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Husband Rips Apart Panic Buyers In A Powerful Facebook Post After His Wife Came Back From Work In Tears
Panic buyers are storming shops to stockpile on pretty much everything from toilet paper to condoms. As they fight for the items on the shelves, they often forget that those who refill them are humans, too.
Retail workers are already talking about the abuse they have to endure at work, but it looks like the situation isn’t getting any better. After Tesco employee Angela Breathet came back from her shift, she was in floods of tears. She told her husband Allan about being shouted at, called names, and treated with no respect whatsoever.
Fed up with all the selfishness in the midst of a pandemic, Allan penned a powerful Facebook post, highlighting why we have to remain decent human beings. It’s sad the public needs to be reminded of this, but let it be a wake-up call for all of us. Scroll down to read what the man had to say, and tell us if you agree with his thoughts in the comments.
Image credits: allan.breathet.5
“Too many people have been watching 28 Days Later and thinking we’re going to run out of food, it’s just got a wee bit out of hand,” Allan, from Inverness, Scotland, told Mirror. “My wife came home on Sunday from work – she’s worked at Tesco for 25 years now and she’s worked Christmases and New Years and she’s never seen anything like it in her life.”
Usually, Angela comes home and says ‘how are you doing?’ That day she just came in and when he asked her how she was he could tell by her misdemeanor that something was very wrong. “She just looked at me, walked straight past me, went into the bedroom and just lay on the bed. I asked ‘are you ok?’ and she just started crying, nobody should come home from work like that.
The kids were wondering what was wrong with their mom as well, so Allan tried to explain to them that people were jerks to her and her friends at work. “They asked why? And said ‘mum’s not done anything wrong.'”
Allan pointed out that people working at stores are just trying to serve the public and do their best. “To be called names, be shouted at and blamed for these things is past a joke.”
He said the Facebook post was just a rant, and he can’t believe how it’s taken off, with more than 165,000 shares. “Everybody who has commented has been so supportive. All I wanted was for people, when they go shopping, to be kind and don’t be aggravated.”
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Here’s how people responded to Allan’s post
What do you think ?
How Terribly Unfortunate 4 years ago
Just reading it, I can feel how frustrated and angry he must be. Some jerk customers need to learn that the world doesn't revolve around them!
Mark 4 years ago
That is where you are wrong, it does revolve around them, at least THEY believe it does! We have done this to ourselves, we make it so easy to complain behind the curtain of social media that it also spills out into "real life" and people come out with bile that years ago they just wouldn't have said.
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deanna woods 4 years ago
To those people who are acting crazy in Costco, Tesco, Sam's, and everywhere else: those employees are doing their jobs and don't deserve your tantrums and yelling. Treating the workers like c**p only shows what kind of prick that you are. You do not need all of these things that bad.
Rosalind Da Costa 4 years ago
Things are bad here too in North London. My local newsagent is staying open as long as they can. I saw one of the owners wiping the counter with a baby wipe! Asking him why, he replied 'they took it all, I just managed to get one hand sanitiser for us.' I like a bargain so when my favourite anti-bac came on sale almost a year ago I bought three. Have a full one and a quarter of another so gave him my full one. Bless them they wiped down the counters, front parts and the card machine. So much consideration for others and their locals that they didn't think of themselves.
How Terribly Unfortunate 4 years ago
Just reading it, I can feel how frustrated and angry he must be. Some jerk customers need to learn that the world doesn't revolve around them!
Mark 4 years ago
That is where you are wrong, it does revolve around them, at least THEY believe it does! We have done this to ourselves, we make it so easy to complain behind the curtain of social media that it also spills out into "real life" and people come out with bile that years ago they just wouldn't have said.
Load More Replies... deanna woods 4 years ago
To those people who are acting crazy in Costco, Tesco, Sam's, and everywhere else: those employees are doing their jobs and don't deserve your tantrums and yelling. Treating the workers like c**p only shows what kind of prick that you are. You do not need all of these things that bad.
Rosalind Da Costa 4 years ago
Things are bad here too in North London. My local newsagent is staying open as long as they can. I saw one of the owners wiping the counter with a baby wipe! Asking him why, he replied 'they took it all, I just managed to get one hand sanitiser for us.' I like a bargain so when my favourite anti-bac came on sale almost a year ago I bought three. Have a full one and a quarter of another so gave him my full one. Bless them they wiped down the counters, front parts and the card machine. So much consideration for others and their locals that they didn't think of themselves.
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