"Giza Fitness" would be more appropriate because the gym is "dependent on referrals" aka one person joins and gives you three referrals. You call those people relentlessly until one sucker joins. Then that guy gives you two more referrals. And suddenly you have a the biggest fitness company pyramid scheme in the country.
This job is awesome if you enjoy constantly harassing people on the phone or at onsite events. If you want to work somewhere where you're promised a promotion, but consistently see your managers take every walk-in and even take phone leads you received because "it's fair," this could be the place for you. They tell you when you're a manager you'll get more traffic, but until then you need to bring in your own traffic. You will literally get a tick sheet where you mark your 10 calls per hour, don't let your VP catch you without one.
FYI in case you don't read your hiring paperwork, this job is not hourly plus commissions. It's whichever is greater, meaning you need to sell $750 of commissions on memberships or all your hard work goes to nothing and you're making less than you could at McDonald's and you have to start over for the next pay period. $750 of commissions on memberships works out to be about 2 memberships per day. So hopefully you can work every single day or have a ton of Facebook friends to harass.
They'll keep telling you you're so close to breaking draw and that you need to just stick with it. "Your VP loves you and has a spot waiting for you!" Two months later you're still making minimum wage and no one is helping you break draw because management is too busy worrying about making their bonuses and gossiping about their personal lives with members, each other, and on the phone with other managers.
The clubs have no break rooms, so I hope you like eating cold food or going out to lunch every single day. Going out could get awkward because the day before you went to every restaurant begging people to come try the gym "for a free week!"
Hopefully you're lucky enough to be there when the health department shows up to check the locker rooms after receiving complaints, that makes your day more exciting. Then you can listen to your manager throw the OM under the bus to everyone even though she just doesn't have enough janitorial coverage. Don't worry, he'll act like he's her best friend later in the day.
If you have a college degree and are considering working at LA Fitness, keep grinding on job boards because there is definitely something better out there. Unless you really want to work hard to be promoted to weekend general manager and have to work every single night and weekend.
If you decide to take the job and later quit, make sure you don't give them two weeks notice. They will make your life even worse, shocking because it was already so bad. They will never let you talk to a prospective member. They will ignore you. They will gossip about you to your VP, but of course since they crouch down behind their computers at the desk behind you, you obviously won't be able to hear them. And finally they will tell you to just go home, quite relieving actually because sitting in that toxic environment is quite stifling.
