in your face
My teeth were grinding against each other as I chewed on the sweetened ham. The happy cloud that passed over me when I saw that, for once, breakfast at work was edible suddenly turned grey.
Why?
Because I just learned that due to 'us' dealers getting back our twenty five percent share of tips from the guest services people, they are getting a two dollar raise. Which makes their starting wage $11 per hour.
When I heard that rumor, I almost choked.
That had got to be the shittiest improvement this casino has ever done. They raised everybody's wages except that of the dealers. Guest services only amount to fifty employees and that includes their managers and supervisors. To give them a two dollar raise would be nothing to the company. Compare that to over five hundred dealers and supervisors. That's a shitload of money every month.
We are the lowest paid employees in this casino and the ones that get the most shit from customers. You'd think the company would give us compensation for that. No, they think tips are enough.
Fuck that!
Tips are shared by everybody. The management imposed that rule. They promised every newly hired employee that they'd get a cut. They didn't even ask the dealers for their opinion if they wanted to share it. To think that we, dealers, are the ones that are out there, licking the customer's boot at every turn of the card just to have that one dollar in the end. To think that we, dealers, have to swallow that so-called-pride because we know it will be worth it.
Now, when they give everybody a raise except us, how are we to go about our work with enthusiasm knowing that we only get paid the lowest amount possible? Customer service? What the fuck is that? Let that guest services attendant handle it. After all, they are getting paid for that shit, aren't they?
Why?
Because I just learned that due to 'us' dealers getting back our twenty five percent share of tips from the guest services people, they are getting a two dollar raise. Which makes their starting wage $11 per hour.
When I heard that rumor, I almost choked.
That had got to be the shittiest improvement this casino has ever done. They raised everybody's wages except that of the dealers. Guest services only amount to fifty employees and that includes their managers and supervisors. To give them a two dollar raise would be nothing to the company. Compare that to over five hundred dealers and supervisors. That's a shitload of money every month.
We are the lowest paid employees in this casino and the ones that get the most shit from customers. You'd think the company would give us compensation for that. No, they think tips are enough.
Fuck that!
Tips are shared by everybody. The management imposed that rule. They promised every newly hired employee that they'd get a cut. They didn't even ask the dealers for their opinion if they wanted to share it. To think that we, dealers, are the ones that are out there, licking the customer's boot at every turn of the card just to have that one dollar in the end. To think that we, dealers, have to swallow that so-called-pride because we know it will be worth it.
Now, when they give everybody a raise except us, how are we to go about our work with enthusiasm knowing that we only get paid the lowest amount possible? Customer service? What the fuck is that? Let that guest services attendant handle it. After all, they are getting paid for that shit, aren't they?
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