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I am a previous employee of Lifetime Fitness who recently quit after 2 years of working there. Although I was not in a manager position at the club (I was a lifeguard), I got to observe all of the horrible things going on firsthand at there. When I first started working there, I thought it was great that I got a free membership along with working at the club. My whole family had been members there since it opened in our town.
One of the very FIRST thing I noticed was the bad morality and ethics of the club. The sales guys will walk around with families giving them a tour and give them totally wrong information. They say the pool is open 24/7 to kids and adults, which is not true. Then members come and take it out on the lifeguards for enforcing rules. Our pool was always FILTHY i will admit that. Unfortunatley our manager (I had 4 while working there for 2 yrs) is a Member Activites girl who has no idea how to run a pool. She frequently brings her daughter into work, can you get any more unprofessional?
We don't have a permanent maintenence guy so our stuff (whether its in aquatics or not) rarely gets fixed. Instead we have to share him with a club that is a 30-45 min car ride away!
The lifeguards who I worked with were horrible. They thought they could just sit on their butt and do nothing. Many times they would come in hungover. On a few occasions some even came in drunk or high! And my boss was rarely there for her scheduled shift so there was nothing I could do.
I would try to call the General Manager of the club down a few times (because members were complaining) and it would take him sometimes more than 30 min to get down to the pool! By that time the members were on there way to cancel their membership!
Also, and this was a big one. It was widely known that certain employees and Dept. Heads of the club were sleeping around! And these people had families! People would just tell me that was the "real world". I am APPALLED!
Frequent times cleaning out the spas I would find USED condoms! Things I would find in there would make me nautious. As a lifeguard, I can understand cleaning the pool, but we were made to scrub toilets, fold towels, and cater to the member's every need. This would be fine, except it was NOT in my job description when I got hired. I brought this up to my boss, and she said that if I felt that way I could just quit, because she had so many other lifeguards to hire! She threatened me, regardless I did not quit because I needed the job. I was also paid $8/hour starting off and was told I would get a raise in April (I was hired in July). No raise EVER happened after working there for 2 yrs.
Many lifeguards would call in "sick" and not show up for their shift. They would not get punished by our boss at all! And in turn, we would have one less lifeguard for the day, which would make it extrememly hard to keep the members safe (in the summer there would be up to 100+ people JUST in the pool) and the pool deck clean. I have been left outside (in 115 degree heat) for almost 2 hrs. We are supposed to be out there for 1 hr max in the summer.
About my 4 different managers. The first one was fired because she was stealing money from the club. The second one walked around the pool deck and flirted with members while his PREGNANT girlfriend sat on a chair and tanned. Our 3rd boss was another members activity girl who would make us do ridiculous chores if all of OUR cleaning was done. (like go upstairs and clean the workout equipment etc) There is a whole department for cleaning at Lifetime Fitness (called Operations) this is THEIR job, not the lifeguards!
Also, many of the club's sales guys and dept heads are clueless about the pool hours and rules. The front desk would tell members that the pool was open till 8 pm, when it really closed at sunset. Members would come with their kids and be FURIOUS.
I don't blame ANYONE for canceling their membership to this club. It is run by BAD people who only care about money. They could care less about members. I encourage anyone who is reading this to go right now and cancel your membership. Don't give Lifetime Fitness your money, because they clearly do NOT deserve it. This place is filthy and disgusting.
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I can't believe I'm even giving this club 1 star. It deserves NONE. I am a previous employee of Lifetime Fitness who recently quit after 2 years of working there. Although I was not in a manager position at the club (I was a lifeguard), I got to observe all of the horrible things going on firsthand at there. When I first started working there, I thought it was great that I got a free membership along with working at the club. My whole family had been members there since it opened in our town.
One of the very FIRST thing I noticed was the bad morality and ethics of the club. The sales guys will walk around with families giving them a tour and give them totally wrong information. They say the pool is open 24/7 to kids and adults, which is not true. Then members come and take it out on the lifeguards for enforcing rules. Our pool was always FILTHY i will admit that. Unfortunatley our manager (I had 4 while working there for 2 yrs) is a Member Activites girl who has no idea how to run apool. She frequently brings her daughter into work, can you get any more unprofessional?
We don't have a permanent maintenence guy so our stuff (whether its in aquatics or not) rarely gets fixed. Instead we have to share him with a club that is a 30-45 min car ride away!
The lifeguards who I worked with were horrible. They thought they could just sit on their butt and do nothing. Many times they would come in hungover. On a few occasions some even came in drunk or high! And my boss was rarely there for her scheduled shift so there was nothing I could do.
I would try to call the General Manager of the club down a few times (because members were complaining) and it would take him sometimes more than 30 min to get down to the pool! By that time the members were on there way to cancel their membership!
Also, and this was a big one. It was widely known that certain employees and Dept. Heads of the club were sleeping around! And these people had families! People would just tell me that was the "real world". I am APPALLED!
Frequent times cleaning out the spas I would find USED condoms! Things I would find in there would make me nautious. As a lifeguard, I can understand cleaning the pool, but we were made to scrub toilets, fold towels, and cater to the member's every need. This would be fine, except it was NOT in my job description when I got hired. I brought this up to myboss, and she said that if I felt that way I could just quit, because she had so many other lifeguards to hire! She threatened me, regardless I did not quit because I needed the job. I was also paid $8/hour starting off and was told I would get a raise in April (I was hired in July). No raise EVER happened after working there for 2 yrs.
Many lifeguards would call in "sick" and not show up for their shift. They would not get punished by our boss at all! And in turn, we would have one less lifeguard for the day, which would make it extrememly hard to keep the members safe (in the summer there would be up to 100+ people JUST in thepool) and the pool deck clean. I have been left outside (in 115 degree heat) for almost 2 hrs. We are supposed to be out there for 1 hr max in the summer.
