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Review of Casino Chronicle
[Following is a volunteer review of "Casino Chronicle" by Pascale Batieufaye.]
In Casino Chronicle, author Pascale Batieufaye recounts the eight years he spent working in a Native American owned casino. He began employment as kitchen staff, and moved up to guest services right as the casino implemented an employee suggestion program. After his first suggestion earns him a small reward he submits monthly recommendations with ever more ambitious ideas and directions for the Tribal Council that oversees the casino’s operations. After being asked to stop writing suggestions he is made to start seeing a psychiatrist as a condition of employment. 15 years after leaving the casino he still believes they are using his ideas and he deserves more credit for the casino’s success.
The only good things I can say about the book is that it is very well edited; and the author possess an amazing vocabulary. While reading it I found myself in awe of the authors ability to use so many different descriptive adjectives, all while being grammatically correct.
On the other hand, despite the flowing text, Casino Chronicle is extremely repetitive. Each chapter starts out with a new angle or stated purpose but returns back into different perceived slights the author faced from the casino. On separate occasions he likens the treatment he received from the casino to the wrongs perpetrated on Native Indians by European settlers, and to the unfortunate victims of the Boston Marathon terrorist attack. His beliefs that if the casino had followed his instructions exactly that they would be bigger than Las Vegas, and that the casino itself still has and are using copies of his suggestions more than a decade later speak to his arrogance more than any sort of corruption.
I would recommend this book to anyone interested in psychology, or people interested in conspiracy theories in general. Batieufaye gives very little information as to the reasons he was forced into therapy, or while he stopped taking the prescribed medications, but his paranoia about a multiple year long scheme to discredit him while he was still employed may prove interesting to the right audience.
I rate this book 1 out of 4 stars. All but the last few chapters are dedicated to seemingly unfounded paranoia by an employee that continued to do things that upset his employer enough that they mandated four years worth of therapy which led to prescription psychotropic medications that the author quit taking apparently against medical advice, leading to his resignation due to disability . The entire book comes off as the ravings of a disgruntled employee mad at an employer that he makes very clear was vested in him and even rewarded him for participation in their suggestions program.
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Casino Chronicle
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In Casino Chronicle, author Pascale Batieufaye recounts the eight years he spent working in a Native American owned casino. He began employment as kitchen staff, and moved up to guest services right as the casino implemented an employee suggestion program. After his first suggestion earns him a small reward he submits monthly recommendations with ever more ambitious ideas and directions for the Tribal Council that oversees the casino’s operations. After being asked to stop writing suggestions he is made to start seeing a psychiatrist as a condition of employment. 15 years after leaving the casino he still believes they are using his ideas and he deserves more credit for the casino’s success.
The only good things I can say about the book is that it is very well edited; and the author possess an amazing vocabulary. While reading it I found myself in awe of the authors ability to use so many different descriptive adjectives, all while being grammatically correct.
On the other hand, despite the flowing text, Casino Chronicle is extremely repetitive. Each chapter starts out with a new angle or stated purpose but returns back into different perceived slights the author faced from the casino. On separate occasions he likens the treatment he received from the casino to the wrongs perpetrated on Native Indians by European settlers, and to the unfortunate victims of the Boston Marathon terrorist attack. His beliefs that if the casino had followed his instructions exactly that they would be bigger than Las Vegas, and that the casino itself still has and are using copies of his suggestions more than a decade later speak to his arrogance more than any sort of corruption.
I would recommend this book to anyone interested in psychology, or people interested in conspiracy theories in general. Batieufaye gives very little information as to the reasons he was forced into therapy, or while he stopped taking the prescribed medications, but his paranoia about a multiple year long scheme to discredit him while he was still employed may prove interesting to the right audience.
I rate this book 1 out of 4 stars. All but the last few chapters are dedicated to seemingly unfounded paranoia by an employee that continued to do things that upset his employer enough that they mandated four years worth of therapy which led to prescription psychotropic medications that the author quit taking apparently against medical advice, leading to his resignation due to disability . The entire book comes off as the ravings of a disgruntled employee mad at an employer that he makes very clear was vested in him and even rewarded him for participation in their suggestions program.
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Casino Chronicle
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