Colorado ski and golf

I worked for Bicycle Village (both owned by Specialty Sports)it is pretty cool you don't get paid much but the benifits are increadible. You get discounts at a shit load of places including Vail Resorts. It is fun but there is a lot of corporate bullshit. Great summer job though.

 
not to burst your bubble, but i highly doubt you'll get it unless they're desperate, which store are you looking to work at? While there are a bunch of morons at some of the stores, there are deffinately a core group of hard working individuals that have been in the industry for their fair share of years, and josh is right about the turn over rate, while at my shop here in the springs that wasnt the case, and most of who was there during the ski season is there for golf, and for this year myself being only one of the new people brought on, i would say that alot of really good employee's stick around for the switchover in fall and spring, the pay was decent for me, and i had a great time working there, loads of fun watching ski vid's and kickin it with a bunch of people with similar intrests to myself, while there is a good side, there still is the corporate side that really starts to make it a less fun job, make sure if you work there, you take advantage of the free stuff you can pick up, this season alone, i got scratch fs's and bc's through some sort of rossignol program for free for my high sales, but dont let the "up selling" and "top gun" seller lists take you over, otherwise you wont have as much fun, and you just become one of the other corporate junkies there, if you get it know your product, and dont try and push people out the door with product, just be down to earth and try and help them out, and dont be scared to make references to other buissnesses that could cater to someones needs that your shop may not bring to the table, because in turn you may not get the spiff, but you'll get the respect. For the most part its a wonderful job, just be careful
 
yea they seem to have their shit together and don't act like stupid pot heads similar to some other ski shops on the front range...
 
What gives you that impression? Most people that work there are stoned 24/7. They hire people based on appearance, not ski knowledge. Too many earrings, long hippy hair, equals no job. One guy that worked there weighed almost 400 pounds, and started telling me about skis, then admitted he was from arizona and had never actually been skiing.
 
hey man, what they do on their own time isn't my concern, if they make a good impression in the shop that's what counts in my book. i have yet to talk to someone in there that isn't a skier or boarder...
 
fairview where do you live?

i know your not talking about the springs store, cuz everything there is under super tight watch and is really clean, which is really sick, John and Turtle run a really good shop, keeping it super chill, with good employee's, that work really well with boots, and have a great back ground in the ski industry, i was the only person working their this year, that hadnt had 4 or more years in the industry, and there were probably 4 people under the age of 19, and all of them knew what was up, and kept what life if they were pot heads away from work and were super awesome....and every other ski and golf is run the same way, if your talking about boulder ski deals, i could see that but the denver and springs stores are run very well by the regional manager
 
When I lived in Boulder, my roommate ran the ski tech shop at Boulder Ski Deals (a speciality sports company) and I got to know a fair amount of their employees. Most of the employees were fair skiers, but all were way into the outdoors and pretty chill. My roommate hated the company and actually worked with Josh the year before josh opened jibij.

Most of their employees thought boulder ski deals sucked because of the corporate atmosphere and all the bullshit that comes with that. Speciality sports is owned by the Gart brothers who started gart sports.

The only benefit I saw from working there for my roommate was that he occasionally brought home skis for his friends that were new to the sport. Not any great skis but decent for his gaper friends from the east coast. Oh and there was a party that one of the employees in the shop won from rossi for the whole store. we got to go to a brewery in boulder, open bar, dinner and then a raffle in which one of roommates won skis from rossi and another won a heli trip in telluride. I guess the other benefit is that the shop had passes to most of the resorts off I-70 for employees and friends, which was nice when I wanted to go a different resort than my season pass.

But as far as 'ski shop experience' goes it just doesn't happen when you are that far away from the mountain. Plus management wouldn't let the shop techs tune skis after hours like many shops do in ski towns, so if it was snowing in the mountains they were stuck working. One other thing is that they don't close the ski tech shop in the summer which to me is pointless (the still got business here and there).
 
I actually have a buddy that works there and when they hired him they told him that most of the workers are stoned a lot, and because he was stoned at the time, he replied with 'thats a good rule' haha. Umm... Im working there in the fall and spring selling passes for Vail, and it should be fun.
 
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