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Grand Targhee Resort

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Only stay a season! Don't get trapped - Anonymous employee Grand Targhee Resort Employee Review

1.0
Apr 29, 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Targhee is an absolutely breath taking, beautiful place! The entire valley is surrounded by Mountains. The wild life and high peaks make for an almost magical experience.

Cons

Targhee is an amazing place to work for one, maybe two seasons, so you can simply enjoy the area. There is plenty of opportunity to move up in any department because the shortage of staff. If you are a seasonal employee or benefited, don't count on getting your "bonus or incentive". They will make up an excuse of why, but when it comes down to it I believe they just don't want to follow through with the program. I think personally they should take the program away because people count on and look forward to getting a reward at the end of the season/year and then they are let down. I know people that have been there for 6 to 7 years and never receive one. I feel like I gave 100 percent to this company and worked my life away the last 2 years, my work consumed my life and I wasn't able to enjoy the things that were most important to me. I have never felt like I've have been cheated by any other company I've ever worked for until now. I feel like I did so much for this company and worked so hard, with nothing in return besides a poor pay check. The wage at Targhee is so low you can't even afford to live and eat here. The attitude of the workers at Targhee are so poor and everyone is angry and sad all the time because of so many reasons! If I ever return to this area, and I probably will because it's amazing, I will find work in the Valley or even in Jackson. I don't feel like the owner cares about the people that actually work their butt off for him, but why would he, everyone is expendable right? This is why Targhee can't retain good, hard working employees that actually care, because we are not appreciated or correctly compensated. To be honest I am upset that I didn't leave sooner, no one deserves to be paid so little or treated with such unappreciation. Targhee is the MOST unorganized company I've ever been with and I think that is a huge part of the problem, I'm not the only one that feels this way. With that being said I would not reccomend Targhee as a place of employment. I think I should put the word out there because I don't want others to feel used the way I did and others that feel the same.

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Grand Targhee Resort Response
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Thank you for your feedback. At Grand Targhee Resort we value the input of our current and former employees. Our incentive programs differ between year-round and seasonal positions and going through our records there are simply no employees that have missed more than one seasonal incentive. For year-round they are tied to goals and objectives set by the management team, while seasonal employees need to receive a 3 out of 5 on their performance review, stay the entire season and complete required training. Due to those few constraints, very few employees miss out on their incentives. We also strive to keep our wages competitive within the ski industry and with resorts of similar size, by participating in wage surveys and making changes as needed and we continue to look at programs to reward are hard working employees.

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