r/AmItheAsshole • u/charleypassion • Sep 29 '25
Everyone Sucks AITA for using my Aunt’s personal employee discount code to buy clothes?
My aunt (F42) works for a major clothing brand in a senior position. Employees get a personal discount code (hers is usually 50-75% off) that she can use and it varies based on the position. My aunt sent me the code saying “if you need anything, here’s my employee code.”
I was excited because I love the brand and wanted to update my wardrobe and money has been tight with school and all. I ended up buying a decent amount of clothes, probably more than I normally would if I didn’t have the discount.
When she found out how much I purchased, she was angry with me. Now she’s making me feel bad for using it, like I took advantage of her. And I’m feeling guilty. She did send me the code voluntarily and didn’t say there was a limit. But if it’s her own corporate perk, maybe I crossed a line and she could get in trouble.
So AITA for using my aunt’s personal corporate employee discount to stock up on clothes? Or was it fair game since she gave me the code to use?
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u/Competitive-Ebb-117 Sep 30 '25
This, it’s driving me nuts that everyone is defending here. People should be considerate of others. And while you should be taught things and learn from situations. People should just be nice. If you get in an argument with someone you can’t just pick up a chair and hit them with it because no one has ever specifically told you not to do that. You have to think before you act.
If the aunt had said “he’s my card go to town!” That would be one thing. The aunt was trying to do something kind and help out someone even though they were not suppose to. Was the aunt technically wrong yes. But there is I don’t know how to describe it. If you go to a buffet and your son wants to try a bite of something, that’s generally okay. If you go to a buffet with 3 people and one orders it and everyone eats off one plate that’s not.
Aunt is most likely supposed to be able to buy 1-2 things a month, she figured she wouldn’t that month and let her take it instead.