About my 4 different managers. The first one was fired because she was stealing money from the club. The second one walked around the pool deck and flirted with members while his PREGNANT girlfriend sat on a chair and tanned. Our 3rd boss was another members activity girl who would make us do ridiculous chores if all of OUR cleaning was done. (like go upstairs and clean the workout equipment etc) There is a whole department for cleaning atLifetime Fitness (called Operations) this is THEIR job, not the lifeguards!
Also, many of the club's sales guys and dept heads are clueless about the pool hours and rules. The front desk would tell members that the pool was open till 8 pm, when it really closed at sunset. Members would come with their kids and be FURIOUS.
I don't blame ANYONE for canceling their membership to this club. It is run by BAD people who only care about money. They could care less about members. I encourage anyone who is reading this to go right now and cancel your membership. Don't giveLifetime Fitness your money, because they clearly do NOT deserve it. This place is filthy and disgusting.
I can't believe I'm even giving this club 1 star. It deserves NONE. I am a previous employee of Lifetime Fitness who recently quit after 2 years of working there. Although I was not in a manager position at the club (I was a lifeguard), I got to observe all of the horrible things going on firsthand at there. When I first started working there, I thought it was great that I got a free membership along with working at the club. My whole family had been members there since it opened in our town.
One of the very FIRST thing I noticed was the bad morality and ethics of the club. The sales guys will walk around with families giving them a tour and give them totally wrong information. They say the pool is open 24/7 to kids and adults, which is not true. Then members come and take it out on the lifeguards for enforcing rules. Our pool was always FILTHY i will admit that. Unfortunatley our manager (I had 4 while working there for 2 yrs) is a Member Activites girl who has no idea how to run a pool. She frequently brings her daughter into work, can you get any more unprofessional?
We don't have a permanent maintenence guy so our stuff (whether its in aquatics or not) rarely gets fixed. Instead we have to share him with a club that is a 30-45 min car ride away!
The lifeguards who I worked with were horrible. They thought they could just sit on their butt and do nothing. Many times they would come in hungover. On a few occasions some even came in drunk or high! And my boss was rarely there for her scheduled shift so there was nothing I could do.
I would try to call the General Manager of the club down a few times (because members were complaining) and it would take him sometimes more than 30 min to get down to the pool! By that time the members were on there way to cancel their membership!
Also, and this was a big one. It was widely known that certain employees and Dept. Heads of the club were sleeping around! And these people had families! People would just tell me that was the "real world". I am APPALLED!
Frequent times cleaning out the spas I would find USED condoms! Things I would find in there would make me nautious. As a lifeguard, I can understand cleaning the pool, but we were made to scrub toilets, fold towels, and cater to the member's every need. This would be fine, except it was NOT in my job description when I got hired. I brought this up to my boss, and she said that if I felt that way I could just quit, because she had so many other lifeguards to hire! She threatened me, regardless I did not quit because I needed the job. I was also paid $8/hour starting off and was told I would get a raise in April (I was hired in July). No raise EVER happened after working there for 2 yrs.
Many lifeguards would call in "sick" and not show up for their shift. They would not get punished by our boss at all! And in turn, we would have one less lifeguard for the day, which would make it extrememly hard to keep the members safe (in the summer there would be up to 100+ people JUST in the pool) and the pool deck clean. I have been left outside (in 115 degree heat) for almost 2 hrs. We are supposed to be out there for 1 hr max in the summer.
About my 4 different managers. The first one was fired because she was stealing money from the club. The second one walked around the pool deck and flirted with members while his PREGNANT girlfriend sat on a chair and tanned. Our 3rd boss was another members activity girl who would make us do ridiculous chores if all of OUR cleaning was done. (like go upstairs and clean the workout equipment etc) There is a whole department for cleaning at Lifetime Fitness (called Operations) this is THEIR job, not the lifeguards!
Also, many of the club's sales guys and dept heads are clueless about the pool hours and rules. The front desk would tell members that the pool was open till 8 pm, when it really closed at sunset. Members would come with their kids and be FURIOUS.
I don't blame ANYONE for canceling their membership to this club. It is run by BAD people who only care about money. They could care less about members. I encourage anyone who is reading this to go right now and cancel your membership. Don't give Lifetime Fitness your money, because they clearly do NOT deserve it. This place is filthy and disgusting.
I am so mad that the daycare at this lifetime would just
Hire people that doesnt even know how to watch kids
And swap pacifiers w other infants they can get sick catch hand foot mouth
Disease n who knows what else just because a baby starts to cry
Doesnt mean u just grab a pacifier thats sitting
There and give it to them and everytime i have gone
Back to the gym my toddler gets sick because
They let sick kids in the daycare about to cancel my
Membership i dnt want to have to worry about
Them not watching over my kids n being careless
How is this in the least bit helpful? I belong to a facility that I total love. The people are great. The instructors are friendly and helpful. THE POOL IS CLEAN and the guards are attentive. Wherever this "bad" facility is, it should have been identified to be useful. Lifetime is across the country.
Thanks for the heads up! Don't think I'll be getting that membership now.
Thank you for the insite. However, i'm gym shopping this week and don't know where I SHOULD go. *It's Minnesota and FREEZING cold, I will NOT be running outside anytime soon. What is a "good" gym to join?
I find this very hard to believe...
I do not work at the facility that I currently go to, but have numerous friends that do...and I can guarantee you that is the ONLY time I have heard ANYTHING like that.
If that IS true- you should report the club to corporate.
I am a former employee as well, and can attest to all of the items mentioned here. I am curious, which club were you working at?
I have witnessed the same behavior at my club. This is an unethical business-anyone with a membership should cancel it now.