cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/51905809
Starts to feel like a wave of this kind of BS is hitting the world.
While the glasses are definitely a problem, this seems to be more about the general manager just being an utter cunt.
“At this point, my friend’s husband’s getting frustrated, and he’s like, ‘You need to give me my ID back,’” Marilyn said. “The GM threatens to call the cops on my friend’s husband and threatens to ban him.”
“OK, call the cops.” is what they should have said.
which resulted in her considering other gyms entirely.
Considering!?
“OK, call the cops.” is what they should have said.
If you are ever in a situation that you need the cops; it is almost always in your best interest to be the one who calls. Cops are dumb AF and will blindly believe the reporting party unless things are extremely obvious otherwise.
Yup, the answer is always, “don’t worry, I’ll call them for you.” But only if you absolutely have to call the cops. Otherwise, don’t ever call the cops.
Yeah, the looney manager was clearly bluffing. I reckon withholding your driving licence would justify calling them. That can’t be legal. I’m kind of baffled why they left it with him in the first place.
I feel like stupid is consistent. Someone who is stupid will wear these glasses, and also act like the manager in this story.
now we have to fucking start putting signs to ban recording glasses too? fucking hell just be a decent human being so we don’t have to drown in rules.
Generally recording at gyms is already prohibited, but this was the gym manager using them.
The source for this article is not great. Maybe OP should consider that before sharing it here.
It’s even blocked by my spam and malware filter.
.
You’re not missing out on anything, the entire article reads like an ai hallucinating with a bit of psychosis
I have a hard time believing this story. The woman claims she brought her friend in on a guest pass but then when there’s an issue, that friend’s husband appears in the story out of nowhere and happend to be there working out at the exact same time under his own membership? The claimed over-the-top responses by the manager and the fact that she then deleted her post makes this all very fishy.
I don’t think newsbreak expects people to actually move past the headline and read the article because most of it is incoherent bullshit.
The quotes are all hearsay lol
The gym already has security cameras, the fuck does he mean the glasses are for his “protection”?
I’d imagine that in that job—if you’re not a perfectly fit young dude or a woman—there’s a lot of accusations of “being a creep.”
Imagine you’re the guy working that job and someone complains that there’s a mess in the women’s locker room. What do you do?
You ask a woman if there’s anyone else in there, maybe shout that you’re coming in to clean it up, etc. Then you walk into the women’s locker room and someone—anyone—sees a man walking into the women’s locker room. BAM! Instant creep status.
Are Meta’s glasses the answer? Fuck no! But I understand the “I need protection from accusations” argument.
What’s the alternative? Cameras in the locker room? Hidden cameras?
The guy probably thought that the glasses were big, ugly, and obvious (because they are) so no one could complain that they didn’t know they could be recorded in that guy’s presence.
Imagine you’re the guy working
Idk, An employee entering whatever gender toilets to clean it isn’t gonna be seen as creepy imho, unless they’re being actively creepy, like by recording videos with creepers’ glasses. I mean, menployees clean women’s toilet all the time and womenployees also clean men toilets.
I can’t believe many if any business is currently paying gender-specific cleaners for gendered toilets. An employee would just grab that yellow rolling cleaning cart and deal with the thing and move on. It’s a scenario that happens literally everyday everywhere unless the place doesn’t clean their toilets.
