A jury has found a delivery driver not guilty in the shooting of a YouTube prankster who was following him around a mall food court earlier this year

  • @Astroturfed@lemmy.world
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    759 months ago

    I’d rather get shot than work at McDonald’s. Have you worked a low wage customer facing job? Literally anything is better. I’d rather have children kick me in the balls all day.

    • @OrangeJoe@lemm.ee
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      329 months ago

      But you would also have to be a total asshole and go around harassing strangers who are just trying to get on with their lives.

    • Lev_Astov
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      59 months ago

      Having worked in fast food and factories, I’d much rather the fast food work than any kind of repetitive factory work.

    • @bassomitron@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      I’d rather get shot if it was a mild wound and I didn’t have to pay the medical bills afterwards*.

      America, the land of opportunity!™

      • @merc@sh.itjust.works
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        19 months ago

        It’s interesting, the YouTuber clearly doesn’t have medical insurance through his job because… well he makes YouTube videos for a living. He was shot, so that was presumably a huge medical expense. I wonder who’s paying his bills? His parents?

        • @Kite@sh.itjust.works
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          19 months ago

          So long as you pay something on a bill, you generally don’t have too much of an issue. I can’t tell you the number of people I know that are making $5 a month payments on $$$ medical bills. One of my coworkers and his wife had separate major health emergencies that put them in the hospital within 3 days of each other. She was in for months, he was in for weeks. Their combined bills after insurance is just over $500,000. $5 a month.

          I have a feeling I’m going to be having surgery sometime in the near future, and I’ll be joining that $5 crowd, because I’m still getting bills from a host of tests run at the beginning of the year that I’m paying on. I’m pretty much tapped out at this point.

      • 【J】【u】【s】【t】【Z】
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        9 months ago

        Well if you get shot at McDonald’s, you’ll get workers’ comp. for a while. They’ll cut you off eventually, pay you pennies on the dollar of what wages you lost. They will cover your medical bills though.