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Old 08-09-2005, 03:27 PM
Moneyline Moneyline is offline
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Default Re: Chip Runner Lays Odds

I'm not sure whether or not it was immoral for Sparks to keep the money. It wasn't particularly classy and I don't think he should have done it, but I can't speak from the moral high ground and condemn him (as a few posters in this thread have done). I do, however, feel that there is one huge scumbag in this scenario that needs to be chastised: the casino. We pretty much all agree that the casino is going to charge the employee who overpayed Sparks. However, if this same employee had shorted Sparks I find it highly unlikely that the casino would have tracked him down to pay him the extra money, and I know for a fact the casino wouldn't have given the extra money to the employee. So the casino is benefits every time an employee makes the honest mistake of underpaying, but remains even when an employee makes the honest mistake of overpaying. It's also worth noting that the reason the employee (the Mom working 2 jobs that one poster described) can't afford to pay back the casino is because the casino is severely underpaying her in the first place when they can afford to pay her much better. Sparks may have been wrong in this instance, but the casino is the one that is clearly immoral.
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