Platinum Family Fitness.. This gym will rip you off!!! DO NOT trust them with anything! I was an employee at Platinum Family Fitness in Courtice, and they also own the one in Whitby, and watched them scam people left and right. While I was making calls to get people into the gym for tours and memberships, I had some people tell me that they will never join the gym because they have lawsuits against them already and to never call them again. At first I thought it was just me, and then I started getting more and more people telling me that over the phone.
I started getting suspicious of the manager. When it came time to get my first pay, they said they didnt have it but whatever I made will be on the next paycheck. Well, that paycheck never came and it was the same story every 2 weeks for 2 and a half months. Finally, I complained enough and got my check. I was supposed to have made 10 an hour plus comission to start, you can do the math and figure out how much they would have owed me for 15 hours/week for 2.5 months.
After I got hired, a few weeks later when I didnt get paid I asked them why i hadnt at least got the hourly pay, and they said they dont give hourly pay to part timers, or anyone within the first 3 months. So I waited to get the money from the sales. I started the second week of October and didnt get paid until December 31, guess how much I got.... $17.00!!!!! All of the members there think they are getting a great deal, but they keep taking money out of the account after your year is up.
If anyone wants a membership at a gym do not go to any of the facilities that JAY ARTEGA manages. He is a lying, manipulative and scheeming person. He tried to tell me the first time I didnt get paid, (which I was livid about because I could not pay my rent without the money) that I shouldn't be thinking about not having enough to pay rent this month, but being able to make more than someone at mcdonalds makes over a period of 6 months... He was trying to sell me my job that I already had in order to keep me there to work for him for free... THEY ARE SCAMMERS!!!! DO NOT TRUST THEM!!!!!!!!
Mark
Courtice,#2UPDATE Employee
Mon, November 22, 2010
This employee has no basis for a claim, she attempted to go through the labour board and did not have any valid outstanding issues and it was dismissed. We believe that there may be some mental issues that she is dealing with.