I work as a dealer for an online casino. Basically I sit in front of a camera, take the cards out of their place, put them in front of the camera and tell the person if they won or lost.
Easy peasy.
We use 8 decks of cards and once in a while, we have to shuffle them. We should have people specially hired to do that but we don't so us, the dealers, do it ourselves.
As you probably guessed, shuffling a deck made of 8 different decks of cards takes a while, 4 or 5 minutes and if you start it, you have to sit there and finish it. I mention that because in case you get to it right before your break, you may lose a few minutes off your break because of it. What we usually do is just… not start it.
It goes like this: if I know the shuffle takes me 5 minutes and there are 2 more minutes until my break, I will delay it by doing random things like excessively checking the cards, wiping my hands, adjusting my chair, shit like that so those 2 minutes will go by, I go on my break on time and the guy coming after me will do the shuffle. Easy stuff.
However, yesterday it happened that my change was late, so instead of delaying the shuffle for 2 minutes, I delayed it for 5 minutes. Truth be told, I would've finished it in 5 minutes, but I simply thought “my change will come anytime now”. Bad judgement on my part, I agree.
After the thing, my manager takes me into the office and starts to explain to me that what I did was bad and in a very calm manner, like I give a shit, he asks me
“Do you have an idea how much money people who own this casino lost because you couldn't wait any linger to go smoke?” (Or something like that)
It pissed me off but I played along and asked “No idea, how much?”
And he goes “Idk for sure but maybe a couple thousand”
Bro, a couple thousand in a few minutes? They make a couple off a few minutes of my work and pay me (aprox) 600 dollars for the whole month???
Yeah, no, fuck you, I don't give a shit.
And I told my manager that. For those 600 dollars I'm gonna take the last seconds of all my fucking breaks, thank you. And since we're here, how much money do they lose because you don't hire shufflers? A guy to shuffle the cards so I don't have to stop the game for 5 minutes every time. How much is that? Just because you are fucking greedy and you keep opening tables and all the budget goes to the salaries of new dealers cuz you keep hiring them cuz you keep opening tables although you don't have any shufflers and you're already short staffed?
How much does that translate to in losses, huh?
I had my resignation on the table a few days before this conversation took place and boy am I glad I'm leaving. The only reason I chose to stay for another 2 weeks is because all my shifts would've fallen on my colleagues and shit, otherwise I would have been out the moment I found something better.