Big Burke announcement

[SLoMo]

Today: Freezing. Thin cover and icy slopes (unless you're on kiddy stuff). Retail store closed on busiest day of the week. Employees look miserable and don't know how to use their cash registers. Ticket scanners chatting up their friends...you go ahead in singles line cause you waited 5 mins to be scanned and they ignore you...only to get yelled at by liftie for bypassing scanner. Ridiculous. But hey, minimal people and lots of laps. I'll take it!

***sidenote: that stupid magic carpet thing is biggest waste of money ever.

 

[Edd]

Retail store closed on a Saturday. Wow. Can we get an independent confirmation on that because it blows my mind.

 

[VTKilarney]

Sounds like a typical Burke Saturday when there isn't enough natural snowfall. They don't have enough snow made on the main mountain to spread people out. Carriage Road especially can't handle the traffic.


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[thetrailboss]

Today: Freezing. Thin cover and icy slopes (unless you're on kiddy stuff). Retail store closed on busiest day of the week. Employees look miserable and don't know how to use their cash registers. Ticket scanners chatting up their friends...you go ahead in singles line cause you waited 5 mins to be scanned and they ignore you...only to get yelled at by liftie for bypassing scanner. Ridiculous. But hey, minimal people and lots of laps. I'll take it!

***sidenote: that stupid magic carpet thing is biggest waste of money ever.

That's the Q experience!


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[SLoMo]

Retail store closed on a Saturday. Wow. Can we get an independent confirmation on that because it blows my mind.

Just left, big sign out front, closed. Per Qburke FB, it had sprinkler system blow beginning of the week damaging merch. Some notification would have been nice...lot of cold unhappy kids who's parents planned on buying them stuff there. That and the marketing blog of their "Siobhan" who won't ski again (really, Burke?!), were the rumblings in the lodge all day.

 

[thetrailboss]

Just left, big sign out front, closed. Per Qburke FB, it had sprinkler system blow beginning of the week damaging merch. Some notification would have been nice...lot of cold unhappy kids who's parents planned on buying them stuff there. That and the marketing blog of their "Siobhan" who won't ski again (really, Burke?!), were the rumblings in the lodge all day.

What did she say?


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[River19]

If I turn my ear towards the mountain I swear I hear the fat lady warming up.......

Spent a couple hours out on the fat bike with the wife.....had a blast......10 degrees.....still some sweat, makes the beer even better.

Q sounds like a friggin mess.........anyone see that douche nozzle Jr around?

 

[wtcobb]

Q Jr was on site this morning.

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[faQ]

... "Siobhan" who won't ski again (really, Burke?!), were the rumblings in the lodge all day.

What's that now?


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[SLoMo]

Some blog they posted. "Siobhan" skis or something. People were talking about in front of fireplace (eavesdropping, I know).

 

[MEtoVTSkier]

Q Jr was on site this morning.

He'll be firing ticket scanners tomorrow for socializing on company time.

 

[River19]

He'll be firing ticket scanners tomorrow for socializing on company time.

Plus, there aren't that many tickets to scan........

 

[MEtoVTSkier]

Surprised he hasn't gone RFID, so he could eliminate the employee positions.

 

[thetrailboss]

Surprised he hasn't gone RFID, so he could eliminate the employee positions.

I'm sure that will be the next improvement instead of, say, competent management or increased snowmaking.


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[VTKilarney]

Here is the blog post:
http://qburke.com/blog/reunited-skis-meet-knees/

It's not quite as bad as people say, but it's not that good.


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[VTKilarney]

Nobody was scanning on the last weekday that I skied.


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[thetrailboss]

Here is the blog post:
http://qburke.com/blog/reunited-skis-meet-knees/

It's not quite as bad as people say, but it's not that good.


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Would make me feel twice about wanting to learn to ski.


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[thetrailboss]

Nobody was scanning on the last weekday that I skied.


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Only locals ski weekdays. Locals don't count.


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[Edd]

Just left, big sign out front, closed. Per Qburke FB, it had sprinkler system blow beginning of the week damaging merch.

Kind of explains it, at least. Lord, what a shit show.

 

[thetrailboss]

Just left, big sign out front, closed. Per Qburke FB, it had sprinkler system blow beginning of the week damaging merch. Some notification would have been nice...lot of cold unhappy kids who's parents planned on buying them stuff there. That and the marketing blog of their "Siobhan" who won't ski again (really, Burke?!), were the rumblings in the lodge all day.

Meh nobody was buying any of that Q shit anyway. It's too bad because from what I saw last year they had some good stuff, until it was tattooed with that hideous Q logo. They also had T-shirts that said "Q Burke, Vermont". Simply ridiculous.


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