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Self-described Snowboard Whore Fired
"Walt" wrote in message
... http://www.aspentimes.com/apps/pbcs..../COLUMN/312310 17 I think the article is hilarious and she's obviously taking the **** out of herself more than her pupils. There is definitely a difference between US responses to satire and that of other English speaking countries. It does remind me of when I was an absolute beginner skier about 10 yrs ago in Thredbo Australia. On the bunny slopes a young girl (about 12) kept balling her eyes out each time she fell (like me at the time, this was quite a frequent occurrence). Her instructor (a 6' Austrian Amazonian by the name of Helga) finally whacked [1] the girl over her head with her ski. I agree that this is perhaps not the best teaching technique but in the US Helga/the ski company would have been slapped with a multi-million $ lawsuit. Helga was back teaching at Thredbo the next year. She also waited tables at our hotel and I can tell you no-one ever argued with her if she got the order wrong. [1] it was a very soft whack |
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Self-described Snowboard Whore Fired
"Mike T" wrote in message .. .
FWIW, I thought the article was hilarious! As to her getting fired, I'm not at all surprised... big American ski resort companies view a good chunk of their employees as... disposable. Although I agree with the disposable part, I don't think that was the reason in this case. She's in a service industry projecting an image that students are laughed at behind the scenes. No service industry want to project an image that their customers are being laughed at, having no respect whatsoever - hence the firing. |
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