Quote Originally Posted by Crankin View Post
The politics of gyms is disgusting, the managers treat the employees as peons (I once worked for a place with 10 PM meetings when I had little kids and my DH was traveling) and as I am used to be treated as a professional, it it didn't work for me.
That's the part that really gets to me. I don't expect a rose lined path to the spinning room but at least respect our wishes when we say 8AM on Sunday is a lousy time for a meeting! Plus they call it "mandatory" and never give an agenda. I wanted to write - "Mandatory or what??"

I've worked in some very professional areas and we were never treated with such disrespect. In our last meeting they handed out a big roster with instructors' names and the count of how many students they had in class. If you were low, they said you needed to "look at yourself" and see where you can improve. I'm the only certified Spin instructor in the organization (everybody else is certified by the company - big deal) & although my numbers were good, I double-dog-dare you to come into my class & tell me to do contraindicated moves. And how humiliating for the newer instructors!

So, yeah, I never thought I'd find a place with more politics than a University but I was wrong.