I did absolutely nothing

I'm at the end of my first day off in a while with nothing much to report. Sorry for everyone that has been checking in here recently expecting some crazy insane Las Vegas stories, but my "new" job on the Strip has been keeping me mighty busy these days with no real time for shenanigans! As I've mentioned in a couple previous posts, I just got done with a pretty crazy stretch of shifts that saw me working 11 out of the last 12 days. So once again, any worries that I might have had about getting fewer days/shifts by moving to day shift have been squashed for the time being. I just spent today sleeping in, playing some playstation, eating pizza with Danielle and generally being a bum. The only light of day I saw was when I walked down to check the mail!

On the work front, the tips were a little above average over July 4th weekend, but nothing to knock your socks off. We're still struggling to post numbers above $100, and the last couple of days (holiday weekend hangover days) were in the dreadful $70s! Despite that fact, the number of shifts I've worked recently just resulted in the biggest single paycheck that I have ever earned since moving to Vegas 16 months ago!! So yes, I think I deserved to lounge around being a bum all day!

As hard as it is to find a dealing job in Vegas these days, it does seem like my casino is a little light on the personnel, which would explain the number of days I've worked recently. On Tuesday, for the first time ever, I was on the dice table when a group of aspiring dealers were auditioning for jobs. Only one of the four actually auditioned on the dice table though. She tapped in at stick and on her first three rolls she proceeded to sweep the dice back toward the center of the table BEFORE making any kind of stick call at all. One of the first things taught in school is make the call, then bring the dice back to the center. I was on 2nd base at the time, so I knew they were gonna have her tap me out, which happened after a few more rolls. As soon as she stepped in, a couple guys threw in some money for place bets that weren't really "usual", at least not to someone brand new. I think the first bet was $17 on the even numbers, which I could tell confused the hell out of her. The second was $24 total on the six and eight and $5 each on the five and nine. I was guiding her over her shoulder, but before I could even say anything I watched as she picked up BOTH of the player's bets and then tried to set them up! After floundering for a while, I just had to step in, say "stop", and set up the bets for her. Honestly, I come from an educationally based background and you won't find many people more patient than me, but this wasn't dealer school and I knew that whatever disaster she was making would be inherited by me in about 5 minutes. So I wasn't exactly feeling patient at that point and just kind of barked at her what to do each roll. In hindsight it was a little harsh, but the supervisors afterwards told me I did a "good job" in keeping everything from getting out of hand. As you might guess, she and I probably won't be working together anytime soon. But I always have to give respect to someone, as green as they are, auditioning on dice when the other 3 people didn't have the guts to do so!

What's on tap for tomorrow? Same as today....a whole lot of nothing!