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I am so ticked. I took a w/c job my hub and I took two trips to visit the cg and to meet with owner. Then traveled down to set up, came home to teach a few days, returned to camp and well it's like going to a car dealer buying a car and once your off the lot and paid the bill.....
I can't begin to tell you. First I was given a site that looks so beautiful.. then all the seasonals started moving in and told me about the floods my site gets. Then the job, never told I had to punch a time clock, was hired cause I thought I was a skilled professional in my field of Recreation, but haven't been given the time of day, the tools to work with but have been told when I finally spoke up and said I hoped there would be periodic time that I could sit down with manager and or owner and talk about programs. Guess they realy needed me to sit and rent out kiddie cars, hand out what I call scrap crafts and feel like I'm imposing if I even ask for a piece of paper. I spent the past two days running from person to person to ask for stuff that was supose to be available to me and prepared for me, and I was suposed to be "self directed" when clearly I was trying, but then asked why dids I punch the time card in.... just nuts. I get a free site-I pay for metered electric, a cup of coffee a day NOT TWO..and have offered to use equipment I have which like my parachutes cost me $150.00 each. I wish I could find a cg in the NEast that would want quality and enthusiasm and honesty. Even though some workcampers may not work out OTHERS DO AND WILL. I signed a simple agreement..any advice on how I write a justifiable letter breaking it?
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This was actually discussed here at the LoW. What was said is if they breach your contract in any way (they promsie this or that in writing and don't provide it) or if they ask you to do things outside what was defined in the contract, you don't owe them anything. But if you just don't "like" it but are within the contract, then it's guts it up and deal with it. They stressed that everything should be in writing...hard lesson to learn. I hope they are breaching it in some way so you can escape!!!!!
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As a person that used to hire Workkampers...let me tell you ALL you have to do to get out of this is unhook and drive away! We had many quit just because they were tired, or had stayed too long..etc..It was never a legitimate excuse...they just wanted to go. And so they did. Our only thing to help encourage people to stay till the end of the "so-called contract" was a bonus of money for contracts completed. If they wanted to go, they cared not for any bonus money they had coming if they waited till completion of the "season"...and they'd just leave.
Jomilt From Texas
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Well, I have a long contract for this season - and only hope they'll be reasonable about my start date with these rains! Cuz I will not endanger myself to get there.
Sorry about your problems. I've been lucky so far - and hope to be this time, too - but it takes all kinds. Last place, I was just there - and they needed help - we didn't have anything but verbal - and it was great. But this time I got it all written out - who knows.
Smiling is contagious - try it!
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Beth I think in most cases it all works out well..I can't foresee a campground not understanding your inability to get there when the weather is in flood stages!!
I feel most people are those whose "word is good"...don't you?
In most cases the campground work turns out to be fun and enjoyable and the people good and neat to work with and for..
Hope you don't run into much bad weather, Beth!! I'll be thinking of you..Keep us advised as to how it's going..
Jomilt From Texas
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Kalaki, all the people I knew that did workcamp if it didn't work out they left.. that simple.. I'm sure you can just tell them what the problem is and if they won't make adjustments.. leave ..they broke the original agreement.. I'm sorry that your plans didn't work out..but you know there are other places out there.. Some of my friends just pulled in and asked if they needed help and got the job too..
Good luck
God Bless
Barbzeee
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Hi folks, your great. I am just so pissed though! I love my work and everybody that knows me knows that. I really feel like that purchased RV. I just sent them a long letter citing the issues, including to self direct then doing it then being questioned on it. The bottom line is there in business to fill those spaces, keep those 25 arcades filled with coins and realy use their workcampers as equipment only. I was never told about a time card either and I wouldn't have taken the job if I knew it. Now I'm affraid they will go after me. I'm at home tonight and have advised them in my memo that we have not had a meeting of the minds and have advised them to barter with someone else. I told them I would give them two weeks and would get my rig out in the next couple of days. Tell me how many rv parks have rec leaders who can teach orienteering, how to tie knots and teach kids campcraft like how to build a chair in the woods. Oh well had to toot my horn.. Sorry
Hey I'll set up a camp here at my farm and ya all can come and play!
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Thanks for your honesty! How did you resolve this? I've been thinking about Workamping and have been working on my Resume. I thought I'd want a State Park type of situation, but after reading my own Resume I've decided my "skills"? are more inclined towards a Dude Ranch! Shoot...not what I had planned on. But I really don't want to sit at a gate and collect entry fees.
1984 Class A Allegro
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I wasn't a happy camper when I worked for a Leisuretime/ Thousand Trails park and got a check and had to sign my name and hand it back to them and then have to pay out of pocket for my camp site. Their member worker program is a royal joke!
State parks are better because it becomes a wash. I'm having too much fun though to sit still and do that four letter word...w-o-r-k.
Seeya down the road, Jenny
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Hi Jenny, was the problem that your camp-site cost more than you were earning? If I'm learning one thing from this, it's to get everything in writing first!
1984 Class A Allegro
Bogie the Pit (rescued)
Practise random acts of kindness.
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