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[h=2]Macau Casinos: NO FTs as croupiers, dealers[/h]
July 1st, 2012 |
Author: Contributions
Macau Poly trains workers for casinos. Macau labor laws favour their local workers. Students receive offers of employment from casinos even before they graduate.
The local (Macau) poly provides training to work in casinos.
Citizenship has its privileges in Macau (and there is no NS).
Yet casinos are still expanding in Macau despite not having cheap FTs as croupiers and dealers.
Must-have lessons for Singapore?
Cynical Investor
[Source]: Thoughts of a Cynical Investor (http://atans1.wordpress.com).
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Editor’s interesting note on former Minister Mr Lim Boon Heng:
In 2011, Mr Lim was helping the PAP to unveil some of the new candidates for the general election. During a media conference, someone asked him if the Cabinet suffers from “groupthink”. Mr Lim then cited an example when the Cabinet was divided in the heated cabinet debate in 2005 on the decision to allow two IRs operating in Singapore, to show that there is no groupthink in the Cabinet.
However, during the explanation, he suddenly broke down and with tears welling up in his eyes, “For me, it was a very difficult process to accept the casinos. I almost couldn’t make my speech in Parliament.” In any case, he said that he finally agreed to the IRs because they would create 35,000 jobs for Singaporeans. This was what he said last year before he retired.
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The local (Macau) poly provides training to work in casinos.
Citizenship has its privileges in Macau (and there is no NS).
Yet casinos are still expanding in Macau despite not having cheap FTs as croupiers and dealers.
Must-have lessons for Singapore?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18099525
Excerpt:
(26 Jun) – It’s exam time at Macau’s Polytechnic Institute and the students are busy cramming.
But they are not sat in the library poring over textbooks, they are deftly dealing cards, counting chips and calculating payoffs.
“The most interesting course is blackjack,” says one student, 19-year-old Tommy Cheang.
Tommy is training for a job in the world’s biggest gambling centre and is one of thousands of students who each year pass through the polytechnic’s mock casino floor – a vast, fluorescent-lit room of baccarat tables, roulette wheels and slot machines.
It is here they learn all they need to know about the arcane world of gaming – from shuffling smoothly and managing the pit, to how handle a sore loser or spot a player stealing chips.
And it’s a world where young people like Tommy hold all the cards. With the law favouring local workers, jobs are handed to the polytechnic’s graduates on a plate. Many receive offers of employment from casinos long before they finish their courses.
.Excerpt:
(26 Jun) – It’s exam time at Macau’s Polytechnic Institute and the students are busy cramming.
But they are not sat in the library poring over textbooks, they are deftly dealing cards, counting chips and calculating payoffs.
“The most interesting course is blackjack,” says one student, 19-year-old Tommy Cheang.
Tommy is training for a job in the world’s biggest gambling centre and is one of thousands of students who each year pass through the polytechnic’s mock casino floor – a vast, fluorescent-lit room of baccarat tables, roulette wheels and slot machines.
It is here they learn all they need to know about the arcane world of gaming – from shuffling smoothly and managing the pit, to how handle a sore loser or spot a player stealing chips.
And it’s a world where young people like Tommy hold all the cards. With the law favouring local workers, jobs are handed to the polytechnic’s graduates on a plate. Many receive offers of employment from casinos long before they finish their courses.
Cynical Investor
[Source]: Thoughts of a Cynical Investor (http://atans1.wordpress.com).
.
Editor’s interesting note on former Minister Mr Lim Boon Heng:
In 2011, Mr Lim was helping the PAP to unveil some of the new candidates for the general election. During a media conference, someone asked him if the Cabinet suffers from “groupthink”. Mr Lim then cited an example when the Cabinet was divided in the heated cabinet debate in 2005 on the decision to allow two IRs operating in Singapore, to show that there is no groupthink in the Cabinet.
However, during the explanation, he suddenly broke down and with tears welling up in his eyes, “For me, it was a very difficult process to accept the casinos. I almost couldn’t make my speech in Parliament.” In any case, he said that he finally agreed to the IRs because they would create 35,000 jobs for Singaporeans. This was what he said last year before he retired.
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