Bally Total Fitness

The caped crusader exposing corruption in Bally Texas is back. My previous complaint only limited to shady figures positioned in management at certain clubs in Houston. Unfortunately, unethical behavior and illegal practices also lurks in human resource and corporate as well!

Let me first provide you readers a friendly reminder. What you are about to witness is corruption and scandal at its core. As always, please discontinue if you are easily offended by corruption in corporate. The true evil I'm about to expose that operates in Bally Texas will leave you in utter disbelief. Why? The answer is simple. I was the victim of this evil back in Jan of 2008 and I'm STILL in disbelief even now in 2010! So if I'm still reluctant to believe the events that occurred and I'M the actual person who got screwed, it makes sense you'll doubt what I'm about to spill out. Ready?

This character's name is WENDY A. TILLEY and she used to be staffed rather highly in corporate Texas. She's about 4 1/2 feet tall and looks like a dead ringer for Disney's Mad Hatter from Alice in Wonderland. Not the Johnny Depp version but the original cartoon from 1951 voiced by Ed Wynn. More noticeably, she suffers from a bad wheezing condition when she laughs.

What she did was train new employees with her "principles and fundamentals" of Bally Total Fitness in Sugar Land Texas. God only knows where she is now and godspeed to the employees putting up with her. Before I relate my incident a few years ago, I must acknowledge that Wendy is borderline crazy.

If you're a sales counselor in one of her classes being trained, you better hope she doesn't catch you folding your arms while she's lecturing. Huh? What? Why?

Wendy sees that as a sign of extreme disrespect and gets the message that you're either bored or getting impatient with her teachings. When you fold your arms in class, you're basically telling her that you have more important things to do and you simply don't want to be there. So what she does is help you along with your wish. She kicks you out of her class and tells you to run a few laps around the building if you wish to return. Believe me, I've seen this happen a few times. And keep in mind employees must attend and finish her class if they want to retain their jobs. In other words, tolerating her insanity is a requirement.

Amazing, isn't it? To see something so normal as a person folding theirs arms and twist that around like it's something inappropriate or disrespectful. Really?

Gee, last time I checked and properly investigated, people fold their arms for a number of common reasons. For instance, employees could simply be thinking or contemplating about topics being discussed or perhaps the room is too cold. Hell, sometimes I do that just because it feels more comfortable. So of all the infinite possibilities and variations as to why people fold their arms, Wendy identifies that as something completely rude, vulgar, combative and inappropriate.
One might even get the idea she sees it that way because she IS that way herself. Rude and combative.

This kind of reminds me of an incident I saw back in high school when students were walking down hallways getting to their next class. A self proclaimed big campus senior jock who thought he was the alpha male of the century caught a little squirt of a freshman making eye contact as they crossed paths down the hall.

The big guy stopped dead in his tracks and basically asked, "What you staring at!? We got a problem!? Man, I better not catch you making eye contact with me again or I'm going to mess you up! When you look me directly in the eye, that's telling me you trying to disrespect and challenge me. I'm big dawg here, you understand!? This is my cell block, my hallway and my campus. Don't you EVAH let me catch you looking me in the eye!" Brilliant.

Odd, don't you think? Of all the logical reasons why anyone would look at another person, this half mental [censored] thinks he's being challenged into a fight. Perhaps the freshman was trying to ask for directions to the nearest bathroom. Maybe trying to say hello? And here is the most common reason of all. Perhaps eye contact was innocently made by both parties simply because they were walking pass one another. Of all the infinite reason why some new freshman made eye contact, the crazy senior identified that as something disrespectful and actually had the nerve to act upon it. Hey Wendy, remind you of anyone?

So far I only described how crazy she was but not the evil part. Tell you what, I'll indulge readers on part two later on if anyone's interested. Giving you guys the opportunity to stop reading because the rest WILL piss you off.