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Tru Fit Athletic Club

I worked childcare for over a year.  It was the worst job I’ve ever had.  My coworker and I were kicked and instead of banning the child, the manager gave his mom a free week at the gym. Another time a girl busted her head open and we didn’t have a first aid kit.  I had her blood dripping down my arm while I held a napkin to it. I had no gloves or anything.  There were children who misbehaved severely or hit us and the kids and we weren’t allowed to ban them.  The most we could do was give warnings.  They wanted us to keep the crafts going but we were buying the supplies out of our own pockets without reimbursement and the front desk staff would take our supplies to do their own stupid stuff.  They had no business doing crafts when they ran the reception desk.  We bought our our own tissues, hand sanitizer, Lysol wipes, Lysol Spray and wipes for the babies who had stuff on their faces.  We bought our own coloring books because they rarely did and our own crayons because they would buy 4 packs of the 4 crayons and think that was enough.  The manager didn’t care about us, didn’t even know our names and barely handled complaints.  We weren’t going to get raises despite it saying in the handbook.  They wanted us to work more without more pay.  The staff up front didn’t like anyone who didn’t work up front so we were pretty much on our own but they would want us to give them breaks while we didn’t get any.  After I quit, so did 3 others.  It was such a bad place to work, this doesn’t even cover it all.  

This company is too far behind damage wise to catch up on years of burned out/underpaid employees and low standards of clean gyms with 20 to 30 % of equipment damaged or broken for months if not since they opened the doors. Upper management doesn't mind what they turn a blind eye to  like members being overcharged and bound to contracts that the poor managers they put out front unfortunately cant help with other than sending emails to up the chain to corporate begging for help. Upper  management does not appreciate employees who meet or exceed monthly goals...or actually care. Monthly goals dont matter because its never enough with this company. Members are cancelling too fast anyway for it to clear what they need to repair equipment, pay people well or stay afloat for much longer. It almost burned me completely of my fitness career working here. Thank goodness I didn't let it! Unless they clean out their toxic corporate level "leaders" who claim they want to change but never follow through, and begin giving members a gym experience they deserve this company will be dead in 2 to 3 years if not sooner. This is not a healthy work culture if you are looking for a longterm career you can grow with. 

They pay minimum wage and the job was so boring with the longest hour shifts. And to top the long shifts off we weren't allowed to sit down the whole time they didn't even put a chair behind the desk to make sure that we didn't. The customers were rude for the most part and the management was too. They can't keep their staff so they are constantly having to have people work basically the whole week and weekends. The management made it seem like it was also part of my job to take other people's shifts that couldn't make the ones they signed up for when I finally got a day off. Some of my coworkers were nice to talk to, but we also couldn't leave the desk and we would never really have anything to do but check people in and we had to memorize the members and management expected me to know after one day. I got this job for some extra money and would work sometimes starting at 3 and wouldn't go home until 11:30. When I would get my paycheck every two weeks I would just think about how it was not worth it. My legs would hurt so bad from standing I got shin splints. Do not work here!!!!

Ive been working there for a good 6 months or more and I’ve learned and mastered everything on the Sales Representative position including selling memberships, after all my hard work and coverages I asked for a raise and management says I’ll have to wait a year for that to happen. Waiting a whole year for a raise is honestly not worth it especially getting paid minimum wage. As the inside guy I also notice how management sucks and they tangle with your hours and schedule without your consent or talking to you about first. The only way to get a better pay is by picking up shifts because if you ask for more hours or wanna be in a full time position they’ll tell you that it’s not an option. It’s only cool and chill when you and your co workers work together and honestly it’s a good first job to start but if you want a better pay I highly recommend finding something else. This job and position is only temporary and the management will do whatever they want with you and get after you for the littlest things and mistakes you will make on the job.

Not Worth your time, you have to sale 20 members every   two weeks plus you have to make 100 calls a day which is 700 calls in a week 1400 calls every two weeks and 2800 calls a month at a minimum you’re only making eight dollars an hour plus your manager which do the exact same job as you do will make 18 an hour Also your managers would take your walk in guest  which is almost a guarantee sale  for themselves. You have to work a minimum of 40 hours a week also is very competitive and your job is not secure meaning if you’re not making the cut which is a strong hard selling memberships  you’ll be Fired in the incident but the turnover rate is so high you probably want to get to that point before you end up quitting like I did. (I have seven years of sales experience from T-Mobile to Best Buy by the way so this is not my first sales job nor my first commission job) Trust me when I say this job is not worth it not even if you want to be in the fitness industry if you really want to work in a gym get your certifications to be a trainer but not in sales.

It is a fun job with coworkers, but management is disorganize and terrible. They get mad at you for not knowing the promotions going on but will never tell you what is current and get upset when you ask. Working front desk sales representative is terribly underpaid for the amount of work done. Sales team will lie to customers after they sign up and we have to explain to them what they signed up on their contracts and management will not speak or help front desk. This job is always understaff and you can't get days off due to being understaff. Worked a whole year without asking for any days off and picking up shifts all the time and they gave me a hard time when i asked for two days off to go out of town with 3 months in advance. If you open the gym, goodluck trying to find someone to cover you because no one will take your shift if you need to miss work and you'll get a write up for it. 

Days were either slow, or fast paced. You went in to work and didn’t know if you’d get a lot of kids, or a few. When there was enough workers scheduled everything ran smoothly, but when we were under staffed, forget it. Management was... let’s say a 1/5 stars!
Most of my co-workers (other child care personnel) were awesome. Supervisors were always nice and did their job good until administration would step in to interfere and made everything not good. 
I got terminated unfair, and didn’t even get called to be given the news. I had to ask why I wasn’t on the schedule. Also had a write up I was not aware about. To me, this termination was planned.
To tell you, one other employee was terminated for going over her time by zero point something hours. Not even a minute! And was also just called right after leaving to tell her she was fired. 2 others quit around same time I left too.
Point blank, I DO NOT recommend it.

Management was unprofessional and showed a blatant disrespect for my time, as well as the time of my coworkers. Corporate management has made it clear they do not care about their employees, and lie about advancement opportunities in order to keep employees around. The starting wage is $7.50, do not apply expecting that to ever change. Commissions on selling memberships is $5 flat, and with how poorly things are handled, you will have next to zero sales, and at least 5 cancellations a week. 

Do yourself a favor and apply at a different job that can at least meet the bare minimum requirements to be considered "ethical".

Corporate calls every morning to go over micromanaged numbers. Upper management had a military style of training where you are put down and expected to memorize house rules that the company doesn't apply to themselves. Their aim is to sell as many personal training training memberships with no real aim to honor that training switching trainers on them through the process because of lack of employees and accountability. Stay away from them if you genuinely care about helping others through fitness this is not it. 

I have been with this company since July. One of the reasons I choose Tru Fit was they did furlough all of their employees during the pandemic and I felt that really said a lot about the culture and what their values were. I'm proud to say that since I have been here they have lived up to my assumptions and then some with a culture centered around a "do the right thing" mentality. 

My leaders actually care whether or not I grow and develop as a human being, not just as an employee, or in their words, they "give a fit" LOL.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Personal trainer 1 salary reported	$33.00 per hour
General manager 23 salaries reported	$55,935 per year
Fitness manager 4 salaries reported	$54,750 per year
Janitor/maintenance 5 salaries reported	$18.34 per hour
District manager 9 salaries reported	$94,444 per year

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