Major EW!

[Anakah]

There were only two people on the frontline and we had a little line, like five or six people back. I was about to pay out 2000 when this woman interrupts me and says: will you call?

I was mad because I don't like to be interrupted by someone NOT in line and when I am about to count out a lot of money to the guest who waited patiently in line.

Me: who?

SC: Your supervisor. I need the VIP room

Me: Okay, in a minute...

Me: (to my guest) I'm sorry about that.

I counted out the money but I had a delima, if she was a high roller she probably had a lot of money and needed a supervisor.

I left the line and went into the back and sent in the supervisor.

Soon the line goes down and I see what the transaction is. A marker. A five hundred dollar marker. A marker is kind of like a loan that they have thirty days to pay back. FIVE hundred dollars. In the VIP room, bypassing the line.

Five hundred is NOTHING. I should've told her to wait in the line and not said a freaking word to the supervisor before I got the line down.

This bitch thinks she is superior and doesn't have to wait in line and thinks its okay to interrupt people while they are trying to count because she thinks she's so important that the others have to wait after her.

She is weird. She refuses to deal with cashiers and has to have every single little transaction done in private. Now, I understand some people get nervous while everybody else gets to see what they are doing but get this, our VIP door was put in wrong you can see in but not out!

And by going into the VIP room you are drawing more attention rather than just getting into the line. Stupid Entitlement whore. Next time I will tell her she needs to wait in line. I don't care.

Okay, five hundred dollars gambling to me is not a high roller, it's piddily. It's something that shouldn't have been in the VIP room. They may sound rude but I know people who don't mind being waited on by us lowly cashiers (grrr!) who have cashed out like ten grand. But I guess I should be glad she doesn't want cashiers then we'd have to put up with her BS. I'm just cranky.

[smileyeagle1021]

you know... for peons like me, $500 is a lot of money... but I understand that I am in no way a high roller. High roller is someone who will put down more than I earn in a month on one roll of roulette (I actually have seen someone put 2k on ONE spik )

Oh and I like the cashiers at my local neighborhood (125 miles away ) casino

[Anakah]

I didn't mean to say that five hundred is nothing. Sorry if that came out really snobby or anything... Because trust me I'd be excited to win twenty bucks. But to me VIP room is more for someone the casino considers big. My personal opinon five hundred is awesome but as seen through the casino view its barely anything.

But I think its more of she refuses to be served by cashiers which makes me feel kind of low and the fact that she thought it was okay to but in while I was assisting someone else because she couldn't wait in line or wait until I was done.

Again, I am really sorry how that came out... Its late and I'm writing funny.

[smileyeagle1021]

oh, I know you didn't meen that $500 was nothing... I knew you meant in the casino's eye it's nothing. Unless I'm doing something like 10k plus I wouldn't even think of asking for a VIP room.

[HorrorFrogPrincess]

In Casino-land, 500 really IS nothing. Doesn't get to be a Something until about 4 to 10 times that amount.

Aunt is a dealer, so I pick up these things. ^^

[WageSlaveofDoom]

Yeah but no but yeah but no but!

Five hundred is NOTHING. I should've told her to wait in the line and not said a freaking word to the supervisor before I got the line down.

I've found a weird phenomenon occurs when I'm dealing with money at work. It's like it doesn't exist as "Real Cash." Sure, it counts the same, and patrons spend it the same, but it's not like the money in my pocket, you know?

$500 cash in your hand is a completely different animal than some uppity EW's $500 cashout. I've been to casinos with friends and seen people get very EWish. Anything less than $1000 doesn't seem like it would warrant anything extra... unless the patron is one who does this sort of thing every day...

The most I've ever won at a casino was $150, and that was at a slot machine... I have a serious aversion to gambling, so it took a lot to work me up to spend anything...

But seriously. Does the "not real money" thing happen to other people too? Or do I just have some issue with money at work?

[Chromatix]

Apparently it happens a lot to daytraders.

There was a big scandal in one of the French banks about a rogue trader who managed to lose the bank a lot of money by overstepping his remit (by a *lot* - he had positions open that were larger than the bank itself).

An article I read about it mentioned that it stops seeming like money to these people - they're used to dealing with telephone-number sums, but it just seems like numbers, not money.

[auntiem]

I've found a weird phenomenon occurs when I'm dealing with money at work. It's like it doesn't exist as "Real Cash." Sure, it counts the same, and patrons spend it the same, but it's not like the money in my pocket, you know?

<snip>

But seriously. Does the "not real money" thing happen to other people too? Or do I just have some issue with money at work?

Happens to me all the time. I write checks to make final payments for people often in the thousands without flinching. Last we when I had to write a check to pay off a medical bill it was very difficult to make my hand do it.

[Miyon]

Happened to me at my last job. I sometimes would assist the incompetent twit that printed the checks and put them in envelopes for claim payments. Like medical bills or auto mechanic bills.
Just didn't seem like money, just papers to print, stuff and mail.

Until one day (a claim that went to court was won for the other party) and we printed out a check for 5 million dollars. Thats when it really hit me.

[crazylegs]

I used to help out in the cash office every now and again in <The Chemists>, cash on the table was nothing, 10, 20K was just building blocks, then one Christmas we had 80K sat on the table. That was a lot.

[Kiwi]

I know what you mean Anakah. To retail peons $500 is a lot of money, thats more than a weeks salary at my last job!

When I worked at the gift shop in the upperclass mall, we had a VIP club for customers who had to spend a minimum of 2 grand with us PER MONTH. Thats easy as we sold limited edition stuff. We had 50 or so members and two of them were like super golden vips who dropped 2 grand weekly! Both of them were a riot, very friendly, very classy but never showy.

Then we would get some prole who thought they were the freaking queen because they were buying an $80 platter.... they were the ones who demanded VIP treatment. It was awesome because the floor manager would ask "oh are you members of our VIP club?" and then would tell them the minimum requirements they would shut the hell up.

Having money DOES NOT make you better than someone else!

[Anakah]

I'm used to seeing loads of money. Some of our drawers are 8 million plus so I am kind of numb when I see it. Now if it were MY money then I would be like damn that is a lot and it's pretty. My drawer right now is 80,000 and its one of the smaller ones so I guess it just takes the denominations away and into monopoly money.
And trust me as far as pay checks yes five hundred is a lot. Minimum wage out here is like 5.15 so to me spending even a hundred dollars in a casino is ridiculous. We get some high rollers who spend thirty thousand a day. Makes me sick.