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Liftline Discrimination and Styeroptyping

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Soundgarden
Posts: 164 - Karma: 19
So this happens basically every day bbut its really been happeneing a lot to me lately such as today. Ill be waiting in the liftline like all the other noobs and the lifties wont check their passes for like an hour, and then right when me and my friends are about to go up, a guy runs out of his little hut and is like "WOOOOAh hwere are your passes!?!?!" its so wack then i have to reach into my pocket and my hand gets cold. i just wanna call them out on being racist pretty much and like complete losers. like get a real fucking job loser. Does htis happen to anybody else? im particular mad about it becasue its even more wack because of my skin color of which i will not disclose that information.
Nov 29 2008 4:07PM
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Am.Aaron
Posts: 443 - Karma: 22
Ski Fernie during the week (other than like.. spring break and christmas). The scanner will usually check you once and thats it for the rest of the day. Love having the hill to myself. I don't blame them for checking though. I've heard some hills offer a bonus if they catch someone with a borrowed pass.
Nov 30 2008 2:49PM
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meggers
Posts: 2094 - Karma: 70
i know at my mountain, at least last year cuz the scanners didnt work, that if a liftie found a person with a fake old or borrowed pass they get $25. i know if i was getting $25 i would check everyone's pass.

plus if you were coming up to the lift like you own the place and like an ass id check your pass every time just to piss you off. beig nice goes a long way. have your pass out and it wont be a problem.
Nov 30 2008 3:04PM
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skivt12
Posts: 239 - Karma: 33
all you have to do is make friends with them. If they know you they wont check your passes
Nov 30 2008 5:05PM
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caucasian_chad
Posts: 4078 - Karma: 3,625
Exactly.  It's a part of the job, otherwise security would be extremely inefficient.
Nov 30 2008 5:53PM
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3ski6guy0
Posts: 9201 - Karma: 134
theres this super bitch lifty at brighton who took my pass after making me take off my goggles, helmet and then still didnt believe it was me when it was clearly my picture on the pass. fucking twat
Nov 30 2008 5:55PM
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caucasian_chad
Posts: 4078 - Karma: 3,625
Happened to a friend of mine once after he cut his long hair.
Nov 30 2008 5:57PM
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neon1peace
Posts: 998 - Karma: -1
my friend broke one of his poles once so we skied to the rental shop and the guy there was old and really cool so he just gave my friend some old huge neon poles that looked hella cool

so just look for a cool rental shop worker and maybe you could get some old poles for free
Nov 30 2008 6:00PM
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Hairmetaler
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Nov 30 2008 6:16PM
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KarmaSkiier
Posts: 461 - Karma: 6
its all sterotyping. bitches envy us
Nov 30 2008 7:36PM
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urbanjib
Posts: 1801 - Karma: 255
that sucks dude... but understand its part of a job...
think about it... a kid in jeans, and a POS jacket is much less likely to steal a pass, than a thugged out kid, who skis all the time, and may not always have money for a pass
Nov 30 2008 7:54PM
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TheWorst
Posts: 7883 - Karma: 17
i like to come on newschoolers just to see what you retards will type next.
Nov 30 2008 10:16PM
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nick@
Posts: 72 - Karma: 95
almost complete opposite at my hill half the time you'll get checked once then  they'll figure out your a park rat and just let you through because they remember you...dont be so hard on them its part of the job
Nov 30 2008 10:40PM
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Hugh_Conway_jr
Posts: 746 - Karma: 467
They scan my pass every day ... its their job. if they cant see my pass to scan it .. they ask me to take it out. again .. its their job to scan the pass, and my fault they cant see it. Dont give lifites a hard time, if it wasn't for their lazy asses how would we get our lazy asses up the mountain.
Nov 30 2008 11:21PM
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Malcolm
Posts: 15951 - Karma: 9,451
i kind of forgot what the original thread was about but i would just read the lifties name tag and be like hey there bill hows it going. then hell remember you if you keep doing that and you wont have to get youre hands cold
Nov 30 2008 11:29PM
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grambo
Posts: 1125 - Karma: 93
Haha, you gave up a bartending job to be a liftie in a ski town? Riiiiiiight. That makes sense.
Dec 1 2008 4:34AM
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Skibumsmith
Posts: 5432 - Karma: 11,823

That's funny. When I was a racer I would go for like a month straight without getting my pass checked. Always remember you can get on any lift if you're wearing a speed suit. "B-b-b-but sir, I left my ticket on my jacket and my jacket is at the top of the race course."

Dec 1 2008 4:44AM
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TheWorst
Posts: 7883 - Karma: 17

ya dude. i know i can get another bartending job whenever i want. i go to college and ski in the winter so i dont really have time to work my ass off as a bartender. you think bartending is an easy job but if your the only bartender it's fuckin rediculous. being a lifty is amazing though, i get to be up in my lift hut during golden hour, looking over the city of vancouver, everything seems like it just kind of stops in the world, it's incredibly peaceful, .

Dec 1 2008 5:31PM
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TheWorst
Posts: 7883 - Karma: 17
o ya on a sidenote, i work with this 35 year old guy scott, he's pretty fuckin loaded but just decided he wanted to be a lifty and snowboard the entire winter so that's what hes doing. has it ever occured to you that people just do there jobs because they enjoy them?
Dec 1 2008 5:34PM
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fillup
Posts: 4904 - Karma: 568
The only problem ive had with lifties is i was like "high five for that siicck run" and he bought it all hyped up, and i dropped it before he high fived me and sang "cant touch this" and he got reasonably mad.


Dec 1 2008 6:55PM
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C-Weezy
Posts: 786 - Karma: 50

that sucks bro..kinda weird tho u put ur ticket in your pocket....we get wickets!..i think thats what they call em.

Dec 1 2008 7:21PM
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0123456789
Posts: 9226 - Karma: 148
i dont wanna stereo type against lifties, but all the ones at my hill look dingy as fuck, and douchebags for the most part.
Dec 1 2008 7:34PM
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TheWorst
Posts: 7883 - Karma: 17
shitty dude, well most of the lifties at my hill are chill as fuck, there are some douches but i just dont talk with them
Dec 1 2008 7:36PM
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0123456789
Posts: 9226 - Karma: 148
ya its mainly the old fat bitch that works the gondola, and still, after many years, thinks the twin tips fit in the slots with a little force. and if you try to seperate them, sometimes they just slam them into the same spot.
Dec 1 2008 7:46PM
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Ben.
Posts: 21463 - Karma: 683
or tip them in there. which makes them impossible to get out. half the time i just take them on with me now, its easier than dealing with them.
Dec 1 2008 7:47PM
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TheWorst
Posts: 7883 - Karma: 17
aw man that is fuckin annoying usually i get in an argument of some kind with those twats
Dec 1 2008 7:53PM
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SkierX
Posts: 16253 - Karma: 538
I'd stereotype park riders bigtime too. Freeskiers have a huge reputation for not getting passes and poaching lifts.
Dec 1 2008 7:58PM
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