Did You Say 4.5 Million?

[crashhelmet]

I was reminded about this when reading and replying to a post about high rollers in Vegas. I was working in IT for <insert name that MUST be spelled in all capital letters> and got a call from one of the admins at a property on The Strip. She had just finished running the morning discrepancy report to determine whether or not the property made or lost money the day before.

CH: <intro spiel>
Admin: CH, I've got a problem with the discrepancy report I'm hoping you could help me with.
CH: Sure. What seems to be the problem?
Admin: <VERY calmly, like it's no big deal> There's $4.5 million missing from it. I can't seem to find it anywhere.
CH: Did you say $4.5 million?
Admin: Yeah. It's not really a big deal. I know we'll find it, but I can't send this report out until we do.

Through this whole call, she's calm, collected, and never has the slightest bit of panic in her voice. meanwhile, I'm sweating bullets, freaking out, combing through every database we have trying to find this large, unmistakable sum of money. I've worked in casinos where being $20 short was enough to get people fired. But $4.5 million?

It turned out that there was a problem with the marker system at this property and three markers, each for $1.5 million, didn't end up in the report because of it.

All 3 markers were issued to the same player from like 3am to 5:30am.

The admin thanked me for finding it and helping her get the report corrected. I sat there baffled asking myself questions like:

"What kind of credit do you have to have to get that kind of marker?"
"What kind of credit do you have to have to get that kind of marker 3 TIMES?"
"What kind of job do you have to have credit to get that kind of marker 3 times?"
"Do you have a daughter/grand daughter/sister?"

CH

[Angry_Hippie]

OH MY GOSH! I assume since this person got that marker 3 times. They LOST that much without batting an eye. I bet they were nice about it too . I'm working on being desensitized to the money at work. For our high end property I had a player complaining we couldn't comp him a room for the labor day Sunday. He mentioned how he gambled $x,xxx the weekend before (and he had). Any of our other properties he'd get whatever he needed. At the high end one I can't even let him talk to a host.

I played at a low end property a week ago where the whole table paused while a marker was processed. The amount was $100. Who gets a $100 marker lol I'd either have them stop playing for the evening or go get a cash advance (I played dark side and tripled my $40 bucks while everyone else at the table lost and my night still ended SHITTY thanks to Jager).

[infinitemonkies]

In accounting, 4.5 million is nothing, really easy fix.

1 cent is a huge PITA.

It's also probably the only industry that can justify paying 3 employees $30/hour for 3-4 hours to fix a 1 penny mistake.

[AccountingDrone]

In accounting, 4.5 million is nothing, really easy fix.

1 cent is a huge PITA.

It's also probably the only industry that can justify paying 3 employees $30/hour for 3-4 hours to fix a 1 penny mistake.

No shit ... I regularly dealt with telling a vendor that we were NOT paying from $100 000 up to $3 000 000, but justifying why we shorted paying an invoice by $3 was the biggest pain in the ass....

Biggest amount I ever personally dealt with was in the vicinity of $12 000 000.

[Food Lady]

In accounting, 4.5 million is nothing, really easy fix. 1 cent is a huge PITA. It's also probably the only industry that can justify paying 3 employees $30/hour for 3-4 hours to fix a 1 penny mistake.

I'm kind of a picky person, but I'm just never going to "get" this.

[sms001]

I'm kind of a picky person, but I'm just never going to "get" this.

You're not picky - no one outside of their industry "gets" this.
A seven cent deviation means a COUNTING mistake was made - hard to verify, and harder to track down. A seven million percent deviation (.07 to 70,000.00) just means a little decimal point placement error.

I worked a convenience store that had an INCREDIBLE one day yearly event. I'm talking a FIVE extra zeroes sort of day.

Got a call from corporate three days after my signed deposit.

"Is (store owner) in?"

"No, may I help you?"

"Yes, this is Beanus Counterus. Is it possible that you made a drop of $1,600,000?"

(Incredulous Me) "Sure! We had a great day!"

..............................................VERY non-laughing silence.

(Sad for the Bean Counters Me) "Uh, no, we were very busy, but that must have been entered wrong. I'll have (Store Owner) contact you about it. May I have your number please?"

Pennies bother them, powers of ten, not so much.

[Ronald]

"What kind of credit do you have to have to get that kind of marker?"
"What kind of credit do you have to have to get that kind of marker 3 TIMES?"
"What kind of job do you have to have credit to get that kind of marker 3 times?"
"Do you have a daughter/grand daughter/sister?"

(1) it's backed with real cash...security provided is irrevocable
(2) same as above. The line limit was known to both parties before the first marker
(3) most have varied diversified investments... old or new money.... the odd one is a CEO...
(4) yes. one daughter left... granddaughters still into barbies.

[BlaqueKatt]

Biggest amount I ever personally dealt with was in the vicinity of $12 000 000.

sadly I can top that-$50,000,000.00 working billing disputes for a telecom company who has a symbol that resembles the death star-and that was a credit to the account for one month's billing-company had an account that billed on a different account every month as the billing system could not handle more than 50 mil per month-well one month it billed on the wrong account-had to manually credit one account and manually debit another. And it was credited/debited in $100.00 increments(per line on the account)


my limit where I didn't need a supervisor to approve was 10 grand, average was around 50 grand.