alkemyst
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I don't really care about the paid staff. I put the weights back for the members. A lot of PT's are dicks.
I don't really care about the paid staff. I put the weights back for the members. A lot of PT's are dicks.
The ones at my gym certainly are (the males, anyway; the females are generally nice), unfortunately. And beyond that, it's often not even the PTs who put the weights back; it ends up being the other "general" staff members, like the desk workers and cleaning staff.
alkemyst
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- Feb 13, 2001
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This is a SUPER pet peeve of mine (not a regular pet peeve). I have been going to gyms for 25+ years and this is a relatively new thing. In the past people took going to the gym seriously. They racked their weights as part of the workout. It is the newer people (not necessarily younger people). I belong to three gyms now (one membership is ending soon and another one gave me a great deal to sign up for the holidays while another one is one of the crappier nationwide chains that I can use when I travel). I am sick and tired of spending half my workout looking for weights, taking weights off of barbells before I start, etc...
I am now the person who consistently talking to the management at the gym about the slobs who will not clean up after themselves. I do not hesitate to point them out. I will even go as far as saying something to a gym employee loud enough for the offender to hear such as "can you ask that person if he is done with the bench - he left all of his plates on and I want to use it". I let management know in no uncertain terms that I did not pay good money for a membership where I have to clean up after these slobs. If they want to follow them around to clean up after them they can – but that is not my job.
Once in a while I will even confront the person directly. Only once did anything actually happen. I saw somebody doing this monster set where he would take the dumbbells and do a set of 10 and then go down 5 pounds and do another 10 and then go down 5 more pounds and so on. He went through 10 sets of dumbbells - EACH TIME TAKING OF THE RACK AND DROPPING THEM ON THE FLOOR. I asked him who should clean up his mess - and he told me to mind my own business and then called me a few choice words. I responded appropriately and he came up to me belly-to-belly and threatened me. I will not go into what happened next (except that no punches were thrown) but I kept calm and told him to step away and he understood I was not playing and it was in his best interest to step away and he did so. The saddest thing about this whole situation is that there were tons of other people that saw and heard everything and nobody did anything. One person recommended that I was disruptive for confronting him and should not have and that I should have just left it. I asked him if that was the lesson he really wanted to teach his teenage son who was working out with him.
There is a new phenomenon at gyms which is really irking me. Personal trainers that work for the gym who do not put away their weights and/or strip the bars. This is really annoying because these are the people that are supposed to be showing people the proper way to act in a gym.
That felt good getting all of this off my chest. It was like there was a 315LB barbell on my chest that I was finally able to get one last rep out of to put it back on the rack.
I am now the person who consistently talking to the management at the gym about the slobs who will not clean up after themselves. I do not hesitate to point them out. I will even go as far as saying something to a gym employee loud enough for the offender to hear such as "can you ask that person if he is done with the bench - he left all of his plates on and I want to use it". I let management know in no uncertain terms that I did not pay good money for a membership where I have to clean up after these slobs. If they want to follow them around to clean up after them they can – but that is not my job.
Once in a while I will even confront the person directly. Only once did anything actually happen. I saw somebody doing this monster set where he would take the dumbbells and do a set of 10 and then go down 5 pounds and do another 10 and then go down 5 more pounds and so on. He went through 10 sets of dumbbells - EACH TIME TAKING OF THE RACK AND DROPPING THEM ON THE FLOOR. I asked him who should clean up his mess - and he told me to mind my own business and then called me a few choice words. I responded appropriately and he came up to me belly-to-belly and threatened me. I will not go into what happened next (except that no punches were thrown) but I kept calm and told him to step away and he understood I was not playing and it was in his best interest to step away and he did so. The saddest thing about this whole situation is that there were tons of other people that saw and heard everything and nobody did anything. One person recommended that I was disruptive for confronting him and should not have and that I should have just left it. I asked him if that was the lesson he really wanted to teach his teenage son who was working out with him.
There is a new phenomenon at gyms which is really irking me. Personal trainers that work for the gym who do not put away their weights and/or strip the bars. This is really annoying because these are the people that are supposed to be showing people the proper way to act in a gym.
That felt good getting all of this off my chest. It was like there was a 315LB barbell on my chest that I was finally able to get one last rep out of to put it back on the rack.
Definitely worse when it's the PTs leaving the weights unracked. Seriously, they work with the people who end up cleaning after them; talk about giving your peers a huge FU.
One of the college gyms I worked out at for a year or so actually had employees who would go up to patrons and ask them not to slam weights down on the ground after sets. I actually appreciated it, although apparently at some point a worker or two got a bit overzealous with it, so they stopped after about two weeks.
Just in my own experience, college gyms tend to be worse with respect to the obnoxious grunters, while chain gyms have more problems with people who don't re-rack their weights and won't wipe down equipment when they're finished.
One of the college gyms I worked out at for a year or so actually had employees who would go up to patrons and ask them not to slam weights down on the ground after sets. I actually appreciated it, although apparently at some point a worker or two got a bit overzealous with it, so they stopped after about two weeks.
Just in my own experience, college gyms tend to be worse with respect to the obnoxious grunters, while chain gyms have more problems with people who don't re-rack their weights and won't wipe down equipment when they're finished.
IHateMyJob2004
Lifer
- Sep 29, 2004
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It is said that people in the USA are acting more and more entitled. Doesn't shock me at all. hell, just wait an extra 5 seconds for that 70 year old with the cane and open the door for them. I've had some saying that it is nice to see nice people around anymore. What drives me nuts even more is kids sitting on benches/couches while waiting to be seated at restaurants while some 70 year old lady is standing up. The kids don't bother me so much as I want to punch their parents in the face.
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