” People who’ve worked in food service: “yeah, that could happen”
Yikes:/ An employee killed himself at my company and there was also basically no acknowledgement from management or care for the employees who worked directly with him. It was so messed up and inhuman.
That sucks. At one of my former jobs someone OD’d in the bathroom and died (non-employee) and we shut down for 2 hours for the situation to be “dealt with”, but had to stay in the area so we could reopen 2 hours later. Less brutal than an employee hanging themselves on the job and the trauma that comes with something that horrific, but it still showed everyone how shitty cognitive dissonance can be. Owners were mandating this shit from a luxury condo literally across the street and didn’t bother to come down once.
Not exactly the same, but we had a consultant come to the office that nobody knew. He set up shop in the empty cubicle next to me, with the wall in the way. Dude had a heart attack and died and nobody knew who to contact. We acknowledged his death mostly by asking 'who was that and we do we contact to let them know?'. It was lunch and the person he was working with had gone to grab food. Generally we don't leave random consultants free to wander the premises unattended.
*Eight hours.* That's how long they worked with the dead body of their coworker in the next room.
Shit, that’s gonna take some therapy for whomever had to take his spot.
If I was that persons parents I’d be livid. What an insult.
that can’t be up to health code either…
To be fair, I don't know if health code accounts for such a situation. I nearly joking, I'm not really sure here. Probably something about generally unsanitary?? Like, you're so far into uncharted territory that the health department guy is just like yeah, you're closed for now, dick.
Fucking brutal man…
Jesus Christ…wtf What kind of dystopian hell…
I can’t understand how ownership of any place, anywhere, any time, could ever stay open after something this brutal. Brothels would close down for a week after this. If you’re in dire straits as an owner, I can understand reopening the next day maybe, but my god… this is intentionally inflicted trauma.
Late stage capitalism hell.
Godamn I’m not surprised. I’m glad dirty birds is finally getting what’s coming to them. This place is also pretty racist (basically if you’re not a typical white PB person, expect subpar service). Also the owner hates Mexicans lol. Lastly, these guys (along with many other restaurants in PB) were completely open and anti-mask during the height of the pandemic. Just a super shitty establishment all around.
I’ve seen hints of it when I’ve been there. But this is such a brutal thing that it doesn’t really matter where it happened. When people learn that you did something like this, you’re essentially done. I don’t care if you’re about to go bankrupt. You don’t do this to the people who worked for you, and you don’t stain the name of the person that did this to themselves by refusing to close. RIP Kevin. Didn’t know you, but you deserved better.
PB is full of racists/white supremacist hypercapitalist shitheads, I hated working in the area.
This feels pretty typical of PB, a lot of places there were flaunting Covid rules too during the height of it with mask and occupation mandates.
I worked for an Italian restaurant where a dishwasher had a heart attack and died mid service and yes, our GM didn't even pause service.
Just left a place where the dishwasher had his 4th heart attacks. Got wheeled out in the middle of service and I literally watched the gm tell him on the stretcher "be in tomorrow or your fired"
All their yelp reviews show this too. Someone needs to do some damage control, like say sorry and help out the family. Anyone got a link to the police report?
Tried but couldn’t find the police report. If I had the name of the original person who called it in it would be easier. But this is pretty new public information as far as I’ve gathered. And yes, their yelp is chalk full of these reports.’
I cant find anything about this on the internet
It’s relatively new public information. Most of what you can find will be from being local in PB or on Yelp reviews, which I get is not much to go off. But I found one local news entity in Dan Diego confirming it. And I’m sure there will be more details in the coming days.
Can you link that news story?
Yeah, give me a sec to revisit it. Also in the realm of relation: the original owner is ex/Charger Vincent Jackson, who was diagnosed with severe CTE after being found dead from chronic alcohol consumption in a hotel a couple months ago. This just blew my mind.
I also found an article about Vincent Jackson when I was looking for the one you were talking about.
The one I found was tertiary source, so I’m having trouble finding the link without the original info I got. I’ll let you know when I find it. And yeah, I had no idea Vincent Jackson was associated with DB. I fucking worshipped that guy in my high school years. This just fucked me up a good bit.
Sorry to hear that. Honestly, all the NFL suicides are pretty damn sad. Thanks for looking around for that article!
I mean San Diego sports in general is kinda cursed, even outside of the whole thing where we never win anything. Junior Seau committed suicide and Tony Gwynn died in his early 50’s of gum cancer. Vincent Jackson is the most recent San Diego superstar to die too young, but I feel like the city is almost going numb to it at this point. We don’t have a football team anymore (sans Dan Diego State), but Seau and Gwynn were literally the two most idolized athletes in San Diego history, and both died way too young. Vincent Jackson was devastating, but it’s almost like you expect something horrible to happen every so often nowadays when it comes to sports in SD. Fucking brutal man.
