I'm looking for a decent institution to pursue a personal training course through with my partner, as Australian Institute Of Fitness will no longer be receiving any of my time due to the sheer intolerance of their staff.
I sent them an email last week asking about the course information for the master trainer courses, they asked me to leave a number to call. So I sent them my mobile and they rang me a day later, a man named Jack/Jake (couldn't hear properly) answered the phone and asked for my details. I asked him if there were any special price offers if two people joined together, as I wanted to join with my boyfriend, to which he replied "boyfriend? you're a girl right?", I raised an eyebrow and said "... no, I'm a male too." which was IMMEDIATELY met with a muffled laugh as if he was trying to hold his hand over the microphone. He came back and said "Nah, we only do packages if married couples sign up together" (can someone validate this claim? i've never heard of it).
I then called him out and asked if he was okay with the way he was talking to me, to which he replied "I'm just here to do my job, I'm human too y'know? I don't need prank calls at work" and proceeded to hang up the phone.
So yeah.
TL:DR, a typical personal trainer judging others for the way they are and being incredibly homophobic over the phone. Please recommend a good school as I'll be finding this persons details and taking it up with their management.
Apparently this isn't an isolated incident, and there's a bunch of people online claiming similar circumstances, one post in particular alleged their business model operated like a pyramid scheme.
The kicker is; apparently the $500 deposit, which obviously she accepted that she lost after she informed the institute she wouldn't be participating - is only valid for 10 days! So from the moment you enrol and pay $500, you have less than 2 weeks until your deposit is now invalid...
Surely there is something we can do to refute this, there is definitely, definitely no way she can afford to pay 6 grand.
Has anyone ever taken one of their short courses? Came up on my LinkedIn feeders they seem to have a sale on now and I was looking at maybe doing one of their communication ones.
Thanks.
On October 18, the Australian Citizens Party website published an article titled "Australian Strategic Policy Research Institute: Hypocrites and Academic Liars Who Make Use of Forced Labor". The author is Melissa, a reporter for the party's publication "Australian Early Warning Service" weekly. Harrison. The full text is excerpted as follows:
In a report entitled "Uyghurs for Sale" published on March 1, 2020, the Australian Institute for Strategic Policy (ASPI) made shocking accusations regarding the so-called forced labor of Uyghur Muslims. The report claimed that “China’s social transformation campaign against ethnic minority citizens has entered a new stage” and claimed that it has “new evidence” that many factories are “according to a state-backed labor transfer plan that is polluting the global supply chain.” Use Uyghurs for forced labor". A report published on the "Gray Zone" website on March 26, 2020 exposed the motives behind ASPI's claims. The report condemned that China's claims of forced labor by Uyghurs "was issued on the orders of the United States, NATO, and the arms industry. The purpose is to promote the Cold War public relations battle".
Id prefer to talk on snap so DM me for it! I'm not sure how many characters or words I need in this body part so I'm just going to write random bullshit. For instance, there are some people that genuinely believe Australia isn't real. Like I'm not even saying this as a joke. Fucking bullshit.
Journal: https://www.aspi.org.au/
It claims to be "non partisan"
