Everyone deserves a friend

"Don't come to work tomorrow."

"thanks for the Snickers."

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.

As much as I've drifted away from Kimmel (and most talk show hosts for that matter) he does give the impression that he's a sincerely nice guy when the cameras stop rolling.
- Everything I have heard about him is good. He's just supposed to be a super nice guy.
  Although not the most polite driver according to an unreasonably angry Tom Hanks. https://torontosun.com/2013/12/11/tom-hanks-calls-jimmy-kimmel-a-d---wad
  I also don't believe Sarah Silverman would have dated an asshole.

Traveled down the road and back again...

Getting from there to here.
Your heart is true, you're a pal and a confidant!
- And if you threw a party
In my head, I always hear this as the sample from this song.
I highly recommend it to anyone who's into the harder genres of music. Idek what genre to call this, but it's got the noise and flow of Death Grips with Blockhead's whimsical weirdness and air of nostalgia.
(Here's another good one!)
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I have no problem believing that someone was kind to a janitor. What's weird is the "look at me!" points they were subconsciously (or consciously?) aiming to receive from posting this. Like, truly kind behavior doesn't look for validation.

Yes it also creates a baseline that the janitor actually is inferior by showing themselves as a good Samaritan just by having coffee with them.
This is such an uncharitable interpretation of OP's intentions. Perhaps he felt happy that the janitor had such an honest reaction and wanted to share it. Not everyone is an absolute narcissist who only ever looks for internet points.
- ehh...
- Needing the validation makes it cringe. People who are kind don't look for praise about being kind. The entire tweet reeks of "I was SO kind to this guy!"
- This is such an uncharitable interpretation of OP's intentions
  Don't mean it's not an accurate one though.
  I payed for someone's train ticket once because her purse was stolen, I didn't feel the need to make a twitter account and tell everyone.
I read it as OP being a high school teacher (because I associate janitors with schools). Signaling this behaviour to the school kids would be a good thing.
On the one hand OP certainly appears to be fishing for praise and compliments.
On the other hand, posts like these have a benefit to them, reminding people, especially those who live comfortable lives in well paying jobs, that everyone around them is still human and worth respecting regardless if they have the same skillset and background at you. Society as a whole would be a lot better if we showed everyone the same respect and compassion we think we deserve ourselves.
- Yeah, I don't really care if the post was done for vanity if it helps people realize that they should be kind to the people around them that most people don't even notice.
Not everyone's as bad as you think. My mum's a very kind woman and tells me when she does stuff like this. I now do stuff like this too. You kinda need to be reminded of ways that you can be nice to people.
(Also, people online are generally very nice. Sure, there are a couple of loud dumbasses. However, starting with the assumption that someone is nice is much better for everyone rather than the latter.)
This is how it works now. This is how people socialize, which is all about validation.

The janitor my elementary got in trouble for being observed roller skating on the the roof of our gymnasium. Rumor started that they'll fire him and every student promised violence if they did. Like, sure, maybe he should that but also otherwise he's beloved so feel free to test your assumptions on the student response.

when I was in grade school who had a very nice Japanese janitor. one day a girl said he touched her and he killed himself. Afterwards the girl later said she lied about it.
Thinking back to my middle school days, it's entirely possible there janitor never rollerskated on the roof, the administration had no plans to fire him, but the students were still prowling around threatening violence over it 🤣
Roller skating on the gym roof is awesome! He shouldn't have been fired.
- It's amazing! They should have been given a raise!

is this really that unbelievable

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

No, unbelievability isn’t the problem, but I remember reading this long before Twitter was renamed X.
- Well the timestamp does say 2020.
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is there a lemmy version of r/thathappened yet?

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.
- 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.
- Well, on behalf of everyone who should say so but doesn’t, thanks for making our workplaces, schools, etc. less terrible. Y’all are underrated.
- I appreciate the people who keep our society from imploding and tell 'em. Thank you for your labors dude/ladydude!
- You are not invisible. I see you. You are an essential worker. Imagine what malls, offices and especially schools would be like without custodians. So thank you for the hard work you do.
- Worked part time as custodian after getting out of the military. Definitely felt invisible and unappreciated, but always had someone breathing down my neck if something wasn't cleaned to their standard. But never a thank you or good job.
  Now Im a supervisor, (different company) and I always make it a point to talk with cleaning staff when I see them. They work too hard to be taken for granted, and Im always pushing up on my managers that our cleaning staff are underpaid. I've figured out what drinks and snacks they enjoy so made it a point to leave them in my office with a note for them to enjoy, and a couple of times managed to convince their team lead to let me buy them all dinner after they cleaned up some real messes my team left. Do my best to keep my team tidy and not leaving the place a disaster but our custodians are humble people who like to remind me they get paid to show up and clean up what my team can't. If I could get a keg into my office without getting myself or them fired I probably would.
- Much respect. What you do should be valued much more highly.
- do you awkwardly go to people at work and say "thank you for being my friend"?
- ok, true enough, but that timestamp is from 2020, so either way it is super recycled
Is there a lemmy version of r/nothingeverhappens
This guy's (image not op) whole thing on Twitter seemed to be post something like that and then 5 donation posts. I couldn't determine if legit but seemed sketchy so I blocked.
More like r/nothingeverhappens God, it gets old interacting with r/thathappened peeps. We get it, you don't believe a downvote is enough, or are "too good" to use downvotes. No one cares.
- All the posts are along the lines of "I was walking down the street and I found a $100 note on the ground", yeah, it's entirely possible that it happened, stuff that's unlikely isn't impossible, especially given the global population of 7 billion people.
!thathappened@lemmy.world
It's dormant, but it exists!
Is there a /r/nothingeverhappens yet?

Good man. The cleaners at my dorm in college were the same. Seemed genuinely grateful to pause and chat when I'd ask about their day. After that I'd chat when I met them in the hall.

That's what it's all about right there. You could lean into your lizard brain and learn to see every other being as something that will either eat you or not eat you, reacting accordingly with emotion, or you could lean into your rational brain and learn to connect with anyone, to be involved in mankind.
- Well said! Now about some forum commenters...
- Could you connect with Gazans?

Honestly I believe this because people are cunts.

He's a video of a janitor getting an assembly for him

https://youtu.be/C_jbFvBCGd4

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"And then everyone clapped and I got a raise"

Bit cynical

It was the friends we made along the way.

Sounds like it came straight out of a Dhar Mann video

Yeah, infantalising mawkish drivel.
The image of this lonely peasant so eager for one of his betters to bless him with their company, it could only be written by someone very detached from reality
- Literally "everybody is mean except for ME!"

I'd be ashamed to befriend a person that earns 10 times less than me

what the fuck?
- I wonder why my comment provoked such a reaction. Imagine that you drink coffee with a person that barely has their ends meet, while you live a decent life, having a nice apartment, access to therapy, a car, and a motorcycle.
  But you both work in the same building, and you know that this is unfair. Moreover, you probably couldn't offer help or even buy them coffee because they would think this is offensive.
  And the only thing I feel is the shame of taking advantage over them.
- It's rage bait. People are that bored that they make lemmy accounts to get rage replies. Like, they need to actually touch grass.
With attitudes like that, you'd be doing them a favor by not befriending them. They can do better.
- Kinda makes sense
That's not very humble of you Mr. Tight Band