I work in casinos. In various Canadian jurisdictions, gaming, which is controlled by the provinces, offers registered charities the opportunity to fund raise by staffing the cash cage as well as the count rooms. Two or three times a year (and my wife far more frequently) I work in the games cash cage. I've been gm, banker, cashier, and once as a chip runner. The urban casinos, for charity distribution purposes, pool profits, distributing profits to the charities on a quarterly basis. Charity portion (fir a 2 day event) average about $1500 per position per shift. Translates to 60k plus per event for the charities.
There is definite humour value working in the cash cage from a stores that no longer welcome your playing company.
Luckily for your wife, she was able to get you to sign up to work for the charity events. Otherwise she would have been uncomfortable when a few coworkers of hers saw security dragging your ass to the door, and said isn't that your husband? With the response I never seen him before.
Last edited by BoSox; 01-01-2018 at 02:27 PM.
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-at 1 backoff where I was told I wasn't allowed into the casino, I said I volunteered - no prob was the response. I simply walk into the casino. For concerts, I simply call up if there is an event I want to go to, and I get temporary dispensation.
-when I'm GM, I have access to the software system. If I want, I have all the names of all the staff in all if the positions on duty for that shift. Possibly more. I never took advantage of it, other than finding a plethora of names.
-the wife and I have worked the same casino, but have usually worked different shifts.
Many years ago I considered work in a casino as a dealer, the thought crossed my mind when I was younger but I ended up going in other directions earlier in life. I had relatives in Vegas and would have been juiced right in. As a kid seeing Vegas for the first time (at about 11 years old), the lights, the glitz, the tits, I was thinking, "Fuck yeah, I could get used to this!" Perhaps it's just as well...
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