Dealing With Snakes In The Workplace

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[quote]Hell-Billy wrote:

[quote]Big Kahuna wrote:

[quote]ChongLordUno wrote:
Just had a chat with said manager. A few interesting titbits have emerged.

Turns out the other instructors have been complaining to the managers because I am telling the customers to eat lean ground beef.

Words fail me.
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Disregard all my previous advice, just pull up studies and sources and straight out call them on their bullshit. There is no chance in any universe I know that you could possibly lose out on this one. If you do we’re all doomed and should cherish our final moments as best we can. Stability ball should have given it away, I did not realise they were gasp low fat and functional! gasp again.

But seriously it should be mind-numbingly simple to find studies showing that lean beef is not a bad food choice, and also relatively easy to debunk any kind of wild mouth-breathing claim they come up with. How do these people get jobs training people pray tell? Is it just like the fat ladies that teach zumba classes?[/quote]

Cognitive dissonance, once people get some dumbass idea they tend to disregard everything that contradicts it.[/quote]

Is this aimed at me saying “disregard my previous advice” or at the PT’s for refuting scientific studies that oppose their beliefs? I assume the latter, but just incase it may happen to be the former, I’d like to know if there’s a misunderstanding before I rant on about my reasoning.

This might sound confrontational, I don’t know how to word it so it’s less confrontational, it may by all means just be my paranoia acting up and if that’s the case I apologise in advance for this post.

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[quote]Big Kahuna wrote:

[quote]Hell-Billy wrote:

[quote]Big Kahuna wrote:

[quote]ChongLordUno wrote:
Just had a chat with said manager. A few interesting titbits have emerged.

Turns out the other instructors have been complaining to the managers because I am telling the customers to eat lean ground beef.

Words fail me.
[/quote]

Disregard all my previous advice, just pull up studies and sources and straight out call them on their bullshit. There is no chance in any universe I know that you could possibly lose out on this one. If you do we’re all doomed and should cherish our final moments as best we can. Stability ball should have given it away, I did not realise they were gasp low fat and functional! gasp again.

But seriously it should be mind-numbingly simple to find studies showing that lean beef is not a bad food choice, and also relatively easy to debunk any kind of wild mouth-breathing claim they come up with. How do these people get jobs training people pray tell? Is it just like the fat ladies that teach zumba classes?[/quote]

Cognitive dissonance, once people get some dumbass idea they tend to disregard everything that contradicts it.[/quote]

Is this aimed at me saying “disregard my previous advice” or at the PT’s for refuting scientific studies that oppose their beliefs? I assume the latter, but just incase it may happen to be the former, I’d like to know if there’s a misunderstanding before I rant on about my reasoning.

This might sound confrontational, I don’t know how to word it so it’s less confrontational, it may by all means just be my paranoia acting up and if that’s the case I apologise in advance for this post.[/quote]

At the pt’s. my bad for not wording it clearly.

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[quote]Hell-Billy wrote:

[quote]Big Kahuna wrote:

[quote]Hell-Billy wrote:

[quote]Big Kahuna wrote:

[quote]ChongLordUno wrote:
Just had a chat with said manager. A few interesting titbits have emerged.

Turns out the other instructors have been complaining to the managers because I am telling the customers to eat lean ground beef.

Words fail me.
[/quote]

Disregard all my previous advice, just pull up studies and sources and straight out call them on their bullshit. There is no chance in any universe I know that you could possibly lose out on this one. If you do we’re all doomed and should cherish our final moments as best we can. Stability ball should have given it away, I did not realise they were gasp low fat and functional! gasp again.

But seriously it should be mind-numbingly simple to find studies showing that lean beef is not a bad food choice, and also relatively easy to debunk any kind of wild mouth-breathing claim they come up with. How do these people get jobs training people pray tell? Is it just like the fat ladies that teach zumba classes?[/quote]

Cognitive dissonance, once people get some dumbass idea they tend to disregard everything that contradicts it.[/quote]

Is this aimed at me saying “disregard my previous advice” or at the PT’s for refuting scientific studies that oppose their beliefs? I assume the latter, but just incase it may happen to be the former, I’d like to know if there’s a misunderstanding before I rant on about my reasoning.

This might sound confrontational, I don’t know how to word it so it’s less confrontational, it may by all means just be my paranoia acting up and if that’s the case I apologise in advance for this post.[/quote]

At the pt’s. my bad for not wording it clearly.[/quote]

It’s cool man, I get a little uppity and nervous sometimes and I over-analyse.

As long as Chong can convince the management that his ideas are sound, he doesn’t have to waste him time trying to convince the PT’s, so at least he can dodge that bullet, or homing missile depending on how you look at it.

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It sucks that you have to work in this kind of environment. I previously worked as a PT in 2 different gyms in London which had a horrendously cutthroat atmosphere between staff. Will you be doing any PT or are you happy working as an employed instructor?

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[quote]ChongLordUno wrote:

[quote]beachguy498 wrote:
Bollock juggler… lol. I’ll have to use that today.

Character assassins, every workplace has them. The biggest thing I recommend is not letting anyone into your personal business. What they don’t know can’t be held against you. I agree to rise above them and wait for your chance to put them in their place, you are a threat to them but you seem to have the upper hand.

Rob[/quote]

Thanks for the kind words Rob

Just had a chat with said manager. A few interesting titbits have emerged.

Turns out the other instructors have been complaining to the managers because I am telling the customers to eat lean ground beef.

Words fail me.
[/quote]

Extra lean asshole lol.

The high road is a tough one but still the right one accept in extreme cases. You’ll move on to bigger and better things and this fuckwad will wallow in shit.

I work with mostly women. They are fucking vicious in the workplace when they think they are wronged. Loooooooong memories.