ABC Financial Services Inc., Sherwood, AR has within the last 2-6 months has hired between 40-100 Travel/Trainer Tech, most commonly known as (Planet Fitness) Onsite Implementation Managers. In recent news there have been two most recent celebrations, the promotion of Paul Schaller to CEO and the near completion of the Planet Fitness Migration, one of ABC's newest and largest clients.
Due to some recent changes in the on-going training of these new techs hired speficially to work with the Planet Fitness conversion team they wanted to make the supplemental training a pass/fail course; failure that would result in termination. Why not hire people as temp staff when you only needed them to complete a migration of this magnitude, they didn't have the staff they may have had only 10-35 techs on board, they needed bodies and so being equipped with some giants that knows how to execute this they hired many of us on the spot. People by the way who had great careers from their respective states, and left families behind to go after what was believed to be a promising career.
In the most recent supplemental training course, which by the way was nothing more than a cram course and they already knew the numbers and projections; thus the reason behind ABC's having a quiz on Wednesday, March 25, 2015 that was supposedly was to be used to see where we are in respect to retaining this mass amount of information. The test was Friday, March 27, 2015 the test was 4 hours, we went to lunch at noon and upon return the terminations began, out of 24 individuals in my class, 18 were fired and 6 kept their jobs but reportedly only 3 of them actually passed, I'm certain that the real scores will never surface.
Let me be clear I don't want anything, this is all about making people aware of the truth. It's important that Fitness Clubs such as Planet Fitness, Edge, Golds, Anytime and 10 Fitness are aware of the hiring practices there at ABC and the ongoing mess that is going to continue. Many of us made great connections and worked very hard to create raving fans. Obviously that was not enough, 18 people and over half of them from others states across the United States are now unemployed, I wonder what Club executives and owners really think about this if they have a heart, maybe they will be more concerned with hitting another benchmark this year in $$$.
