I looked for the LC thread and couldn't find it. I did
find the 2017 one which seems to have lasted through July 6 but, heck, it's 2018 so I guess we should start a new one. Am I supposed to bring cake?
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So this is just 90% a frustration post but if you have any suggestions or feedback I'm all ears.
Cliff's: I get called for a table change out of a 6-handed game. While I'm moving, the game breaks, they card for five other seats including mine. Won't give me the opportunity to draw for an open seat. Acting shift mgr goes on a power trip, tells me I'm on the waiting list.
Playing in my local 1-3 PLO, they have four tables going, and several people including me are signed up for a table change. They call me for a table change even though my table's six handed (!) so I go up to the podium. But wait, they say, we don't have a seat for you that we thought we had. Go back to the table and keep that game going and we'll let you know when we have a seat.
Meanwhile, when I get back to the table, they've decided to break the game and card for seats at other tables. They've already completed this process and apparently there were five open seats counting the one I'd been called for. Players have already gone off looking for their new seats. Shouldn't we come back and recard with me involved? Nope, can't do that.
I go back to the podium to figure out what on earth is going on. They say, "We'll add you at the top of the list." I clarify: You mean I get my choice of the five open seats, the ace of spades or whatever chooses second, etc., right? "No. You don't make the rules. You can be top of the list."
Again, I clarify. "You pulled me out of a game. When you say top of the list, you mean I'll be seated in a new game, right? You realize I didn't even get to card for a new seat."
"No, those seats are already taken. You can wait and be first up. I have to run the room and don't have time to talk about it. The room mgr will be available Monday if you want to talk to him."
Me: "Look, I'm forgiving and I know [room mgr] is good about owning it when you guys screw something up. Just apologize for what you did here, I'll go on top of the list, we'll be good."
"Have a good night."
I went upstairs (where my new table was supposed to be) to tell a friend good night. I see one of the guys who carded for my seat putting chips down. In other words, the horse wasn't out of the barn. This would have been totally rectifiable in a competent room. Just go find the three of clubs (or whatever) who may not even have sat down, apologize to me profusely for screwing up my choice of tables, and put me first on the table change list.
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This "shift mgr" was like an ad hoc shift manager, maybe even an up-dealer cross-trained as a floor or something. I'll call the room mgr Monday. I know him moderately well, good guy. I expect he'll be interested in knowing how things go down on a Friday night. There was another dealer watching all of this who can confirm that I wasn't yelling or cursing (although justifiably kind of upset over the situation).
But... sheesh. Never mind how incompetent you have to be as a floor/brush to grant a table change out of a 6h and break a game. It doesn't even matter if this happened to me or someone else, it's pretty amateur hour. You pull a player out of a game, card for seats, and tell him to go on the list? That's just insulting.