Good job but far too much emphasis on the membership - Front Desk Sales Associate Massage Envy Employee Review

2.0
Feb 10, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

The place is well organized and usually most days go by very smoothly. On the off chance that someone calls out or there is a major issue they are usually pretty good about covering sessions and getting extra help. Schedules are also pretty flexible and the job itself is a nice balance of keeping you busy without overwhelming you.

Cons

The "Wellness Program Sales." If you want to work at a company where you are evaluated based on how hard you work and how well you do your job, look somewhere else. Each Front Desk Associate is evaluated almost entirely on how many memberships you sell each month. The problem is there is little to nothing you can do to influence your membership numbers. You are assigned guests in order at the start of each day, you have specific questions you have to ask them, and then you have to sell them a membership with a script that you are REQUIRED to say WORD FOR WORD, but when they don't sign up it is your fault. Basically your sales numbers are going to be determined almost entirely by luck of the draw and they are the biggest part of your evaluation. This causes the turnover rate for FDAs to be extremely high because people would rather quit than get fired over poor numbers they can't control and there is almost NO CHANCE that you will ever get promoted. Almost all managers are hired from the outside.

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Pros

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Cons

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Massage Envy Response
1mo
Thank you for your positive review. We're thrilled to hear that your experience as an employee in a Massage Envy franchised location was a positive one.
2.0
Jul 14, 2026
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Pros

good chance to build office skills to enter higher role. work here if you are tired of working in food service and want to build computer skills for office work.

Cons

pay is dirt, VC firm that owns half the company is constantly making things worse, and the membership policy is incredibly expensive predatory, and hard to quit. be ready to spend 8 hours a day telling people that are financially struggling that they cannot cancel their membership. when therapists call out for the day you pretty much have to start your day out calling all of their appointments and telling people first thing in the morning that the appointment they've had to wait weeks for is gone and their chronic pain needs to continue for even longer as you re-schedule them out weeks in advance.

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