New York Sports Club Reviews

Former Employee – worked at New York Sports Club full-time for less than a year

Pros – Free Gym Membership.
Friendly Co workers

Cons – Extremely unorganized company and management.
Was hired, asked to come in on my 1st day to be sent home bc "my paperwork did not go through yet" and I didn't end up starting til almost a week later after I was pressured to not give a 2 week notice to my previous job.
The program I was hired to run was a complete joke. It was in complete shambles due to the fact that no one had been in charge of it for months prior. I felt like i was thrown into a mess. My first paycheck I received was over 2 weeks late. The morale of other employees as numerous other clubs is pathetic. I would not recommend this company to anyone.

Advice to Senior Management – Get organized, Work on employee morale,

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at New York Sports Club full-time for less than a year

Pros – Free Gym Membership Great rates for training

Cons – Micro Managed to the extreme! Promised the world when you first start, If you have a slow month be prepare to look for another job they only pay 6.00 hr for Membership Consultants. This Job would probably be good for someone who is retired Not for someone who needs a solid Income. Job duties are Telemarketing and Prospecting and you will not get compensated for gas

Advice to Senior Management – pay a better base salary to your membership consultants they basically are the people who keep you in business

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at New York Sports Club full-time for more than a year

Pros – Desperate to hire. They will hire you quickly, because they do not reveal the truth about employment with them.

Cons – Corporate management is lost, as is District Management. Policies change each day. They treat employees badly, as they have the mentality that they can hire a new body for anyone willing to leave. Overwork employees. Mandatory 12 hour days two, sometimes three, times per month...in addition to your 40 hour week, with no overtime. A violation of multiple labor laws.

The corporate office doesn't follow their own policies. It is based on what best suits them. They have been successfully sued by multiple employees for wrongful termination and harassment.

Executive management has resigned and company looks to be vulnerable to a hostile takeover very soon.

I would not wish working for this company onto my worst enemy. Hell would be a first class upgrade.

Advice to Senior Management – Hire Executives and District management that values your employees and supports the Club level managers. Listen to in club staff regarding promotions and member needs. Observe NY and Federal Labor Laws.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at New York Sports Club full-time for more than a year

Pros – Revolving door you can get a job there easy

Cons – $6 dollars an hour (salary) with no over time pay. It's on your own time

Advice to Senior Management – Develop more and stand up for your under paid teem

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at New York Sports Club

Pros – Great place to network
Free gym membership
Discounts on local businesses
Discounted personal training packages for staff of all levels

Cons – Managers are not properly trained
Not really much employee benefits.
Company only offer discount on Verizon and dell
No training for new staff

Advice to Senior Management – Spend a little money on you employees to achieve more productivity. They only look for maximum output minimum wages.
Have more managers that care about the staff and not their bonuses

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at New York Sports Club

Pros – You get a free gym membership. You can let someone you know into the gym and that is literally the only good things

Cons – The pay, the way upper management treat employees, the crappy hours. You will work at least 4 12-hour days in a month.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at New York Sports Club

Pros – free gym membership and ability to grow in the company depending who you are working for and if you are kissing the right behinds.

Cons – Employee support is limited to non exsistant. Pay is low in all workers who have been there even up to more than 5 years.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at New York Sports Club

Pros – For all of two weeks you are a star in the company and great things is expected of you.

Cons – Absolutely no respect for their employees... no empowerment, stealing people Paid Time Off (PTO) without notice, always in crisis management mode, do not hold to their promises, keep moving you from club to club- taking your bonus money because either you have switched positions or clubs, No support from HR... Fire employees without notice... two mandatory 12 hour work days with no pay... Personal Trainers Prospect with no pay... and then terminated for failing to hit quota... everyone is under some form of investigation... want to call you when you're off work... cut membership sign up fees in half

Advice to Senior Management – Sorry but there's no leadership... How can their be leadership when no one is following? Or even happy to follow? How could you turn a blind eye and not support some of the most loyal employees you had in the company? Why did so many of your good previous leaders leave? How come when good leaders do leave you do not at least acknowledge their departure or allow that leader to speak with the teams themselves?

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at New York Sports Club

Pros – -Fun Atmosphere
-Free Membership
-Lots of Down time

Cons – -Some of the most incompetent managers ever
-Very shady business tactics
-There is only one Career path if you start out as an MC
  -If you want to pursue other avenues other than becoming a general manager of a club there is no guidance
-They get away with paying below minimum wage because it is a commission base job, which can be detrimental during the summer months.
-No matter how smart you are, if you're not good at sales this is not the place for you.

Advice to Senior Management – Take the time to listen to your employees without intimidating them. Their suggestions could go along way. I highly suggest hiring someone from a business consulting firm.

Also start hiring Sr manager with fitness industry experience, as a posed to CPG or retail experience.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at New York Sports Club

Pros – -Free membership to the gym
-opportunity to network and meet new people
-develop experience in sales and interacting with consumers

Cons – -terrible management; lack of leadership skills
-no opportunity for advancement
-inconsistancy in management moral
-managers micromanaging
-ignoring the consumers after they become members
-no retention of employees, including management
-understaffed team, limits flexibility in scheduling
-minimal job training
-no sense of loyalty or accountability between management and other team members
-no clarification of company goals
-personal issues between team members and management that negatively affected environment
-lack of communication with consumers

Advice to Senior Management – The bottom line is money, but money is a means to an ends, not the objective. The objective is to provide great services to the consumer, not simply to get the consumers money. The daily operations and efficiency is a reflection of the management; and even the customers could see the gym was not organized. There's something wrong if the customers are suprised to see you working for longer than a month because that many people have been in and out before then. Only 1 of the 4 managers I worked with one year ago is still working there because the others were fired. Most of the team members have been fired or quit.

NYSC needs to do a better job of building an affective and successful team, as opposed to consistantly hiring immediate resplacements that are playing catch up before there first shift.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend