After getting called back into work today when I was setting up my beach chair, I got an email from the pole studio owner. Random, I haven't been to pole class in 5 months except for one make up class in April when I decided to never return!!
She was contacting me saying she heard many rumors about me talking bad about the studio, saying I was unwelcome there, etc. The last time I went, the girl said "to what do we owe to you being here?" and it came out kind of snide. If any of their "preferred" girls (the ones who kiss their butts and latch onto anything they say) is out for even one class, they call them. I was out for 2 months without a peep. Then the next 2 months without a peep before the owner sent me a message on FB saying "just checking on my girl." Probably after she saw me say to another girl that I hadn't heard a word from them in those 4 months.
I have told people I felt unwelcome. Why? Because they made it that way. Isn't there a point in giving feedback about somewhere? Why would I refer my friends to some place where they pretty much take your money from you while telling you over and over you're part of a great group of friends. I know that the people "reporting" to the owner are people in the studio who follow any comment I make on FB. They even talked bad about a friend and I when we didn't attend one of the parties, saying a bunch of lies. Put a huge group of girls together and you end up with drama.
So, after seeing a lot of red, I took a breath and responded to her with my reasonings on why I left, that I am not the only dissatisfied person (they've already had a complaint on the BBB website too), I did not agree with the changes because they severely interfered with the other things I had to do, and that I do go to school (she told me she found my 'excuse' of going to school full time hard to believe, after she once told me that it wasn't a smart decision to go back!). I told her I am using the $145+ every 6 weeks (price is raised since I left) on my car payment for the new car I bought. I admitted that I have told people I felt unwelcome and wasn't a big loss because I never was contacted or cared about. I left quietly and didn't cause a scene and only told the people who asked me how I felt. I decided to just never come back. They are mature, they can make their own decisions on what they want to do. I told her some general topics that others have emailed ME about, negative feelings they had (without names).
What gets me is why is she even contacting me after 5 months? About rumors she is hearing? Get over it, I don't want your 'service' anymore, I have taught myself more than I learned spending $1600 there. Isn't it MY choice whether or not I want to attend?
She is going to wish she left well enough alone if she starts freaking out on me like she's done in the past. It looks very unprofessional. I have no problem giving negative feedback, as that is the reason for feedback - you state your experience for others. She never wanted to listen to feedback I tried to give about things, she would always send my friend and I long emails chewing us out for even suggesting things, when SHE asked us. Rob says she doesn't know how to run a real business, just knows how to sweet talk the right clients and take them for all she can. Ugh. Why does drama insist on following me?!
She was contacting me saying she heard many rumors about me talking bad about the studio, saying I was unwelcome there, etc. The last time I went, the girl said "to what do we owe to you being here?" and it came out kind of snide. If any of their "preferred" girls (the ones who kiss their butts and latch onto anything they say) is out for even one class, they call them. I was out for 2 months without a peep. Then the next 2 months without a peep before the owner sent me a message on FB saying "just checking on my girl." Probably after she saw me say to another girl that I hadn't heard a word from them in those 4 months.
I have told people I felt unwelcome. Why? Because they made it that way. Isn't there a point in giving feedback about somewhere? Why would I refer my friends to some place where they pretty much take your money from you while telling you over and over you're part of a great group of friends. I know that the people "reporting" to the owner are people in the studio who follow any comment I make on FB. They even talked bad about a friend and I when we didn't attend one of the parties, saying a bunch of lies. Put a huge group of girls together and you end up with drama.
So, after seeing a lot of red, I took a breath and responded to her with my reasonings on why I left, that I am not the only dissatisfied person (they've already had a complaint on the BBB website too), I did not agree with the changes because they severely interfered with the other things I had to do, and that I do go to school (she told me she found my 'excuse' of going to school full time hard to believe, after she once told me that it wasn't a smart decision to go back!). I told her I am using the $145+ every 6 weeks (price is raised since I left) on my car payment for the new car I bought. I admitted that I have told people I felt unwelcome and wasn't a big loss because I never was contacted or cared about. I left quietly and didn't cause a scene and only told the people who asked me how I felt. I decided to just never come back. They are mature, they can make their own decisions on what they want to do. I told her some general topics that others have emailed ME about, negative feelings they had (without names).
What gets me is why is she even contacting me after 5 months? About rumors she is hearing? Get over it, I don't want your 'service' anymore, I have taught myself more than I learned spending $1600 there. Isn't it MY choice whether or not I want to attend?
She is going to wish she left well enough alone if she starts freaking out on me like she's done in the past. It looks very unprofessional. I have no problem giving negative feedback, as that is the reason for feedback - you state your experience for others. She never wanted to listen to feedback I tried to give about things, she would always send my friend and I long emails chewing us out for even suggesting things, when SHE asked us. Rob says she doesn't know how to run a real business, just knows how to sweet talk the right clients and take them for all she can. Ugh. Why does drama insist on following me?!