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• popekingjoe@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  No, they tend to be crazy, entitled cunts actually. They ask for military discounts and are convinced their husband’s rank and service somehow extends to them and that makes them worthy of hallowed respect while treating any service work like absolute garbage.

  Once again, this is my experience, and I’ll admit it’s skewed by the fact that I work in retail and have dealt with at least a dozen of these kinds of women over the past two decades.

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  • kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    And plenty of selection bias. There’s very rarely a pleasant reason to mention your partner’s occupation to a service worker, so anyone who’s going to be normal slips under the radar.

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    • NOPper@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I met way more dickhead husband’s than entitled wives while I was in. Like anything there’s a very vocal minority of problem people but by and large people just treat it as a job.

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  • jballs@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That just reminded me, back before Reddit went batshit, I used to love reading a subreddit filled with stories about this. I can’t remember the name though. It wasn’t r/justbootthings but something similar dedicated just to girlfriends/wives.

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