Money Being Made On "The Side"... by Your Very Own Saff...
NO...You are kidding me Alf. You cannot mean what you are writing here.
Yes, I mean every word. And I've been through the ringer several times.
One of the worst cases I had was a security guard at one of my huge events. We had 3,000-4,000 people there. He was pocketing a lot of money on the side where people had the smoking area.
If it wasn't for a good friend of mine passing by there, the idiot was even trying to solicit people to come in this way so he could pocket the money. You've got to watch out for these things.
Now, obviously, I got smarter over the years. I started planting people to see if one of the security guards (or any of the security guards) try to do anything funny.
Another area you should be concerned about is: where the cashiers are.
Also, you have to have an eye or a control system on your money collected at the door. In this industry, there's still a lot of cash, exactly where that cash goes and you have trusted people there, you've got to make sure that works.
VIP passes: one time I had somebody copy my very sophisticated RipCard (which is actually a VIP pass too). Obviously, I saw the copy afterwards because they had to render that at the door. I was quite impressed with how they managed to copy it with colors and everything, it looked almost identical.
so there are a lot of things you need to watch out for in this industry .
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