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It’s a crappy experience; immigration officers are often hostile, as are other service providers.When a British Airways aircraft had an engine fire in Las Vegas, it was evacuated in an emergency as the aircraft was on fire. People who left their bags behind had serious trouble checking in to the hotel they were taken to because the hotel demanded a credit card - which in many cases was in the bag the passengers had left in the aircraft. US immigration authorities did admit most of the passengers, but some immigration authorities can be even more hostile than the USA.Yet passengers get criticised for trying to grab their bags on the way out - probably because they’re trying to avoid serious, expensive, and long-lasting trouble with lost documents later on. Safety authorities can’t have it both ways, you need to motivate people to do the right thing by removing pressures to act badly. Safety means making sure that other authorities and private service providers make it easy on people who have lost their documents leaving the aircraft quickly.Your way out of this dilemma, as a canny passenger, is to have your passport, payment cards, and cellphone - Passport, Plastic and Phone, the three Ps of travel - on you during takeoff and landing. For example wear your jacket with these in the pockets, put them in your trouser pockets, or keep a small handbag with you in the seat pocket with them inside. Put them elsewhere during the flight if you want, emergencies in the cruise are quite rare.I always do that. If I’m going off an aircraft in an emergency it will be with my passport, phone, and payment cards in my pockets. I will also be wearing a shirt, trousers, and solid shoes so that I will be protected against (brief) flame, and able to walk on rough surfaces or broken debris.

Unfortunately there are many. Let’s start with your arrival. Do not play slots at the airport. The Nevada Gaming Commission allows the payback on airport slots to be lower than in casinos.Be familiar with where your hotel destination is in terms of travel from the airport. Taxi rides to many strip hotels are faster and cheaper when you take surface streets. If that is the case for you, be sure to tell the driver to take surface streets and not the freeway or tunnel (to the freeway). Taking the freeway is called long-hauling as it increases the distance and the price of the fare. If the driver disregards your instructions take down his name and number and contact the taxi commission. Also pay cash for you cab ride as there is a $3 surcharge for using a credit card.In the casino, only play games you understand and play within your financial limits. Some games like Keno and The Big Wheel have odds that heavily favor the casino. Do not use ATMs in the casino. The fees can be outrageous.Be wary of young women showing interest in you in the casino. They might be working girls looking for a “john”. They might only be on the hunt for someone willing to pay for a night of drinking, dining and dancing. They also might be looking to rob you if you let your guard down. Remember, you probably aren’t as handsome as Brad Pitt, Ryan Gosling or Tom Cruise.In your hotel room, check to see if everything looks clean and new. I generally move the bed cover off to the side as it isn’t normally replaced and cleaned. Be aware of the cost of items in the mini bar. If you even remove an item to inspect it (or temporarily put something in its place) you might trigger a charge on your room bill. Be sure to inspect your bill before you check out to confirm authorized charges (mistaken pay TV movies and mini bar charges are not rare).Don’t hesitate to discover the Las Vegas beyond the strip. Downtown and local casinos offer far better value than their strip counterparts. Better prices for dining, better gambling odds, and fewer and lower fees for rooms and parking.Don’t be “that guy”. You know, he’s the one being put into the back of a police car, being “helped” (dragged or carried) to his room by his friends, or vomiting in the bushes outside the casino. Have a drink, but not too many. Don’t be rude to employees or strangers. Enjoy this incredible and unique city and help make it enjoyable for others. Make the trip so much fun that you start planning the next one on your way home.

I had one employee accuse another of raping her. They had been at a trade show in Las Vegas and afterward she had come into my office and made the accusation. I had not gone to the show, and had received various reports of bad behavior on her part, including a long-time customer who called me and told me that she was behaving inappropriately toward him. She had also stayed behind in Vegas after everyone else left and kept charging the room to the company credit card until I called the hotel and told them that she had no authorization to do that and they threw her out.Obviously, she was going to get fired, but her accusation threw a giant monkey wrench into that plan. To bad behavior and incredibly poor judgement solely on her part, suddenly I have an felony accusation from her to deal with. Just as suddenly, I felt like I was in a mine field.The first thing I did is tell her, this is not something you complain to your boss about, this is something you call the police about. So she did. Now there are many, many more mines in the mine field.So I suspended them both without pay, her for her behavior during the show, and him in response to the accusation. I felt I had to be absolutely fair to them in spite of the fact that I wanted to throttle them both until their eyes popped out of their heads and rolled around on the floor.The police declined to prosecute for lack of evidence. So the slimy, stinky, miserable ball was back in my court.I never, ever want to take such an accusation as anything but serious. Truthfully, I never thought about how it would look if I didn’t, I always thought about how I would feel about myself if I didn’t, and acted accordingly. As profoundly self-destructive, and vindictive, and manipulative as the accuser was, I needed to find peace with her accusation before I could move on to deal with her incredibly bad behavior in other areas. There was a chance that her terrible judgement during the trade show was a response to her having been raped. She said she didn’t leave with everyone else because she didn’t want to be in the same car as him. At the same time, she was in the hotel for days charging room service to the company credit card, having told my VP, the supervisor for the show, that she would find her own way home and not telling him why, and not telling him she was going to stay behind on the company’s dime.So the police, by declining to investigate beyond a simple set of interviews, made it my investigation. I am not trained in law enforcement, and I very much felt that I was put in the position of having to come to some sort of conclusion about a felony.So I resolved to be as objective as possible. I created two confidential files on each of the people involved. I put them in a manila file folder with their names, and plainly marked each as confidential. As part of their suspensions, each was instructed to not come to the office or contact me during my investigation.You might be asking, why did I feel the need to investigate? Because obviously one or the other had to go. My company had six employees, it was untenable for one to have accused another of rape and leave that accusation unresolved without making the company dysfunctional. I simply could not get my head around that concept. But I had no idea — none — how things would work out. I was simply trying to move forward without stepping on a mine.So I filled these files with documentation supporting an assumed resolution where one or both of these employees would be terminated. If that were my decision, I would have to defend it, possibly in court. I called that customer, for instance, who had complained to me about her, and interviewed him in more detail about what her behavior was. I researched all the unauthorized credit card charges on the company card, I researched and found many other instances of bad behavior and poor judgement on her part.In his file, I researched the same sort of things, but truthfully, there were many fewer of them. He was an idiot, but he wasn’t so destructive, at least purposefully.And you ask, what complete imbecile hired these people? No comment.At one point, a few days later, I put her file down on my desk and left my office to deal with some other business issue that had mercifully presented itself. When I got back to my office there she was, with her file in her hands, looking through it. She accused me of having predetermined to fire her. I told her 1) You were instructed not to come to the office during the period of your suspension and you did anyway, 2) You entered my office when I was not present, and 3) You read a file that was clearly marked confidential. You’re done.About an hour later, the other employee called me and told me he had found another job.Within an hour, the worst minefield of my professional life had cleared. Profound tension was replaced by chirping birds, daisies, and cool breezes.To this day I think about that experience. What should I have done differently? How could I have handled it better? I’m sure there are better ways. I have a decent grasp of employment law but I’m not an attorney. I had the intention of consulting an attorney but I wanted to wait until the investigation was further along, so in the end I navigated this issue without any legal counsel, which probably wasn’t the brightest thing to do but then again I’m the one who hired these people in the first place, so maybe that’s par for the course.I’ve never been in combat, but the memory almost seems like that. Mines and all.