My gym asked me if I want ot keep paying so they can pay their staff - huh?

They are asking for your charity because that's the only way they will survive.

It's up to you to decide if you want to help them or not. If they go bankrupt you will have to find another gym. Nobody is forcing you.

People like the OP will be back to cry on this forum that all the gyms went out of business and they can no longer work out. People like the OP are clueless.

Gyms seem to be the best able to surive this. Most people are on a one year recurring memebership. Right now they don't even have to pay varriable costs.

I bet a lot of gyms will just keep direct depositing people's monthly fees even though they're closed. If they do they're crooks

asking you to only cover salary would assume 100% of people will also be willing to cover only salary. They're hoping for 40% of people recognizing the value of keeping the place open through this willing to pay full price, not expecting to make a profit. If you want to take that gamble or don't care about the gym that's on you.

Everybody has to pay a little extra to make this work.

So let them keep the money.

It will be for a good cause.

I dont see a problem with this. If you income hasn't been impacted then I would continue to pay the gym fees. You only looking at 1 or 2 months. Not a big deal for you, but collectively it's a huge deal for those employees.

no more gym wrote:

People like the OP will be back to cry on this forum that all the gyms went out of business and they can no longer work out. People like the OP are clueless.

Or complaining that the rates went up at the surviving gyms because demand is the same as before but the supply and competition dropped.

I sign up for a year at a time because I get a lower overall rate that way. This is likely the only year where I won't come out ahead with that method, but I'm really not bothered by paying for my gym membership like normal and missing out on a month or two of access to it (especially relative to the other complications that I am dealing with now).

If it’s a smallish local gym I’d go ahead and pay the charity fee to help them survive. If it’s a national company like 24 or Planet I’m not paying. It does remind me of “woke” hotels who try to guilt you into not having them wash your towels daily to “conserve water and energy” and help them be “greener”

The YMCA is going to keep taking my money.

Baba Yaga wrote:

They are asking for your charity because that's the only way they will survive.

It's up to you to decide if you want to help them or not. If they go bankrupt you will have to find another gym. Nobody is forcing you.

Not necessarily. They could file for chapter 13 bankruptcy and remain open.

I was only using it to shower and occasional weights. I run outside for 99% of my activity.

maybe maybe not wrote:

Baba Yaga wrote:

They are asking for your charity because that's the only way they will survive.

It's up to you to decide if you want to help them or not. If they go bankrupt you will have to find another gym. Nobody is forcing you.

Not necessarily. They could file for chapter 13 bankruptcy and remain open.

I know trump has no problem repeatedly declaring bankruptcy due to his bad business decisions, but the owners of your local gym might have more integrity, and not want to stick it to their creditors. If you are still employed why not help them out? It doesn't cost you any extra. Of course no one would expect you to keep paying if you lost your job.

maybe maybe not but maybe wrote:

maybe maybe not wrote:

Not necessarily. They could file for chapter 13 bankruptcy and remain open.

I know trump has no problem repeatedly declaring bankruptcy due to his bad business decisions, but the owners of your local gym might have more integrity, and not want to stick it to their creditors. If you are still employed why not help them out? It doesn't cost you any extra. Of course no one would expect you to keep paying if you lost your job.

There is nothing immoral about chapter 13 bankruptcy.

There is more questionable integrity in expecting your customers to keep paying you when you aren't providing them anything.

maybe maybe not wrote:

maybe maybe not but maybe wrote:

I know trump has no problem repeatedly declaring bankruptcy due to his bad business decisions, but the owners of your local gym might have more integrity, and not want to stick it to their creditors. If you are still employed why not help them out? It doesn't cost you any extra. Of course no one would expect you to keep paying if you lost your job.

There is nothing immoral about chapter 13 bankruptcy.

There is more questionable integrity in expecting your customers to keep paying you when you aren't providing them anything.

By the way, the gym is not going to declare chapter 13 bankruptcy. That was just me nitpicking your post for the lulz.

There may however be emergency government loans/bailouts for small businesses.

I’m going to keep paying mine the hundred or so odd bucks it costs and I won’t lose sleep over 15 of that each month going to profits for it to continue being open.

As others have said in tough times those not directly impacted from a paycheck standpoint may have to “suffer” some small consequence to keep what we like afloat.

I want it there when all this is over with

runjc wrote:

I was only using it to shower and occasional weights. I run outside for 99% of my activity.

I have a shower in my house.

You deserve whatever swindling you get because you are obviously a fool.

Ask them to extend your membership for 2 months.

runjc wrote:

they want the profit component too - seems like a brilliant business strategy.

Sure, they will be ROLLING in the profits.

Yep, this whole virus was a perfect business strategy.