The other day, I posted a message here stating that I'd been told that the Rio Hotel in Vegas had gotten rid of its "Bevertainers." A Bevertainer is a cocktail waitress who puts down the tray every ten or fifteen minutes and performs a musical number on a little platform situated in or around the slot machines. I heard they were gone from someone who'd been to the Rio but I didn't post it until I saw it mentioned in the widely-circulated newsletter sent out by a site called Vegas Resources. They said the program had been "terminated"…so I figured it was safe to say here that it was.
I just now received an e-mail from the "Director Public Relations and Business Alliances" for Harrah's Southern Nevada informing me that this is false and that as a result of my "recklessness," their office has been "inundated" with inquiries from other media asking them to comment, and that I have upset the employees in question, etc. She demands that I remove the item (which I have just done) and that I post a retraction (which this is) and threatens to take action unless I don't…which I would have done without the threat simply because I want the information posted here to be accurate. I apologize to any employees who were discomfited or discomforted by the item.