My supervisor gave me a scratch-off New York lottery ticket for Christmas priced at $10. Needless to say, I didn't win anything. I felt half like my boss was a sucker to buy it, and half like I was given nothing at all.
Now I think convenience store games like this look even worse than their stated odds admit:
Honest lottery customers should be seething in fury at the Florida officials who let a thief win 252 times and, when it was called to their attention, figured he was just lucky.
The facts were uncovered by a private investigation, no thanks to lottery officials, and only after the story was published did the officials get moving:
Sadly I'm not surprised. You would think the state would be more interested in noting frequent winners. I'm not justifying it. But your a minimum payed store clerk (or a store owner) who any day could be stabbed of shot to death. Who wouldn't want out of that life? What's that phrase? Desperate times requires desperate measures. Clearly they are desperate. BTW I speak from experience. I was a night store clerk for a year or so. (Though I would never steal from my employer or anyone else) I would never ask a store clerk if I had a winning ticket! I'll check that out personally myself online.
I would never ask a store clerk if I had a winning ticket! I'll check that out personally myself online.
Yeah, I've read elsewhere that if you have a big winning ticket, a store clerk will say you've won five bucks and pay it. Then he keeps the ticket for himself. That's clearly one of the ways stores are ripping off the lottery.
