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Peterborough clerk says she was fired over EBT cards
« on: June 27, 2012, 10:37:40 AM »
Peterborough clerk says she was fired over EBT cards

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Clerk wouldn't accept EBT cards to pay for cigarettes
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Jackie Whiton, a six-year employee of the Big Apple, said she was fired after a dispute with her boss over accepting EBT cards as payment for cigarettes.


"I gave two weeks' notice and tried to bow out gracefully," said Whiton, of Antrim. "But the next day, I was fired."

Whiton said she declined to accept an EBT card as payment for a package of cigarettes. The Electronic Benefit Transfer cards are used by state benefits departments to issue cash to recipients, and they can be used like debit cards.

Whiton said her boss told her she can't refuse to sell beer and cigarettes to customers, because, according to the Department of Health and Human Services, EBT or state assistance money can be used to purchase tobacco products.

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Welcome to Omerica.  The KID in question she initially refused to sell to was a 20-year old.  His foster mother came in to complain to the manager.  That's when it really went downhill.

And Junior?  The lady is right--GET A DAMN JOB!!!!  I bet she has one before you do, you lazy little bastard.
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Re: Peterborough clerk says she was fired over EBT cards
« Reply #1 on: June 27, 2012, 10:58:41 AM »
It's like they're looking for a backlash.  In NY, we have a bill on the floor, which would prohibit the EBT smokes, booze, and strippers.  Seems to me that this should have been baked into the original freebie package.  How would a lib even defend any of this, after saying "eat only healthy food!"  "Don't smoke (cigarettes)!"  "Stop treating women like objects!" 
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Re: Peterborough clerk says she was fired over EBT cards
« Reply #2 on: June 27, 2012, 11:25:45 AM »
Libs are fine with paying to give the poor lung cancer?   :o
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Re: Peterborough clerk says she was fired over EBT cards
« Reply #3 on: June 27, 2012, 11:29:11 AM »
Quote from: Gina on June 27, 2012, 11:25:45 AM
Libs are fine with paying to give the poor lung cancer?   :o

Sure, and they are fine with using our money to pay for the corresponding health care too......
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Re: Peterborough clerk says she was fired over EBT cards
« Reply #4 on: June 27, 2012, 11:39:14 AM »
Quote from: Gina on June 27, 2012, 11:25:45 AM
Libs are fine with paying to give the poor lung cancer?   :o

Look at it this way. A huge part of the cost of cigarettes is taxes, so they are putting the money right back into government hands.
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Re: Peterborough clerk says she was fired over EBT cards
« Reply #5 on: June 27, 2012, 01:19:37 PM »
The lady asked the kid if he thought it was right that she and the other customers should pay for his smokes and he said YES.

It would have been at that point I would have throat punched the little shit.
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Re: Peterborough clerk says she was fired over EBT cards
« Reply #6 on: June 27, 2012, 04:19:08 PM »
We have the technology today to limit how debit/EBT/flexible spending cards are used.

As a benefit with the company I work for, I designate $X per month on a pre-tax basis to go into an account. Then I may use an EBT-like card to access that money, but only for medically-related items. I can purchase eyeglasses or OTC medications, pay for co-pays, etc., but I can't use that card to buy cigarettes or booze or even WIC food items.

Medically-related items only.
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Re: Peterborough clerk says she was fired over EBT cards
« Reply #7 on: June 27, 2012, 04:26:57 PM »
Quote from: Eupher on June 27, 2012, 04:19:08 PM
We have the technology today to limit how debit/EBT/flexible spending cards are used.

As a benefit with the company I work for, I designate $X per month on a pre-tax basis to go into an account. Then I may use an EBT-like card to access that money, but only for medically-related items. I can purchase eyeglasses or OTC medications, pay for co-pays, etc., but I can't use that card to buy cigarettes or booze or even WIC food items.

Medically-related items only.

Yes, but that is designated by what is allowed per IRS regs, because they don't get their share.  I guess they don't give a hoot about EBT cards. 
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Re: Peterborough clerk says she was fired over EBT cards
« Reply #8 on: June 27, 2012, 04:31:18 PM »
Quote from: IassaFTots on June 27, 2012, 04:26:57 PM
Yes, but that is designated by what is allowed per IRS regs, because they don't get their share.  I guess they don't give a hoot about EBT cards. 

