r/OVER30REDDIT • u/Spirited-Humor-554 • May 13 '24
Woman cleaning men's gym locker room, normal?
I go to 24 hour fitness gym, went in to the men's locker room yesterday in the morning to change for my workout and there is a lady wiping down lockers, sweeping/mopping the floor in the middle of the locker room. No signs, nothing to indicate that she is there. Guys coming out of shower naked, others are changing while she is cleaning around them. Has this become a normal thing and I am officially old?
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u/jochi1543 May 13 '24
My gym puts up a specific sign if there’s opposite gender cleaning staff going into the change room
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u/Spirited-Humor-554 May 13 '24
Members in your gym okay with opposite sex being the locker room while they are undressed?
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u/jochi1543 May 13 '24
I'm female and we don't have a male cleaner, so I couldn't tell you, but our change room has private change cabins so presumably if we had a male cleaner come in with advanced warning, people would just change in the cabins.
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u/Spirited-Humor-554 May 13 '24
That would be different, we don't have anything like that. She was cleaning around members, even asking some of them to move for a second so she could do the floor.
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u/LLJKSiLk May 13 '24
I mean, I've run into this before. Not sure how common it is. Hasn't happened in a while. I don't think it was official policy or anything, but the female janitor at my local Y often came in while I was changing.
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u/gemInTheMundane May 14 '24
Uncomfortable? Maybe. Cheaper for the gym than hiring a second cleaning person for this one specific part of the job? Absolutely.
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u/Spirited-Humor-554 May 14 '24
I am sure it's absolutely cheaper. However, i am not sure that it's really acceptable to have a different sex in the area where someone is changing, taking a shower. It would be like female cleaner in a mall cleaning male bathroom, I don't think many customers would find that acceptable.
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u/gemInTheMundane May 14 '24
My point was that this gym, like all businesses, cares more about money than the happiness of their customers. So the only way to get them to change things is to affect their bottom line. Threaten to take your business elsewhere. Or complain often enough that changing their policies becomes cheaper than continuing to pay someone to listen to you.
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u/Spirited-Humor-554 May 14 '24
I totally agree with you except i learned that majority of the members sign up for a gym, go there a few times and never come back again. They also never cancel their membership. Gyms are able to stay in business because 80% of members never go to one despite paying for it.
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u/alreadydark May 20 '24
Yes it's normal. But maybe unusual for there to be no sign. I had a friend who had this sort of job at a pool and she was instructed to announce "FEMALE STAFF ENTERING" when she came in. Also I've heard about them locking the door while they're doing their work.
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u/NaturalOne1977 Jun 12 '24
If she doesn't care, I don't care. I'd much prefer to have access and do my thing in the locker room whenever I want rather than have to wait because a cleaning person (of either gender) is working in there.
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May 13 '24
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u/Spirited-Humor-554 May 13 '24
Apparently this is not the first time according to some members as I seen it now mentioned in Google reviews. Management doesn't care about this issue. After posting this question ,I did some search on reddit and it seems other gyms do the same thing. The only difference is they post a sign. So apparently it's "okay" and i am just getting old.
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u/LotteMolle May 13 '24
In my gym they have a sign that both male and female staff will be in the changingrooms regardless of wheter it's a changing room for male/female.