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To: Stoat
Your description plus their apparent lack of interest in doing criminal background checks on their employees makes it a place I wouldn’t want to even walk into either. One naturally wonders how many other violent felons are working there, among the partially-dressed ladies and with access to members’ personal address and credit card information.

Good point there. But as a society, isn't it morally right that we give those felons a second chance sometimes?

10 posted on 04/28/2010 9:05:27 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Indeed I agree, but I believe also that there’s a time and a place for giving a second chance to different sorts of people. I think that when law-abiding, decent people go to a fitness club where there is partial disrobing and where employees have access to people’s home address and credit card information, there should be a different and a higher standard expected of the employees of such a place than, for example, at a car wash where the employees have access to sponges, squeegees and towels and that’s pretty much it....or at some industrial facility where the employee only drives a forklift. I think that customers have different expectations of employees at different kinds of places, and a fitness club ‘should’ hold itself to a higher standard than to hire people who have spent much of their lives in prison for violent criminal activity, and then to allow them to interact VERY closely with people who are made somewhat vulnerable by the nature of the situation. People deserve better protection and consideration at a place like this, and I think that most people ‘assume’ that they are being looked after, at least to some degree, in terms of their safety when they go to a fitness club.


11 posted on 04/28/2010 9:34:17 PM PDT by Stoat (If you want a vision of the future, imagine a Birkenstock stamping on a human face... forever)
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