A woman has lashed out at a homeless McDonald’s worker and shared his pictures online after she saw him sleeping inside one of the restaurant’s booths.
As the woman from Fayette County, Georgia, learned, judging someone without really knowing them is never a good idea.
“Just another reason for me to leave Fayetteville,” the woman wrote in a private online group according to Fox News.
“I was in the McDonald’s in the middle of town and I saw this guy sleeping in the booth, I got and tell an employee that someone is asleep in their booth and her response was ‘oh yeah, we know hee hee, it’s ok’ and I said, ‘not really but whatever.’”
While the woman clearly had no good intentions with her post, the public took her complaints as a call-to-action and decided to learn more about the man in the photo.
As it turned out, the man sleeping in a McDonald’s booth was 21-year-old Simon Childs whose story broke people’s hearts in a swift.
According to the reports, Childs has been going through tough times because he had just lost his mother and became a parent. On top of that, he was also homeless and working extra shifts to earn enough money to support his newborn child.
“It kind of hurt to see my picture up there, you know? I thought it was something negative and nobody would care about it. Everything I do, I want to work for it,” the 21-year-old explained in an interview with KCBS-TV.
Following the woman’s insensitive post, the community stepped together and bombarded the man with gifts including clothes, food, a haircut, and even a temporary ride. They also started a GoFundMe campaign to help Childs get on his feet.
“I didn’t think the community would even care enough to do that, but they care,” Simon added before confirming he was already offered a new job.
After the incident, the woman in question also spoke out and claimed she didn’t mean to “shame any one person in particular.”
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