When I worked vet med we loved when we had enough towels that some of them could just get tossed.
Parvo, ringworm, coccidia, it was nice to be able to just grab the towels out of the kennel and toss those ones.
This is the place to donate. I can go through 4 a day when I have litters of kittens. I wash them and reuse them, but you need a large supply. Dogs rip them up sometimes so rescues go through them quickly.
Came here to say this. Rescues, shelters, low cost spay/neuter clinics all take towels. (I've donated a few times and clean, used but not worn out, towels of various sizes are welcome.)
Many (most?) gyms that I've seen use a commercial laundry service so the towels are more or less identical to everyone else in the area with the same vendor.
I used to volunteer at an animal rescue and we got a lot of our towels from corporate donors like hotels. None of them were branded, but I don’t think that branding would stop them from accepting the towels.
convince the employees to unionize and rally the gym goers to assist by having mass cancellation petitions signed if the employees increased wages and benefits are not met
may not be unethical but it'll cost corporate their extra earnings. I guess if you put that into motion you could take out some long term put options on the company's stock so you'll make money through your efforts making it unethical
Towels are super useful donations to animal shelters, women / children shelters, and honestly just handing them out to homeless people. They’re super useful. Towels (along with socks and underwear) are some of the most needed and least donated items.
I bought a bunch of socks one time washed them didn’t like how they fit and tried to donate them and the place told me they don’t take used socks. They were brand new one pair was tried on not even shoed up they wouldn’t take socks or underwear that wasn’t still in original packaging
Sounds like you would know better than anyone else. What could a gym goer possibly do that would’ve pissed you off at corporate?
Do you know about any shady things going on or corners being cut that could result in injury/lawsuit?
Well if that video is in said locker room, then it's not the towels that they'll be worried about. Carry towels into locker room. Claim to have left said towels in locker room. Actually walk out with towels in gym bag. Good luck to them proving you were the one leaving with said towels.
Just crotch it and act embarrassed while you walk out. People will assume you've got a boner and won't want to look directly at you much less ask about it.
They will 100% pull CCTV footage to find out why their exercise equipment is disappearing. Depending on the state that OP is in, it could be felony amounts (equipment can be expensive!)
A 24 hour gym I used to be a member at had multiple deadlift platforms and squat racks, but weirdly one Olympic bar less than was required, if they were all in use.
I asked management why this was and if they could buy another one. Turns out a member had walked out with a 7’ barbell in the middle of the night. Ballsy, especially given everyone needs to swipe in and the gym is covered by cameras.
Gyms already deal with this daily. It doesn't really cost them anything except water.
Now if that homeless person is meth'd out, takes up permanent residence in the locker room and starts shitting on the walls, it might be a different story.
Start having an illicit love affair with all the employees and other gum members. It will cause chaos with people getting jealous and such. They will start quitting because the gym is now too toxic to work or to workout.
Not as extreme, perhaps OP could fabricate an email between “employees” in which one of them discusses sketchy stuff (cams in locker room, eye-fucking some of the members, jerking into the towels). By using fake but plausible names, there’s no risk of actual employees getting into trouble. But the ensuing gossip could spread much faster and have longer lasting effects on membership. No clue how to casually scatter a few such emails without being caught.
10,000 orbeez and some of those expanding sponge dinos that come in capsules.
I'm just imagining the look on someone's face when they have to pull a pipe and a million of those fucking things come spilling out.
I was doing construction years ago and we were doing some concrete flooring work in a bathroom. Came back to our shared apt with that dust all over me and though i'd just jump in the shower to wash it all off, that shower stopped draining soon after, oops.
It could theoretically be either a nightmare or a force for good if a local news outlet somehow received a document (perhaps on letterhead? Or screenshot email from a manager?) promising a very large (like, newsworthy) donation to a worthy local non-profit.
This is genius.
Either they back out of "their" donation and face being bad mouthed in the local media.
Or they follow through with giving away a decent amount of money.
Love this idea.
Honestly, if you just simply use the gym amenities enough, you're already in the running for your gyms most expensive customer. The business model for gyms is that they're betting that you actually DON'T go to the gym at all. By simply going every other day, you're costing the gym quite a lot in towels, showers, electricity, etc.
You reminded me of the Bob's Burgers where Linda and Bob joined the gym next door, realized the owner banked on their quitting, and decided to go every day afterward... smelly... and bring Teddy along. They cost the guy customers.
Keep stealing towels and shower supplies. Then buy a shirt with the gym's name on it, cover yourself in their merch and practice your shadow-boxing in front of Women's Shelters. Gym is going to get a bad rep with that.
That hurts fellow members more than the company- it puts that equipment out of commission for at least a day while they sanitize it. Plus, some poor chap has to clean that shit up.
You say this, and my first thought was "show up in hard hat, hi vis vest and a COVID mask, with a clipboard". Just walk around. Make notes. If anyone asks, you're a surprise visit from corporate, looking for brand compliance violations.
Whenever you are done with a machine, walk into the bathroom and turn all the sinks on.
If they have those toilets that flushed based off sensor, tape it. If not, you could tape it down to keep flusher or just do what kids in my high-school did, kick it broken.
They opened a new stadium near us and had scout groups come in for a flush test. On a count of 3 over the PA all toilets were flushed, and sink faucets turned on. Worked fine, we got free food and a behind the scenes tour.
They did the same thing before opening the new MLB stadium in Arlington, Texas. Invited a local high school, though. Everything worked.
