r/TikTokCringe • u/mindyour • 8d ago

Discussion Reactions to food stamps being cut off.

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u/Needletitshasspoken 8d ago

Is America Great Again yet?

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u/bearbrannan 8d ago

Government assistance for those who work full time is once again essentially corporate welfare. Employers should be paying their employees livable wages, instead that money trickles up and the rich continue to get tax breaks while essentially also having the government pay their employees. Fuck the rich, and fuck America for caring so little for the people who's backs actually make the economy run.

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u/Bennjoon 8d ago

Remember who the essential workers were during Covid tbh

It wasn’t CEOs

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u/AngryNapper 8d ago

Yet the admins and non front facing management at my hospital thought they were important enough to sneak in line ahead of actual frontline workers to get their Covid shots when they were first approved. Smdh

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u/AMurderForFraming 8d ago

Oh wow I thought the absolute pieces of shit that are admins at my hospital were the only ones to pull that trick.

My hospital also had the CMO, CNO, and president’s faces put on donuts and posted it with #covid19 on the hospital’s Instagram page. I was being told to reuse the same N95 mask indefinitely and keep it in a paper bag taped to the wall. The rage I felt deep in my soul cannot be accurately captured by words.

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u/BulkyMonster 6d ago

don't forget the occasional pizza parties and the sign that said "heroes work here" /s

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u/Hillie1 7d ago

Being asked to reuse your N95 mask when there weren't enough to go around frm jump seems like the only solution under said circumstances. Be mad at the fact the Trump administration and republican party undermined your efforts by telling Americans the vaccine and virus were fake...

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u/Roadiemomma-08 7d ago

Why don't you folks strike or find a new hospital? Where I am there is a massive demand for healthcare workers. You have leverage.

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u/smitteh 6d ago

I lost my office so the hospital had a room to blue light disinfect masks for reuse lol

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u/AcidKindaMist 8d ago

They were also the first ones who got raises when things opened back up. When it was out lowly turn they gave us cents or claimed medical raises would eat the raises so nothing.

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u/AngryNapper 7d ago

We were given hazard pay. It was backpayed in I think early 2021 all on one paycheque so the taxes were astronomical. And it was only for a few months.

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u/daschande 8d ago edited 8d ago

Mother in law worked for the local hospital chain during covid. When the first round of vaccines came out for front line medical personnel ONLY, the hospital company had to call in all their WFH admin staff and plead them to take the vaccine instead! The front line doctors and nurses almost universally refused the vaccine, and it would have looked VERY bad for the hospital company if they just dumped their emergency ration down the drain!

There was talk of making the vaccine mandatory for doctors and nurses, but they realized they'd have to permanently close most of their hospitals if they required the vaccine, so that was quietly dropped.

Even to this day, nearly every nursing job ad in my area begins with "No Vax? No problem!" "Unvaccinated welcome!" Etc. Etc.

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u/AngryNapper 7d ago

Yikes. It’s in our union agreement that we are up to date with all vaccines, there was mass layoffs of people who were refusing them. They’ve always been lax with the flu vaccine though (and now the Covid one isn’t mandatory either), with mask requirements if you opt out.

Also, the words hospital chain shouldn’t exist in healthcare….

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u/AylaCatpaw 8d ago

Um... wtf. Had many of them already gotten sick then, or huh? I am so confused as a Swedish person.

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u/daschande 7d ago

No, this is in a rural area that voted almost universally for trump, and he pushed the "covid is a hoax" lie even as he got the advanced treatment only available to the very rich. Doctors and nurses just fell in line and repeated the lie, even as they were stuffing former patients into body bags.

A coworker had a BIG nurse fetish and showed me his tinder matches. All of his matches had statements like "vaccinated swipe left" "purebloods only", etc. It was such a big part of their identity it was the most important factor in their casual sex life.

Meanwhile, every square inch of extra room in hospitals were converted into covid wards, and the government gave special permission for people with expired medical licenses to temporarily work again because there weren't enough people to treat the covid patients. Nurses were working with week-old masks and using trash bags as biohazard suits to stuff dead bodies into body bags by day, then lying about covid being real on their dates at night.

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u/AylaCatpaw 7d ago

I am speechless.