ORDA's Biggest Mistakes

[tirolski]

It's unbelievable that, in an organization as large and labor intensive as ORDA, you can get to the level of manager or even VP without having even a rudimentary knowledge of the rules and tactics for dealing with the union.

He got hired at Belle & came from Huntahh when Peak Resorts Inc was running it.

Bruce Transue Now Belleayre General Manager

SAM Magazine—Highmount, N.Y., Dec. 13, 2018—This fall, Bruce Transue was named general manager of state-owned Belleayre Mountain Ski Center in New York. Th

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[Cork]

Yeah and here's another example of great leadership; Auntie Em is now the Interim GM at Belle... (kinda like the Gore GM-ya know, absolutely no experience running a ski area). Can't make this shit up!

 

[Milo Maltbie]

He got hired at Belle & came from Huntahh when Peak Resorts Inc was running it.

Bruce Transue Now Belleayre General Manager

SAM Magazine—Highmount, N.Y., Dec. 13, 2018—This fall, Bruce Transue was named general manager of state-owned Belleayre Mountain Ski Center in New York. Th

www.saminfo.com

Bruce was the snowmaking hero of Whiteface last year, and of Gore earlier this year, but what kind of manager is he? He was VP and therefore responsible for Gore operations from the beginning of the season. Why did he let it get so bad at Gore? Were the Gore on site managers not telling him the truth? It all points to ORDA management and leadership failures.

mm

 

[Cork]

It all points to ORDA management and leadership failures.

mm

 

[tirolski]

It's unbelievable that, in an organization as large and labor intensive as ORDA, you can be promoted to the level of manager or even VP without having even a rudimentary knowledge of the rules and tactics for dealing with the union. This is especially distressing because Transue seemed to be the only person in all of ORDA who knew how to make snow. Another example of ORDA leadership failure?

mm

Seems tain’t only top dogs at ORDA.

Night of APA staff socializing ends with top lawyer involved in Saranac Lake bar fight

Within hours of an Adirondack Park Agency staff social event, the agency’s top attorney, was removed from a nearby bar after he was involved in a physical altercation.

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Good help could be hard to find in The North Country bureaucracies.

 

[x10003q]

Oh Boy...

Allegations of union busting surface at New York ski resort

The head of New York's alpine ski centers has retired amid three state investigations into alleged union busting practices, including the taping of a union meeting.

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Just unbelievable.
Transue should have been fired for cause. I wounder if we will ever find out if he was fired for cause or was he just allowed to 'retire'. The other people involved - Lisa Morgan and Darrin Morgan (related?) should also be fired as should the so called, (unnamed) human relations employee accompanying Transue on an interview and telling the internal job candidate that they should resign from the union (which they did) in order to get a promotion. The interviewee did not get the job.

It is beyond shocking that this happened. This is exactly why we still need unions. It also goes to show how little supervision there is at Belleayre from Lake Placid as Transue got promoted after he was trying to stomp out the union at Belleayre. It does not take much brainpower to know that taping any private meeting without the people in the meeting knowing about the taping is wrong. A manager surreptitiously taping a closed union meeting is a whole new level of stupid. President Luge should resign or be fired as she promoted Transue.

The ORDA Clownshow continues to break new ground on a regular basis.

 

[Brownski]

If true, that is some unhinged behavior. I don’t get it at all

 

[jasonwx]

Yeah and here's another example of great leadership; Auntie Em is now the Interim GM at Belle... (kinda like the Gore GM-ya know, absolutely no experience running a ski area). Can't make this shit up!

The CEO of epic/vail is soft drink exec.
The ex ceo of altera/ikon was the ex gm of mammoth mt. Where he worked for a gizzillion years

 

[Ripitz]

If true, that is some unhinged behavior. I don’t get it at all

Real questions need real answers. Let’s get him on the Double Chair. Bar down.

 

[Brownski]

Real questions need real answers. Let’s get him on the Double Chair. Bar down.

I can’t even get the owner of Thunder Ridge to respond to my texts. Like we said in episode 1- zero clout