Assistant Manager - Assistant Planet Fitness Employee Review

2.0
Oct 21, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Free gym membership, staff are usually cool

Cons

The pay is terrible; Assistant Manager only makes a few cents more an hour than the part time staff, who are usually minimum wage workers. Franchising is inconsistent; my previous franchise owners (in RI) emphasized customer satisfaction and their employees, all my new franchise cares about is money and will nickle and dime everyone. Policies across individual gyms vary and different franchises make it even more varied; customers will argue about gym policy because the PF down the street is run completely differently

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You get a Free blackcard membership.

Cons

Poor management planning on all fronts; hiring, firing, scheduling, daily tasks. Extreme expectation of unpaid labor. Was asked multiple times directly and bluntly to work for free for 40 hrs a week for 4 years on top of my paid 30 hrs a week. There is effectively no training for the following roles; front deck, team lead, assistant manager, general manager. Front deck has zero. All other role's "training" material are just buzzword soup packets and references to 3rd party podcasts or internal corporate "books or podcasts" from workers with no qualifications on the subjects their speaking on. Expextation to endlessly work and give more. If all tasked where done, you would be ask to redue them again, endlessly, until your shift was over. No hourly rate adjustments for increased workloads. Repeatedly pushed to lie to customers to make sales and keep costumers paying for a membership.

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