Posted on 04/09/2024 7:47:36 PM PDT by CFW
Founder and CEO Mike Grondahl detailed a history of rampant abuse at the company and alleged it misrepresented its financials during a recent interview with controversial right-wing X user Libs of TikTok.
This comes after weeks of calls for boycotts of the brand after the company canceled the membership of a Planet Fitness gym goer after speaking out about a biological male in the women's locker room.
Planet Fitness's policy allows gym members to use the locker room associated with their gender identity. But this policy has led to a few high-profile cases of women feeling uncomfortable in Planet Fitness women’s locker rooms, and some women and children have reported abuse and sexual harassment at the facilities. Many of these incidents resulted in the women losing their membership, but an arrest was made in at least one instance, as previously reported by Benzinga.
In the 15-minute interview, Grondahl outlined the history of the company and the reason behind its founding. Grondahl started the gym, noting the Judgement Free Zone was meant to be a welcoming signal to novice gymgoers looking for a place to start. But when speaking about the company today, Grondahl says it's "devastating" what it's become.
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"When we went public, the majority of the board knew that this lead attorney was a pedophile. It's in the culture." Grondahl said during the TikTok interview.
The Planet Fitness "culture" includes accusations of widespread abuse at the company.
"It started at the corporate office, this attorney started abusing employees, then he's abusing them sexually, now the culture leads into the people doing the right thing are being thrown out of Planet Fitness," Grondahl said.
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Oh yeah, wasn't some repooblican dude and again later, his repooblican dude son? Bush?
Then the EEOC further bastardized the damn thing by making up new definitions and rules and so now, we have crazy people living on the streets and freaks in women's locker rooms.
Put the effing gooberment in charge of the Sahara Desert and in five years there would be no more sand. Too much power, money, authority over our lives. Time to stop and reverse this mess.
Yep, drive the scum out of business, and likewise cause the indifferent consumers to suffer the consequences of being indifferent.
Where is this PF? I’ve never known a one to have a jacuzzi or sauna and I have traveled all over the US.
There is something very wrong with finance and private equity in the US.
You nailed it. The government is in the business of CREATING new problems and never fixing old ones. It is the most corrupt, most greedy, most ineffectual, most incompetent, most venal, and most vile organization on Earth.
You’ll get zero arguments from me. I no longer fly the flag. What it now represents disgusts me too much. I will not show one shred of approval for this gooberment. The America I loved is gone. I weep for those who have sacrificed in the past that it may have lived.
I’ve been watching lots of movies from the 40s and 50s recently. They all bring back memories of a far better country as well as bring a tear to the eye for what has been lost.
He’s failed to take decisive action. Therefore he supports the actions of his employees.
Worse, he’s whining that people called him out and refuses to take responsibility.
What a pathetic POS.
You are female?
Regards,
He sold it in 2012 and was ousted as CEO 5 years later.
Women were banned from gyms in the 40’s and 50’s along with one out of five Americans going hungry and a litany of other things not present in Hollywood movies.
I get the confusion though-who doesn’t want for the 90% nominal tax rates?
fwiw the single biggest difference is no top down education system producing conformist idiots that can’t think their way out of a paper bag. Real diversity in education existed, producing a significantly greater range of solutions to any problem.
Now doctors, lawyers etc...mostly taught the same using the same texts largely making wealth banal in this country while at the same time creating immense uniformity and conformity.
Wealth at one time meant significantly better medical care, legal representation, or in the 40’s and 50’s a car.
We traded unique and valuable diversity of thought for enabling the nation to largely live like royalty.
Similar to the grass is always greener crowd. The days of a superior yesterday that never existed don’t really deserve the living like royalty.
[It seems such an easy problem to fix. Have a policy that men go in the men’s locker room, and women go in the women’s. No crossover, no gender identity exceptions.]
[Planet Fitness Has Been ‘Pretty Much Destroyed,’ Says Company Founder]
GOOD.
GET WOKE, GO BROKE.
GO TRANNY - GO BANKRUPT.
I saw one of their commercials just a few days ago.
NO WAY - after the recent story.
Perhaps they can partner with Bud Light. Or Target.
Corporate policy killed it and they dont care
The parking lot I drive by on Sunday is pretty full. Like Target shoppers, they are fine with men in women’s bathrooms.
When will they learn…..
I fly mine because the American flag triggers the woke. To me it means what it always meant- freedom and these folks hate freedom like I hate mushrooms.
There would be if they walked in, started pointing and laughing.....
Ditto here...agree completely.
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