Vail raises minimum wage to $15/hr
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14295709:eheath said:
Yeah running a 300 thousand dollar machine building stuff where if you fuck it uo somebody could get seriously injured should pay less than taco bell for sure.
Also the state minimum wages were getting pretty close to that in many western states. To little to late. Fuck bobby katz and fam. Fuck vail.
I did almost do summer snowmaking work at Northstar but that was because it was all people I'm friends with and they were going to pay me okay.
It all depends on the mtn and the job, but they're straight boning people. The ski industry pays like ass in general but Vail takes it to another level. VR is a dumpster fire. Crazy why people keep leaving. I guess they must be lazy.
BigPurpleSkiSuit
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14295723:eheath said:
14295725:BigPurpleSkiSuit said:Not what I hear from my friend who is a lift mechanic at bird
I mean thats completely depended on what your friend and you think is good pay and the level you work at, but its not $15 an hour brother. I know plenty of people who work at PC, Vail pays just fine for skilled workers.
a_burger
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14295723:eheath said:
Nah sounds like he’s talking about snowcat operators, which are probably some of the lowest paid equipment operators in the US compared to how complex the machines are. Good luck breaking 20 an hour unless you can run literally everything (zaugg, winch, etc) and have been there for years
anyone see that Carinthia is all paid parking on weekends now? Vail really knocking it out of the park in terms of guest experience right now
EvanMeyer
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Ive worked fast food and it’s not way worse than working at a mountain as you put it. Yeah it’s not fun but it’s also not physically exhausting work. Lifties, park crew, cat ops, lift maintenance etc all get paid dog shit wages and are usually busting their asses for 8+ hours a day. Resorts can be pretty shitty but fast food is not that hard either. regardless of whether you think it’s a stretch or not, paying people minimum wage in some of the most expensive towns across the country is asinine when corporations like vail and powdr are raking in over a hundred million annually.
14295709:eheath said:
twinkle_toes
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Still trying to comprehend how anyone can survive off minimum wage ($15.20/hr) in BC when the living wage is $19.50. Especially anyone living in Whistler what a joke
14295730:EvanMeyer said:
You're saying youd rather work at mcdonalds than work year round outside for 15/ hour? Who cares if its more 'exhausting' its a way better position with much better potential to move up into a better position.
I'm not saying resort workers shouldn't get paid more, just not the same as fast food in my eyes. Only thing worse would be shoveling shit at the circus.
BigPurpleSkiSuit
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14295734:eheath said:
You could also be trapped in a third world country growing coca for pennies where if you try to run away they murder your entire family.
BrandoComando
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It's a step in the right direction. Not a very big step, but at least it's something. I think we'd rather have the pay bump than nothing at all. Shitty pay leads to understaffing which makes the whole experience worse for everyone
EvanMeyer
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work on those comprehension skills there champ don’t think I ever said I’d rather work at McDonald’s. Already did that shit over a decade ago and to say fast food workers deserve more than a resort employee is fucking comical. Have you ever worked fast food or at a resort? $15/hr is still hardly a livable wage and I wasn’t even making that as a resort employee this past season. Our highest paid cat ops were barely making $17/hr and if you think that’s reasonable for operating heavy machinery youre either delusional or have never worked construction. bobcat operators start at like $25/hr and that’s half the size of a snowcat.
14295734:eheath said:
14295739:EvanMeyer said:
14295744:SkiBum. said:
Like I said, the cat operator thing is completely separate in my mind from a entry level worker who gets the minimum payment.
Again, I never said resort employees shouldn't get paid more, y'all need to calm the fuck down.
BigPurpleSkiSuit
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Let us all agree that while Vail is not the devil incarnate, they could certainly afford to pay their employees better wages to live in the high priced ski towns and take a hit on their stock price when the shareholders see the employees are actually being paid something.
SlitherySnake
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this site is 1000x better when eheath doesn't contribute and this thread proves me right
Granby_killdozer
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Not sure why people in this thread are mad. This is good news. I think I was making $10 or $11 an hour when I was working at the mountain a few years ago. I've worked in 5 different departments and know people in every other department. Sure, there's rushes around spring break and the holidays but most of the time the work isn't that hard...
