I worked out at Muir Woods National Monument while recovering from a nervous breakdown during college. I was a cashier. I didn't like the place, but my cowork

I worked out at Muir Woods National Monument while recovering from a nervous breakdown during college. I was a cashier. I didn't like the place, but my coworkers were unbelievable. The federal government had the no so brilliant idea of farming out the concessions, and gift shop to the highest bidder. (I don't know exactly how the hiring process goes.) The federal government basically said, our workers couldn't run a simple business, so let's let a private entity run it, and we will take our cut? The gift shop sold millions per year. The business agreement was around 10% of the gift shop sales would go back to the government. To me that seemed like a good deal. What the corporation Aramark) did was load the place up with hand made items (Burl bowls, etc) in order to get around paying the 10%. They also paid minimum wage, treated everyone including the managers terribly. The manager was required to be their 6 days a week. He was given the illustrious "Manager" fixed wage. Meaning he/she made less than minimum wage. The food deal was 14% I believe, which was fair. So when government wants to pay a low wage, and no benefits, they like to farm out their dirty work. Looking back--I'm not sure the rangers could run the concessions, or at least the group of rangers I saw out there? I have never seen so many federal employees doing absoulty nothing. I also witnessed maintance workers tossing perfectly good chainsaw, tools into the dumptster. Tye reason being if they were "broken", they could procure more money. And yes--after closing I took those "broken" tools out of the trash, even after being told not to. The rangers used to get all hyped up if they found a grow site. They would take pictures and slap behinds. What was ironic, is the evidence shed was always broken into? Oh yea, at the time I felt all federal rangers shouldn't be armed. There was zero crime. Now--because we gas a few mountian lions, I guess they should be packing? To my co-workers, I miss you guys so much. I hated the job, but loved you people. (The park used to be free. Now they charge $10. This us our land people. Why are Americans being charged to get into any park, especially a National Monument? It would be very easy to let Americans in for free. They all come through one entrance. You can hike into the park though.)