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Coming from someone who used to work in a casino (Winstar)

If a dealer comes up short in the chip tray, they pay it with their tips

If a banker comes up short in their bank, it comes out of their own pocket

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Then you should have filed a complaint, because that is illegal

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lol

This is what happens: you file a complaint, you never hear from the people in charge of reviewing complaints. Or if you do they say "it's been taken care of", you never get the money you paid back, nothing changes. That's how reality works.

Want to challenge it? Speak up? Guess what, you're fired. But they can't fire me over defending my legal rights! Too bad, you're fired. Out the door. Goodbye.

Your recourse? Spend a lot of money ($20k was quoted as average in my union book when I worked at a supermarket, though it has motivation to exaggerate) or a long winded wrongful firing suit. Even if you win you'll get basically nothing, especially as you are going up against the govt (casino owned by govt). Really following this court method is only profitable if you made a lot of money at your job - some $10 or $15 / h cashier just isn't going to A) have the capital to undertake and it B) if he does, will likely only win a few weeks or months wages, probably less than his court costs. And that's if you win.

So yeah, complaints and rights are nice on paper but have no bearing in an actual working environment.

Oh, and by the way, if you do follow the expensive wrongful firing route, they'll just say that you were fired for some small detail or whatever. And yes, no employee is perfect, everyone has some tiny fault. You'll be officially fired for whatever that is, not for being a nuisance and breaking their status quo by standing up for yourself.



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I would have simply avoided all of this by just saying "[censored] you I quit" the second they said I had to pay the shortage.

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Thing is if you are working this job you usually can't afford to not be working it.