14295718:theabortionator said:
Homie thats why the machine costs 300k and not 50k. Its a fixed one time cost they make now so they can then pay absolute nothing for lifties
r00kie
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Let's be real, they were going to have to pay at least 15 to get staff anyway cause thats just how the labor market is right now and the J1 situation will likely still be pretty shakey once next season roles around. Using the language of raising their min is more PR than anything.
GayWolf420
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14295748:BigPurpleSkiSuit said:
Honestly dude as someone who has grinded things out for a long while in and around a ski town, higher wages don't really help us much when literal neighborhoods of housing are getting buldozed to makeway for lavish modular houses and townhomes. And even if we tried, we still cant afford the mortgages for new or existing homes or the 2k+/month in rent for anything else thats much smaller. Its a fucked up industry in fucked up towns. Theres just too many people and not enough beds and our governments don't care because theyre getting loaded
**This post was edited on Jun 8th 2021 at 6:47:13pm
14295723:eheath said:
I was talking about snowcats but even lifties should get paid a little better.
There are some that are pretty god at their job. They'd probably stay around longer if the pay wasn't shit and it'd be easier to expect more of them. I get that it really is a ski bum type job but whatever.
Sure I'm being dramatic but Vail is a shit employer, pays shitty, treats employees shitty, and then wonders why people always leave.
Also Vails model on this is an employee is an employee. Somebody with 10 years at the mountain is the same as somebody with 0 and few relavant skills. Actually they're better if you can pay them a dollar less an hour.
When the pay is so trash that food drives for employees end up getting organized you know it's sick.
Idk. The ski industry in general is bad on this but there's plenty of verious in the cost of living around the country. A lot of VR places are in the very high cost of living areas.
Gas stations, fast food, etc pays much high than VR in many of those places because that's just what they need to to get employees and have them survive. And barely that.
It sucks that for lifties they'll just rely on J1s that don't care about the wage but just want to come to America and exploit that while boning the local work force.
Again, sure that's dramatic but it's some bullshit. At least they still have a few good park mtns. But have def nerfed a bunch of other spots.
Hating Vail because it's the cool thing is dumb, but VR is a shit conpany and Rob and all his cats can fuck off.
BrightFrog
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socialist fail
dolanslebensraum
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”THANK YOU UNCEL DOLAN”
but seriously if you think ski companies dont tune in to ns from time to time youre an idiot.
but seriously if you think ski companies dont tune in to ns from time to time youre an idiot.
dolanslebensraum
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14295937:eheath said:
Haha. Evan you gotta let your inner megalomaniac out.
but seriously i think youre selling ns short.
i wouldnt be surprised if over the years there have been many execs emailed a link to an ns thread by their employee/coworker etc.
if the execs are so stuck up they have never given ns a time of day im sure it at times has at least pained them to ignore us. I bet some of the aliases that have poked their heads up over the years were ski company execs going in for some pwnage.
and the kids/grandkids of ski execs who skiied park growing up probably showed daddy and grandpa ns threads all the time.
if ns was some abandoned incel shithole nobody cared about then there wouldnt have been 1500 ppl begging you to ban me for the past 10 yrs.
its foolish to underestimate the reach of any website that has (had) reasonable numbers and cultural relevance.
im fucking famous evan. Everytime i go to my car to grab my bowl theres literally an army of 16 yr old girls hurling their pussies at me begging for an autograph. You dont have to believe me. Dolan is fucking real.
just kidding
but i think before ns became this putrefied old corpse that only bundyish characters like dolan still want to stick their dicks in it was definitely a factor in the freeskiing culture. 10 yrs ago this place was pretty happening.
14295932:mrk127 said:
There are plenty of people working grave shifts for under 13 an hour. Or at least were in the last few years. And that's in some of the resort towns where you can't even afford rent and food for 15.
One of my buddies quit for a couple of years because he could make double or triple what he was making running heavy equipment year round.
There's def some mountains paying better but the industry as a whole is slow.
I made 13 an hour the last time I worked for vail - like what, 10 years ago. Even that was total bullshit for how much extra work I had to do because of understaffing problems and everything else lol.
