Las Vegas hotel surprises staff with $5,000 bonus each

Aaron Buncio has been functioning on the Las Vegas strip for decades. He moved from 1 big on line casino to The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas, and has stayed there for a small about a yr.

Lately, the resort gave each individual of its staff an unannounced $5,000 reward. For Buncio, it was a surprise of a lifetime specially in this striving time.

“No a single understood. I considered mag-a-anounce lang something about the changeover from Cosmo to MGM Resorts for the reason that we just got purchased out. We considered that’s the announcement. We did not know they’re supplying out a $5,000 bonus to each individual worker,” Buncio observed.

(I believed they would just announce a little something about the transition from the Cosmopolitan to MGM Resorts.)

Cosmopolitan CEO Bill McBeath made the surprise announcement inside of the Chelsea Theater, which was packed with the hotel’s workers. The bonuses were being presented to all the Cosmopolitan employees.

“To even new hires, like their 1st week, anyone got it,” Buncio shared. “Some basically cried throughout the announcement. Folks are supplying large fives.”

This advancement came amid the sale of the Cosmopolitan to MGM Resorts International. MGM Resorts is shelling out far more than $1.6 billion bucks to Blackstone to acquire more than the Cosmopolitan’s 3,000 lodge rooms, suites, and its on line casino as very well as its non-gaming features. Current MGM clients will now have obtain to the Cosmopolitan’s services.