Pros: paid breaks, employees
Cons: healthcare, bosses, hr, low pay, shady company work, biased towards certian employees
This is one of the worst companies to work for period. There is way too much favoritism and comradare amongst certian bosses and certian employees. The bad employees continue to stay bad becuase they are friends with the bosses, and the good employess have to pick up the slack for their lack of work or they end up getting fired for dumb reasons.
They
– more... have millions and millions of dollars to waste on major projects, yet they can't afford to give someone a dollar raise a year - only up to a quarter a year.
The employees are grossly underpaid for their work, and the bosses are grossly OVERPAID for their work.
Also it sickens me that certian rules only pertain to the actual employees yet the bosses seem to be immune (I.E Carrying a soda or coffee onto the casino floor while making the rounds with guests, making the smoking breakroom their "office")
At this company, their is a no fault point system. This point system allows for employees 9 points for their entire employment. This seems fair - except for that for one point to fall off you have to wait an ENTIRE YEAR for it to disappear. There are no sick days, even with a doctors note, except if you miss more than 4 days BUT you still end up with two points that still take a year to fall off.
Recently, for the older employees, a new progam was implemented earlier this year. Previously, before this point system that is in place now, people used to be rewarded with free call off days, or credits. However, the people who had these "rewards" were quickly rewarded. This year, these credits were deemed as "points" and were added to their points record - because the company deemed that it was unfair that certian employees had credits and others did not. So in a sense, a reward that was given to an employee was now being deemed as a punishment.
The fact that this employer has never had a major lawsuit because of this new tactic is beyond me. But because of the economy, people are job scared, and they should be.
The healthcare is possibly on of the worst in the country - probabaly behind walmart and mcdonalds.
The unemployement system this company has is one of the worst I have ever heard of. No matter what the reason, if the employee was fired, they quickly DENY their unemployment. They find any reason to fire someone - if the labor isn't needed- just as long as they don't have to lay them off and pay them. They mess with peoples money and livilhood even though the employee is the one who pays into their unemployment insurance.
This company, when it comes to unemployment denial, they claim the former employee performed "misconduct". Usually, after the appeal process that former employee is rewarded their RIGHTFUL unemployment money. HOWEVER, it is a SHADY thing to mess with someones livilhood.
The Upper Management of this company are all bumbling idiots. The HR department is useless, except for if you need a copy of your paycheck stubs.
They only way to get anything done around there is to threaten with legal force - the thought of sending their imebecile laywer into a legal dispute is simply awful to them.
A few years ago, a major layoff happened were nearly half of the employees were laid off. For this procedure, this company had nothing but class. First of all, there was a Missouri Gaming Officer as well as a HR representative and each departments' respective director, waiting by the front entrance. Here, they had us lined up in single file as they scaned our badges to see if we had been terminated or not. From here, if you were spared, you were allowed to go to work. If you were not, you were sent to HR to turn your stuff in - where they bid you good ridiance and no hard feelings- and be walked out by a security officer publicly infront of everyone else.
Many employees are not from this region, many of them had to drive over 45 mintues to get to work that day. Only for them to find out that within the first 15 minutes that they were unemployed. They lined us up for a slaughter, for humiliation, yet they couldn't make a simple phone call to those who were to be laid off.
To top it all off, even during the massive layoff..OVER 48 OPEN POSITIONS WERE POSTED FOR EMPLOYMENT. And over half of these were FULL TIME POSTIONS. Even more incriminating, for the SAME DEPARMENTS where people where being laid off from.
Cutting costs?....
I do not regret working for this company - frankly because I am only part time - however i do regret never taking them to the EEOC for some of the practices that they have.
If you're in need of some quick money and you honestly do not care about it, and you plan on leaving right away, then this place of business is the best for you.
If you're looking for a long term career--then get your nose ready!
This is not a good place to work. But this is a good place to make easy money. Then again, strippers run into this same issue. – less