Fox News - Fifteen Maryland McDonald's employees remain in financial limbo Tuesday as a co-worker who claimed to hold a $105 million Mega Millions lottery ticket stays in hiding amid suspicions she is either being greedy or perpetrating a cruel hoax. Three winning tickets were bought for Friday's record-breaking $656 million Mega Millions drawing. While no one has come forward to claim the prize, Mirlande Wilson's boasts to a newspaper that she selected the ticket has caused ill-will at a McDonald's in Westport, a section in Baltimore, Md., where she works. Wilson bought tickets for a pool of co-workers, but told the New York Post that the winning ticket she claimed to have purchased was bought separately....Wilson's co-workers are sizzling with anger over the confusion. "She can't do this to us!” shift manager Suleiman Osman Husein told the New York Post. "We each paid $5. She took everybody’s money!"
This woman is absolutely diabolical! Either she won this lottery and is trying to screw her co-workers out of their money, which would absolutely go down as the biggest asshole move in history, OR, she's playing the most elaborate "Fuck You, I Quit" prank of all time. And I do mean all-time.
Imagine this: Hating your job flipping burgers and cleaning grease traps, wanting to quit, but wanting a way to go out that will screw your co-workers and have people talking about you forever...So you wait. You wait for the biggest lottery of all time. $640 million dollar jackpot, and a winning ticket was pulled in your home state. Bingo, here's your opportunity. You mysteriously don't show up for the breakfast shift the day after the drawing, you're not returning calls from your manager either. The next day rolls around and you call a few media outlets and let it leak that you may have the winning ticket. Your co-workers accuse you of holding out, claiming you won on one of the group tickets, you get even more vague. First you state that you won on a personal ticket, then you state that you're not even sure if you won at all. Finally, you go into hiding, you leave everyone wondering what the hell is going on? Are they millionaires or not? Can they retire today and leave a world of slinging hash browns, happy meals, and McFlurys or was it all an elaborate hoax?
The psychological trauma this has to be causing on a few minimum wage McDonald's workers must be insane. On the one hand they absolutely need that job, on the other they could be weeks away from ironically moving into their own McMansion. Meanwhile this Mirlande Wilson is playing the role of the ultimate puppet master, and playing it to a T.
PS: What's with this guy? Does he not get what's going on here?
"She can't do this to us!” shift manager Suleiman Osman Husein told the New York Post. "We each paid $5. She took everybody’s money!"
Guy, quibbling over $5 here? There's bigger fish to try here, has no one clued him in? You're either a millionare or your're resigned to a life of serving up filet o' fish...Screw the $5.
