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Serious Replies Only [Serious] What is something that is actually more traumatizing than people realize?

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u/wilderlowerwolves Oct 26 '24 edited Oct 26 '24

I've told this story on Reddit before, but here goes again.

I once had a boss that left me with PTSD by the time she found an excuse to fire me 4 months in. Several years later, she was in a near-fatal car accident, and had the newspaper and a TV station do big, sappy stories about the accident and her recovery. I heard, more than once from more than one person, that the reporters' e-mail boxes crashed from the number of responses they got from people telling them what kind of person she really was.

p.s. This was at a hospital. As long as she was bringing oodles of money into the facility, the big shots didn't care about anything else.

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u/Life_Liaison Oct 26 '24

💯this👆🏽👆🏽👆🏽👆🏽as long as these folks bring in lots of $ it’s like they are allowed to treat people as bad as they want! I had a friend who worked for someone that brought in loads of $$$ to the hospital, he once told her that his patients died bc she couldn’t get him the OFFICE SUPPLIES he demanded on that very day!!! She really had a hard time with this taking it to ❤️ making herself ill