Posted on 06/27/2012 7:12:17 PM PDT by jakerobins
PETERBOROUGH — Jackie R. Whiton of Antrim had been a six-year employee at the Big Apple convenience store in Peterborough until a single transaction sent her job up in smoke.
The store clerk was fired after she refused to take a customer’s Electronic Balance Transfer card to pay for cigarettes.
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"The poor" have it really tough in America. It's nice to know that "the thirsty" can buy alcohol on the taxpayers' dime.
It began with a misunderstanding about what the cards covered — which got her complained about and reprimanded but not threatened with being fired — but then things got weird when she said she wouldn’t do a legal card transaction any more for such products, and said she quit. Granted it stinks — I’d have gone to my state representative in a rage about it (no sense hassling the droids in the welfare office) — but it was her choice to quit.
True story: I went to Jack in the Box a week ago, and the blonde woman in front of me and my GF (she dressed better than my GF) actually used an EBT to buy the combo 6 item which was around $7. We couldn’t believe this crap. This lousy twit just strolled to her car like it was nothing.
Kudos to that clerk. We’re the saps for having the food stamp president hand over our hard work to these leeches.
Maybe it was the only thing she ate that day, you don’t know.
I trust that they will can Bloomberg for refusing to sell 16 oz. sodas,right?
I trust that they will can Bloomberg for refusing to sell 16 oz. sodas,right?
Well, it would be nice if a Big Gulp Tea Party candidate for mayor would run against Bloomie the next time around :-).
I thought cigarettes was one of those items that one is not allowed to purchase with an EBT card. So why would the clerk lose a job for simply following the rules?
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