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Original Comment My daughter was employed as a babysitter at the Gold's Gym location in St. Lucie West, Florida since June 2013. She was just terminated from her employment there with not so much as a warning as to why she was being terminated. The initial paperwork that was presented to her stated that a customer had "complained" that she was singling out her child in the babysitting room. Yet my daughter never received even a warning let alone a "write up" concerning the complaint. Then my daughter was told by her supervisor, Amy, that she was going to give her a second chance but upon review of her time stamps, she noticed that she had been late by a couple of minutes a few times. My daughter always showed up for work and even worked many days/hours when other employees could not. My daughter, being only 17 and still in high school, would ride her bike to and from the gym in order to be there for work. The other employees working in the babysitting area are constantly late and coming and going as they please without letting anyone know. My daughter was always present for her shifts and never left early. Now I just found out that her former supervisor, Amy, has now started talking to the replacement employee, that she had apparently already hired prior to terminating my daughter, and she is telling this "new" employee that my daughter was terminated because she would just come and go from the babysitting room and didn't work her shift. I would think that if that was the case, my daughter would have been written up for it but that was never the case. This location and its employees really need to be looked at closely and monitored regularly as this has apparently become commonplace for this location to just dispose of its employees at their will. My daughter believes that she was ultimately terminated due to her having to change her schedule since she is a diver at her high school and was not able to work during the weekday (she was only scheduled to work Wednesday evenings but was no longer able to due to her dive schedule). She gave Amy plenty of notice regarding it and even agreed to work the following 2 Wednesdays until a replacement was able to be found. On her normal Saturday shift following the 2 weeks, Amy allowed her to clock in and then called her into her office to terminate her. The employees at this location conduct themselves in a very unprofessional manner and are often seen fratenizing with other employees as well as members, many of them often being under the age of 18, just as my daughter was. My daughter was approached many times by many of the male staff who knew she was 17 but my daughter didn't want to make any "waves" because she needed the job so she never filed any complaints. Regardless, someone needs to take a closer look at this location and the way in which everyday business is conducted as this is not a conducive environment for young adults trying to work and attend school just the same. If there was such an issue regarding her schedule, then at the least, since she had been employed there since June 2013 (over a year), it should have been explained to her and she should have been afforded the opportunity to resign rather than to terminate her for reasons that I have yet to understand (based on an accusation which was not substantiated by no means and my daughter never received any written reprimand for). To just "terminate" someone because they don't fit into the scheduling, or it is just easier to hire someone else to work all of the days rather than having more employees, is more understandable and acceptable rather than the "lame" excuse that was provided to her.

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