• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    For everyone who doesn’t believe this sort of thing ever happens, there’s a reason why this former security guard is now sitting offstage to the left of Jimmy Kimmel every night.

    Kimmel started talking to him, befriended him, and eventually gave him a job.

    Some people are nice. Some successful people are nice and are friends with other people who are not as successful as them. Sometimes they even help them out if they can.

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      8 months ago

      As a custodian who is often treated like I might as well be invisible, this can absolutely happen. Those who show even the tiniest bit of respect to us are often the only ones and it is greatly appreciated.

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        8 months ago

        I’m sorry if you’re not appreciated enough where you work and I just want to say a deep thank you for what you do - you keep the wheels turning. I used to be friends and neighbours with our custodian (before they moved to a warmer country and we lost touch) and having seen the state of the office in just one day without my buddy when he was off sick (people are such animals), it’s people like you that make a place nice and uplifting to be in. Thank you, fishos.

      • bort@sopuli.xyz
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        8 months ago

        do you awkwardly go to people at work and say “thank you for being my friend”?

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          8 months ago

          If it’s been a really shitty day where things have been being piled on and I’m struggling, yeah, absolutely. Why do you find this something to mock or ridicule or disbelieve?

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    8 months ago

    is this really that unbelievable

    people have been known to drink coffee, sometimes in the presence of others, even