A lot of teenagers will want to venture into a gap year when they have finished college. As much as my daughter adored doing a ski season, I recommend not going to work with a company called "workaseason" (www.workaseason.com), the way they treated my daughter and other employees was appalling. One of the managers working in a kitchen with them burned them with a hot ladle and he wasn't even fired instantly, it took complaints of bullying from three members of staff to get rid of him and no further legal action was taken. My daughter will now have a scar for life. More so, they were constantly subjected to favouritism. Lots of the 18 and 19 year olds stated that they were pretty much laughed at whilst the older staff (23+ who didn't like to go out drinking) were given much more praise and never checked up on. And when they did do things wrong it was brushed under the carpet. In the lead up to the season they were very disorganised, hardly contacting my daughter at all and they were absolutely useless with wages too. I know a seasonairre wage is low but they were paid £105 a month with £150 living allowance. They were only given one day off a week and sometimes had to work the upmost of 10 hours a day.
I believe my daughter and the other staff were treated completely unfairly and I recommend you never stay with Esprit, Inghams or Ski Total because they treat their staff so terribly and that would make me feel awful for staying with their company.
If anyone has any similar experience do let me know!
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