Horrible Hiring Experience - Sales Manager Fitness Connection Employee Review

1.0
Jun 16, 2025
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Pros

Great Hourly Pay Offered Schedule offered seems great

Cons

The company brings in 40 candidates to interview publicly in front of everyone. Then, without much notice, they ask 20 to leave and offer the remaining individuals a job on the spot. Immediately, these new hires are told they must memorize a detailed script within two days. Those who fail—many of whom have already quit their previous jobs for this opportunity—are promptly let go. Throughout the week, anyone who doesn't have the script perfectly memorized is terminated, creating an environment that feels more like a reality show audition than a professional hiring process. This approach reflects poor hiring practices, especially considering people made significant sacrifices to accept the position, only to be fired days later over unrealistic expectations. You have every new hire stand in front of the entire group and try to recite a script they barely received just 2–3 days prior. It feels less like training and more like a firing squad. This process is unfair, stressful, and honestly, quite disrespectful. You should seriously reconsider how you onboard new employees—this approach sets people up to fail rather than supporting their success. They didn’t take the time to tell us anything about the company—how it started, who founded it, or even what the bigger vision is. You’d think the first week would be focused on training, orientation, and helping new hires feel prepared. Instead, it felt like a week-long interview where we were constantly being evaluated, despite already being “hired.” Many of us left stable jobs for this opportunity, only to be thrown into a high-pressure environment with no real support or onboarding. That’s not how you build trust—or a strong team.

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5.0
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Pros

The company is always trying to improve both internal staffing conditions and stay competitive. They constantly try to do right by their employees and customers. My peers all have raw potential, and the company has great managers that are able to see that potential and develop staff further from club to corporate.

Cons

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1.0
Jun 17, 2026
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Pros

The only pro is that you get a free gym memberhsip

Cons

Upper management does not communicate properly or take ideas from the demographic they are wanting to cater to. Toxic work environment when it comes to hitting KPIs no proper training and development just told to hit the number or else. Even though you hit the goal to make money it’s never a great job it’s just a do better next time. No celebrations no acknowledgment for going above and beyond goal targets for the month. Force you to follow a process that most guest/members don’t enjoy and if you don’t you get in trouble. Health benefits are absolutely atrocious. They don’t even have this website updated correctly because Patrick has not been CEO for 2 years.

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Fitness Connection Response
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Thank you for sharing your feedback and for being part of Fitness Connection we truly appreciate it. We’re glad you enjoyed the complimentary membership, but we’re sorry to hear your overall experience didn’t meet expectations. Creating a supportive, respectful workplace with strong communication, growth opportunities, and recognition is important to us. Over the past few years, we’ve made improvements to leadership development, onboarding, and team communication and we’re continuing to build on that. Feedback around recognition and appreciation is especially important to us, and we’re actively working to do better. We value honest feedback from current and former teammates it helps us grow and improve. Wishing you all the best ahead, Fitness Connection People Team
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