I was discussing with my friend that works in a physical casino yesterday evening. He lamented that his work environment has exposed him to gambling excessively that he hardly saves enough, if at all at the end of the month although he sees good funds from the tips he receives regularly from his clients that clinches wins. He also receives a manageable salary at month-end, but almost everything goes back into gambling.
He stressed that working in a casino exposes you to irresistible desires to gamble and you can do little about it.
I told him that it's possible to save part of the money and gamble with the rest and this was my strategy.
I asked him not to gamble until it's 6pm in the evening and by then he should divide his daily tips into five places, then go straight to a money collection point tho deposit 4/5 of the funds, then come back to gamble with the rest, he agreed to try it out from today and I'm yet to hear of his success as at now. We also agreed that he'll open a fixed deposit account where his salary goes in and remain untouched until every 6 months as his main savings since his tips are enough for his daily expenses
This got me thinking and I decided to share it here, is it not possible to work in a casino and not gamble?
Are there other behavioral patterns that could be employed to reduce gambling excessively while working in a casino?
Let me have your thoughts on this.
I am not sure what the issue of temptation be, at least if you operated table games every day, then you would slowly learn that most people are walking away after losing their money, not winning a lot. And that's probably pretty sad when you need to watch people losing money daily, and people who would lose a lot with you, would see you as bad luck.
That can't do good for your self-image when it's happening all the time. At least i would be hoping that my customers would win more, so i wouldn't feel as guilty, even though it wouldn't be my fault.
But if you work at the bar / door man / cleaning, you would probably be having a confirmation bias as you wouldn't focus on one game. It would just seem that that everyone has lots of money to spend. That would probably trigger some responses for gambling positivity.
But i would imagine that casino doesn't even want their workers to play, as people who work around money need to be responsible about money. That's why banks don't hire people that are irresponsible with their money, as they might end up being broke and steal money.
