Posted on 03/20/2014 9:55:51 AM PDT by grundle
The Planet Fitness gym in Richmond, California is standing behind their dress code policy after one member claimed that she was told to put a shirt over her intimidatingly toned body.
As reported by KTVU Channel 2, Tiffany Austin was recovering from a car accident and getting back in shape with her first workout at the gym. However, her time exercising was cut short when a Planet Fitness employee stopped her. Austin explained, “She says, you know, ‘Excuse me, we've had some complaints. You're intimidating people with your toned body. So can you put on a shirt?’”
Ms. Austin was wearing a spaghetti strap tank top and capri pants with her midriff exposed, and she doesn’t think her attire was out of line. “I don’t feel like it’s anything crazy, but I mean you tell me if it’s burning your eyes,” Austin said with a laugh. Reportedly she was only told that the gym dress code prohibited wearing string tank tops. The Planet Fitness customer agreed to wear one of the shirts the gym provides patrons for free, but while she waited for the tee, another employee approached her with objections to her clothing. Feeling harassed and intimidated herself, Austin decided to get her money back and cancel her membership at the gym advertised as the “Judgement Free Zone” whose policy bans “gymtimidation.” McCall Gosselin, Planet Fitness spokesperson, said that criticizing Austin for being toned, “…is not in line with the Planet Fitness policy whatsoever.”
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I thought everyone in CA looks nice and trim like she does?
niiiiiice .. ,
Double bag Guilty
If I went in and paid my dues, and tried to use their services only to be treated this way, I wouldn’t be happy about it either.
She agreed to wear a short they provided. That seems like a rather flexible thing to do. Then she had another employee come up and give her grief.
Granted this was her first time. So she didn’t know the policies that good. You still don’t act rude to people under those circumstances.
I have to tell you, it would have to be a very insecure person that would have to complain to the staff about her in that outfit.
She isn’t toned. She’s a softy. Obviously some resident hippo who thinks this is her private club, complained because she didn’t want to be seen side by side with a woman who wasn’t 200 pounds overweight.
I’ve had businesses give me absolutely terrible service. One of them tried to imply I was trying to pull fraud on them simply because I made a purchase with their full approval.
So I like the idea this woman is yelling out for others to hear.
I watched the video, and she doesn’t appear to be someone with a chip on their shoulder at all.
Good for her...
I like toned women at the gym.
Helps me lift.
Their business model is that they’re not a place for muscleheads and gymbunnies.
It’s a gym for low-self-esteem folks (wimps and blimps).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQfmpXsLV_4
Or, some customer expected the business to actually deliver what it promised when it advertised and took her money. The nerve.
or a war against Private property
Planet Fitness has a dress code. It's clearly spelled out in their contract and signs on the door and wall.
You may disagree with it or you might find it silly but it's their gym on their property. If you don't like it, join another gym or open your own gym were people can dress as they wish.
This lady could have done just that
turn around
(bright eyes)
Oh, you mean the thin woman wasn’t covered under those same promises? LMAO
Have you seen those advertisements? Watch the video. All the midriffs are bare.
I think you missed several.
I think its racist...(S)
That was a diplomatic way of avoiding the real reason they told her to put on a shirt. I see women more “toned” than that every day at the gym.
Go watch the video that shows some of their advertising.
Most if not all the women in the advertisements have bare midriffs.
Planet Fitness is a loopy outfit, if they’re going to advertise in that manner, then harass their customers for wearing what Platnet Fitness showed their customers looking like while at the gym.
Come on, she isn't that bad, and she was in a gym trying to shape back up after an accident and a period of enforced inactivity.
This isn't the Stone Age, when people were always cut and chiseled from chasing slowly-dying mastodons across 50-60 miles of tundra to catch a meal.
Did the point of the ad fly over your head? That this gym ISN'T for those bare-midriffed people?
Great term, "war against achievement." I'd not heard that before.
The woman in the photo doesn't look all that toned to me actually, but what is at least one purpose of working out in a gym if not to improve the physical body which includes toning?
And why not have examples of the vision of the goal that the effort is about?
This does reek of the PC, class-envy, achievement-envy, etc., libtard mentality that has infected the nation.
“Welcome to Planet Fatness. Shut up and don’t move.”
“You’re intimidating people with your toned body.”
no.
She was not intimidating people. Other people felt intimidated by seeing someone who looked like their flabby-a$$ selves will never become.
Interesting. Seems “feelings” are all that’s important these days. Someone “feels” offended and it’s a federal crime.
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