Posted November 13, 2017 9:30 am by Comments

By Christen Smith

MGM Resorts International cut staff at Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino last week in the wake of the Oct. 1 shooting that left 58 dead and more than 500 wounded. (Photo: John Locher/AP Photo)
Mandalay Bay cut staff last week after MGM Resorts International told investors the Las Vegas shooting would impact its bottom line in the fourth quarter.
Serena Talledo told the Las Vegas Review-Journal she lost her full-time job at the front desk Wednesday due to MGM’s financial difficulties since Oct. 1.
“I’m so scared,” she told the newspaper Friday. “They’re not even giving us two weeks, a month, nothing.”
Talledo said managers relegated her and other employees from guest services and the bell desk to a reserve list — a pool of randomly assigned shifts. Talledo said she started off three years ago on that list before earning a full-time position at the front desk. Now, she said, she’s “back where she started.”
It didn’t come as a complete surprise, however. Rumors began circulating among employees earlier this month, Talledo said. MGM’s third quarter earnings report released Wednesday only made the staff cuts official.
MGM owns more than a dozen iconic Las Vegas hotels and casinos, including Luxor, Bellagio, the Mirage and the now-infamous Mandalay Bay — where,

Source: Guns.com

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