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The Rancheria (TMR) Gaming side is a fantastic way of getting into a professional career, as you'll learn to gather, interpret, and enforce rules and regulations, while also learning report writing and investigative techniques. The job as a regulatory body is fun and it is probably the most fun job I ever had. You'll gain lots of valuable knowledge that'll benefit you if you happen to move on elsewhere. As with every job, there are good and bad that come along with it, as well as co-workers and employees. Was with the Racheria for over 12 years and was terminated, but that will not bias my opinion of TMR and I will give you a straight-forward review and guide of my 12-plus years of experience there, and you can be the judge for yourself. There are good health benefits and insurance, Rancheria employees get a quarterly luncheon, and an end of the year Christmas bonus luncheon where you get a free pay check and a few hundred dollars worth of gift cards. Turkeys & Hams are given out on Thanksgiving and Christmas.

I started off as a Compliance Inspector 1, advance to 2 and 3, and became Supervisor my 12-plus years there. Gaming (Compliance) started off at $14/hr, and they have increased it to $16/hr after 12 years. It was every 3-4 years when I was there but I enjoyed the job and was working part time for the IRS as an auditor, but that was Licensing's job to find out since they do an "extensive" backgrounds check for any conflicts of interest. Don't know about Surveillance, Licensing, and Internal Audit, but I figure they should be about the same, if not, then it should be the same pay as they are all part of Gaming. If you have a Bachelor's degree or higher, ask for more pay and do not settle for anything less. The job states Bachelor's degree preferred, so make them properly pay you for requesting for such a degree. If not, then you will not get any raise or promotion until 2 years, after having to pass a test (you will be tested and that goes for all divisions in the Gaming department). a $1 raise every 2 years may justify their reasoning for giving you good health benefits and free lunch in the EDR, but with a Bachelor or higher degree, you can get the same if not better health benefits from jobs with Hospitals, School Districts, Fresno County, etc. They will give you an excuse that you have no experience, but truth is in this field nobody has any experience in or went to school for. We all learn as we go along, and with a Bachelor's or higher, ask for more money and you will grow into the field.

You will most likely start on graveyard and stay there for a number of years because people tend to stay in their spots for a while and it's hard to move around or to the shifts you want. Graveyard people get an additional 75 cents. So ask for more money at your interview, otherwise you will get strung along for a few years with no raises, and be on graveyard. Take notes on your interview so you can show them later on when they retract on things they said will happen or be given. Ask lots of questions. Request for time off is usually good, unless they are really short then you won't get your days, but the majority of the time you will get your days requested off. You accrue PTO after your probation, which will be 8 hours each pay check. It goes to 10 hours each pay check once you hit 5 years there.

Gaming frowns upon its representatives hanging out or knowing people who work in the Casino, because you're supposed to be an independent regulatory authority. Just say you don't know anybody, but truth is, we're all from the central valley and went to school or grew up with each other, but just say it otherwise they will think you're in collusion to take advantage of the Casino. If you're Hmong, most likely you will not be hired for Compliance just because all Hmong people know each other or through our parents and are some what related, Gaming will think you will collude with Casino employees. The majority of Hmong applicants are the ones with the degrees and can pass the pre-hire Word, Excel, Math tests and have good credit with little to no criminal background, yet they end up not getting hired, so that's puzzling.

A new bigger Casino is being built and will need more regulatory employees, so ask for higher pay if you tend to be there for a while and work at the new Casino. More areas to regulate and audit, and you don't want to feel like you're getting underpaid to do double the work. There is a high turnover rate in TMR, so ask around and you will see if it's the right place for you to stick around or just gain some experience, earn what you feel you deserve and then move on to greener pastures. If you want more raises and better opportunities to move into better positions, then go to the Casino (TMC) side. For example, the Casino Compliance Auditor gets pay significantly more than TMR Compliance and Internal Auditors. Casino employees also get annual raises (only a few cents, but it's better than nothing for 2 years) and there are always positions created that you can move into and advance. Good luck to all applicants!

Benefits are great, starting pay not so great. Rancheria compliance & surveillance only pays $14 an hour, and rancheria internal auditors and licensing/backgrounds people get about the same or a few dollars less. you’ll be getting paid less than a fast-food worker pretty soon and you'll also be driving about 40 minutes to and from work each day. There are always horrific and fatal auto accidents on the road there, so be careful when driving up there and back home. You are required to take a test after 2 years for a promotion, fail and you have to wait another year or two to retake it. It’s a $1 to $2 promotion and not a raise because you’ll be put on a higher level and have more work and responsibilities. You will be on graveyard and most likely won’t move, so be prepared to work that shift for a while. raises are very hard to come by, a cost of living increase only gets you like 30-40 cents raise after a few year only when they get enough complaints. grave yard shift does get an extra 75 cents per hour more and be weary of surveillence, even though you’re both part of Gaming, surveillence will snitch you out to Gaming in order to get ahead and look good to the gaming commision. you will be on graveyard for a good number of years even if they tell you things are always changing and pretty soon you will get moved. most of the people tend to stay where they are for a while so you are mostly likely stuck on graveyard. try to make up something like kids, school, or something important, and you might get moved around sooner, but somebody who has been there longer and want the same shift will hate you and end up trying to get you moved or fired.