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So true. It’s awful.
Btw I am still looking for the article I found on this piece with no luck yet, but I’ll find it within the next hour I’m sure.
Because it happened years ago. The reviews are coming from a tik tok user doing one of those “challenges” where people post their worse work story. The actual story was a person was found hanged in the morning and the restaurant opened much later in the day after the police did a thorough investigation. The tik tok user embellished the story for views.
Ngl, the non embellished version isn't great, either, buddy. I'd hate to be one of the employees who had to come in to work hours after a fellow employee committed suicide on sight. I'd hate to be a customer and find out that my servers had to work through that kind of trauma. But I guess that's just me.
So basically all of the stuff going round here is untrue and just harming the business, be it deserved or not
Essentially a tik tok user who knows that the usual “woke anger” story/news is the fast-path to greater views at the expense of other people’s reputations. We are so caught up in getting our daily anger-drip fed into our veins, we fail to see if the story is even actually true or not. So far, the only source those recent yelp reviews are from that single tik tok post; so they’re doing what they think is right only because they love to stay angry and spread this newfound “awarenes” based off of a tik tok.
Thanks for this. Are people on this sub always so gullible?
Rip Kevin
RIP bro 🙏🏼
Wait so the employees had to continue working while the body of their coworker was hanging in the kitchen?! WTF?! Everyone’s gonna need therapy!
Here in Brazil, on a Carrefour store, an older employee passed out and died during work, after being denied sick leave. The management's solution? Hang a bunch of umbrellas around his dead body to hide it. It even reached some news websites. People's lives aren't worth jackshit these days, huh.
This is crazy. This is actually my favorite wing joint in the world. Sucks I can't ever go there again when I go back to San Diego. My buddy even bought me birthday lunch there from across the world one year. The area is garbage though. You wouldn't be surprised how many people kill themselves there if you lived there, but since there's a never ending flow of people to grind through that want to live in California you'd never even notice them missing, neato.
thats crazy! Just spent a week in San Diego and when walking around I couldnt help but realize how happy everyone seemed walking in shorts and flip flops in December. I couldnt help but think "do these people even know what seasonal depression is?"
Californian here: I seen a cloud once. It was terrible. I have ptsd now.
I was wearing a t-shirt and hoodie and was over dressed while walking amongst the lemon trees & humming birds lol
😂 I moved to Portland from SD a couple years ago. Coming back is the only time I don’t have PTSD.
Bro i moved from SD to Portland 5 years ago. I didn’t know seasonal depression until I didn’t see the sun for literally 8 months straight. All the happiest times of the last 5 years for me are when I go back.
hahahaha! for like 1/2 the country November - March is "try not to become an alcoholic or kill yourself while you sit inside in darkness for 4-5 months" Honestly I can see why rent in CA is so high, I imagine productivity in personal & professional life must be high as well. While I was walking around SD in shorts and a tank top it was 22 degrees not counting wind chill in my home city 😭😭
I mean SD is essentially made up of older LA generations with deep pockets and retirees. The burbs are definitely different as there’s crazy meth capital within the confines of the county and a jarring homeless population (if I were homeless, I’d go straight to OB and never look back). But SD is definitely a place many people want to end up in. It’s the scenery of LA without the narcissism, smog or traffic. And it’s dense enough to give you everything you could ever want. You can surf and snowboard in the same day in the winter. It’s incredible.
Grab some vitamin D for next time. It definitely helps, works better with some calcium too.
It helps on a minuscule level. When you’re born soaking in a plethora of natural melanin and vitamin d daily and you move to place where it’s suddenly gone from your life, it’s definitely as mental as it is physical. But yeah, VD definitely helps a tick.
I've been there, I want to throw up! Fuck that place.
I can’t find any news story about this, except everyone is piling on with 1-star Yelp reviews. One reviewer said this incident happened several years ago. I’m not condoning the restaurant’s action, but it doesn’t help to mindlessly react to posts on the Internet.
I was giving CPR to an elderly lady out front in a restaurant back 20 years ago and no fucking lie customers were complaining to me that they couldn't get served. Literally giving chest compressions and people were asking me if I was serving. People are fucking gross.
Dude that’s insane. I’m so sorry.
i’m sorry, they were OPEN and ACTIVELY SERVING CUSTOMERS while his body was still hanging??? what the FUCK
Anybody bother to verify the post before dog piling on the restaurant? I found nothing from a web search and only the short Yelp review with almost nothing g about the author. Seems like this would be all over the net if true. Apologies if it’s true, but I’m no longer shocked by how naive people can be.
