The Entitlement Mentality

[DaveinElma]

http://www.sentinelsource.com/news/local/clerk-loses-job-over-stand/article_87627ed5-5d4e-5ff0-a781-f14deb034771.html

 

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.

 

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.

[Gary M]

http://www.sentinelsource.com/news/local/clerk-loses-job-over-stand/article_87627ed5-5d4e-5ff0-a781-f14deb034771.html

 

 

http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2012/06/new_york_senate_voted_to_restr.html

[LeviF]

http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2012/06/new_york_senate_voted_to_restr.html

Wait

 

I only read the headline

 

but...

 

did the NYS Senate do something halfway reasonable?

[Koko78]

Wait

 

I only read the headline

 

but...

 

did the NYS Senate do something halfway reasonable?

 

Don't worry, that crook Shelly Silver will kill it in the assembly. There's no way he's going to allow a poor mother to be penalized for pulling money to buy milk for her starving kids out of an ATM at a strip bar.