Ticket

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   Recently I was careless and lost a payout ticket from a casino.  The ticket wasn't lost the same night it was won so nothing could be done.

   That's what I was told by multiple casino employees when I went to the cashier and asked.  Casinos don't share many details about how they operate and this was no different.

   While trying to find out if a casino can tell when a ticket's been cashed (lets say the owner took a picture before it was lost) I ended up angering at least one employee with that question.  Another employee thought I was asking them to pay me the value of ticket and that didn't go over well either.

   That a casino would have no idea if any given ticket's been cashed... that would be very backward.  It would need to be known just for accounting purposes and balancing the books.  At some point a lost ticket would need to be considered a dead ticket and the money reclaimed.

   Why was I told something that can't be true?

   Why did an employee get angry and tell me not to tell them how their computers work?

   I'm assuming it's control of information about how the casino works.  Every detail that's generally known takes some amount of control away.  In reality that should be a perception thing only.

   Why just a perception?

   Because no casino would last long with exploitable gaps or holes protected only by keeping them secret.

   Now to figure out where lost tickets go.

   I'm not mourning this one.

   But it was supposed to go to someone else.