My Last Day

I am currently one hour away from no longer being a YMCA employee.

The past three weeks, having to get up and be out of the house by 5 am, working at the Y, then working at QDx, then going to Miracle Worker rehearsals and not getting home until 10:30 or 11 pm have been absolutely grueling. But I think these past three mornings have been the hardest. Somehow, knowing it was my last week here made it even more tempting to stay in bed (I mean, what could they do if I didn't show up? Fire me?). But it is such a wonderful feeling to know that I have a regular schedule, and to know that I never have to work another weekend shift or have to give up going out with friends because I have to get up early the next day ever again!

I will miss my boss and my supervisor at the Y, because they really are great. I'll also miss the people I work with. And I'll really miss the free gym membership. What I really won't miss (aside from the early mornings and the weekends) are the members (with a few exceptions). These people here just have this huge sense of entitlement. They're never satisfied.

On Monday, we opened up the probably million dollar expansion to the Y that has been in construction for over a year, and all people can do is complain about it. It has a new weight room with brand new equipment, a room for the spin classes with new bikes and a new stereo and speaker system, and some new offices and such. So now that all of the weights are moved out into this new room, the room that had everything in it before is now all cardio, so there was more room to add new machines. And we accomplished all of this by only increasing the prices of two or three membership categories by no more than $2 a month. But this still isn't good enough for some people.

Apparently, some people were under the impression that they were getting a second set of locker rooms and a second pool in the expansion. Also, the people who regularly take the spin classes are used to it being in one of the multipurpose rooms, where they have to move the bikes out from the wall to set up for the class and then put the bikes back when the class is done. Now that we have a cycling room they don't have to do that anymore, but they're complaining that the room is too small (because its not the size of a basketball court like the multipurpose room is). They're also pissed off because now that the room is smaller, they can't chit-chat during the classes, because now everyone in the room, including the instructor can hear them. One man actually came up to me and told me that since the middle of January (when we changed our opening time from 5 am to 5:30 am), all we had accomplished was pissing people off, and that we were going to lose hundreds of memberships.

Seriously, all these people do is complain. I'm so glad that I am leaving now, because it's gotten to the point where if I had to be here any longer, I would get fired for telling people where they can shove their complaints.