Absolute tire fire of a company - Front Desk Receptionist Fitworks Employee Review

It’s been over a year since I worked there, but I doubt the problems this company had could be resolved that quickly; Pat Petrecca inherited a lot of bullcorn from the previous owner, John Janszen, and from what I’ve heard from current Fitworks employees from other locations, not much has changed. - Pay is abysmal. It’s okay if you’re just working for extra money, terrible if you need to live off it. - Corporate has become very cheap. The club’s first several remodels were very well done. The last one before the club closed in 2016 was a cheaply done hot mess. Peel and stick tiles, shoddy workmanship, paint splatters left everywhere. They painted the walls the wrong color (barfy brown vs orange), but didn’t fix it because John Janszen “had to pay for his kid’s wedding/graduation”. - Very little oversight of the club managers. When you had a (rare) good manager, the club ran well. 90% of the time, though, when you had a bad manager, the club would fall to crap with hinky employees, dirty floors, bathroom, and equipment, and employees not doing their jobs (with tacit approval from management). Corporate’s solution was to move the managers around to other clubs so some other club got stuck with the bad manager. - Corporate would take forever to approve equipment and facility repairs. We would have broken exercise machines sitting for months at a time. - The way they closed the club I worked at was absolutely atrocious. In January 2016, they gave three days’ notice that the club was closing. Three days. To both employees and members. We knew something was up because when the previous club manager quit the previous October, they hadn’t bothered replacing him and just had somebody come down from corporate a few times a week, but we didn’t know what, exactly. But three days. The notice was posted only in the club on a Tuesday (no phone, Facebook, or other notifications) and I only worked on the weekend. If I hadn’t been friends with other people who worked there, I would’ve had no idea that I no longer had a job there until the next time I came in for my shift. The memberships were sold off to another local gym without giving the members the opportunity to cancel their membership. When they had closed other clubs in the past, they gave thirty days’ notice to everybody and sent letters to all the members, giving them the opportunity to either cancel their membership or continue it at another club. They did none of that where I worked and only made an official Facebook announcement AFTER the club had closed. - Fitworks closed a Cincinnati location in a similar way in the months after they closed my location. They refused to tell members and employees that their location was closing. A new business posted up a sign in front of the club that said, “Coming Soon!”, but when asked about whether that Fitworks location was closing and when, they would only say, “No, we’re not closing!” From what I heard, they denied they were closing until right before they closed their doors. - Those two previous points exemplify the absolute essence of Fitworks. Underhanded, sneaky, awful. I know Pat Petrecca is way WAY better than John Janszen and is not even close to being the nasty sneak he was, but I don’t know that he can fix all of this garbage.