The only thing more gross than those chips is actual cash.
I’m not a table game player, but eyeballing the chips as I walk through a casino in Vegas to get back to my room or something they have not been noticeably dirty. Not like the floors at any rate.
I’ve always had a lot of fun. The poor employees get treated so shitty, just being nice gets you a lot. Upgraded rooms, free drinks… plates of bacon delivered directly to the poker table. The possibilities (and the portions) are endless. Mwahahaha
you’d think they’d have switched designs at some point due to advances in counterfeiting. most casinos have RFID chips in the higher denoms for example.
The idea of tipping at all is a fundamentally imbalanced proposition, to begin with. Why do some minimum-wage earners deserve a tip, and others do not?
Minimum wage should be a living wage, and your “tip” comes from the increased costs incurred by customers to support that. Get good service? corporations should have real, tangible systems in place for highly-praised workers to receive bonuses, not be beholden to a particular customer’s whims or available liquid income at that moment.
Until such a panacea exists, I will tip any minimum wage earner where I the means to tip exists (which is surely the case in a casino).
Honestly, given the trust dynamic present in a casino I’m surprised they are tipped. Yes, the managers are not tipped but why not just pay them fairly so they don’t need to be watched like hawks.