Four employees of a Vermont ski resort were fired after photographs of them wearing Nazi armbands and performing the Roman salute at a costume party were discovered on social media on Tuesday, the Jay Peak Resort told The Jerusalem Post on Thursday.The resort said that its security team had alerted management about the pictures of the international workers, and after a brief investigation and interview, they were fired almost two hours later.
Response from the president of the resort
"There is simply no space, here, for this garbage, frankly, and we will continue to be vigilant against this sort of insensitivity and, frankly, ignorance," said Jay Peak President Steven Wright.
The employees reportedly said that the costumes were worn in jest, but Wright said, "This isn’t something we jest about here."
The employees had only been with the resort for five weeks, according to Wright.
NBC5 reported that following the termination of the workers, they were removed from the State Department's Exchange Visitor Program and would be returning to their hometowns.
Wright said on Thursday that the former employees were "literally at the airport now."
This is a developing story.