Clerk loses job over stand

[Mike Mercury]

you're not going to like this...

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 (taxpayer funded assistance) card to pay for cigarettes.

Whiton said a young man came in to the store to buy two packs or cigarettes on May 29. When she asked him for his ID, he handed her his EBT card.

EBT cards are used for both food and cash assistance programs. There are two types of cards: one can only be used for food. The other can be spent on anything and used just like a debit card.

Whiton said she did not think EBT cards could be used to purchase cigarettes and refused to sell to him. The two “had a little go-around” as the line got longer behind him, said Whiton.

“I made the statement, ‘do you think myself, that lady and that gentlemen should pay for your cigarettes?’ and he responded ‘yes,’ ” Whiton said.

The next day Whiton said the customer’s foster mother came to the store to complain. Whiton received a call later that day from the company’s home office in Maine, telling her it had received a complaint about her and reprimanded her.

“I said I would bow out gracefully and give my notice because I didn’t want to be a part of it. I’m 65 years old, you know?” Whiton said.

Charles E. Wilkins, the general manager of the C.N. Brown Co. that runs the stores, said the EBT cards in the cash phase could be used for any items, including alcohol, tobacco and gambling. Wilkins said the company gave Whiton the option of staying but she said she would not accept the cards anymore.

“She didn’t think it was right and just wasn’t going to sell to people in that program anymore,” Wilkins said.

Whiton said when she came to work the next day, her manager asked her how much notice she was giving. When she responded “a week,” she was told the home office had just called and fired her.

Wilkins said she would have had to accept the cards within that week.

Whiton said she was not looking for another job.

Whiton said she does not object to using the programs for food assistance, but does not think a person should be able to use public funds to buy cigarettes.

“They can’t even buy toilet paper with the EBT grocery cards but they can buy beer and cigarettes with the EBT cash cards,” Whiton said, “Go figure.”

[Joecooool]

Meanwhile she collects social security and has access to medicare.

[Mike Mercury]

Originally Posted by Joecooool

Meanwhile she collects social security and has access to medicare.

uhh... to get social security retirement, you have to pay into the system first.

[Chris Fowler]

Originally Posted by Joecooool

Meanwhile she collects social security and has access to medicare.

And that has what to do with supporting the idea of food assistance programs, but believing that using them for cigarettes and alcohol wrong?

[VITE1]

Why are there two different EBT cards? And why can any public assistance be used for Gambling, Alcohol and cigarettes?

It's bad enough we spend money on the Deadbeats, Dropouts, Dunks and Druggies for food. F**k them if they want booze, cigs and gambling.

Let them die in the street. We need the fertilizer.

[Ol Timer]

Originally Posted by VITE1

Why are there two different EBT cards? And why can any public assistance be used for Gambling, Alcohol and cigarettes?

It's bad enough we spend money on the Deadbeats, Dropouts, Dunks and Druggies for food. F**k them if they want booze, cigs and gambling.

Let them die in the street. We need the fertilizer.

It's the govts. way of getting thier money back.

[Bucwheat]

Hell there were times many years ago when I didn't have a job but refused gov't assistance and could not buy beer .These people today don't care what people think and have no pride.He most likely drove up in a Caddie too.

[MrPeabody]

Originally Posted by Ol' Timer

It's the govts. way of getting thier money back.

In the 80s when California started their lottery, the first million dollar winner was a welfare recipient. A local news crew was sent to the welfare office to get a statement from them on how they felt about someone using welfare money to buy lottery tickets. Know what they found out? They sell lottery tickets at the welfare office.

[Bucwheat]

[Wathen1955]

Originally Posted by Ol' Timer

It's the govts. way of getting thier VOTE back.

Corrected

[SubZero]

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[bryanZ06]

Originally Posted by VITE1

Why are there two different EBT cards? And why can any public assistance be used for Gambling, Alcohol and cigarettes?

It's bad enough we spend money on the Deadbeats, Dropouts, Dunks and Druggies for food. F**k them if they want booze, cigs and gambling.

Let them die in the street. We need the fertilizer.

Why should I pay for that? If you want to smoke, drink, or gamble have at it, but take your ass to work and pay with your own money.

[jaxgator]

Originally Posted by Joecooool

Meanwhile she collects social security and has access to medicare.

Typical liberal tactic. Nice deflection there Phil. Not!

[Vette Jockey]

Originally Posted by Joecooool

Meanwhile she collects social security and has access to medicare.

How do you know she was on social security, she had a job!

What part of being on the dole, never doing anything to benefit anyone else, equates to paying into social security all your life and having a job?

I guess the liberal slant is to attack people that work to be part of the solution and to feel sorry for the low lifes that do nothing to contribute and do not feel shy about sticking their collective hands into our pockets

[VITE1]

Originally Posted by Joecooool

Meanwhile she collects social security and has access to medicare.

I love how the Liberal compares two programs where the beneficiaries are taxed their whole life in the HOPE that the government will have the money available to a program where the money is taken from those who earn it and given to those that have done nothing other than be born.

[Mike Mercury]

[Blademaker]

Originally Posted by Joecooool

Meanwhile she collects social security and has access to medicare.

sofa king what?
She's 65, worked all her life Versus someone who wants to buy cigs on my dime?
Idont'fuckingthinkso.

[Sea Six]

She ****ing paid her SS AND her Medicare.

Did that jive-talkin' cigarette-smokin' dipshit pay into the system for any of it? I doubt it.

Phil / aka Joecooool is going to conveniently forget about these little tidbits of fact.

[R.Zaragoza]

Originally Posted by Joecooool

Meanwhile she collects social security and has access to medicare.

She Fuc***g earned her benefits.

[Iron Chef]

Originally Posted by Joecooool

Meanwhile she collects social security and has access to medicare.

You know Phil, unlike many others I can often see and agree with a lot of your points. But sometimes, you really step in it.