I am guilty also...

I just wanted to drop a fast note to say that the 3rd quarter IRA infusions have gone out. They should hit your account this week. The money that went in was based off of normal hourly wages from July to August, as well as the midyear profit sharing that LTA started this year.

And speaking of profits and the sharing of, the transition to the new odds has been a large worry of mine for quite awhile. We've been doing something the same way for over 10 years. It may take a little while to retrain the muscle memory of paying 10:1 for a full house. It could be an expensive transition for us.

But things are mostly better than I feared. Interestingly enough, the first day for many dealers went better than the second. On the first day everyone seemed to wear a nagging sheen of anxiety that focused them. People were taking their time and double checking payouts to make sure everything was right.

Having made it through the first day though, some people assumed they already had it down flawlessly, forever, and snapped back to autopilot.

I only bring this up because I was one of those people who assumed everything was instantly perfect after the first day and stopped worrying. Then the texts of mistakes started coming in and I realized we still had work to do.

We are trying to get a better handle on what areas are possible profit vulnerabilities. Are people still paying with the old odds? Are the new bonus bets not being collected when they lose?

So if you see something, say something. Send a text when you catch a mistake so that we can better understand which mistakes people are making and plug those holes.

Our end of the year numbers thank you in advance!

I Would Like to Thank the Jumpers...

We have GIF!

As you can see from the image above, we have our very first LTA GIF.

We now have both a website and a GIF. Armed with such impressive early 2000s technology I can only imagine the heights this company can climb.

I am putting up a few of the shots from our highly successful Rapids outing. But if anyone wants to see the entire gallery let me know in the comments and I will send you a link to the site where you can download all the shots Lawza took and/or order prints.

It looked like everyone had a ball and I would like to take a moment to thank the noble souls who stayed behind to mind the store while everyone else was frolicking in the wave pool. Your sacrifice is noted and appreciated.

Likewise I want to thank everyone who contributed to our exciting GIF, with a special shout out to the jumpers. And I don’t mean just the enthusiastic front rowers, like Misty and Lauren, or just the back rowers, like Becky or Sam, who got air even if you couldn't really tell without checking out their feet.

Thank you also to everyone who didn't actually jump but nonetheless made the effort to try to make it look like you were jumping. You may not have gotten giant air, but you at least raised an arm as though you had just landed from a particularly impressive leap. If we hadn’t used exciting GIF technology to give the shot motion your clever subterfuge definitely would have worked.

And I will go on the record as saying that the excitement of this LTA photo is in no way marred by anyone who didn't see fit to at least pretend jump. And I would never want to single out such people by naming them or even saying that their names might rhyme with “at” or “icky”.

I’m just very happy that everyone got to spend a few hours together off campus in sunny, chlorine drenched fellowship.

Good times!

PS. If anyone has any photos or videos they want to share (with or without jumpers) you could post them in the comments below.

RE:$95,000 Bonus/Aquatic Logistics

In case I didn't mention it, we did not win a billion in Tuesday's Mega Millions drawing.

Yet again.

I don’t know how many times we can NOT win a billion dollars.

I mean, we have to be due.

Have to be.

LTA will be picking up some more tickets for the one and a quarter BILLION dollar Mega Millions drawing on Friday. But I am beginning to worry the machine at the track is rigged and it only gives us crap random numbers.

So LTA is offering a $95,000 bonus to whomever gives us decent, actually well thought out numbers. I’m asking anyone who reads this in time to choose 3 numbers between 1 and 70 that actually make sense and leave them in the comments below. (You have until 4:00 pm Friday the 4th.)

IF we win the jackpot and one of the numbers you picked is one of the numbers pulled on Friday you will get $95,000 on top of your fair share of the jackpot.

$95,000!

But don’t be flooding the company with nonsense numbers that you just pulled out of your ass. We need the prime Glengarry numbers.

Good luck!

Also, I am very excited for our first company field trip to the exciting Rapids World of Water Amusements! It is this coming Monday August 7th. If you want to beat the $15 parking fee, meet at the PBKC parking lot at 10:00 am for company car pooling. LTA will cover parking for everyone who leaves from the track and takes at least one buddy. If you are going to be carpooling let us know in the comments. It would be good to get a head count so no one shows up on Monday morning and gets left behind.

If you don’t carpool it would be nice if you got to the rapids by 10:30 am. I would really love to get a group photo for the LTA scrapbook so we can remember this important day in LTA history.

Good times!

How excited are you about the Rapids field trip?

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