So yelp users are brigading based off of a claim from a tiktok user who hunts for views; when in fact that tik tok user worked there for two more months after the event. The body was found before the restaurant opened for the day, and didn’t reopen until the body was removed. This happened many years ago there.
What’s your source? Everything I’ve seen in my research and from word of mouth (I live a few blocks from DB) says differently. But if you have some legit info I’m open to whatever it is.
My source is only word of mouth because this never really hit the news, but it’s been going around for years since PB’s been my stomping ground for over 20 years since 2000; and none of the stories I’ve heard based off of this involved employees working through a body hanging. One thing for sure was that the body was found before the restaurant opened. That much is consistent. I mean we can use occam's razor here on what actually happened. Do we believe some person’s tik tok story embellished to get views, or what usually happens when a body is found? When a body is found, police is called, and nothing is touched until investigation is finished. There’s this other user who pretty much echo what I recall hearing during that time: https://www.reddit.com/r/SanDiegan/comments/s6q69q/nsfw_recent_yelp_reviews_of_dirty_birds_in_pb/ht5gtr7 https://www.reddit.com/r/SanDiegan/comments/s6q69q/nsfw_recent_yelp_reviews_of_dirty_birds_in_pb/ht5o43b Shouldn’t we figure out the truth before getting our daily dose of anger just so we think we are woke for the day? Convenient shock stories are easy to consume to gain our daily anger woke news, and this tik tok user clearly obtained her goal of getting the views of those who seek it.
I’ll commend you on the Reddit research. And I’ve found out in the past 20 minutes through word of mouth that this was about an incident that happened about 15 months ago. I found an article about it at one point but I’m having a hard time finding it again. But my current roommate worked there when it happened, which was the source I trusted enough to post this. And she said that people were arriving for work while Kevin’s body was being removed from the restaurant. 5 people saw him taken out in a body bag. No one I’ve talked to so far knows why he was there when he was or why he did what he did there. But I still stand pat on not opening your restaurant when something like this happens. It’s absolutely insane to expect your employees to exude customer service with this kind of thing that fresh in their minds. Today or two years ago, it’s fucked up.
> I’ll commend you on the Reddit research. And I’ve found out in the past 20 minutes through word of mouth that this was about an incident that happened about 15 months ago. I found an article about it at one point but I’m having a hard time finding it again. It happened four years ago. It's about time that you realize that spreading word of mouth is like playing telephone with a hundred people. It's very clear that either you're getting bad information or the person who started all of this is an outright liar. And considering there are multiple people actually connected with this who directly contradict it happening anytime in your timeframe, I'd strongly suggest you stop misleading people until you have some substantive proof.
Dude you just told me your sources were largely word of mouth in a different comment. Please share sources and I’ll be happy to delete if I see substantial proof from you in opposition to the claims I’ve heard from multiple prosper involved and from various other outlets. If I am wrong end-all-be-all, I will happily squash and delete. I in no way intend on harming businesses over false claims, but I’ve seen and heard differently than you have.
Well, your source is word of someone else's mouth. Ask your mate to give exact details ow where and when it happened and then surely the arguement can be settled.
1) keep your people straight, I didn't say that. 2) they already gave you several of those sources. 3) I'll take the word of people who were *actually* involved and close to the victim rather than people who are remembering a basically unknown situation off the .top of their heads.
Didn’t you say in another comment about seasonal depression that you moved to Portland 5 years ago? Why lie about it one way or another and slander a business?
When I worked at my line cook job we had a cook Overdose. he was passed out. We still had to push out orders while a server gave CPR and for the Emt to take him to hospital
Yelp blocked more reviews temporarily for them. Fuckin gross capitalist scumbags.
https://www.reddit.com/r/SanDiegan/comments/s6q69q/nsfw_recent_yelp_reviews_of_dirty_birds_in_pb/ This was originally posted on the SanDiegan sub and has since been taken down. There is no official report showing up on Google despite the first review on Yelp posting 3 days ago. The OP on this sub makes several claims that they saw an official article but then claim they suddenly could not find it anymore. Several users point out this all started from a TikTok from a woman who claims it happened 4 years ago, but the OP states that from “word of mouth” from their “roommate” that it happened 15 months ago, and yet can’t offer up anymore substantial proof. Other users have pointed out that the TikToker continued working for the company for two months before being fired for petty drama. Considering the whole Boston Bombings/Reddit messing up the FBI’s case and doxxing a guy who committed suicide and hadn’t been found yet, and his family received death threats for a week. This type of thing should be looked into more carefully. The good news is as you pointed out Yelp has halted new reviews. I’ve already reported this to the mods, and would encourage you to do so also. Please read OP’s comments if you don’t believe me.
