So I have a job interview at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas (nothing special to me -- I've lived in Las Vegas since I was born) as a service assistant. It's an on-call position (AKA the extra board). I've been asking around, and now I've come to TL to see if anyone else can give me a little of insight.
1) I'll be wearing a suit to this interview. The pants have some stains on it (I'll let your mind wander). I've been told that despite the fact that the whole suit is listed as dry-clean only, the pants -should- be machine washable, because the only materials it's made out of are polyester and rayon. Risk worth taking? I have to have this suit ready in about 36 hours.
2) On-call/extra-board. Has anyone ever been on these? What can I expect? I need $800 USD a month to survive, and I'm ok with just surviving for now. At $11.00/hour + tips is that easy for an on-call individual?
I think as long as you stress your experience in customer service you will do fine. However, I'm not sure how worthwhile working for MGM will be. The company is in terrible shape, too much debt when they expanded and since the economic recession, less revenue from current operations. The company could bite the dust pretty soon... Unless you plan to only work this job for less than 6 months, look else where also.
On April 02 2009 12:28 CaucasianAsian wrote: maybe you can hand wash it
With an organic solvent?
I'm not familiar with fabrics, but your best bet is to get it dry cleaned, which should take must less than 36 hours. It's not worth ruining the pants unless you know it'll be okay.
On call jobs are terrible...you get inconsistent hours and you have to be able to come in whenever they fucking call you...which totally fucks with your scheduling.
Look fervently for another job as you're working this one.
you'll easy make 800 dollars a month doing anything.
hell do some basic math just countin 11dollars an hour means you gotta work like 73 hours to cover that, in a month that should be pretty easy to do. And tips will add alot depending how those people tip, at casinos if you dress yourself up with some make up and large breasts you'll be making 1k an hour.
On April 02 2009 12:59 PH wrote: On call jobs are terrible...you get inconsistent hours and you have to be able to come in whenever they fucking call you...which totally fucks with your scheduling.
Look fervently for another job as you're working this one.
Actually, most jobs in a Casino start out as on-call/extra board. You work your way to a full time position. Not only that, but I don't really have a schedule to begin with. I'm their prime candidate, in that respect.
On April 02 2009 13:21 DrTJEckleberg wrote: Dry-cleaners can take forever, I've had nothing but terrible experiences with them.
Well, good thing a metric fuckton of people in Vegas wear suits, so there's many different dry cleaners I can go to. Here's hoping one can get me in and out in one day.
On April 02 2009 13:42 Divinek wrote: if you dress yourself up with some make up and large breasts
what??
What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.
hahaha also, working on call isn't so bad, depending on where you work. You should probably ask about the likelyhood of being called. I normally get called late at night/early in the morning a couple times a week, and its not so bad.
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