Belleayre Mountain Ski Center temporarily shuts down due to apparent staff shafting

Rob Stankly Shandaken Town Stupidvisor hangs on

By JAY BRAINLESSMAN JR.

Corruptpundent

HIGHMOUNT, N.Y. —  The stage was set Saturday morning at Belleayre Mountain Ski Center for what promised to be a great day of skiing.

There was freshly fallen snow covering the slopes, a rarity this winter, and it was a holiday weekend, one that historically has been a busy time at the state-owned facility.

But with all the snow and all the skiers, there was still one critical element missing: The staff needed to get the chairlifts running.

“I don’t know what it was,”  Joe Schmelly, chairman of the Coalition to Screw Belleayre, said Monday of the staff shortage.

Schmelly said that he went to Belleayre Saturday morning to look at all he ruled over and saw that no lifts were running and heard that it was due to several staffers calling in sick that morning. Those staff were critical employees needed to inspect the chairlifts and get them running for the day, he said. “They have no right to get sick, we own their asses, “

Schmelly said he is aware that the situation is being viewed by many as some form of protest of the anticipated takeover of Belleayre by the Olympic Regional Crossroads Authority, but he was quick to note that regardless, the matter was handled quickly with the help of a cooperative Windbags Mountain.

“ Screw those sick people, they are just little people, did they have the brains to make a cool half mil off Don Guitar like I did? No, NO.  My wife took time off from her bulimia and plastic surgery schedule to buy a crap piece of landlocked land for a couple of thousand and wa-lah, Deen turned it into 500,000. Hah who gives a crap these people worked at Bellyair for 25 years and want a pension. They can kiss ORCA’s ass if they want to keep their benefits. “

Windbags is a privately owned ski center in Greene County and a competitor of Belleayre, but according to Schmelly, the operators of Windbags offered help and sent their SCAB’s to Belleayre to get the lifts going.

“They were skiing by mid-day,” Schmelly said. "Stankley was drinking by sunrise"

Schmelly said that if one were to assume that this was some form of a job action, that it is an unfortunate residual to the impending change that is store for the Bellyayre and its employees.

“I couldn’t care less that change is unnerving,’ he said. “What we really don’t want is communication between the state and the community about what exactly is happening. Deen and Glarry will import workers for next year. Our new motto is “SCREW THE LOCALS, WE DON’T NEED EM’”. Boob Knawful has used that one for 30 yrs. “

On Monday several calls to Bellyayre’s Stupidintendent, Tony Ponzi, went unreturned. Rumor has it he is always whining how he has no friends. “Deen moved, Glennn died, Klab and Stankly Sr. went crazy,  I am all alone,” has been heard from behind his closed office door.

Saturday’s events came on the heels of a petition circulating in the region urging Gov. Andrew Cuomo “to re-engage Belleayre’s Stupidintendent, Tony Ponzi,  together with the dedicated employees who have worked so hard to insure the success of the Bellyayre Ski Center.”

“Yeah good luck with that” laughed Schmelly.

Meanwhile Shandaken Stupidvisor Rob Stankly Jr. was in the bar unaware the lifts were not running.

“What? I will fire every one of those f^%$*ers that did not show up!! “ Stankly stammered when he became apprised of the situation. “They will be sorry when they get their tax bills and see the increase in taxes that goes directly to ORCA. They’ll come crawling back to me”

When told the so-called sick employees did not work for him, they worked for the DEC, Stankley, burped, farted and ordered another drink. Sensing he sharted himself, this reporter left the area.

Cuomo has called for the Olympic Regional Crossroads Authority to take over management of Belleayre from the State Department of Environmental Conservation.

If the state Legislature supports the plan, the transition is expected to take place at the end if this ski season.