They each released a YT vid at the same time discussing it:
Neeme:
Pretty cool development, excited to see how this turns out. I wish them the best.
This place started really nice and the money was great everyone looked after each other, if there was an issue your voice was heard, we all moved across country for this job. Then this place blew up. And as it blew up so did the egos of Joe, Anthony, and the owner Jason. They take credit for the whole place blowing up when really they just got Doug Brad and Andrew to go in on it and that’s why it blew up cause their faces were behind it. But Joe has this god complex now and treats his dealers like scum unless you’re in his tight circle you better walk on eggshells cause you say the wrong thing or go against him or do something wrong and you’re either punished or targeted or fired. And there’s no talking to him, HR does not help at all they’re on their side too. We have nobody to talk to or go to, he won’t even make eye contact with his dealers when he speaks his two words to them looking down. They’ve been caught stealing multiple times in multiple different ways by dealers and other staff and it always just goes away like nothing happened. He sent a dick pic to a staff member, his wife found out and everyone at the lodge knows and again nothing happened. They’ve been caught stealing from tournaments, from rigging private games and finding loopholes in the cage. So many dealers have told stories and at least 20 went to the owners with all different stories and nobody did anything. It’s all so fake and shady. One day something huge is gonna come out and the place is gonna crumble to the ground. They’ve lost a ton of their good dealers, there’s really only a handful left they had the best dealers in the country and we all left or got fired for standing up for ourselves when things go bad. Doug and Andrew told us they were going to do something and they did the bare minimum and didn’t actually listen to anything anyone had to say and tried to say that 30+ dealers are all liars and players as well. It’s ridiculous.
Imagine being shocked that HR are scum who arent on the employees side.
WCGRiderMlarks response is right on most of the points. I would debate a couple items (our volume at Lodge SA is now above levels before the takeover) and that the games at Lodge SA are bad. They are rec heavy, as pros do not want to play in the smaller capped game compared to the bigger game options. They are certainly smaller, which for some people may equate to bad. Depends on how you would want to value that.
I have been texting a good chunk of our regulars looking for feedback on how we can improve things at the club and getting their opinions. Lots of the players have been happy to give input, and I view this as a positive thing. A far cry from "begging them to come back", and if that is the case than by all means show the message I sent!
This is the same thing that we did in San Antonio, I care about the success of the clubs and want to hear what people have to say. These arent automated messages, I am sending them out personally.
As for the post about Lodge RR, we still have games running 24/7. "Literally no games" is a huge stretch compared to reality. That said, game volume has dropped and we are being proactive to hear what customers have to say and to improve.
Dont think there is a need to dive too deeply into most of the rest of that post, but wanted to weigh in briefly.
