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In general I like working at a casino. It's a solid full time gig, the benefits are decent and the work is interesting.
But casinos seem to attract certain odd flavors of SCs.
One that we encounter considerably more than most businesses would be the "faller" types.
What is a faller?
A faller is someone who will stage something: a fall on a tile floor, a head injury, an attempt to provoke an employee, etc.
They do this because they want to sue our company and get a bunch of money out of us. More specifically, they believe that upon the filing of the suit, my company will just panic and offer them a giant settlement to just go away.
One particular incident featured an SC who actually threw a large object down on his own foot to try for a lawsuit. Unfortunately for him, he did so within visual range of a security guard and got nothing out of his antics aside from an escort out of the building.
While it may obviously seem incredibly stupid to try and pull a stunt like this in a place that has, you know, THOUSANDS of video cameras recording every second of every day, it happens more often than you think.
People who have lost a lot of money AND been drinking tend to not be thinking straight and be quick to anger. I'm sure bartenders see variations of this, but it's kind of hard to drop $10 000 in less than 10 minutes at a bar. You can do that a casino...easily.
I've never heard of a successful lawsuit of this nature being filed against our company. Accidents do happen, but with all the monitoring that occurs on our property, there'd be plenty of evidence for any lawsuit. The fallers just can't get away with it, no matter how hard they try.
But casinos seem to attract certain odd flavors of SCs.
One that we encounter considerably more than most businesses would be the "faller" types.
What is a faller?
A faller is someone who will stage something: a fall on a tile floor, a head injury, an attempt to provoke an employee, etc.
They do this because they want to sue our company and get a bunch of money out of us. More specifically, they believe that upon the filing of the suit, my company will just panic and offer them a giant settlement to just go away.
One particular incident featured an SC who actually threw a large object down on his own foot to try for a lawsuit. Unfortunately for him, he did so within visual range of a security guard and got nothing out of his antics aside from an escort out of the building.
While it may obviously seem incredibly stupid to try and pull a stunt like this in a place that has, you know, THOUSANDS of video cameras recording every second of every day, it happens more often than you think.
People who have lost a lot of money AND been drinking tend to not be thinking straight and be quick to anger. I'm sure bartenders see variations of this, but it's kind of hard to drop $10 000 in less than 10 minutes at a bar. You can do that a casino...easily.
I've never heard of a successful lawsuit of this nature being filed against our company. Accidents do happen, but with all the monitoring that occurs on our property, there'd be plenty of evidence for any lawsuit. The fallers just can't get away with it, no matter how hard they try.
Funny you mention this, apparently we had a "visitor" holding a handmade sign that said, "I got run over by a Disney ECV!" and the employee that was caught looking at it was told by the woman, "Yeah, go ahead and tell your manager! I'm not leaving until I get some free stuff!"
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