Documentary fukked me up..
Parents who accidentally left they're child in the hot car all day while they worked a whole shift..
I understand mistakes but I'm like how in the living fukk do you get out of your car and FORGET your child is in the backseat..
shyt blew my mind
That shyt is sickening.
I remember at one of my jobs when I was 19. I was on lunch chillin in my car. And next to me there was a van. I'm hearing giggling and talking, I turn down my music. One of my coworkers (white woman) had her 2 young kids chillin while she worked. She might've worked 7am to 3 or something maybe 8 to 4. Even so I was shocked.
Apparently everyone knew about this. From employees to management. We had a secure parking lot with a big ass fence only way in or out was by scanning an employee badge. She went and checked on them every 2-2 and half hours and ate lunch with them.
I was upset by the situation but only thing I could do was report it to management (chain of command). I could've been a dikk about it and called 911 or cps but why blow up her spot. Employees gave me the ol "she's divorced" "child care is expensive" "she doesn't have anyone to watch them". The woman was in her mid 30s.
I got promoted into management like 9 months later and by that time either she was gone or took care of the situation because the van was never there. I didn't remember seeing her but I never really saw her anyway. But I had intended to do something or find a resource for her, anything to resolve the issue.
When I saw the shyt it wasn't too hot or too cold. But anything could've happened. One of those kids could've had a seizure, choked on a toy, got the seatbelt wrapped around them...this was early 2000s and cellphones weren't prominent like now. Now everyone has a cellphone plus 1 or 2 deactivated or broken phones to play games on or listen to music. These kids could've easily been in the car for up to 2 hours with some dangerous unforseen incident. But our God damn company would've been sued to oblivion. You couldnt even smoke cigarettes on the property. People would walk the length of a football field to the property line and exit the gate just to smoke.