Yeah, I understand about IRS regs, but my point is, we have the technology to limit spending when using those cards. And screw the bullshit capability of withdrawing cash out of ATMs. That doesn't have to happen either.
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Re: Peterborough clerk says she was fired over EBT cards
« Reply #9 on: June 27, 2012, 05:01:56 PM »
Quote from: Eupher on June 27, 2012, 04:31:18 PM
Yeah, I understand about IRS regs, but my point is, we have the technology to limit spending when using those cards. And screw the bullshit capability of withdrawing cash out of ATMs. That doesn't have to happen either.

Crack dealers don't take EBT, so the crack ho's need cash.
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Re: Peterborough clerk says she was fired over EBT cards
« Reply #10 on: June 27, 2012, 06:36:48 PM »
The problem my friends, is this... The food option already seaparates the elegible UPC's even for certain food, Until recently you could buy any edible item. Now the system segragates even the food items. No longer can people buy 5 bags of easter candy to fill those Easter baskets!! :yahoo:(about time says I). Unfortunately the cash option anything is elegible. The EBT card is to feed your family, not to feed your friends at a party!! :rant: :rant: or to buys cigs...
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Re: Peterborough clerk says she was fired over EBT cards
« Reply #11 on: June 27, 2012, 06:53:11 PM »
And over at the DUmp the usual  confusion reigns.  Catch the link if you dare it is populated by many prominent DU super stars.

http://upload.democraticunderground.com/1002863937

I bet the clerk is re-employed in short order.  The freeloader?  Not in any hurry to find a life beyond mom's basement.
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Re: Peterborough clerk says she was fired over EBT cards
« Reply #12 on: June 27, 2012, 07:00:28 PM »
Quote from: zeitgeist on June 27, 2012, 06:53:11 PM
And over at the DUmp the usual  confusion reigns.  Catch the link if you dare it is populated by many prominent DU super stars.

http://upload.democraticunderground.com/1002863937

I bet the clerk is re-employed in short order.  The freeloader?  Not in any hurry to find a life beyond mom's basement.
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I have started a thread about the DUmmies' response to this in the DUmpster.
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Re: Peterborough clerk says she was fired over EBT cards
« Reply #13 on: June 27, 2012, 08:48:55 PM »
Quote from: Eupher on June 27, 2012, 04:31:18 PM
Yeah, I understand about IRS regs, but my point is, we have the technology to limit spending when using those cards. And screw the bullshit capability of withdrawing cash out of ATMs. That doesn't have to happen either.

I get where you are coming from, my point was that the govt already restricts what people can do with money they earn.  Apparently they don't care about regulating money people are given.   :thatsright:
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Re: Peterborough clerk says she was fired over EBT cards
« Reply #14 on: June 27, 2012, 09:45:28 PM »
Quote from: IassaFTots on June 27, 2012, 08:48:55 PM
I get where you are coming from, my point was that the govt already restricts what people can do with money they earn.  Apparently they don't care about regulating money people are given.   :thatsright:
As someone who works retail, this is frustrating. Cashiers who are working their asses off, just to make ends meet, seeing some punk who is a lazy SOB come in and buy cigs with the cash option to buy cigs... :rant: :rant:
That clerk probably struggles to put food on the table for her family, it is her tax dollars that is paying for this kid's addiction. Does she have a right to be angry?? HELL YES!!!!!

Somebody needs to create a program where as people who have EBT cards, the reciept code  of EBT users goes into a database. People will look and investigate certain UPC's and put them om a red flag list, that will make these items ineligible for EBT users to buy, regardless of option they choose..
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Re: Peterborough clerk says she was fired over EBT cards
« Reply #15 on: June 27, 2012, 09:53:45 PM »
We had a bit of a debate in my public health class about EBT cards, it seems that my professor is woefully ignorant. 

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Re: Peterborough clerk says she was fired over EBT cards
« Reply #16 on: June 27, 2012, 10:23:28 PM »
Quote from: Celtic Rose on June 27, 2012, 09:53:45 PM
We had a bit of a debate in my public health class about EBT cards, it seems that my professor is woefully ignorant. 


Ignorant in what way??? Some of the posts over at the dump seems to be like it is their money, let them choose what they want to do with it...
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Re: Peterborough clerk says she was fired over EBT cards
« Reply #17 on: June 27, 2012, 10:37:15 PM »
Quote from: seahorse513 on June 27, 2012, 10:23:28 PM
Ignorant in what way??? Some of the posts over at the dump seems to be like it is their money, let them choose what they want to do with it...

She seems to firmly believe that the way that our country currently handles "welfare" is wonderful, and she apparently doesn't understand the difference between WIC and "food stamps."  WIC has strict regulation for what the money can be spent on, and my professor is apparently under the misapprehension that EBT programs are the same way, and she wasn't interested in hearing anything to the contrary. 
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