Sunday, June 21, 2020

Angry Homeless Person Calls Out Salvation Army For Cruel Treatment In Emotional Twitter Thread


We hope things are looking up for this person, and anyone else affected by potential mistreatment when staying in a Salvation Army shelter. 

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Text - muffins 'n milk @milknmuffins Hey. As a homeless person staying at a salvation army shelter... Please don't donate to the salvation army. 5/7/17, 12:35 AM 4,893 RETWEETS 4,006 LIKES muffins 'n milk @milknmuffins 13h Replying to @milknmuffins Don't donate your money. Don't donate your time. Don't donate your toiletries, blankets, or food. Do not support this organization. 17 416 763 muffins 'n milk @milknmuffins 13h The shelter I'm staying at is one specifically meant for housing vulnerabl

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Text - muffins 'n milk @milknmuffins 13h The RAs are cruel and robotic and often treat us like we're less than human. I often hear them speak negatively of the women here. 17 239 639 muffins 'n milk @milknmuffins 13h We're looked down on. Condescended to. And when one of us attempts to stand up for our dignity we're thrown out onto the street with a smile 61 17 231 586 muffins 'n milk @milknmuffins 13h In the absolute most sing-song tone: "Bye! You can come back in thirty days-!" muffins 'n milk

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Text - muffins 'n milk @milknmuffins 13h They frequently throw women with mental illnesses out of here if they have any sort of symptoms. Especially verbal ticks. 17 217 579 muffins 'n milk @milknmuffins 13h But the really insidious part is that after they throw those women out, if they don't pick up their stuff within 7 days, it's confiscated. 17 233 515 muffins 'n milk @milknmuffins 13h Confiscated and sold alongside all your donations at their fucking thrift stores. The women in here? We don'

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Text - muffins 'n milk @milknmuffins 13h They threw my friend out of here because she asked a staff member to keep their voice down during a call to her orthopedic surgery office. 17 152 468 muffins 'n milk @milknmuffins 13h And not only did that particular staff member throw her out, she also pulled her into her office and - t구 125 398 - proceeded to abusively scream at the TOP of her lungs. So loudly that I could hear her in that office from outside and up the street. 17 126 420 muffins 'n mil

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Text - muffins 'n milk @milknmuffins 13h The employee who screamed at and threw my friend out of here denied all wrongdoing. Nothing came of it. muffins 'n milk @milknmuffins 13h Her job title, by the way? "Women's Advocate" 17 136 538 muffins 'n milk @milknmuffins 13h Anyway, that sort of abuse is commonplace here. They have all the power, and we have none. 17 104 347 muffins 'n milk @milknmuffins 12h This place exists for one reason, and that one reason is to farm revenue from these women. 61

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Text - muffins 'n milk @milknmuffins · 12h They do the absolute minimum necessary to keep this place running so they can fucking farm cash under the guise of helping. 61 L7 152 400 muffins 'n milk @milknmuffins 12h Example: They have been "working on" a kitchen here from which they intend to serve meals of some sort. 17 115 334 muffins 'n milk @milknmuffins 12h It's has been in a state of "almost done!!" for six fucking years 17 135 458 muffins 'n milk @milknmuffins 12h The shower room has inade

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Text - jackharknessday I can back this up. It isn't only their shelters. I have a family friend who worked at our local Salvation Army headquarters as a a secretary. This particular office took all the Christmas donations for children in need, put them in a warehouse, and on a designated day the staff and their friends picked through them all, taking whatever they wanted. She saw people hauling away bikes donated for specific families. Some local children had hundreds of dollars of gifts donated

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