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In reply to the discussion: I waited and I waited for help but all the rich people just stared at me and kept eating. [View all]Cleita
(75,480 posts)Something similar happened to me when I was in college. I was working as a waitress after school and on weekends in the coffee shop of a Catholic hospital. The place was usually busy with doctors and nurses on their breaks as well as visitors. One day a delivery man had left a small waist high refrigerator door open behind the wait station. I had come from the kitchen with a tray full of food and the tray hid the open door from me. I fell over the door got severely stabbed in the stomach and I couldn't get up from the excruciating pain. The dishwasher, a strapping seminary student, came running when he heard the tray crashing and me screaming. He came and picked me up and carried me into the kitchen. One of the cooks ran to the chapel and pulled the nun in charge of the kitchen out of her prayers, who took charge then. I was taken to the ER.
The whole time in a room full of doctors and nurses, not a single one got up to help. Later on the other waitress on duty and the kitchen staff told me that they never stopped eating or drinking their coffee, nor did they ask if I was okay. When I was patched up and recuperated, I returned to work. No one I had ever waited on asked me how I was.
I hope you left that job for greener pastures. My supervisors did take care of me. Apparently yours didn't. You probably should have sued them under Workers Comp.