Why Yosemite National Park Is a Mess
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ต.ค. 2024
- Chemical spills, deteriorating facilities and rodent infestations have called into question the safety of Yosemite National Park. Employees blame hospitality company Aramark, which says it’s trying to clean things up.
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Chemical spills, a ceiling collapse, indoor bears. Employees and park superfans blame the hospitality company Aramark. Read more - The Mess at Yosemite: www.bloomberg.com/features/2024-yosemite-national-park-aramark-mess/
The soundtrack for this video needs to be “Lunchladyland”.
Corruption has eroded basically all institutions.
Another term is "enshitification." It has affected every part of our lives.
Aramark! The school kid's lunch poisoner? I delt with them at a Cafe in a large building. Would not recommend. Went out for lunch rather than eat that position.
A public land being given to a private company to monopolize didn't work out? Allow a small private industry to exist with competition or don't allow any company to make profit.
I have been going to Yosemite every summer for the last 45 years. When Aramark took over we saw the changes and they were not positive. The reservation process was a mess. Curry village cabins with the floors saging and about to collapse. Wet closets full of mold that you could not even open due to the smell. The empty pool at Curry Village that was very popular is yet to open. Employee housing looked like a homeless encampment with trash everywhere. The Wifi at Curry has been out for a few years now? There have been some improvements with lodging and dining but too little too late. Delaware North did a much better job.
So Aramark is responsible for the reservations fiasco, too? That explains a lot.
I'm familiar with Aramark. They ran the cafeteria where I once worked. I'm not surprised they are doing a less than stellar job here. I hate to hear this about our national parks though.
The food they serve in prisons is actually DESIGNED to give you diabetes and other maladies. If you have seen the food ARAMARK serves in places the general public go, you can only imagine what it looks and tastes like in prisons and jails
Visited Yosemite in April. Those tents indeed didn't look great when driving by. Luckily we came in a camper and also cocked ourselves.
The nature itself is amazing!
How about just taking all the luxury crud out of the national parks and getting back to the basics, like the roads and maybe vault toilets? Everything else should be provided by private mom-n-pops surrounding the park. The purpose of the park was to experience the land in its natural state.
National Parks should not be private enterprises.
How would it be managed then without private enterprise?
@@Ducotevisionlike any national park in europe
Genuinely obscene to believe that one of shining aspects of the American system was allowed to slip this far. Roosevelt would be disgusted.
@@takemyhandtakemymind8039 which is how?
@@Ducotevision oh gee...um...duh...by a government agency? Preferably one that is not bloated and overly bureaucratic. There was a time...oh yes...when this worked. Look at the Army...got over-bloated and mismanaged, then got "lobbied" to let private companies run some of their programs...how's that working out?
A business primary objective is to create profit for its stakeholders. If you put a company like that in charge of a national park, they will cut corners to save money
Aramark it's beholden to it's stock holders they are a for profit organization. Corporations (Aramark) does not care about Yosemite national park they only care about profit profit
public funds into private hands
Yeah, the government would surely run the business side of these parks better. Wait......oh.
@@SpaceTravel1776 yeah they would lol
@@chromebomb Smart take informed by overwhelming historical evidence that government runs businesses better than private sector. Your intellect is truly superior.
Another example of private industries not being able to regulate themselves. This should surprise absolutely nobody, their primary purpose is maximizing profits, not the wellbeing of customers and stakeholders.
I want to know what government officials getting paid off to look the other way
No, it's an example of how monopolies don't need be better. For example the government doesn't need to "regulate" itself, just like companies without competitors
@@HaimRich94 What? ummmm, what?
This is a private company, with a monopoly on the services in your/our countries public parks, and that private company is taking advantage of its monopolistic position to profit off of a place that you and I have paid for the existence of.
@@HaimRich94 Monopoly ? You mean like Facebook or iPhone
@@MrOwen-xs5hd Exactly my point, just like a government doesn't need to regulate itself (because is a monopoly), companies without competitors neither (because is a monopoly).
What part isn't clear?
Sounds like Halliburton for military overseas. Corruption cause Senators probably paid off.
Job after job posted by Aramark online, gave me that clue a couple years ago…
I’m so grateful for Bloomberg for brining this to light.
Shameful!
Here’s the problem-it’s not about the public or appearances. The issue lies in letting private companies like these three concessionaires-Xanterra, Delaware North, and Aramark-take over. They rotate their upper management, chasing money without improving anything significant. Their contracts are set to expire in about a decade, but fixing these buildings will take more than 15 years, which means they might lose the contract before seeing any results. There’s no real incentive for them to invest in proper maintenance or long-term improvements.
I visited Yosemite in the summer of 2024, and the way construction was cordoning off areas was frustrating. I’m honestly glad I didn’t stay inside the park. Plus, it’s overcrowded-especially after 4 PM when you no longer need a reservation. The number of people floods in, and the experience just isn’t the same, especially when paying the price for staying inside the park.
Congress and the president can’t really do anything when the passion of these companies is focused on chasing paychecks rather than caring for these beautiful places.
Aramark couldn't run a popsicle stand correctly. They're destroying Yosemite and their track record is well known for abysmal service levels. Whoever ok'd the franchise should be fired, but they'll get a raise and additional retirement benefits.
Maybe stop relying on private corporations to provide public services....
