Mt. Bachelor Fires Key Execs
mike lewis
- May 22 2008
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This Tuesday, Mt. Bachelor’s parent company, Powdr Corp., fired Bachelor’s GM Matt Janney, who joined the company a mere ten months before, as well as Carly Carmichael, director of marketing; Mark Perry, the food and beverage director; and Ernie Pool, director of operations, who between them had over six decades of experience with the mountain. Mt. Bachelor experienced repeated weather related lift closures this season. Powdr Corp. believes this, combined with poor internal and external communications, has caused the mountain’s reputation to suffer in the eyes of locals, and the firings were touted as a move to fix the situation and put things back on the right track.
While the state of Oregon is projected to post a single-season record for skier visits with 1.95 million days, Mt. Bachelor, which closed on Sunday, had a seven percent decrease in visits from last season according to data released Tuesday by the Pacific Northwest Ski Areas Association.
Herwig Demschar, chief operating officer for Park City, Utah-based Powdr Corp., was quoted in Bend, Oregon’s The Bulletin as saying that “after looking at the whole thing for a full year, I believe that we were not reaching our full potential as a resort. We need to do a better job communicating with the community because the gap between what we charge and what we deliver is too big.”
The article also reported dissent over the decision amongst the Mt. Bachelor troops.
To read The Bulletin’s story go here
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May 22nd, 2008 at 1:31 pm
AWESOME!!!!!! I WORKED AT ALPINE FOR 3 YEARS UNDER THAT DICKHEAD MATT JANNEY. HE IS THE WORST MAN ALIVE, LIAR AND CHEATER. GOOD WORK POWDR CORP! TOO BAD YOU SOLD ALPINE AND THEN FIRED JANNEY.
May 23rd, 2008 at 10:14 am
i dont know about janney - but for other old timers - THAT SUCKS - Powdr is ruining Mt Bachelor - place has gone down hill since they bought it - this was a local mtn w/ regional appeal, now the locs are being forced out due to pricing on everything - Powdr can go F themselves
May 23rd, 2008 at 10:18 am
I seem to remember them cutting they maintenance staff a few years back - that aint gonna get the chairs moving guys - now they’re adding 5 positions - whatevs
May 23rd, 2008 at 10:20 am
AND the place closed early - Mem Day wknd was a tradition for closing out the season for years
May 27th, 2008 at 11:55 am
Does anyone else feel like it wasn’t that cool to put a press release out about firing these key employees?? I don’t know, it just seems wierd to me. I would think these are the types of things you would just do, without creating hoopla around it, and do what you need to do as a business, under the radar. No?
May 27th, 2008 at 12:13 pm
I don’t think there was a press release on this, but it definitely seems like they were more open about it than you would expect. Harsh.
May 27th, 2008 at 12:41 pm
Notice, press release, article, whatever you want to call it. I just don’t think it was needed, or that cool. I feel bad for the people that got fired that they broadcasted it for everyone to know, lame…
June 1st, 2008 at 1:19 pm
These people got fired because they suck at what they do. Why would you back them at all. C’mon lets get these mountains back to where they need to be. Woodsy, this press release is definitely not LAME, it’s undeniably KARMA in action.