A mother is coming under fire for her parenting stunt, with many people accusing her of taking advantage of store workers.
In a since-deleted clip, the mother-of-one shared her ‘trick’, which was reposted by another TikTok user, who posts under the username @unpluggedmoments, who explained what had happened in the clip.
“Apparently he lets his daughter come into the store and pick out whatever she wants, but then when she gets to the register she picks out a couple of items to buy and asks the clerk to return them to her,” she explained. , which shows a screenshot of the clip.
“So she got really angry about that, because people were like, ‘girl, you’re not going to return those items,'” she said.
She added that the mother said she sometimes returns the items, but if she doesn’t have time she asks the store workers to do it for her.
A mother is coming under fire for her parenting stunt, with many people accusing her of taking advantage of store workers.
According to the TikTok user, the mother made a follow-up video about it in which she defended her trick and posted part of the clip in her video.
“I don’t understand the world today, where people think they have the right to stay in their jobs,” he said.
The mother continued, “I ask an employee, hey, I don’t have time to put all this stuff away, are you willing to help me? They’re usually very nice and say, ‘yes, of course I’ll help you.'”
‘But two, that’s your job too,’ the insistent mom continued. ‘They are not there to just stand there. Your job is to help the customer in the store.
“Whether it’s helping them restock things, helping them at the cash register or whatever that job entails.”
In response, @unpluggedmoment asks: ‘What do you want them to tell you?’
“Let’s have a little more respect for them,” he encouraged.
“It’s like going to a restaurant, sitting down and untangling all the silverware on the table, all the silverware that someone has wrapped, and then saying, ‘Oh, I changed my mind.'”
In a since-deleted clip, the mother-of-one shared her ‘trick’, which was reposted by another TikTok user, who posts under the username @unpluggedmoments, who explained what had happened in the clip.
TikTok users agreed with the poster and criticized the woman for taking advantage of the store workers.
Furious users also criticized the mom, pointing out that retail workers at big box stores like the Dollar Store rarely sit idly by.
‘I have NEVER seen an employee standing at my Dollar Tree. They don’t even have enough staff to stock the shelves,” one person said.
‘Besides, what a strange practice it is to let her choose everything she wants… and then, no, choose three?’ That? Because?!’ wrote another confused user.
‘What are they complaining about? Haha, just take the items and return them when you have time… which is what most cashiers already do,’ someone defended.
‘The rage he just made me feel,’ another user wrote. ‘I am a school teacher. But I had to get a second job as a cashier. We HAVE to say “of course!” We don’t sit idly by either.’
‘Why don’t you tell your daughter to pick two or three things and get it over with?’ someone else asked.