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Complaint Review: Denali gift company canyon gift company Mckinley gifts -
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Denali gift company canyon gift company Mckinley gifts
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9076832732
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Denalipark.com
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Denali gift company canyon gift company Mckinley gifts Kevin Helwig Denali gift companies Invasive work environment disgusting employee housing Healy Denali national park Alaska
Do not work for these gift shops! The work environment is awful. Kevin Helwig, the owner, will watch you on the security cameras and call to yell at you any time to do anything he considers unacceptable. Those unacceptable behaviors include but not limited to stopping to take a breather, smile or chat with a coworker for minute, not staying busy with tshirt folding even if there's a line of customers, etc. You also will not get 40 hrs a week. He might schedule you for 40 hours but gets mad if you do not take a 30 minute unpaid lunch each day. Also if he considers you to be unattractive you will probably get fired or moved to work somewhere where he can't see you and he will make fun of your appearance. Doesn't matter if your male or female. It's digesting. The housing is horrendous. It's the cheapest in the area for a reason. Mouse droppings are everywhere in the shared kitchen, the bathrooms are gross and that's even during the preseason before any employees have a chance to muck it up and there's always a problem with trash. The only good thing working there are the friendships you make but you can do that working for someone else in that area. Do yourself a favor and avoid this place.
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JefCook
Ft Dodge,Iowa,
USA
Don't believe this disgruntled employee
#2UPDATE EX-employee responds
Mon, February 22, 2016
I lived and worked with Kevin, Stu, and Angie in Denali and had nothing but the greatest experience of my life. To hire people sight-unseen from the lower-48 is a great challenge. People come with all kinds of expectations, including that the amenities from home will be readily available even when 150 miles from the nearest traffic light. The complaints made here are completely bogus. Seasoned travelers will recognize the whiny attitude as unsophisticated, inexperienced, spoiled drivel. Everywhere true adventurers go these types show up, too. They are quickly weeded out as no one wishes to live and work with these kids.
They get mad, and then fill the Internet with lies, half truths, and innuendo. Kevin is exceptionally fair and generous. Stu is a great guy, great manager, and really fun to be around. Angie is superb. Most that come to Glitter Gulch love it and have a tremendous time. Others, especially young, inexperienced children of privilege who lack any sense of work ethic or responsibility, hate the experience. The world is a great big place and can handle both. But Denali only calls to those who want an exceptional experience and are willing to work for it, to make lifelong friends, and build memories that will last forever. If that sounds like you, then you'd find no better people to entrust than Kevin Helwig, Stu Hayes, and Angie Stoepler.
