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TouchPlay delivers a fired-gram to postman
Posted on September 6, 2006 2:22 PM
"I thought all that stuff about hair on your knuckles or going blind was some urban legend, who'd have thought TouchPlay could cost you your job?"
A mailman in Iowa lost his job in April after taking a spin on a TouchPlay lottery machine during a lunch break. Lee Schechinger won a thousand dollars with his three-dollar bet, before it all went tragically, horribly wrong...
It wasn't rain, sleet or snow that stopped the mailman -- it was a winning spin on a lottery machine.Schechinger immediately admitted his transgression and accepted his firing with humility and stoicism. Ha ha, I kid. Actually, he lied about it at first and has appealed his firing.
He was working for the Logan post office when he went to a store for lunch and decided to try his luck. Postal Service employees are prohibited from gambling while in uniform or on duty, even during meal breaks.
"I wish I wouldn't have won the money now," Schechinger said. "It wasn't worth it."
Of course, what he did was to violate Fred's Rule number one: the boss always gets 10 percent off the top first.
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