Haven’t been in many yrs, I also used to pick up people up there many yrs ago when they would pass away by accident ,BASE jumping ect ect … and recovered by Search and Rescue, also in the nearby town of Mariposa, I was the driver in the procession of the helicopter Vet and Firefighter with Honer Guard, Sheriff and Firefighters behind . Hope it’s restored to its Original Glory
Yay, enshittification has hit the national parks! 😒
Thank you for this reporting!
Add the ‘Missing 411’ cases to the list too
The park service deserves more of the blame. Yes, Aramark is responsible for many issues, the land managers gave them the contract.
The Park Service is all in favor of chiding the public when they misbehave but they’re silent when they fail to live-up to their mandate and they’re equally silent when their vendors adversely impact the outdoors.
This is the second docie I've seen about Aramark in the last 3 days that has outlined how this private company has been a stain on Service Delivery across its portfolio
And with an industry 'big 3' no wonder how things keep going left with no checks & balances
When I worked at a resort in Yosemite, DNC was the operator and we often joked about the negligence as "Does Not Care". Terrible to see the wealthy people come in with their tesla's and REI prada clothing while the back end of the resort was a ecological disaster.
Thanks for this content. I didn’t even know Aramark was the vendor even after being to multiple national parks, including Yosemite and crater lake
Almost no mention of the employee situation.
Aramark let go of employees that worked there as long as 30 years. Despicable company.
Project 2025 mentions allowing companies to build new homes on federal lands. Does this mean building private homes inside National parks? 🧐
I stayed one night at Wawona in June 2023. It was very clear at the time that the building needed major renovation work. Floors that were slanted, bathrooms that were dingy, and a dining room that felt like the dining room at the Bates Motel. I hope the renovations turn Wawona into a first-rate facility. It’s far from that now.
I hope this gets more views
Ah! You mean the human infrastructure built on top of the park is a mess. The park itself is beautiful and it would be even better without all these "theme park" like attractions. Let them rot.
Stuff gets old, people are complacent, and we live in a world where cheap and fast is whats in demand. Quality is a desire, but its not what we want to pay for anymore with our time. If you think everything is bad now, wait another decade.
Unfortunately nothing is cheap in a National Park.
There’s too many people
The parks have been in such a mess I quit going!!!
But how is Wall Street supposed to get their returns if we have to maintain the national parks to proper standards 😢
Who dose not have the balls to fire AirMark
Aramark is synonymous with county jail food and deserves no more respect than that.
That's still not as bad as Xanterra employees in Yellowstone... there were several deaths this summer.
The park service loves removing public access from public lands, but they can’t even manage themselves or their vendors. This is a failure of the NPS. Remember, the Park service gave Aramark the contract.
Congress gives NPS no money and tells them to outsource to a private company, the private company cuts corners to increase profit, the public suffers
I hate to see this.
Yosemite has always been so awesome.
Please vote November 5.
Private contractors aside, we need to start reinvesting at home before sending billions upon billions over seas
I went there to climb Half Dome and to hike back to Merced Lake. I needed nothing else.
Yes...Please everyone, stop going here.
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As soon as he said national congress and the administration, I knew it was a dead end story to begin with.
I had a pizza in Yosemite village a few years ago, it was the worst pizza ive ever had..
Air mark is only interested in profit I would fire them and only higher local contractors to manage the park buildings and food in conjunction with the government
What do people expect? You have to dump money in to maintain it. And if it means closing the park for a month a year… that’s what you should do. Instead it’s a 24/7 run it down and cry about it falling apart.
The Queen of where ? try again.
That's how you pronounce Yosemite? I thought it was like Semite as in anti-Semite.
I went there with my own food and didnt use any of the Bureaucratic resources except paying their fee and restrooms. I had a great time.
Maybe give federal recognition to the actual tribe that lived in the valley and let them run it…oh wait…
Unmanaged wildlife lol 😆 What do you expect in the middle of a forest? 🤣
Looking at the damages of these structures, they didn't just happen within 7-8 years where private companies took over, this look like it is mismanagement for decades from the national park services where they want the private sector to eat up the cost of repairs.
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Can’t the FTC get in here with some antitrust review?
Never noticed. But I don't go to National Parks for the facilities. I go for the great outdoors. Don't care about all the tourist attractions.
Over population and it’s getting worse 40 million people in California and more people everyday
Obviously you haven't checked population decline last 20yrs ...
@@ronaldrey8474 CA population has declined 500k people since 2020. Over the last 20 years its increased by roughly 3.5m.
@@0ricle thx for replying. To my point .... Lately people can't leave California fast enough. And if you play cards you'd understand they had a fixed deck but evil still failed. Since 2020 to present and future unless 180° turn. If you live there I pray because businesses are leaving also
Its been raided by potheads
was that the hotel from the shining
You’re thinking of Estes Park, CO
@Ducotevision e The Stanley Hotel in Estes Park was the inspiration when King stayed there, but the hotel in the movie was actually the Timberline Lodge in Oregon.
You guys are drama queens
It’s what happens when LARGE CORPORATIONS pay GREEDY Politicians to get these CONTRACTS!
This is very American. 🤣
Air mark is only interested in profit I would fire them and only higher local contractors to manage the park buildings and food in conjunction with the government