A Lotto Bullshit

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A TESCO worker at the centre of a legal row with her employer over a winning €500,000 lottery ticket was not at work yesterday.

Andrea O’Reilly (26), from Navan, Co Meath accidentally issued the ticket to a customer and later claimed it as her own.

She said she had planned to pay for the €9 lottery ticket, but was prevented from doing so by her employer.

Ms O’Reilly now plans to sue her employer.

She says she accidentally issued the prize-winning €9 ticket to a customer at a Tesco store in Navan Town Centre shopping complex but quickly realised the customer had requested a €4 ticket.

She claimed she then reissued the customer with the correct ticket and taped the other ticket to the side of her till.

Ms O’Reilly said she intended to later buy it for herself if no one else requested a €9 ticket that night. When nobody did, Ms O’Reilly says she tried to buy it, but claims she was given no option to do so.

She has worked for Tesco for more than six-and-a-half years.

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It had previously been reported that a customer had been issued with a €9 ticket after requesting a less expensive one, at which point the customer returned the ticket, asking for a €4 one.

However, Ms O’Reilly said this never occurred, and the winning ticket did not, in fact, exchange hands.

Speaking through her solicitor Michael Shanley, Ms O’Reilly said: “It’s common practice that an employee has the option of purchasing a ticket that was issued to a customer.”

She said she marked the ticket with a sad smiley face and stuck it to her till, before returning the following morning to pay for it, but was not given permission to do so.

“All I have to say at this stage is that I had the ticket and I now no longer have it,” she said.

Tesco workers at Navan Town Centre were reluctant to discuss the issue yesterday, saying Ms O’Reilly was not at work.

They would not confirm whether Ms O’Reilly was still employed by the supermarket.

A Tesco spokesman confirmed it had received legal notifications from the employee’s solicitor but would make no further comment.

Shes clearly chancing her arm here

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Yea, but you couldnt blame her, shes not got that much to lose really, apart from a job in Tescos’s of course, if you’d count that.

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What’s with Irish peoples fascination with putting an S at the end of Supermarkets names? Tesco’s, Lidl’s etc.?

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I just woke one day and thought, fuck it, I’m going to call it Tescos from now on and I’ll see if it catches on. I’m proud to say it has. Its been a huge personal triumph for me, and I’m glad someone has finally acknowledged it.

Now, to get clipe going here again…

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Yeah those are my thoughts exactly, apart from the errant " 's " that Mac pointed out.

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Ah come off it!!

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:smiley:

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Andrea is a good looking girl. I’d find it difficult to believe that she is not being on the level here.

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All I can see is a headshot which could be deceivng. I am unwilling to comment yet, but it is promising at this point.

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I think on the basis of that headshot alone she is going to have to get the benefit of any doubt that’s going

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You’d think Tesco have enough money anyway

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Every little helps though.

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http://www.independent.ie/multimedia/archive/00876/Andreaoreilly_Irish_876574t.jpg

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Christ lads on the basis of that head shot ye have low standards.

Hope she doens’t get a penny. What a chancer.

Why didn’t she just print off a copuple of hundred euros worth of tickets, check them the next morning and then buy the ones that have won a few bob.

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As I said, that picture is far from conclusive, although it does at least show promise.

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[quote=“myboyblue, post: 576096”]
As I said, that picture is far from conclusive, although it does at least show promise.[/quote]

Don’t see it myself.

There must be a gap of a mile between her eyes.

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Aren’t you supposed to be an accountant/ financial services whizz? That is without doubt the worst fucking caper I have ever seen committed to print.

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We’ve all climbed off far worse farmer.

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Have ye seen the state of most of the people who work in Tescos

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