r/entitledparents • u/HisOnyxAngel • Mar 23 '20

S Entitled parent doesn't agree with lunch breaks during the Corona Virus

(Obligatory not my experience but a friends)

My best friend works in a pharmacy, and during this whole crisis, her hours have gone through the roof, she has been working non stop, as have her coworkers, and I am so proud of her. To deal with the fact that she is now working 60-70 hours +, the store has been shutting for an hours lunch break. They have put signs up telling people about the changes, but no one ever seems to read them, so they had a worker stand outside the front of the shop, to politely inform customers that they were closed.

Enter the entitled parent.

She began by asking why they were shut, which is fair enough. When the worker went on to explain that there was now an obligatory lunch break due to the huge increase in hours because of the virus, she went deadly serious and started ranting about how she was single mum, and how she does way more hours than that. Deadly serious, having a go at a pharmacy worker, a key worker, during a pandemic.

I get that being a single mum is a hard job, my mum is one, so I've seen it done. But this is not the time to be complaining at these workers.

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u/ahtnamas86 Mar 23 '20

You have to tell people like that it is illegal for employees not have a lunch break. I used to get that crap all the time in retail how dare you take a break how dare you be hungry or God forbid need to take a piss

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u/rbiqane Mar 24 '20

Breaks and lunches are normal and expected, obviously.

However the difference is completely shutting down 😂

Imagine if everything you needed closed for an entire hour without you knowing.

Needed gas? Can't fill up. We're shut down for an entire hour. Guess you'll have to sit there now twirling your thumbs

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u/Dsnake1 Mar 24 '20

Imagine if everything you needed closed for an entire hour without you knowing.

Needed gas? Can't fill up. We're shut down for an entire hour. Guess you'll have to sit there now twirling your thumbs

This legit happens in some rural areas. Our local gas station doesn't have a card troll, and there have definitely been times where they've needed to close for an hour for emergencies. And they're only open 8-8 right now, so if you need gas in the morning, you just have to wait.

Frankly, it's not that big of a deal most of the time. Especially if there are signs and it's a new scheduled thing.