 What's up everyone takedown here welcome back to another video. Today I'm going to be sharing my experience for working over Christmas and New Year's at a casino as a security guard. Let's get right into this. Okay so as I explained in my Christmas video I managed to get a week off a total of 12 days the week before Christmas and that was awesome just to have that time off and to use up my holidays before they expire by the end of the year because if you guys didn't know about my job I started back in May and there is six months sorry I think it's four months probation period where you can't take any vacation so over the summer couldn't take any vacation but now that I've worked there this long I know in the summertime there's no point of taking vacation because all the full-timers take their vacation then so not only is it hard for us to get time off in the summer but that's the time that we make the most bank because there's a lot of call-ins and we get a lot of overtime pay in the summer for us as part-timers so I'm never going to take vacation in the summer anyways but I never really thought about taking my summer and I knew I was going to lose it by the end of the year so I managed to take my 12 days off and I knew by doing that I will be working Christmas and New Year's anyways which I wanted to because it was going to be time and a half on those dates over Christmas and New Year's there's a total of three days time and a half that could be busy nobody really knew because sometimes it's busy at work sometimes it's not it all depends on what kind of promotions they're having what kind of prizes they're giving away and stuff like that so nobody really knew what it was going to be like for Christmas and New Year's this year so I'm just going to start off with Christmas Christmas was extremely quiet this is the second year that Hard Rock is taking over our location and prior to Hard Rock taking over our location normally the only time that our casino closed was Christmas Day starting at midnight Christmas Eve until noon the next morning Christmas morning it was normally closed so a lot of our guests our patrons were used to the casino being closed at this time now last year was the first time that it was open and it was extremely dead that's what everybody was telling me but this year was the second year and everybody assumed it was going to be a little bit busier but honestly it was not it was still pretty dead it was pretty quiet which was nice for us working security guards because kind of like a relaxed and quiet shift we didn't have to worry about anything we weren't really doing that many patrols because there was nobody there we still had surveillance that was covering the cameras so if anything was going on they were just radio us there wasn't that many table fills there wasn't honestly that much to do that night and the best part about me working that night is not only did I get paid time and a half but there was also for us security guards that worked that night we all chipped in and one of the guards went and purchased a bunch of food at Costco we had sandwich platters and salads and I brought chips and we had a whole basically a feast for Christmas and that was kind of our reward for working overnight on Christmas Christmas Eve going into Christmas day and that was a nice treat for us it was kind of relaxed there wasn't much to do and it was honestly a peaceful night now that was awesome the next day was also time and a half that's in Canada Boxing Day which is for everyone else just the day after Christmas normally retail stores there's a lot of great sales but working New Year's working Boxing Day at a casino it was honestly quiet as well got time and half that day also but to me it was extremely quiet there wasn't much going on it was just kind of like a regular Thursday at the time so nothing really advanced nothing really extreme and then New Year's I heard from everybody else that New Year's is hectic in there I've heard stories where you could go and you're trying to play at for those that are playing on slot machines that you can't find a slot machine every slot machine is taken there's line-ups waiting for slot machines you're bumping into people and for us security guards it's 10 12 after 10 12 so that's in talks so while you're dealing with one in talks six to eight situation and taking them at the door surveillance is calling for another one we have to go and do that one and it was I was told by all the full-timers and the ones that have been there for years that it's hectic on New Year's so I was honestly interested in seeing how it was going to be of course I wanted to work it because of the time and a half and want to gain experience but I didn't think it was going to be as busy as they were letting on and quite honestly to me it was kind of dead and to me that was kind of disappointing I kind of wanted wanted a extremely busy night something that I can say that I accomplished something that I did something that didn't faze me but it honestly just felt like a normal Saturday overnight shift to me of course for New Years there was the New Year's crowd so after the countdown at midnight starting off for the New Years until about one in the morning that's when most of the New Year's goers were leaving and have already left right after the countdown ended I was at main entrance and it was just a flood of people just leaving the casino which was awesome to see so about one o'clock most of the New Year's goers were out by two o'clock most of the party goers the ones that were there to drink and have fun and party with their friends most of them were leaving and by three o'clock all of the regulars were pretty much leaving like they normally do at that time so after three o'clock that's when it was extremely dead in there nothing was going on there was a lot of people at the table games at poker and blackjack and stuff like that not too many people at slot machines you could literally walk the gaming floor and that's what it normally is working night shift after about three o'clock it is extremely dead in there for New Year's they actually had the band play until two o'clock so upstairs was still busy until two but like I said that's whenever the party goers because the band was leaving the drinks are it was basically last call for drinks and once two thirty almost three o'clock hits there cannot be any alcohol in the gaming floor or in the casino so that's when most people were leaving so it was like I said kind of extremely busy for us at main entrance we didn't have to do anything else on the gaming floor such as uh intoxes there was surprisingly zero intoxes this year I was surprised there was a lot of people drinking they were giving away free champagne and free stuff like that so we expected a lot more intoxes that did not happen there was no table fills there was no nothing for us to do other than at main entrance we had a ton of IDs to do there was normally one of us at main entrance for New Year's they had two people at main entrance and then there was a third person at the main entrance that was just stopping people bringing drinks out because they can be upstairs with drinks they can be in the gaming floor with drinks but they cannot go up the stairs and go out the front door with the drinks so we basically had to have a guard there to stop them and that's what I did every time I was on patrol and I wanted to go and check out see what was going on upstairs with the band and how the layout of it was I couldn't because I was asked by the supervisor to stand up for and make sure nobody brings drinks through so that's for the most part what we did the whole night we just ID people at main entrance and stopped people with the drinks until about 233 o'clock then there's no alcohol anyways it was extremely dead at that time everybody mostly left at that time after three o'clock so it was just the ones playing the table games and other than that it was really quiet which was awesome and that night there was no slot drops so they weren't going around and emptying the slot machines that night because it was a holiday normally they don't work on the holidays that department so after three o'clock it was a quiet shift absolutely nothing to do we could go sit and just basically chill for the rest of the shift so working holidays at a casino as a security guard wasn't as hectic as some of the full timers let on I honestly expected it to be a lot worse of course Christmas I knew is kind of going to be dead because a lot of people were going to be spending time with their families other than the ones that gamble all the time and that are always at the casino the regulars that spend a lot of time at the casino I knew they were going to be there honestly Christmas felt just like a normal Monday or Tuesday overnight where Mondays and Tuesdays are pretty much dead that's how Christmas felt this year Boxing Day it felt just like a normal overnight shift during the week so it was kind of dead and then New Year's just kind of to me felt like a normal Saturday overnight nothing really out of the ordinary for me everything felt peaceful other than there was a lot of people to ID and a lot of people to stop with drinks over New Year's New Year's actually normally there's about 10,000 guests that we have come over at the casino for the whole day like throughout the day around 10,000 guests this year they were 4,000 short there's only 6,000 guests so it was extremely quiet year but honestly next year if whenever they come out with a preference for work in the holidays I'm definitely going to put in saying I want to work over the holidays because number one time and a half number two it was a very easy shift all three of them they were kind of quiet nothing much going on and I honestly enjoyed it so that's how working over nights at a casino during the holidays was as a security guard hope you guys enjoyed this video me talking about my job and talking about different things for my career journey I'll keep you guys updated with anything else but I'm going to leave this video here please take care 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