/obligatory

yay...i came just for that picture! Thank you ElPresidente

I've been "working out" at the Y for years!!!

WE TOTALLY APPROVE:

frizzle65 2008-01-13 02:20:42 PM
I've been "working out" at the Y for years!!!

...and they say the cuisine there is great, too.

This thread needs bacon and more village people

Too bad they're so expensive. It's 600$ a year in Montreal, city gym is 200$ a year and just as good.

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nsfw, maybe

If you weren't scarred by the Village People's version, you will be now

I've been eating at the Y for years

How odd, the link was labeled "unfeltchable"

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Let's see if this works.

This headline lacks inspiration.

Well, I linked something better left unlinked, so I guess it's all good.

Darn, and I wanted a run on the brainbleach.

Buttfark your way to better fitness?

/Whatever you're into is fine with me
//Not that there's anything wrong with it

Health care "crisis"? In America? Since we have the best health care in the world, what sort of condition is the rest of the world in if we have a "crisis" over here?

Subby...are you trying to bore us to death? What a suck article. Why did you submit it?

/slashies

Maybe they should tackle their ridiculous membership fees. Sure, you can apply for a reduced membership IF the administrator ever returns your call. Ironically, 75% of applicants wouldn't have to apply to pay a reduced membership or free membership if the normal rates weren't over $90 a month for a single person.

I wonder who Neil Nicoll will appoint as their spokesman?
Cue Sen Larry Craig in 3..2..1...

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Since we live in a world where even people on disability can afford memberships at nice, clean, well-equipped gyms, this would smack of desperation on the Y's part.

I actually work at a YMCA (I'm here right now, actually). I set my desktop as the Village People, and no one seems to get it. It made me sad, seeing as I'm an attention whore.

Gyrfalcon: Since we live in a world where even people on disability can afford memberships at nice, clean, well-equipped gyms, this would smack of desperation on the Y's part.

Actually, the Y makes more in revenue than any other nonprofit save the Red Cross. They are hardly desperate.

seasicksquid: I actually work at a YMCA (I'm here right now, actually). I set my desktop as the Village People, and no one seems to get it. It made me sad, seeing as I'm an attention whore.


and Ghey

Silly question do they break employment laws where you are? The Y in Ottawa Canada is. I knew someone who worked there and they were forcing their employees to do volunteer work. Ontario Labour Laws states that you can't do that. The best part of the volunteer work was that it was doing the work she normally got paid to do. She quit shortly after talking to the labour board (who was unwilling to get involved due to taking on the "C" in YMCA is political suicide but did say what they were doing was illegal and that if the person should take them to court).
Another example would be any meetings that they had which was usually in the evening they never got paid for (which they were supposed to.
Supposedly the Y is refusing to pay their employees the new minimum wage which has increased. This person had heard about one of the other employees who was fired for being gay and was even told that. Never heard what happened but there was talk of a lawsuit.
Also don't think that the "Y" the gym is part of the charity portion. It isn't, it is purely for-profit. I know someone who audited them when they worked for an accounting firm. They used to break tax laws as well (the charity taking money from the for-profit section and not claiming it).

seasicksquid: I actually work at a YMCA (I'm here right now, actually). I set my desktop as the Village People, and no one seems to get it. It made me sad, seeing as I'm an attention whore.

carnifderome: Maybe they should tackle their ridiculous membership fees. Sure, you can apply for a reduced membership IF the administrator ever returns your call. Ironically, 75% of applicants wouldn't have to apply to pay a reduced membership or free membership if the normal rates weren't over $90 a month for a single person.

QFT

If YMCA really cared about obesity, they'd drop their prices and give heavy (pardon the pun) discounts to fat people... maybe even provide some fee reductions based on the number of lbs lost per month. I dunno, maybe that might be better PR than the worthless lip service that this article refers to.

ElPresidente: /obligatory

I Lol'd but i really shouldn't have.

/now im going to hell
//damnit

Where I live the YMCA only costs $430 a YEAR for a whole family.

Rates dont seem to bad to me.

$430 a YEAR? But for that, I can go to McDonald's every day of the week AND then get a coronary operation on my heart (oops, budget busted)!!!

randomjsa:
Health care "crisis"? In America? Since we have the best health care in the world, what sort of condition is the rest of the world in if we have a "crisis" over here?

LOL. Don't look up the answer to that question, you won't like it.

Where the hell do they change $90 a month? The Hollywood Y is $50, and that's the most expensive one I've seen.

Coffin_Coroner: Where I live the YMCA only costs $430 a YEAR for a whole family.

Rates dont seem to bad to me.

Yeah, WTF? The rates here are only $35/month. And we even have a really nice pool.

Richard Saunders: If you weren't scarred by the Village People's version, you will be now

Bah. It's not really YMCA until Hard Gay does it. (new window)

"YMCA tackles America's health crisis."

wait... i thought that was government's job? shouldn't they be taxing us more and creating more entitlement programs to make us be healthier?

$60/month for the wife and I.

Seriously, where do you people live where your gyms cost like $20 a month? Not only is the Y near me cleaner, brighter, and less full of creeps in spandex, full makeup, and freakish muscles (and that's just the guys) that all of the other gyms around here, it's $20 - $40/month cheaper.

Ok, here is my YMCA rant:
1. The local branch a block away from my workplace charges $30/mo if you are under 30, $50/mo if you are 30 or older. (Age discrimination!)
2. Said YMCA also charges a $75 fee simply to apply for membership.
3. YMCA lets you pay month by month if and only if you allow them to rapetake it directly from your bank account.

When I asked about the blatant age discrimination, they attempted to justify it by saying, "People under thirty are just graduating from college and often have trouble finding jobs."
That is a pretty broad blanket statement, which they make without offering any studies proving this to be the case. Regardless, it is not my job to make up for some other person's lack of a marketable degree.
/Get off my lawn, etc.

My bad, I dropped my membership years ago because even though I was still getting the "college student rate." They wanted to increase my rate to over $40 a month. Previously the college rate had been half the normal rate. I had a friend who was quoted $95 for two people back then plus several hundred dollars for the upfront fee. After they built the new megaplex YMCA, rates were supposed to go up again. It looks like they've got their pricing restructured here but the initial fees are steep.
______________ fee / monthly
Adult (19+) $118.00 /$43.00
Family $137.75 /$62.75
Fulltime College* $55.75 / $30.75

I still think that's pricey for an organization that runs on a lot of donations. Our community donated the $20 million for the megaplex Y. The fee is to discouraged folks who want to stop and rejoin after losing their interest. The fee encourages you to just keep the membership going until you get your butt back in there.