joshua_segal;c-53257 wroteMost of this thread has been sarcasm, but this is a real, "Vail nails it":
One of my pet peeves about being a snowsports instructor was:
1. The Director (or his surrogate) expected you to be there when you signed up.
2. The Director (or his surrogate) expected you to show up 10-minutes before classes started wearing your parka (i.e uniform).
3. If you were not assigned a lesson, you had change out of the parka before free skiing.
All in all: A day could blow by; the instructor has committed 2-hours of "work time", and received no pay.
Vail pays instructors for line-ups as well as for time to change into and out of the instructor uniform.
At Bradford where I previously worked, you were not paid for lineups, but you could wear your uniform whenever you'd like. At BMOM we pay for lineups and instructors can wear their uniforms whenever they'd like. At Bradford, instructors were required to buy their uniform. At BMOM, instructors can borrow a uniform, or purchase their own personalized one.
