work rant

What I find it so hard to understand is why my managers do not seem to understand that we need to spend money to keep the casino running. I swear trying to talk to them about my 15 year old second hand system is like pulling teeth. I've got a ghost in the system messing with one of my cameras - the only moving camera that is even close to working correctly - and they refuse to even listen to me. My greatest fear is that the system is just going to crash beyond anything I can do to jury-rig it and we'll be shut down for weeks and lose more money than they would have to spend to upgrade the surveillance system.

I'm not sure what else I can do, though. We've hung on longer than I thought we were going to, which is frankly a miracle in and of itself. Especially considering that this system also went through the construction of the new casino without ever being turned off so there's still dust and likely sawdust and other grime from that screwing with things. And the system was second hand to begin with, the owner was too cheap to buy a new system for this casino. And still is, now that I think about it. I have no idea what Monday is going to bring, but it's my only day shift this week because James is going on holiday and my day shift officer isn't rained to work nights yet. He will be in a couple of months, but he's also a college student and I can't imagine he'll want to work nights and then wake up for classes. And I really don't mind working nights too much. It keeps me away from the managers.


Another random picture of the sky. This is a couple months ago. I've got upload the newer pics I've been taking.




This was taken while driving home from work. That's Moscow Mountain in the background.