Also comparing what fast food workers and vail resorts workers make is fuckin stupid - they should both be paid way more than they do what with all the top-level wealth on this continent...
Also comparing what fast food workers and vail resorts workers make is fuckin stupid - they should both be paid way more than they do what with all the top-level wealth on this continent...
NivlacEloop
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14295719:SkiBum. said:
stick a sandwich in your pocket like a real skier. only jerrys buy lodge food.
mattytru
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can thank the ski patrols pressuring VR with unionization for this, tiny step but at least it's something. made 12.50/hr full time park crew at stowe couple years ago. vail is literally only about making money, couldn't give less of a shit about the ski community, just facilitating family vacations
freeballer
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14295794:theabortionator said:
Does Vail wonder or worry about employees always leaving? I don't think so. Every year, there are enough employees to keep their resorts running. If the wage they offer is so low and unlivable, no one would work for them, but yet every season skier numbers seem to be up and the lifts are spinning. Go check out their stock price. I personally think they should pay higher wages, but it's hard for me to see how they have any incentive to do so unless they can't staff their resorts. Paying customers seem to be happy with the service provided.
14296598:freeballer said:
Yeah not really. When all the lifties wuit and they were offering people a 6th day at their wage to run a lift. So you had people that got paid more anyway working OT hours to keep lifts spinning. Some lifts were shut simply because if staffing.
As far as snow cats you can always fill a seat, but a first year person will never be as valuable as someone with more experience.
Also the J1 setups for lifties is pretty whack. But it is what it is.
dogfartstaint
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Bruh lift attendants are always high and chill as shit they’re just there to press buttons. Like Evan said, working fast food is way harder than being a lift attendant ever will be. Also, to your point about being in control of lives, pool lifeguards also hold the duty of saving lives but get paid shit wages, why? Well, that’s because they sit in a chair all day hardly doing anything. Also why is everyone malding at Vail specifically here, big chains like Target just went to $15 minimum wage and everyone’s applauding them, but when Vail does it they’re the antichrist. Being a low level service employee is not meant to be a lifetime job.
14295718:theabortionator said:
dolanslebensraum
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14295941:DolansLebensraum said:Haha. Evan you gotta let your inner megalomaniac out.
but seriously i think youre selling ns short.
i wouldnt be surprised if over the years there have been many execs emailed a link to an ns thread by their employee/coworker etc.
if the execs are so stuck up they have never given ns a time of day im sure it at times has at least pained them to ignore us. I bet some of the aliases that have poked their heads up over the years were ski company execs going in for some pwnage.
and the kids/grandkids of ski execs who skiied park growing up probably showed daddy and grandpa ns threads all the time.
if ns was some abandoned incel shithole nobody cared about then there wouldnt have been 1500 ppl begging you to ban me for the past 10 yrs.
its foolish to underestimate the reach of any website that has (had) reasonable numbers and cultural relevance.
im fucking famous evan. Everytime i go to my car to grab my bowl theres literally an army of 16 yr old girls hurling their pussies at me begging for an autograph. You dont have to believe me. Dolan is fucking real.
just kidding
but i think before ns became this putrefied old corpse that only bundyish characters like dolan still want to stick their dicks in it was definitely a factor in the freeskiing culture. 10 yrs ago this place was pretty happening.
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r00kie
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14296950:dogfartstaint said:
Pay is not dependant on how 'hard' a job is. It's dependant on how many people are willing to work the position compared to how employees are needed. Labor is subject to the same laws of supply and demand that goods and services are subject to. Park crew pays less than fast food cause more people want to work there so supply exceeds demand, lowering cost.
dolanslebensraum
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14297006:r00kie said:
This is true but there indeed is a correlation between job hardness and pay.
its not the whole story, but its part of it
dogfartstaint
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14297006:r00kie said:
Quantity of labor supplied is also affected by the same components that define typical demand, the taste of the worker comes into play here… workers are less willing to work an intensive unskilled labor job for the same wage as they can work a less intensive unskilled labor job. You’re misconstruing supply and demand here.