I have waited to get into this fray, but maybe it is drifting so?.let?s split some hair.
The title of the post ?picture requirement ? fair or unfair? is not punctuated as a question. Let?s agree it is, and the answer should be binary, yes or no, but realistically can be answered as ?fair ? maybe not, legal ? on shaky legs, reasonable ? depends on whose ox is being gored and where your ego and feelings are.?
I don?t think it is unreasonable for an employer of a park with a huge investment to start at the top of his ?what does a customer see and want?? tree and work down. Personally, having done background checks in the police department and sorted through some very creative resumes (people, really, lie about your credentials to the police department you want to hire you???), the written weighs more with me, added to the verbal interview and body language, and the picture is optional. But that all assumes I get a face to face before hiring. But I do always reserve the right to cull in the interview process, anywhere I feel like it.
But there?s a second question in the OP which bears looking at, and that is the employer saying they would not make a decision for ten days and then changing their mind. Especially after our potential employee, against her convictions, made the effort to provide the requested information. While that?s probably bad form, again we have an ox issue. The employer deserves to hire the person he wants and not let them get away (been there, done that) so the potential employee is left with short sheets and bad feelings, again possibly reasonable under the circumstances. But yes, I would feel bad, too, if someone said one thing and did another.
Our applicant states her ?experience is perfect? but isn?t that really up to the employer to decide? Is it really our place as suitors to demand a match?
Miss Mermaid, this reply is very tongue in cheek, and I would not want to pour salt in your wound, but it really is a world where great people are often overlooked and very substandard people are picked and God forbid, promoted. The fit was not there in this case, ultimately either way, and perhaps you dodged a bullet from someone who might not have treated you as well as they should.
I hope this experience leaves you free to find a much better opportunity, but as always you still have choices. My wife, the therapist, says ?happiness is a choice?. Indeed.
Kim
p.s. the one and only workamping gig I ever looked at had similar requirements, and I laughed, and sent my best picture, taken the day I got married. 8)