Hey gang, this is baaad news for those of us in the gaming business. As we all know, Wynn is quite the stud when it comes to running a business. However, he’s doing something now that could spell trouble down the road.
http://tinyurl.com/rpwwv
The stink is, by the law, we can’t do a dang thing about it. We know how cheap the gaming industry can be. It won’t be long before the corporate bean counters see another way to make more profit, and we make less money.
Jay
(edit: I created links – Scott)
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August 25th, 2006 at 6:23 am
While I understand the disparity in the $$$ between the level of employees.. I, personally, don’t think it’s up to the dealers to fork over the dough to make up the difference that the management wants in pay. That’s the casino’s duty, if you ask me.
It’s only really a problem in a very few really high end casinos too. I can’t imagine it going over well anywhere in the Missouri market haha. Or at most Vegas casinos either. But who knows. In the midwest it would be much less well recieved… if you wanna put it that way.
I don’t think too many Wynn Casino dealers are gonna quit over it.. seeing as how they will still be the highest paid in the business probably.
August 25th, 2006 at 8:42 am
Thanks for the edit of the links….I know nothing about HTML or any computer speak like that. I know the dealers at CP make a boatload as well. There were some good points made on dicedealer.com concerning the whole thing. Heck, if the floors are making tips from the dealers, why not security for bringing fills. Or the pit clerks for all the data entry, or the cocktail waitresses for coming by and dumping ash trays or housekeeping for cleaning around the tables and dumping trash. It’s a very dangerous precedent being set period. Granted the limited loss market is probably our saving grace, maybe, doesn’t mean it won’t be tried elsewhere in the state (think Harrah’s).
August 25th, 2006 at 11:46 am
Ok, Mr. Toke Committe how about we put a law in our toke laws that states the company can’t tell us how to distribute our tokes, or who we distribute them to.
August 25th, 2006 at 11:59 am
It was mentioned in one of the links…a federal judge (granted this was back in 1975) that any person in the “chain of customer service” has claim to the tokes. Now, I’ve been thinking about this a wee bit, I think a lot of it has to do as retaliation. Some of the dealers were using the attendance system (sound familiar) to their advantage (plus supposedly a George came through, got on a run and dropped 100K for the boys and girls, lucky b@$!@&#s). I think that has something to do with it. I’ve already emailed Kat today about the whole thing. I think you will see it added to our toke committee by-laws (but, as a caveat, the corporate lawyer has to approve all the stuff we put up for votes), if Neilsen or any other corporate bean counter has anything to say about it, it doesn’t matter, they’ll just make it company policy, and there isn’t a damned thing we can do to change it. However, I do also echo Scott’s sentiment, we are a limited market, therefore, we don’t have the money coming through here like Wynn does (remember, he’s a high end casino). Granted, if something like this comes around though…we’re all in heap big trouble.
Jay
August 25th, 2006 at 9:09 pm
The tip that might have set it off was $500,000 actually. Although it has been a long-standing problem for Mr. Wynn at his top casinos. It’s only at those casinos though and so while the industry many times follows the precedents he sets, I really hope we don’t see it happening in more than a handful of the high dollar joints.