I'll take the light duty.
So after the negotiations and discussions with various management, a position of light duty has been arranged for me so that i can work while i am dealing with tendinitis.
The pit is the only department that does NOT have a light duty position at this casino. So I have coincidentally been given a position as Poker Room Cashier.
S is a Poker Room supervisor there as you probably know, and so far I am not allowed to work there the same days he does, and he only works 3 days a week, so i work the other 4 and am scheduled 10-hour shifts.
Last night was the 1st night of this for me. And I have a bit of casino cage cashier experience from when i 1st moved to Vegas, at the Western on Fremont Street. Ya I know that was a bad choice, but a story for another time too.
So I was familiar with how to handle the drawer and I only had to learn a few things on the computer. It was all pretty fairly easy.
Given the option to stay in this position long term i might take it. I wish there was a way to have days off with S tho. I guess if this becomes a permanent thing, we might be able to work it out.
I just have to learn to listen for the dealers when they call out for chips. I don't always hear it, so maybe after a few shifts i will hear it naturally.
In the mean time, last night a few co-workers from the pit wandered in to play and or to visit. Everyone seems to know already that "I'm not allowed to work in the pit until I'm 100%" and since some cases of tendinitis are chronic, I may not get to go back....
All I can say is let's wait and see what happens, I may just go back to Vegas in the long-run!
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Sorry to hear about the tendonitis. Glad to hear that you are not ignoring the situation. Good luck to you.
Sorry about the injury BUT it might turn out to open a better opportunity for you in the Poker Room. Better conditions and better job. Who knows, maybe they will train you to be a poker dealer....eventually.
Talking about the Western, they are run by Navigante who also runs the Plaza, Vegas Club and Gold Spike....also Sahara coincidentally. That corporation does NOT know how to run anything casino wise. They just closed the EDR's at the Plaza, Vegas Club and also closed the only restaurant at the Vegas Club. They also sliced and diced at the other 2 properties for a total of 100 jobs. BTW, they also closed the short lived poker room at the Vegas Club and never gave it a chance to run because there were no posters or signs letting peeps know it existed. Brainiacs run these casinos into the ground. I guess it's like they say: "They always have the right to mismanage" Too bad it's the workers that get axed because of incompetency.
Hope you feel better and tell S hello.
we will see what happens as time goes, in the poker room vs. the pit. you are right, i may not want to go back.
wow Navigante let it all go to pott huh! no EDR? so what /where do the employees eat?
>I may just go back to Vegas in the long-run!
It sounds as if your Vegas training and experience might be appreciated in Vegas; its obviously not being valued much in Santa Fe and is not likely to be valued much there for some reason.
Actually I think hearing impairment is a requirement of anyone who aspires to a poker room cashier/floor position.
If you eventually "tune-in" to the voices of your dealers you will be eternally appreciated by them.
I wish you both luck in your planned escape from the current situation...........
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