Thank you for telling me ur experience. I believe it to be real. I also believe my experience was real and also true of the gym.

Genuine question: what are you hoping for from people in response to this situation?

I‘ve been a member at that gym for years. I‘ve found the staff always to be polite and friendly. Also, the gym is highly racially integrated, both among the staff and the members.

Given the massive food deserts in the poorest parts of our city, the argument can be made that residents would be better off leaving. And I say that as Price Rite just announced they're closing the SoWebo location in a few weeks, leaving thousands of people without access to decent food.

It’s not only this incident that makes me feel this way. The University of Baltimore refuses students to use the gym because they train cops there. I’ve asked multiple times to be allowed to use school gym i pay tuition for but they refuse. Not only that, but they have untrained cops with weapons all around campus. The same cops that we have to pay millions of dollars in lawsuits for. this whole Baltimore situation is so fucked up on so many levels.

I’m just tryna work out man.

> The good NYC foldable kind?

Ya but that’s like spitting in my face then everyone is telling me to deal with it. It’s hard to swallow

I play Volo basketball at the gym but the employees are usually rude even during day. Merrit is one only good gyms in Baltimore so i pretty much was forced to sign up unless i wanna go out my way.

Edit: but now i will after this experience.

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this is a really weird take.

I'm confused, you said you only signed up for the gym (I'm assuming online?) earlier that day but then later you say you're "constantly greeted with very aggressive employees." So you've been to the gym before? If you signed up online did you have an email or something from them?

I frequent this gym and have found pretty much everyone working the desk to be extremely friendly. This is during the day of course, not late at night so maybe it's a different situation.

Seems like this guy was being extremely weird.

It definitely sounds like that person didn't handle it well at all, but it sounds like everyone else was supportive and helpful so hopefully this one person doesn't ruin what can be an otherwise positive place for you.

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You can't let an employee at a gym make you feel useless. Yes the situation would leave me frustrated and very annoyed and probably make me cancel my membership - but I'll be damned if it would make me feel horrible and useless. Know your worth and don't let others lessen it.

Having said that, I'll ever so slightly give the employee a little slack here, as I've had my locker broken into and wallet stolen at this gym when the front desk let some guys talk their way into the gym at night and those guys proceeded to steal from legitimate members. So yeah, they need to be sure about who gets in.

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that’s easy… they go somewhere cheaper.

Honestly the policy isn’t even my biggest complaint it’s how it was handled was completely disrespectful and arrogant as a member it’s just horrible.

Edit: even so the GM told me it says to come in within 72 hours nothing else.

I think you're attaching far too much significance to this one instance. I get how individual experiences can have an impact on you, but you need to evaluate why this incident has left you feeling "horrible and useless."

24 hour gyms have different policies overnight when they're less staffed. You don't necessarily have all the same access, especially if you JUST signed up, as you would during the day when they can actually give you a tour and make sure you understand the lay of the land.

You definitely don't need validation from people on reddit to process any experience, positive or negative.

I thought Carcetti was going to fix this

Getting kids off the street is a good start. The youth around here glorify the street. When kids dont think they are worth shit they aspire to be "king" of the streets and running their block. Why? No idea.

This take is disgusting. Just push poor people out of sight and out of mind so you don't have to think of the human toll our economic system has created??? Ignore any continued crime caused by poverty in whatever neighborhoods you've exiled us to? Remove the generational Baltimoreans who actually built this town and take advantage of our work? Fuck that.

And reminder, you want gentrification but who make your stupid ass coffee or artisanal pizza or stock the shelves at anthropology? Oh right, under paid folks. I'm not about to let my city turn into some bubble of wealthy people where we lose our city's culture. Kick rocks.

No just lost my ID, and I’ve never had this happen at planet fitness downtown or Golds gym.

Edit: what part did i lose u at? For me this whole experience was horrible and nobody even cares. See even you decided it’s a non issue. I feel horrible and useless

It's not just a city issue it's a STATE issue. Nothing is ever going to change if Annapolis keeps shitting on funding for Baltimore.

The streets suck, the schools suck, the only areas that get attention are the "nice" areas.

Landlords and investors need to be held to a standard as well. Hard to care about your community when it looks like garbage and is falling apart.

Ironically, we're back to 299 after two cases got reclassified.

“Melodramatic”. Two Americas for sure

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unarmed_African_Americans_killed_by_law_enforcement_officers_in_the_United_States