Fairmont Hotels & Resorts Reviews

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laugh comfortable like bright ok

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low salary and not legal pay

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Tight Budget Control, HR override everything

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Could be politicized at times.

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Physical Demands: The job can be physically demanding, requiring long hours of standing, walking, carrying trays, and lifting heavy objects, which may lead to fatigue or discomfort. Irregular Hours: Banquet servers often work irregular hours, including evenings, weekends, holidays, and split shifts, which can make it challenging to maintain a consistent work-life balance. Seasonal Employment: Some banquet server positions at The Fairmont may be seasonal, leading to potential periods of unemployment during the off-season.

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Staff housing is horrible. $400/month but you have to share a bedroom that is smaller than most college dorm rooms. The apartment looks like it hasn't been renovated since 1995, the furniture seems to have been picked up from the dumpsters. No fans or ventilation for the summer time; only heater. The bedrooms didn't even have a lightbulb on the ceiling (just a lamp). Also, it smells like weed in most apartments cause of the roommates "that are only there to enjoy". Food in Oscars. You may like it at first, but you quickly realise it's mostly refrigerated/reheated food that ends up making you sick. Goodluck, Stay away, stay safe.

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Worst part of my job was working along side the lead hand carpenter, his angry old man temper tantrums and ignorant racist outbursts carefully done where nobody could prove he said or did anything wrong constantly were more than I was willing to tolerate, when it finally came to confronting this behaviour in an HR meeting the incompetent cowardly chief engineer who was well aware of all of it tucked his tail between his legs and acted like this was the first time he ever heard of any problems like this which was a bold face lie. I still keep in touch with some employees still working out there and they tell me nothing has changed.

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First of all, interns were all lied to before we got here. We were originally told that the positions would be rotating, and once we got here, we were told they wouldn't. Then they proceeded to put the majority of us on dish washing duty, and the dishwasher has been broken for months. They expected us to do the dirty work that has no benefit towards our education and hospitality, and is extremely physically demanding and exhausting. After a lot of push, they finally allowed rotating positions. However, that is just the FIRST problem we encountered. So many things in our rooms are broken, and our rooms our TINY – barely big enough for one person, let alone 3. Our food is literal slop, I think I would rather eat prison food… unless maybe this is prison food. We are not allowed to use anything in the resort, which we wouldn't mind if there we were being taken care of better, but because of how they're treating us, our mental health is horrible. We're physically and mentally exhausted from working here. Every time someone goes to HR with a small issue, they ask if we want to go home. Slowly, I begin to realize that they hired so many of us because they knew we would hate it so much that they would have plenty of people quitting on them. That tells me that they've done this before, which makes this even worse. Right now, an intern has quit almost every week or every other week since May.

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Getting constantly shouted at even if you're doing things as they said. They quite literally said themselves that they don't care about you, only their own customers. They'd rather you injure yourself than injure their glassware. I'm not sure about full timer, but if you plan to work part time here, don't.

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Terrible onboarding process. Lots of promises are made and lots of comments about support.... Then your left on your own. No accountability. Lots of passing the buck went, when it came to asking for help or support. Same problem as alot of the big employers in Whistler, fly in countless employees and not support them or be transparent with them about housing. Staff meals are like prison food. Terrible quality, 0 alternatives to the 1 meal option, with ungraded meat.