I have previously opined that the most useless employee in a casino is the washroom attendant. I would like to expand that list a bit.
The security guards at the Venetian that stand at the driveway entracces and wave you through are equally useless. In the dozens and dozens of times I've been there, they have stopped me exactly once. That was on a New Year's Eve or Halloween or some other high-traffic night, when they were apparently trying to keep out people who just wanted the free Strip parking. They asked why I was coming. I said, "To play poker." That answer satisfied them, and they waved me on through. I guess those were the right code words. Good thing I knew them. Obviously, no terrorist set on pancaking the parking garage with a car bomb would ever think to tell them that.
Sunday, July 18, 2010
Useless casino employees, part 2
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I know I'm just some hick from a small east-coast fishing village called "Boston" but, to me, nothing says a place has class more than having a washroom attendant.
As for your new complaint, a casino is going to want to have extra security persons around too. Sure 99% of the time your two(?) parking lot guys are just doing make-work. But the casino wants them on their toes for when they are needed for something important that other 1% of the time, not dozing in a back office somewhere. That would be my guess.
The Las Vegas Cabbie agrees with you:
http://lvcabbiechronicles.blogspot.com/2010/06/q.html
Maybe the "parking lot security guards" aren't there trying to keep terrorists out (not that they would want to let them in) maybe they are there to assist tourists who aren't sure where to go, while being at moments notice able to reroute traffic or respond to something happening in the parking/driveway area. And while they have no need to stop you and ask you questions.... maybe they don't want some guy in a tow truck pulling into their garage and going shopping......
Of course at the Bellagio they keep asking to see in people's trunks (or at least they used to). This perplexes me.
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