Edited for brevity. After three years a faithful athlete, I wish I was not leaving this review.
On multiple occasions I waited for my programming while he talked to friends or simply ignored me. At times for up to an hour. One time I waited two hours while he ignored me to talk to friends--only to crack a joke at my expense when I told him I was leaving. Conversations and confrontations happened, programming apps were changed. Still, numerous times I'd either receive my programming hours or days late... or not at all.
Over three years, I noticed a pervasive pattern of covert digs and veiled insults thrown into conversations and made on social media. Some of these included sexually charged comments, what I would consider "mobbing," (ie, involving other people/ individuals in "targeting" me), what I interpreted to be a few veiled threats of kicking me out of the gym. After several years of trying to deny this was happening in favor of the "good times" (and there were good times! I met a lot of amazing people and seriously developed as an athlete here), I was becoming depressed and started having anxiety attacks which made functioning, especially at work and training, difficult. I made an attempt to tell Dayne about all of this--the amount of distress it was causing me, that I did not know where any of these behaviors were coming from, and did not ask for any of it. Still, I made the decision to leave quietly when I moved away.
When I cancelled my membership, he only refunded part of my money. Two weeks of being either flat-out ignored or asked to wait, having to enlist someone else in the gym to contact him, and calling my bank's fraud department, he gave me my money back. I told him I had been trying to leave quietly but had experienced too much distress and was not willing to tolerate the disrespect anymore. He said he was sorry I "felt that way" and made an innuendo about my mental health. This was all followed up by other staff getting in on the social media digs as well as leaving positive reviews discrediting the ones I left. I had sincerely hoped for an actual resolution. But I continue to see no attempts to do so, nor any remorse for the level of distress I experienced. I am heartbroken and beyond disappointed. read more