Front Desk Lead - Rock Resort Hotels in Beaver Creek
Pros
Flexible hours of working 3pm - 11pm makes skiing all day very easy. Job is typically not stressful or strenuous. Leave work at the end of the shift and do not need to think about it again until the next day; zero stress to take home. Free ski pass - advertised as unrestricted but they will revoke your pass when snow pack is low. Cool people to work with, sometimes. About half VR employees are college grads working minimum wage jobs for the sole purpose of skiing. About half of VR employees are there to smoke the green and never aspire to more.
Cons
Pay - I began this job in winter of 2012 at a rate of $10.80 per hour with no overtime, no commission, no incentives. For a point of reference, McDonalds in West Vail paid $12 / hr, and Walmart was at $13.50ish. Hotel guests can be extremely rude, and often rewarded for their behavior. Less a knock on the company and more a knock on the hospitality industry. Extremely high turnover rate. All employees are only a number. You are and always will be 100% replaceable to VR. Pathetic 3% annual pay increase - about $0.32 in my case.