AOC is proud of her time working at bars in her 20s, and rightly so. As Jezebel pointed out, though people love to look down on those who work in the service industry more than 100 million Americans are employed by it across the country.

But the politician isn’t afraid to call out misogyny in the service industry where she sees it, too. In We’ve Got People, a recently released book on the subject of America’s current socialist movement, author Ryan Grim interviewed some of Ocasio-Cortez’s old colleagues about their time working together.

In the book he relays a story in which a manager instructed the waitresses to line up against a wall so that the manager could rank them based on his perception of their attractiveness. After being asked to do so, Ocasio-Cortez quit her job on the spot and immediately left the bar, only to return to employment when her manager resorted to “pleading” with her, promising that such “contests” would never happen again.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s response to a sexist former boss is truly epic