The AI generating image software is kinda struggling right now.

Or maybe the casinos set the prices the games are played at and they essentially hire the bankers to be money launderers.

That's pretty much it. The casinos are usually owned by corporate chains and banker corporations are even bigger chains. It's all just a money-laundering scheme because California capitalists want to get in on the profits. The casino owners basically buy franchises.

So I'm paid a little above minimum wage and that's it. Dealers get paid less because of tips and because they're not considered full-time workers, they don't get standard benefits.

Also they're allowed to gamble onesite which is predatory af

A lot of them are on the wealthy side, but we do get some people who are on the addicted side and cannot really afford to play. It's a gross place. There's a cash advance kiosk onsite

For every hand dealt, someone pays what's called collection. I'm not sure how it goes for non cardroom settings.

Oh yeah, I can see how that could come off tone -wise. It's just interesting in light of recent ballot measures and the growing popularity of sports gambling. LMAO California landowners come together to complain and spend money at these depressing places. I just feel bad when the occasional broke person comes in and loses.

Ooof the pharmacy industry feels like a constant barrage of psychic damage but in a different way. Here's to doing our jobs against the interest of capital!

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California style is just a way to skirt gambling laws. Picture a triangle with three arrows:

1 casino

2 player

3 banker

Banker is just the extra step that converts profits in a legal way. Nevada style is just a two-way process between player and casino. It's a scummy bullshit job that wouldn't exist in a decent society. But I put most of my hate on the wealthy fucks who run the place and the corporation that employs us bankers.

I do malicious compliance where I can. I point out bad odds certain games have, encourage players to color up (take their small chips and convert them to bigger chips) so they'll be less likely to continue gambling, I openly share whatever I hear from supervisors about wages and I'll slip in union/leftist terminology when I get the chance.

However, there are few opportunities to talk to players or coworkers and that's very much by design.

Poker doesn't need a house to operate, but players come in to have a professional dealer handle the game and manage chips.

I've seen a lot of blackjack, baccarat, pai gow, and some forms of poker.

Customers can pay collection if they don't want to use a banker to play, but a banker has to be available at the table just in case. And the dealer has to make it known that anyone can be a banker. Dealers show the camera this by hand gestures.

I wish I could cut people off, but that's under the purview of the casino itself which is its own company. Though I'll offer players to convert their chips into larger denominations to encourage them to gamble less and get out.

Never been directly compared to Monopoly outside of training. Folks tend to take out all of their hostility on the dealer and don't seem interested in why I'm sitting at the end of the table.

I'm actually talking about unions a lot in risky ways because fuck it. But there are a few left-adjacent folks there who hate the place. But turnover is so high because of course.

I have a stack of money in the form of chips (like the banker in Monopoly is how I was told to help me remember and explain to customers) and say you're playing blackjack. The dealer lays out your cards and I give them a five dollar chip to pay the casino. That's where card rooms get their money. If you lose the money from blackjack, that goes to me and goes to my stack.

I'm not allowed to handle chips outside of that context and so I cannot get tips. I'm paid hourly.

I'm technically acting to complete a legal loophole.

Never saw it, but I have all new layers of hate for the movie 21.

"Winner winner chicken dinner" is going to be scrawled on my walls when the feds come for me.

Every boomer thinks they're so funny when they say it.