Beware if they take over your Mountain and you are Full-Time Year Round - Anonymous employee Vail Resorts Employee Review

1.0
Mar 10, 2019
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Worst "experience of a lifetime"

Cons

They take over and tell you nothing for a month and overwork you, then you come to work one morning and a mass firing takes place. Think entire departments... And then in your last paycheck they tax you for "fringe benefits" on a $1000+ season pass you did not ask for! Absolutely disgusting company. Did I mention before they fire you they make you sit through multiple orientations telling you about your benefits and making you sign up for everything and shoving their "experience of a lifetime" ideals down your throat.

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Pros

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Cons

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Pros

- Most people are smart, passionate, and enjoyable to work with and be around. - Fairly frequent opportunities for development and advancement through the internal job board. - Nice perks if you're into skiing or riding.

Cons

- There's an unspoken expectation to regularly work significantly more hours because the majority of employees are very passionate about the ski and ride industry, which isn't great for work life balance. There's not much down time either; you're either hustling in season or hustling to prepare for the next season. - Climate change poses a significant threat to the future of the company. The season pass model mitigates some of the impacts, but not as much as senior leadership asserts. And, since bonuses are tied to company results, you can end up working super hard all year and still end up getting half of your bonus target due to uncontrollable weather conditions. - The culture has taken a serious hit since enterprise transformation work began. Lots of people are constantly stressed out and the atmosphere in the office is depressing. - Most of the time, it feels like senior leadership makes decisions in a vacuum without consulting any of the people that would be responsible for the downstream work associated with the decision. For example, I've seen senior leaders decide on a savings target multiple times without consulting the experts, who then have to scramble to figure out how to make it work. It creates chaos and negatively impacts morale. - This organization has a wordsmithing problem. I've never worked at a company that spends such an inordinate amount of time on the framing of a message compared to the actual substance of the message.

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