She asked me about vacation...5 days after 1 year. Once you get the five days, you have to request time off months in advance and there is still a good chance you won't get it. The woman currently gets 4 weeks vacation with her government job.
How about holidays...You can't request a holiday off and if you don't come into work, you are fired. However, you do get double your base pay, which is minimum wage at most places. $6.15 at the Golden Nugget. :)
How about sick days...You don't get sick days and it goes on a point system. If you miss a day, you get a point. If you are late, you get a point. If you leave because you are sick, you get a point. After 7 points, you are fired.
Surely, they have exceptions....no, I have worked at a casino where a person was fired because they got a flat tire on the 41 mile drive to work (when I worked at the California border). I have seen someone lose their bonus because they had to leave work by ambulance due to very serious heart problems. I have seen a dealer that was elbowed by another dealer pass out 4 times before the ambulance arrived. She was fired because she spent too long in the hospital for hemorrhaging before her 90-day probation was up. Perhaps the best was when a dealer had a heart attack and was declared legally dead, but was revived. He was written up for that incident.
I think that vacation is the most important thing for a human being to have. Otherwise, life is just work, work, work. First toil, then the grave.
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 | There's a line in the Oliver Stone movie "Nixon" which has stuck with me over the many years since I heard it. I don't know why, but I often repeat it to myself: "Work in this life. Rest in the next." It was spoken by Nixon's harsh Quaker mother. Tricky Dick had it rough, you know. BTW, how did you end up at a casino? Weren't you working at a hospital for a while? M (Reply to this) (Thread) |
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| Yes, I'm a job hopper. I can't stay at a job longer than 3 years without wanting to change. I've been in the casino business for 3 years, but only 3 months at the Golden Nugget. While I was working at the hospital, I was going for my Masters and PhD. in Psychology. Then I realized that I don't like people and maybe it wasn't the field for me. Face it, the majority of people are just annoying and dumb. Argh! Greg didn't want to live in Utah anymore. The mormons were driving us crazy so we moved to Las Vegas where he had some family. The thing that really drove me crazy about the mormons was the blatant discrimination. At the hospital when someone would turn in a resume, it would state what ward (mormon church) they attended. As if we are suppose to think, "Oh, they are good mormons, therefore I will hire them." This is where my religious bigotry really shows. Mormons are the worst, laziest workers in the world. At least, a lot of the ones I knew were. I didn't like the bigotry in me, so that is another reason why I moved. Another thing that I learned was that every time I was hired somewhere (and I have had a few jobs in Salt Lake), I was hired by a non-mormon. When I applied places where a mormon made the hiring decisions, I was never granted an interview. Yes, I knew if they were mormon because of their mormon underwear lines in their pants and shirt sleeves. I did try working in television again, but guess who owns the CBS affiliate where I applied....that's right, the mormon church does. I would think that a former director would be able to get at least interviewed for a camera operator position. I make a great resume and cover letter. I should of added a fake ward entry, but who wants to work in mormon central. I also worked for a telecommunications company as an account manager. (Originally hired by a non-mormon). I was friends with someone that was related with everyone higher up in the company who were all mormon. (Yes, it was one big messed up family operation.) I was called "the queer" when I wasn't around and they couldn't get rid of me when I quit although all of my accounts begged the company to give me a raise to stay. A lesbian that worked there had to deal with someone incompetent that was given the position because he was a good mormon. He would make gay jokes constantly and was a horrible boss. A lot of people later on sued for unemployment (I don't remember all of the circumstances). Everyone got it without problem. The lesbian however got it because everyone else did along with the statement, "I don't approve of your lifestyle". Justice is blind, ha. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread) |
| Thank Allah that you got out of Utah. That sounds rotten. Vegas is better, I hope. So what do you want to do with your life? Are you still searching? (Which is an utterly stupid question, because after all you've written about the Nugget, I can't imagine you coming back and saying, "no, Mary, the Casino world is the life for me.") What's next for Master P. Clare? M (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread) |
| No, Mary, the Casino world is the life for me. I don't know what I want to do, but I'm trying. Please see my first entry. I still haven't heard back from that employer, I think that is a good sign or a bad one. I was thinking of going back to school, but I don't know what I would want to do. I was thinking of becoming an engineer because it requires less people contact and you can have a goatee. My sister became an engineer and now makes pretty good money. She also has to travel to Korea to work on tanks. Yes, South Korea, not North. She doesn't like Korea like I did. She thinks it smells. Greg is going back to school right now to be a vet assistant so I'm stuck unless I can find a job that pays as well. A nice lateral move would be good. However, this is the highest paying job I have ever had. How can I find a job in another field that will pay as well for entry position? I'm screwed. Any suggestions? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread) |
| I think being an engineer would be cool! Would they let you wear the little cap and pull the rope on the steam whistle as you chugged down the tracks?? OK, I have to git to the airport. More soon. M (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread) |
| OK, maybe I should has specified electrical engineer and more specifically my sister has the redundant title of electrical electronic engineer. Apparently there is a difference between the two. I don't know what it is. Sorry, Mary, you probably go this in your inbox again. I saw a spelling mistake and it was driving me crazy. I had to fix it. (Reply to this) (Parent) |
| Wow, with those crappy benefits I am impressed there are enough people willing to do that job. (Reply to this) (Thread) |
| It can pay really well for an unskilled job. It really isn't unskilled, but you only have to take a month long class. I'm probably going to make $50,000 this year for work that I leave at work. When I worked at the hospital, I was working hard and using my smarts and I made $27,000 a year. I've almost doubled my salary. |
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