Some customers seem to think buying something gives them a say in how an employee should live.

This cashier was folding a woman’s clothes when the customer started complaining about how she was doing it.

At first, it was about wrinkles, but then the woman started telling her what she should know as a woman.

Then, to make matters worse, her son jumped in. And that’s the point where the cashier had enough.

She told the woman not to treat cashiers that way, but one thing led to another and now she’s in trouble with management.

Read on to see how it all played out.

AITA For saying “Stop abusing cashiers” to a mom who said I need to act like a women

I work at a retail store, which is a discount store, and it is not anything fancy.

Yesterday, a customer came up with her son, who seems to have some type of issues. He was older but would scream out words, and she would often tell him to shush. I don’t mean to ASSUME what his issues are, but it was obvious there was something about him.

Anyways, as I was folding her clothes and putting them in the bag, she started to get annoyed with me and said it’s going to get all wrinkled. She started to fold them properly, and she even asked me if I was “trained to learn this.”

The woman just wouldn’t be quiet.

Like, bro, everybody knows this job is about speed. I don’t have time to perfectly fold her clothes.

I was also doing it the normal way. She just wanted it to be perfect. Fine, fold it yourself then, no problem, but nope.

She kept going on, saying, “AS A WOMAN, YOU SHOULD LEARN HOW TO DO THIS. When you’re OLDER, you’re going to need to learn how to do this.”

I know how to do it. There’s 20 people behind you. I can’t spend all my time when you’re going to go home and wash the clothes anyways (HOPEFULLY).

Then, she brought her son into it.

Then she mentions her son. “MY SON knows how to do this at home. As a woman, lalall.” And her son starts screaming, “YEAH, LEARN.”

I WAS SO UNCOMFORTABLE. I told her to stop abusing cashiers and that she feels so entitled to yell at me, so I started to speak back more.

I told her that her son is going to experience society telling him he can’t do something due to this and that, and the world will shame him, so stop shaming others and feeding him stereotypes and making it sound OK that “women should know how to fold.”

Of course, her manager was pretty upset.

Like, I’m sorry, it might have been rude to say, but seriously, if you have a son with issues, you would think they would be more understanding of the world and avoid using stereotypes. But this woman treating me like this, like wow.

If you’re going to have kids, please don’t be like this, especially when you have a child who, unfortunately, the world will treat differently. Gave me the ick.

My manager got upset (of course, the customer matters more, so yes, I could’ve not said anything, I GUESS…). Everybody has different opinions about if I’m in the wrong or not.

AITA?

Wow. Some people have no manners whatsoever.

Let’s check out what the people over at Reddit think about this whole thing.

This reader thinks everyone has a limit.

Here’s someone who applauds her for it.

According to this comment, she should’ve left the kid out of it.

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Great advice.

The customer was way out of line. There’s no doubt about that.

However, that doesn’t give her the right to talk badly about the kid, even though he spoke up too.

Next time, she should just refuse service and call the manager.

Not only will it prevent her from saying something she’ll regret, but it’ll also keep her out of trouble with management.