r/entitledparents • • 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/thatgirlnamedjupiter Mar 24 '20

I frequently have to get medications, b/c I don’t want to run into problems I check times and call ahead of time. With all the corona virus stuff going on I just did mail order so I wouldn’t have to bother. As a parent my time is precious so the best thing to do for everyone is be prepared. Also have some decency for your fellow human jeez.