The house always wins. Even in the Casino back office
Who, Me? The weekend has waddled into the distance and Monday is with us once more. Join us for another episode in our Who, Me? series where a reader finds himself with a plum contract and no other bidders. What could go wrong? What indeed. Today’s story comes from «Paul» (not his name) and takes us back a few years to an incident that occurred amid the glitz and glamour of Las Vegas. Paul’s story starts in prosaic form. His company was bidding on a time and attendance system for one of the smaller, but rather well known, Vegas casino chains. The company had already provided the accounting department with servers and software, and so seemed a shoo-in for the employee monitoring system. The software was «tailor-made to interface to their payroll and human resources applications,» explained Paul, «Best of all there were no competitors being asked to submit proposals.» «Management liked what they saw, so we installed a trial for the payroll department to review and run internal testing. Bear in mind this was our own T & A system, custom designed for casinos with an excellent history at other sites. What could go wrong, we figured?» What indeed. Sensibly, there was no big-bang style switch-on.
