Changes to National Park fees
Just saw an article from CNN claiming that the National Parks have announced the final fee increase decisions for this year. Day use fees will increase by $% Annual Passes for single parks will inc...
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DallasSteve wrote:Helicopter pilots, rafting guides, chefs, electricians, plumbers, data center employees, supervisory personnel and a host of other people employed by those concessionaires do require professional training. And like another poster pointed out, the menial, every day tasks aren't very attractive to volunteers. Not too many people are going to sign up to work in the lodge laundry room as a volunteer,westernrvparkowner wrote:
The argument will be to use volunteers. Well, to staff every park concessionaire job would take a whole lot of specialized, trained volunteers. While it might be easy to get a volunteer to be a camp host, it will be much more difficult to find a volunteer to wash the dishes, bus the tables and mop the floors of the restaurants.
Yes, those are difficult jobs. I didn't learn how to do those jobs until I was 15 and got my first job at Mrs. Heath's Steakhouse, with no training, just "Here's the mop." OK, they gave me 5 minutes of training on the industrial washing machine.
