Mountain workers on power trips?

i got my pass clipped for manualing a SLOW gate/sign

being a liftie is such a dope job. i dont get why people make it out to be some high profile job. its not, its way chill and for the most part its fun.

yeah, at my mountain it jsut seems like the ticket checkers (thats what i meant when i said lifties) are mostly 60 year old dudes who are PISSED to have too look at peoples passes, its such an easy job i dont get why they have to be dicks to paying customers.

I hear you. one day the mt. was empty because I was in PA and it was pouring. so my friends and I go up to the lift, we're like the only ones there, and get on. ski down to the same lift. as we're getting on my friend did something and tripped sort of and just leaned on the empty chair in front of us, knocking the bar down, no big deal. this guy starts flipping out at us about it and radios the guy at the top to stop us. (not hard.. we're the only ones on the damn lift to begin with, it's still pouring.) he stops us and tells us that bar went down because we pushed it on purpose and when we had gotten on the last time the bar in front of us was down too (which was true, but the first time it came around like that) he starts yelling at us at which point I bitch him out about how we're the only ones who actually bought tickets today and all this shit. he backed down and apologized and basically said it was the guy at the bottom. the bottom liftie just scowled at us for the rest of the day.

cliff notes
rainy day, we're the only ones there. Liftie yelled at us at the bottom, radioed the top. the top guy yelled at us, I yelled back at him and he backed down and said it was just the guy at the bottom being an ass. bottom lifite scowls at us for the remainder of the day.

hahahha, cliff notes are money for the many here with ADD

Have you guys ever thought of putting yourself in the employees position?  As a former employee of a ski hill it really irritates me to see kids like you saying that everyone at the mountain is out to get you.  That isn't the case, get over it.  By cutting lines, telling people how to do their jobs, and not paying attention to  the people around you, you are showing blatant disrespect toward the people that make it possible to use the lifts.  They're not on a power trip, they are just trying to do their jobs so they can get by and maybe ski a little too.  Your attitudes make it nearly impossible to not label all high school kids as arrogant and selfish, and you aren't helping your cause by trying to make everyone but yourself out as the bad guy.  Just take a step back and think before typing up something biased in an effort to take down an anonymous lifty.

i used to be a dick to everyone that worked on the mountain, but after maturing and realizing that they are just trying to do their do, i stopped.  Now i know all the lifties by name and they know me, in the long run it really helps out cuase if your nice to them, they'll be nice to you to.  Just today i was warned for going to fast by a ski patrol, i said im sorry and ill slow down, which is did, and later that day when the patrol noticed i was being responsible, he gave me a coupon for a free meal.  so moral of the story, be nice cause its really a two way street.

ahahahaha

the last mountain i went to (got a college pass for 3 so we kinda rotate), the people were mad nice. we kept asking what the electronic readers did and had conversations. old people are much more fun to talk to i think. this lady was so nice. we were kinda loud and obnoxious, but not like rude or disrespectful. its so much more fun to talk to people and laugh with them. and we're all 19-22 for reference.

i think you took what i said the wrong way, i make every effort to be polite to everyone at the mountain and try to make conversation etc...i don't think they are all out to get me just a lot of them are total dbags is all, i didn't "cut the line" i ducked a rope so i didn't have to push an extra 100 yards in a circle. there were also no people around me either, i knocked a rope off a pole by resting my hand on it and apparently it fell or something and he yelled at me for it. it really kinda bothers me that because i say that the ticket checkers at my mountain are dicks you say that i am "arrogant and selfish and make everyone the bad guy" don't be a cock. me and my crew are probably some of the most respectful and nicest kids at the mountain so ill go right ahead and take a step back and look at the fact that some little accident i had gets me yelled at.

if i was at a restaurant and accidentally knocked a fork off a table would some employee run up and yell "hey you knocked my fucking fork over you fucking idiot"...maybe, but i wouldn't be going back there again. that's all my point is, if I'm respectful to the employees they should be the same way back.

and next time you try to call someone out on their story, try to read it first .cause i clearly didn't do any of the things you said, and it would be pretty fucking hard to imply them from what i said.

Yes, but sam would you really yell at some kid for ducking a lift rope at moonlight if no one was around? No. Would you get mad if your rope fell down? No because then you would have something to do.

dude wtf wen did this happen?

usually all the people that work at the mountain are way cool and stuff, but you do sometimes get those dicks that are just in a pissy mood all the time and on a huge power trip.  and thats what we are talking about.  
in the last month ive seen alot of workers just being dicks.  like a month ago, my friend caught this girls board when she accidently let go of it and it was flying down the mountain, then some ski patrol guy comes up to us and starts yelling at US for not having a leash on it when it was someone elses board.  we all clearly had skis/boards on our feet, we told him it isnt our board and we stopped it from flying down the mountain but he kept yelling at us and after he finally realised it wasnt ours, he got pissed at us for being disrespectful and crap, my friend said something like "what the fuck is your problem?  if you dont want me to stop this board from breaking someones legs i wont" then he flipped it over and pushed it down the mountain, and the ski patroler chased after it. it was awesome.  
another time we were at copper which has the gayest ski patrol in my opinion, they had a bunch of racers on the mountain for some event or somethig, so they were all hauling ass down the mountain, and there was a line of ski patrolers stopping fast skiers/boarders by some slow signs. and with racers flying past us going easily twice as fast, we get yelled at for going to fast and the guy said he would take our pass,  we pointed out that we were going pretty damn slow and that the racers were flying by us. the guy had nothing to say but give me your pass, he kept repeating it and we kept saying not until you tell us why your taking it. and it took some cool patrol guy to tell the dick patrol that we were right and he left us alone.
another example is when my snowboarder friend was getting on the lift without unstrapping, cause there wasnt a line and you could just ride straight up to the chair, and there were tons of people doing it all day,  and some lift guy like 100 feet away yells "unstrap your board now!!!"  we were like 2 seconds away from getting on the lift so there was nothing he could do, and he radios to the guy up top.  when we get up there the guy said it was totally ok if he stays strapped in and that the guy is just being an ass, so my friend goes the rest of the day like that and the liftie gave us pissed off looks every time we got on the lift.
its the assholes like this that we are talking about, and when someone is an ass to us for no reason, we are mean back, i have no respect for people like that and i would feel guilty giving them any respect.   90 percent of the people that work at the mountain are usually really cool and we are cool back, its just the few people with a crappy attitude that suck.