{"id":16419,"date":"2015-07-20T10:06:49","date_gmt":"2015-07-20T18:06:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=16419"},"modified":"2020-09-16T05:26:08","modified_gmt":"2020-09-16T13:26:08","slug":"pit-bosses-think-their-job-is-the-pits-one-hoss-hsieh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/pit-bosses-think-their-job-is-the-pits-one-hoss-hsieh\/","title":{"rendered":"Pit bosses think their job is the pits; One-hoss Hsieh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>PayScale.com<\/strong> has been researching the most and least meaningful jobs, and some of it reflects unfavorably on our casino industry. Table game <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Maco-table-action.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-13023\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Maco-table-action.jpg\" alt=\"Maco table action\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Maco-table-action.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Maco-table-action-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>supervisors &#8220;report that they do not find their jobs meaningful, 20% actually believe their jobs make the world a worse place.&#8221; (Even if <strong>Steve Wynn<\/strong> gives them a cut of the dealers&#8217; tips?) That puts them in third place on the dissatisfaction index, outdone only by warehouse pickers (21%) and fast food workers (25%). One would expect a hash slinger at, say, <strong>Wendy&#8217;s<\/strong> to feel unfulfilled in their work &#8230; but pit bosses? This sounds like a serious morale problem that the casino industry should make haste to address.<\/p>\n<p>* <strong>Angela Leong<\/strong>, legislator and the power behind the <strong>Sociedade de Jogos de Macau<\/strong> throne, <!--more--><a href=\"http:\/\/ggbnews.com\/issue\/vol-13-no-29-july-20-2015\/article\/macau-to-back-off-tobacco-ban\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" class=\"broken_link\">is emerging as a key player<\/a> in <strong>Macao<\/strong>&#8216;s reevaluation of its casino smoking ban. The government must walk a fine line between workers&#8217; health concerns and the potential loss of income. As players continue to defect, the enclave&#8217;s 2% unemployment rate is not a concern, as lawmakers say mainland Chinese can be laid off to make room for Macanese citizens.<\/p>\n<p>* While the <strong>Tony Hsieh<\/strong> cult of personality at <strong>Zappos.com<\/strong> appears to be floundering, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/07\/19\/business\/at-zappos-selling-shoes-and-a-vision.html?emc=edit_th_20150719&amp;nl=todaysheadlines&amp;nlid=15322375&amp;_r=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" class=\"broken_link\">there&#8217;s incremental progress<\/a> on the <strong>Downtown Project<\/strong> front.<\/p>\n<p>* Congratulations to <strong>Patrick Ramsey<\/strong>, new chief digital officer of <strong>Aristocrat Leisure<\/strong>. Ramsey was formerly CEO of <strong>Multimedia Games<\/strong>, which was purchased by <strong>Global Cash Access<\/strong> last year.<\/p>\n<p>* <strong>Donald Trump<\/strong>&#8216;s increased prominence has caused an explosion of imitation hairstyles in the feline world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PayScale.com has been researching the most and least meaningful jobs, and some of it reflects unfavorably on our casino industry. Table game supervisors &#8220;report that they do not find their jobs meaningful, 20% actually believe their jobs make the world &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/pit-bosses-think-their-job-is-the-pits-one-hoss-hsieh\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[106,42,51,14,117,62,99],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16419"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16419"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27987,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16419\/revisions\/27987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}