Thursday, January 29, 2009

THE DONUT SHOP

Being from New York, I like 7-11 coffee. I usually stop on the way out, first thing in the morning and buy myself a cup. This particular morning, I thought you know it's been along time since I have had a donut, so off I go to the nearest donut shop for some coffee and a donut.

As I am sitting at a table eating my donut and drinking my cup of coffee, two guys sit down at a table next to mine. They spoke kind of loud, and from the conversation I came away thinking that they were employees of the Mohegan Sun Casino.

Here is what they said. Worker #1 said, "there is going to be more cuts."

Worker #2 said, "yeah, it can't keep going like it is."

Worker #1 said, "yeah, look what they got for $300 million."

Worker #2 said, "three parking lots, a hole in the ground (earth tower hotel) and a shrink wrapped building (government community center) on top of a mountain."

Worker #1 replied, "don't forget the two on ramps, the one on route 2-A and the ramp on to I-395 that Connecticut should have paid for."

Worker #2 said, "yeah, they made the ramps, so the workers could get out of the Mohegan Sun and on to 395 to exit 82 to the unemployment office."

At that moment, I finished my coffee, and threw my coffee cup and paper bag in the trash. As I opened the door to leave, I looked over at the workers and thought, it was sad but true. We (the Mohegan tribe) had 3 parking lots, the started earth tower (hotel) , a building on a hill (the government community center) and two on ramps and no customers to use them. What do you think?

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I thought it was stated many times in the paper that Pocono Downs personnel were taking the same pay cuts as the CT property. Not so according to the following Wilksbarre news.

Link:

http://www.timesleader.com/business/Mohegan_cutting_managers_rsquo__pay_01-12-2009.html

Only 50 upper level managers, does not effect line workers or supervisors.

Why would ten year line employees and supervisors in CT be subject to the axe and not 1 year Pocono personnel, doesn't seem fair.