You cannot have family, friends, & relatives work for the rancheria if you work there. The casino side doesn’t mind and will allow your family, friends, & relatives to work there with you. You are an at-will employee, so they can terminate you for whatever reason, just like they did to probably one of the best employees to ever work for the rancheria’s gaming department. He made the compliance and surveillance divisions in gaming into what it is today and he was terminated for having a terminal illness and passed away a few months later. Ask anybody there and they will tell you how terrible the rancheria’s HR and tribal council were toward him. If you have to work there, apply to the casino tmc side because their hr is more helpful and have better people skills, and the casino is always letting their personnel move around to different positions and get annual raises and they get all the same benefits the rancheria gets. casino hr is also more professional and follow ethical guidelines that exist outside indian country, while rancheria hr people only care to kiss tribal council's behind and not care much about their employees.

One last tip is to put all your social media like Facebook & Instagram on private before going in for interviews. Your new bosses and co-workers will check them to see who you are, what you look like, what you did before, and if you have questionable behaviors & friends (especially if they work down in the casino). Other rancheria gaming employees in your own department will snitch you out if they have evidence of casino employees as your friends or relatives, just to get themselves ahead. rancheria gaming is in the business of writing violations and other writeups, and they feel like writing their own people up to present to the manager, commisioners and tribal council will tend to get them favorable points. Just ask around the casino, and the casino employees will let you know which of your people you should be cautious off. there are good people but also two faces, you will eventually find out when you work there after only a few months. people will tell you or you can see just by working and walking the floor and seeing how casino people interact with some of your coworkers or supervisors and managers.

This is about my time there when I was a current employee, note things have perhaps changed since then. 
Having worked at the Rancheria for a few years, best description, horribly stressful. I worked under a committee which who gave all my duties and had a time frame to do so. Although my supervisor and/or HR would require me to do other things first because no one else “couldn’t” do it or didn’t have time. 
I was advised to act as if the committee was doing things correctly, then resubmit the work  supervisor/hr/or council to make sure it was to their liking; which would then make head of committee irritable with me. 
I had committee members ordering me; HR ordering me; Council ordering me and my direct supervisor ordering me. Because of this I would rarely have any of my work done because it always required approval from council. Head committee would get angry and tell me that they are head committee and they make the decisions not Council. So, when I would submit with out approval I would then get called up and questioned on my work and asking why I would do that, and would always ask me why they pay me to do what I do and I never really got support from anyone I just took getting in trouble in each direction due to lack of support.  
I worked very well with other departments that assisted me during events and all knew how much of a target I had on my back so they would do anything to help. I loved working with all visitors and all nations probably the best part that truly made me stay despite the treatment.  I did arise to increased absenteeism, felt discomfort and at one point even request to transfer to another building with more people since I was isolated. Towards the end of my career there I was getting a lot of text messages to my personal phone telling me very negative things about my work and about me personally and when I would answer my phone it was me just getting yelled at undermining my work. I was stuck between telling HR or just dealing with it because if I said anything I knew I would get terminated. I took the constant harassment and would often times cry at my desk; so I took the leap changed my number and told HR. Few days later I was terminated from my assignment; “due to the committee heading in a different direction”.  Again, This only has to do with the time frame when I was there. I can only be grateful for the opportunity. I could never look back and advise anyone to work there as if it was a great place. HR cannot protect you, and will not. If you choose to work here; I recommend a job that doesn’t have much of a spotlight because you’ll be the one they use to blame when all goes wrong. 

Everyday is always different, you never know what can happen in a Casino environment.
There are plenty to learn, especially dealing with policy and procedures and all the state and federal laws surrounding a Casino business that is governed by a sovereign nation.
Oversees all Casino employees including Management to ensure everybody is in compliant.
Co-workers are important and helpful in every way possible.
The hardest part of the job is to put up with the smoking environment.
Most enjoyable part of my job would probably being able to interact with guests and employees per work related, and also for having access to any information to satisfy the job.

People are let go often with little to no explanation. Tribal counsel calls the shots and everyone else is doing their dirty work. Those in responsibility have worked there for years and lack professionalism. Very stressful environment because you don’t know when your time is coming. Good news is when you’re off you’re off. You don’t really get contacted after hours so good work/life balance but you will be emotionally wrecked at the end of the day from watching people get treated poorly. Lots of favoritism amongst employees. 

Benefits are amazing with employee luncheons and Christmas party. You can win big in the gift card raffles.

One significant issue is the presence of office politics, which can often lead to a stressful and unproductive work atmosphere. Additionally, there have been concerns about the behavior of some individuals in the Human Resources department, particularly regarding favoritism. Unequal treatment among employees, and unfair allocation of opportunities and resources, which can undermine trust and morale. If you prefer a transparent and equitable workplace, these factors are worth considering before deciding to join this company.

In the beginning it was great. So many promises they offer and make it seems like this place was great overall. Took me little to 7 months to realize that this place aint really what they say it is. Upper Management is horrible. They don't know whats going on around public works. The workers that works there knows how things are cause we do it everyday. HR is a joke. They don't care whats going on until things falls out of place then come in and try to run it by placing workers from other facilities to try to fix it. Not the best.

I have worked here for over 10 years so I can truly give a fair review of the company.  TMR offers employees great benefits and a stable job environment.  Employees have an opportunity to make this their long term job if they work hard and show interest in the work they do.  Healthcare benefits are not free but they are so low cost it's unbelievable what you get for your money.

There is no room to grow there are people who have been there for 5 to 20 years and only seen one raise. There are no raises ever. It is a ok place to work but don’t stay long you won’t survive on the wage. 
  You won’t ever grow in this company and you won’t ever get a raise even if you work your butt off. You will think it will be different for me I am hard worker. But it will get you no where. The employees are friendly and nice. You will enjoy them.

This company fired me for asking for pregnancy accommodations and during my 2 months of employment I found it difficult to gather a sense of security of my job because of the hostility in the environment. The bosses expected their employees to have zero work/life balance. It was very hard working here not because of the work itself but because of the people in upper management. 

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