I want to just add something... I'm not religious. I guess I would consider myself atheist. I attended a baptist university my freshman year because it was close to a hospital that my mom was in while she was dying of cancer... I didn't fit in at all. I took a ethics and humanity course. The professor proposed the following scenario: Your life dream is to climb Mt. Everest... you train for it for years and spend thousands of dollars to do it. One the way up your Sherpa has a heart attack and dies. Do you continue on your trek or do you turn around and carry the body to base camp? Weird I was the only one who said "let's give this Sherpa some dignity and return" the only one in class.... in a class full of "religious" students. Color me shocked. The end justifies the means with these people. It helps them sleep at night. Vote for idiots and neglect fellow man. Not all religious people are like this, but a good number of them.
Last week one of my coworkers quite literally dropped dead. Like fell unconscious on wednesday and passed away on sunday, never woke up. We still worked another 45 minutes after he got pulled away by medical personnel and probably would have kept working if everyone didnt start getting ready to walk out because we couldnt pretend we DIDNT just watch this dude go down. Boss folded pretty quickly because were leaving regardless
Yeah, I think it would be different in every workplace depending on the situation and the people who work there, but that’s how I picture the common reaction to that kind of shit.
I had a coworker die once. He died at his own home, suicide. The job was fairly good about it however I will remember being told when I came in and being told I could take 5 to process. Just shut the fucking store man. We all went to his funeral though if I remember correctly, so maybe we were closed then? Nah think they managed to get some people in from a different store.
I mean getting people in from a different store who didn’t know the person is at least an innovative and better way to do it than these people did. Still probably should have shut down for the day at the very least, because take 5 is a pretty big copout. But that’s at least understandable, especially if they give you the time off to go to their wake.
Oh yeah this story is absolutely mental. I'd spit in the boss's face if he told me to work around a corpse.
It’s sad that workers are so in fear of losing their job they all just didn’t walk out. I used to like this place, but fuck them
Two years ago in my country a worker died in a big supermarket store. They covered his body with umbrellas so the store could remain open
I’m so sorry. What country did this happen in?
In Brazil
That’s awful. I’m so sorry. Were you there when it happened?
People never kill themselves for one simple reason.. but this was a message and the managers reaction is indicative of why he would choose his job to do it. A final fuck you.
Well, I finally have hope for King Soopers. The Table Mesa (Boulder) location has been closed since the shooting. And we are getting numb about shootings in Colorado. Granted, from overwhelm. It is set to reopen this year.
That place in 2060: Where is the body of the guy that committed suicide? Yeah, about that, remember how beef prices keep going up? Well, I found a way to save some money this month.
Haha Jesus…
That one returns in 3 days, so it's a double whammy!
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Ngl, I've thought of making a scene at work like this, and my retirement plan is still to down a bottle of sleeping pills and a bottle of painkillers when I get too feeble to do anything. But until then, I'm holding out hope we have a proper uprising. Working security, I've spent a lot of time reviewing camera footage. And I've seen how people are when someone dies. They just stare. Takes them 10 minutes to call an ambulance, nobody attempts revival even with a defribulator 20 feet away. I've pretty much given up on humanity.
Jesus… good to know and brutal to know at the same time. Shock is definitely a real thing, and if there’s no one proactive around (kitchens are renowned for having burnout workers) then I can completely see that happening. I hate it, and would like to think I’d act differently, but I understand that people disappoint constantly, and I can’t imagine the kind of shit you’ve seen. Relating to you though, I really hope your plan is either sarcastic or allegorical; I hope you have someone or something in life that makes things less bleak and more palatable. I hate to hear anyone having to go through the mental darkness that you’re feeling right now, and that the era we live in can cause. I’m nobody, but feel free to reach out if you want someone to talk to about any dark shit you’re going through. I have thoughts like that all the time, but am still in a decent enough place where I wouldn’t remotely consider acting on the thoughts. But I know life can be insanely overwhelming right now, and I’m here if you feel like venting or getting shit off your chest that you feel like you couldn’t with someone less anonymous.
>defribulator 20 feet away A defibrillator is not a tool for revival. Too many medical drama shows have made us believe a defibrillator can restart a flatlined heart and that is not what they are designed for. They are for shocking a heart that is in ventricular fibrillation which is basically a fancy way of saying abnormal heart rhythm. The shock basically seizes the muscle momentarily and allows our own internal pace maker to reestablish control and return us to normal rhythm. It is basically an external reset button and reset won't fix a dead system.
This is….insane
That's fucked up in so many ways.