OK, here is the basic scenerio.
I have 12 years experience, Day-one Dice, BJ, (weak) RO - never there always in dice, and Most Carnivals. The job I am in now has just plain bottomed out over the last year and half. Very poor management decisions, no marketing, complete lack of desire and drive from staff and many other issues have basically cut our pay to 1/3 of what it was three years ago. So, I finally decided when my lease was up this year I was ready to throw in the towel and move on to a new job.
My leases is up on March 10th, so I began my job search in January figuring that would be plenty of time to weigh all options. Well I found where I would like to settle in for a multitude of reason. One of the biggest cost of living vs going pay in that area. I began with applying. I then spoke with the Casino Manager in charge of hiring. I was told "everything looks great, I would love to have you here! ... I will get back in touch in a coupe of days to schedule you in for paperwork and fingerprinting". So about 10 days go by, I break down and call him bac to touch base and make sure he got the formal application and resume that he asked me to email to him. Again, all was encouraging. He had got the info, said he would get back to me within 24 hours as he had to contact the fingerprint guy from the state and set up a time for me make the trip there (about a 900 mile trip so need to be able to get everything done in one shot). This was a Thursday morning. I waited until Tuesday Afternoon to call him back a third time to see if he was able to set a date. He said he forgot again and had not had a chance, but he would do it as soon as he hung up the phone and then call me right back. It is now Wed. afternoon.
Ok, I know when the CM is doing all the legwork for hiring it is probably not the first and certainly not the most important thing on his list. But March is comming up very fast and if this falls through I need time for a back up plan. I do not want to stay where I am as every month I am here anymore it costs more to live than we can earn in a month, so I have to cut into what little savings I have and the money that is set to make the move!
Would you just start looking towards other jobs out there, continue to wait for the casino manager to contact you, call him yet again (4th time), pack up and move there and "gamble" that it is no problem given your experience to get in the door.... What would you do?
I have 12 years experience, Day-one Dice, BJ, (weak) RO - never there always in dice, and Most Carnivals. The job I am in now has just plain bottomed out over the last year and half. Very poor management decisions, no marketing, complete lack of desire and drive from staff and many other issues have basically cut our pay to 1/3 of what it was three years ago. So, I finally decided when my lease was up this year I was ready to throw in the towel and move on to a new job.
My leases is up on March 10th, so I began my job search in January figuring that would be plenty of time to weigh all options. Well I found where I would like to settle in for a multitude of reason. One of the biggest cost of living vs going pay in that area. I began with applying. I then spoke with the Casino Manager in charge of hiring. I was told "everything looks great, I would love to have you here! ... I will get back in touch in a coupe of days to schedule you in for paperwork and fingerprinting". So about 10 days go by, I break down and call him bac to touch base and make sure he got the formal application and resume that he asked me to email to him. Again, all was encouraging. He had got the info, said he would get back to me within 24 hours as he had to contact the fingerprint guy from the state and set up a time for me make the trip there (about a 900 mile trip so need to be able to get everything done in one shot). This was a Thursday morning. I waited until Tuesday Afternoon to call him back a third time to see if he was able to set a date. He said he forgot again and had not had a chance, but he would do it as soon as he hung up the phone and then call me right back. It is now Wed. afternoon.
Ok, I know when the CM is doing all the legwork for hiring it is probably not the first and certainly not the most important thing on his list. But March is comming up very fast and if this falls through I need time for a back up plan. I do not want to stay where I am as every month I am here anymore it costs more to live than we can earn in a month, so I have to cut into what little savings I have and the money that is set to make the move!
Would you just start looking towards other jobs out there, continue to wait for the casino manager to contact you, call him yet again (4th time), pack up and move there and "gamble" that it is no problem given your experience to get in the door.... What would you do?
