u/thebadgerx

Hi. I've got these questions for casino dealers about their work. Would appreciate your input.

Does a dealer's job feel like a dead end? So you end up being good at playing one or more games, and at dealing them, but does the job feel rewarding in life, considering the stigma of casinos? How do you progress from that job and what can you be promoted to?

Do you work in a place that allows smokers? How do you deal with that if your are a non-smoker? Can dealers wear masks?

Do you have rather regular work hours or are you required to fill in any shifts that become empty for some reason? Does working in odd hours affect your health?

Does your employer/organisation train you how to coax players to play more and thus lose more? If yes, is this one of the earliest things they train you?

Some of the questions may seem like I'm critical about the industry, but I'm genuinely curious and I love playing too.

Earlier this week, I had an appointment visit at The Brunei Cancer Centre (TBCC) Outpatient section at Level 2. I had arrived on the time stipulated by the appointment, but did not get to see the doctor until hours later. Other activities at the section made it seemed like I was at a govt clinic, not a world-/regional-class cancer treatment centre that's trying to attract foreign patients.

This is not the first time I had to wait a long time for an appointment visit at the TBCC. It is as if the appointment is meaningless as visitors were treated like walk-in patients, which doesn't make sense as this is a cancer-treatment section, so there would not be walk-in patients! It's as if it had become a case of first-come-first-served, so those who had arrived early were served first. If so, what's the use of the appointment?

Next, the rate each patient is seen makes it appears as it there was only one doctor there, at most two! One doctor, at a world-/regional-class centre? This must be a joke of a place! How can this centre attract foreign patients for, of all things, cancer treatment?

Finally, an odd thing happened that I had not experienced, in my worst govt clinic visit...ever! The receptionists/nurses started calling for lunch takeaways! And they were using the section's landline office phones! Talk about an abuse of resources!

They were using the phones right in front of waiting patients and talking loud enough for all to hear! One of them had ordered a Thai lunch item and had given his/her number as 8xx xxxx (both the item and his/her full number are now burned into my memory and I am not revealing them here)! Such carelessness!

There are thousands of Bruneians needing jobs and the management and the people at this section had conspired to make my appointment visit terrible! If they don't want their jobs, please step aside and have others take over.

Do you know of traffic lights junctions that the LTD needs to tweak, failing which, people should avoid so as not to waste time on them?

I would nominate the Jln Kebangsaan - Jln Pusat Dakwah junction. The junction is just dumb, despite all the sensors on the ground! The lights turn green for entry points that have no cars, including at late night, when there are no cars for the other 3 junctions. It's as if the sensors don't work!

A lot of time is also provided to each entry point meaning that the waiting time is rather long. There are times when I need to continue straight-on, and I would turn left into the next junction, then do a U-turn there, so as to get past the junction sooner.

Surely, it doesn't need to be this way?!!

Besides players depositing money into these cards and using them on games, how do these cards benefit the casinos? Why do they want to scan my card when I move to a new table or when I buy-in?

Perhaps you can also help explain how they work? Thank you.

I ask this because I don't see the point of staying on a table and having no clue as to what the next result would be, at all. Even noticing a streak and acting on it, is more meaningful to me.

(I know about the general wisdom that Bac is a game of chance.)

When will they ever stick to one and stop changing it every few years?

Can somone list down how the acronyms have changed over the years?