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🗓️ 15 June 2022
⏱️ 34 minutes
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When Mary Gundel spoke out about working conditions at Dollar General, she lost her job. She also gained TikTok celebrity, and started a national labor movement.
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0:00.0 | It gets to that point in your life where you're just, you're like, y'all want to fire me for it and fire me for it. |
0:05.5 | You know, I can't keep my head down anymore and I can't keep just kissing your butt anymore. |
0:14.0 | This is Death, Sex, and Money. |
0:18.0 | The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot. |
0:23.0 | We need to talk about more. |
0:24.0 | I'm Anna Sale. |
0:34.0 | In the story of Mary Gundel and her TikTok, it all comes down to March 28th. |
0:40.0 | Before that date, Mary's TikTok is about a lot of things in her everyday life. |
0:44.0 | Going to the zoo with her family. |
0:46.0 | Where's the hippo at? I don't even know where there's sunbathing. |
0:49.0 | DIY hair extensions? |
0:51.0 | It feels really good for it being synthetic. It is a little shiny, but we can tone that down with some dry shampoo. |
0:58.0 | And relationship drama. |
0:59.0 | I know we've had our differences and I know we've had our ups and downs and I know we have both done and said some bucked up shit. |
1:06.0 | After March 28th, it becomes all about one thing. |
1:10.0 | The Bahimuth American convenience store, Dollar General, where Mary was employed for nearly three and a half years as a store manager. |
1:18.0 | Well, it's another fine morning here at 5 a.m. and morning. |
1:23.0 | On that day, Mary was working in her store alone as she often was. |
1:27.0 | And she responded to a TikTok user complaining about the state of their local Dollar General, |
1:32.0 | with its disorganized aisles and out-of-stock items. |
1:35.0 | So let me give you a little bit of an as to why that store probably looks like that. |
1:40.0 | A lot of the times it's not lack of the employee's working. |
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