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Old 08-08-2005, 01:09 PM
Sparks Sparks is offline
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A chip runner at a Los Angeles area casino inadvertantly gave me an extra $100 last night when coloring up my chips. I didn't say anything -- I just kept the money.

Does anyone know what sort of accounting procedures they have for chip runners? Will this guy end up $100 short at the end of his shift, or something?

I seem to remember a thread on this forum where a guy said he had to pay back a casino for some mistake they made giving change or some such thing.

And of course feel free to comment on my principles. [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

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Old 08-08-2005, 01:19 PM
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You have principles?
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Old 08-08-2005, 01:23 PM
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Uhhh... well... you could always just tell the chip-runner they were $100 heavy?

That way you can go to sleep at night and so on and so forth.

My guess is someone's paying for that $100. And it's probably not the shareholders of the Commerce Casino.
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Old 08-08-2005, 01:37 PM
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the chip runner will most definetly pay the $100 out of his pocket. its probably a college kid trying to make enough money to eat something other than top ramen. but if you're lucky, maybe it was a woman with 3 kids working her second job at night. hopefully, her husband drinks his paycheck every night and beats her regularly and the only way her kids eat between their beatings is if she brings home 2 paychecks. but that's only wishful thinking. now, if i were to have met you that night, and you would have told me that, i would have collapsed your eye socket. maybe both.

as a sidebar, you are a piece of sh.it. you should strongly consider suicide.

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Old 08-08-2005, 02:01 PM
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as a sidebar, you are a piece of sh.it. you should strongly consider suicide.

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What I'm interested in is if anyone knows of a specific accounting procedure the chip runners have. There was a new game starting, the runner brought over like 10 racks of checks to sell to every one.

Legally, I doubt the chip runner would have to pay back an underage. I think he'd have a legitimate complaint against the casino if they made him pay. Accidental errors are just a cost of doing business in a casino, IMO.

And don't feel TOO bad for the house. They only drop (including asian games) about $250,000... a day.

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Old 08-08-2005, 02:03 PM
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I've had this happen to me on a few occassions cashing out racks of chips. My feeling is that the cashier will likely either have to make up the cash or be fired if the drawer is off...these totals are closely accounted for. I feel like she needs her job more than I need $100 THAT DOESN'T BELONG TO ME. I think keeping the money here is wrong and I would never do it. Same thing if a bank teller gives me extra. You know it's wrong and you take it...that's theft in my mind.

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Old 08-08-2005, 02:05 PM
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she needs her job more than I need $100 THAT DOESN'T BELONG TO ME...that's theft in my mind.

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Old 08-08-2005, 02:30 PM
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Legally, I doubt the chip runner would have to pay back an underage. I think he'd have a legitimate complaint against the casino if they made him pay. Accidental errors are just a cost of doing business in a casino, IMO.

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Perhaps you're right, all they can legally do is fire the chip runner (unless he pays back the $100). Maybe they'll short his last check (legally or not) and let him sue for it.

At best, it's a black mark against this person's record, but hey, you got $100, so what do you care?
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Old 08-08-2005, 02:43 PM
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Legally, I doubt the chip runner would have to pay back an underage. I think he'd have a legitimate complaint against the casino if they made him pay

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so you simultaneously lack fundamental moral principles and the intelligence to logically deduce that if the casino did not make him pay, it would be extremely easy for ANY person in ANY casino with the same policy to set up a pretty serious theft ring with friends? you live in LA...lemme guess, you think bush and arnold are both crooks looking to skrew over the common man? i can tell you for an absolute fact, you straight up STOLE $100 from the runner. people like you need to be deported.
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Old 08-08-2005, 03:16 PM
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you are a punk. that is all.
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