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not EVERY person they fire is fired because he knows things that might get them in trouble and force them to close hundreds of hotel rooms for weeks and is making waves about it and refuses to go away silently. Sometimes they get it right.

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Huh what?

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Story playing out the last few weeks in the Review Journal.

A laborer was bitching at his boss and boss' boss and boss' boss' boss telling them "you're violating building codes, you can't do this, this is wrong, you have to have inspections, they just drilled through structural support cables and weakened the building, STOP." His bosses told him to STFU. He kept making waves...

Then he asked his boss if he could take home a sample of various types of fluorescent light bulbs to try out and see which his wife liked. Boss said "sure". Security grabbed him walking out with a box of bulbs, he couldn't produce paperwork proving he had permission, and they axed him.

So he called the RJ. They start nosing around and the county tries to brush 'em off. RJ won't go away and keeps digging. County sends the same "in their pocket, it seems" inspector out to look it over and he returns saying "looks fine to me". RJ calls BS--he's the same inspector who let all this happen in the first place.

Turns out, it's all true. All those major rennovations Harrah's did on the Rio and later-discovered, Harrah's itself, were done without building permits and didn't get proper inspections. And yes, they DID fail to fire caulk newly drilled holes, and yes, they DID drill through and break structural support cables.

So the last weeks large parts of Harrah's and the Rio were closed as they tore out walls and floors and fixed things while inspectors watched. At one point, simply because the fire alarms hadn't been properly inspected, Harrah's was ordered to station a security guard on each impacted floor 24x7 to manually report fires.

Moral of the story... don't fire the guy who knows all the dirt.