A little something awesome....

[dld0122]

I work at a grocery store with about a hundred employees. Last week one of the full time cashiers got 'dinged' by the "tobacco police" after he forgot to ask for I.D. while selling smokes. It cost him $350....out of his own pocket.

Well someone from the meat department started collecting cash from people and it's starting to add up. Pretty cool I think.

Personally, I totally disagree with the fact that he had to pay out of pocket.....I feel the grocery store should have bucked up. But they're capitalist pricks so what can we expect?

The whole thing makes me smile inside to think that his peers and co-workers were more willing to help out than his employer.

[SteveG]

I think it is also sad that we have money to waste on "tobacco police"

[skunk-mad]

Originally Posted by SteveG

I think it is also sad that we have money to waste on "tobacco police"

i totally agree mate the government is always moaning that they have no cash but they are paying "tobacco police".im sure they have better things to do with the tax payers money.

skunk-mad.

[420grower]

I am with Skunk,seems theres always enough cash for foolish spending,but not for things that really matter,schools,books,sports,ect.,peace all and VOTE damnit

[Dr Dog]

I think most of Ontario's tobacco laws are stupid, but they are still the law, and that aspect if the employee paying it, is most likely in your work agreement and if it is a grocery store, then you will find it in your union handbook.

I have a job as a lineman for a utility company, and I smoke cigs. I remember an occasion where I was outside a timmies sitting on a bench having a smoke and a coffee where my work truck was about 50 ft or so away. A couple men wearing pretty much identical clothes pulled into parking lot and got out.

They went into Timmies and came back toward their car. before they got back in their car, they went over to my truck and started looking in windows, I did not make too much of it at first as I have a lot of gear in their. ( mounted laptops, etc), I would glance in if I seen this stuff too, but when they started pointing inside, I came over to ask what they were doin.

Well they said, I had cigarettes in my dash cubby, and that was illegal. I asked why, well it is a place of work.
Very quickly I replied, well there is no one in there right now, so no work is being preformed, so it is currently not a workplace, but a parked vehicle. And there are no laws in regards to a parked vehicle.

The first guy started to write me an infraction, when the second guy( who obviously was not power trippin( lol tobacco police) told him to stop and get in the car and to leave me alone.

I thought this was nuts, and you know I travel quite a bit, and have been to non smoking states and provinces, none are as hardcore as Ontario.