2004-09-30 ~ 4:00 a.m.

BLUESPHERE! Really Human Idiots! Will Work For Proper Service!

Firstly...
If you ever ever EVER buy from Amazon, and you don't go through here... BLUESPHERE!!! first, you are dead to me. It's the second easiest way to give to a charity in the whole wide world.

BLUESPHERE!!! is the pet charity of THAT GUY THAT RUNS 12% BEER THAT I BADMOUTHED AWHILE BACK, AND WHO I STALK REGULARLY BECAUSE, REALLY, INSIDE I'M JUST JEALOUS.

All that you have to do before you make an Amazon purchase is go here: BLUESPHERE!!! click to Amazon through there, and when you make a purchase, Amazon will donate 5% of your purchase to the Foster Parents Plan. (More infor on the Foster Parents Plan off of the BLUESPHERE!!! website.

Christmas is coming and I know you lazy bastards are going to try to buy as much as you can off of Amazon, so you may as well do it Joe's way, and no one will get hurt. :)

(If you were wondering, the first easiest way to give to a charity would be to go THE BREAST CANCER SITE. All you have to do is click on buttons to give to charities on that one. So, do it everyday!)

Now, I got this message in my guestbook...
"And WHAAA? Tip? I am not an avid gambler, but I NEVER tip ever. It never occured to me. But I play once every 5 yrs for 10 minutes. Not to slight your field of work, but you are slinging me cards, its not a huge effort. I know you stand there and tolerate the patrons, but that is what the salary is for, isn't it? I am not trying to be rude, I just don't understand the need for tipping a dealer - clue me in"

In his defense, if I should choose to defend him, his diaryland name IS HUMAN IDIOT. (Yeah, go put mean things in his guestbook.)

I left him a message for him to guess how much I make. He hasn't made that guess yet. But I was impatient to answer this here, so I would guess that he would guess at LEAST $10 an hour. This is an average guess.

This is what I might make if I were a dealer in England. And that's a big MAYBE. Dealers in England are hardly even allowed to talk to players though. I'll tell you England dealer stories I know some other time.

Back to my story...

The casino that I work for gives me health benefits. Dental and vision included. My health care is an HMO, so don't get all excited on me. I do also have a 401K plan. The casino also matches about 10% of what I put in. They're lovely. Our vacation time is actually really neat. Every pay period I earn vacation hours to do with as I please. I don't have to wait until I accrue 40 hours before taking time off. I can just decide to take one day off here or a couple days off there. That's pretty cool.

Now, my lovely hourly wage. My wage to sit there "tolerate the patrons". And, if you could only understand what is involved in tolerating the patrons. I'm not sure I'll ever describe it correctly. Here, let me try. Have you seen Dumb and Dumber? And you know that part where he says, "Do you want to hear the most annoying sound in the world?" And then he makes the most annoying sound in the world? It's like someone standing there and doing that, non-stop, and you HAVE to stand there and listen to it. You canNOT walk away. You just have to stand there and smile while the most annoying sound is being made by the most annoying person in the world, PROBABLY while they're smoking a cigar. It's truly a test of patience.

And, if I didn't get tipped by customers, then I would have to endure all this for a WHOPPING $6.15 an hour. Yes. Six Dollars and fifteen WHOLE cents an hour.

So, if you see a bitter old dealer, now you know why.

I would hope that none of you would go to a nice dinner where the waitress was delightful and not tip her. It just wouldn't be right. It's pretty much the same.

Remember: TIPS stands for "To Insure Proper (Polite) Service".

I give people the benefit of the doubt. I'm always nice to people when they first walk up, but if they start to win, and there is no sign of a tip, I'll just stop talking. If they ask a question, I'll answer, sure, but I won't continue conversation. My husband is funny, if you're winning and don't tip, he won't even answer your questions. He'll completely ignore you.

If you don't tip, you're basically saying that all I deserve is minimum wage. And, to me, if you think that all I deserve is minimum wage, than I believe that all you deserve is minimum wage service. This is also why deciding to tip at the end is a bad idea.

Again, I'll talk to tipping at the end later... probably when someone does it or says it at work. (In the meantime, someone keep track of the stories that I say I'll get into later...)

Now, I sleep.

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