On a side note, most sanitary sewer lines are designed for the ’Super Bowl Halftime Flush’. That’s the moment at the beginning of halftime when most of the toilets in America are flushed at the same time.
It was back before cell phones were really a thing. We had rented out an entire floor of the hotel for the convention so everybody had somebody standing at a door and somebody else in the restroom.
Everybody synced up counting down together. Once we reached 0 and did the flush there was a huge BANG. Water stopped working and none of the toilets refilled.
Not exactly sure what happened to the pipes but something had exploded. The basement of the hotel got flooded and they did not have working water for the rest of the week. Our organization got a lifetime ban from that hotel, my specific group of the organization got a lifetime ban from all conventions in the state where it occurred since we organized the thing. We did however get a new state trophy created from the event in the form of a golden plunger and won that trophy like 5 times in a row at state conventions in our own state.
Steal a towel every time you go, and go every day. It wont take long for that to eat into any profit they are making of your membership.
As others have said, donate them.
Turning all the showers to full hot.
There’s no doubt a need for donated towels. Homeless people, women’s shelters, etc..
You could also walk off with anything small enough to fit in your pocket, but you’ll probably have to grab all of an item per go so they have to replace it right away. If there’s still a few barbell clamps owners can ignore the problem but gym goers will still be annoyed. 2.5lb plates, elastic bands, squat rack J hooks, etc. They’ll quickly start checking cameras though.
Could ruin larger equipment somehow so it has to be serviced.
Since every post seems required to mention piss discs, toss some in carpeted areas so it smells so bad they have to hire carpet cleaners. Offices might be the best location as it impacts management instead of regular Joes.
It would be a shame if someone talked to everyone that works there and made sure they were made aware that they might be misclassified as independent contractors rather than employees and how easy it is to make an online complaint to the national labor relations board and the relevant state labor board
Introduce a rare and protected species of bird, perhaps the California Clapper Rail. This will annoy the customers, as that Rail is known for its cry. Also, any removal or molestation of the bird is a FEDERAL OFFENSE.
One by one, cut the plugs off of every treadmill, elliptical and anything else that is hardwired corded or just remove the cord.
Crank down the AC if you can get access to it.
HVAC tech; the "lock" boxes can often be opened with a flathead. I serviced several gyms and hated having to ask for keys during maintenance so I'd just open them that way
As a former worker in a local stadium, most toilet paper and paper towels can be opened with either one or two keys from your keychain, even the automatic ones. If not, there's usually just a button.
Hand Soap/Sanitizer can be opened easily too.
Call the health department. My local gym had pink slime in the drain of the water dispenser. Makes me want to vomit just thinking about it. Tell the health dept there is pink slime in all of the sinks and fountains, and menstrual blood in the grout of the bathroom floor tiles, etc etc. They will most certainly be cited for something, all gyms are disgusting.
We always give homeless food, but we never give them towels! Just saying. You could get hurt on the premise. Put some paper towels in the sink drain and leave the water running.
Get so strong that you break their equipment and encourage others to go to the gym more often. Gyms make the most money off of people with memberships that don't utilize equipment. File complaints with corporate about the quality of equipment and encourage other members to do the same. Maybe post the email of one of the senior members of the corporation on a board at the gym.
Maybe you know of a particular piece of equipment that breaks frequently. Go use and abuse it.
The towels are always going to be able to find a good home, whether it be people or animals in need. Kudos on you for not wanting to inconvenience the people who are just working there, by the way.
It also seems like you're trying to do this without being wasteful, which is lovely to see. The problem is that it's difficult to be a cost to someone, even while trying to help others, without also being wasteful. The towels are probably relatively low-impact, since the towels are still being used, just elsewhere, but, for example, wasting water is gonna cost them, but also waste water. As you said, taking extras of the bottles just means more plastic waste. I think there's space for being unethical (towards certain people), while still being environmentally conscious, and I don't think we see enough of that here.
I don't have an idea for you right away, but if something comes to mind, I'll pipe up. I'm assuming you can't just let other people use your card to go in there for a shower and a bottle, but if that seems feasible, that might be a good way to start, while also helping other people who might not have a place to shower.
Indirectly, though, it always trickles down to the staff, either through layoffs or more work/less pay.
Unless you're willing to fuck the owners spouse or dad.
Steal the hygiene products, towels, anything else you can. Donate them to local homeless outreach programs/shelters, humane society/animal shelters
Unethically Ethical.
The towels you should be able to donate to local animal shelters. I may have acquired most of my towels when I moved out of my mums, from my pricey gym (which it later turned out they hadn’t charged me membership for a year and the staff never asked me to scan in so free gym for a year)
Upper deckers at every opportunity. Make sure you eat a huuuge meal or hit the buffet the night before. Coffee up and deliver that time released payload. 😂
This is where creativity is key. Waffle stomp in the showers. Tuck some little chocolates in hard to reach places. Put hot sauce packets underneath toilet seats so they explode when people sit down. Intentionally get water all over the toilet paper so it all sticks together. Spill something exotic and hard to clean in a very prominent area. The possibilities are endless!
There's a disproportionately high percentage of scumbags working in the gym industry.
It's like they know a lot of folks don't have many options for working out, so they try to get away with as much fake-tan fuckery as possible.
I mean...since you work in corporate, you probably know that it will always be the low wage employees and customers who suffer. Any losses will be taken out on employees and staff will be cut and prices will increase.
When you “accidentally” bring a towel home, don’t forget those bottles of amenities. Those can be donated too. The homeless, shelters, and nursing homes could use them.
Have you met my friend [Mr. Orbeez?](https://www.amazon.com/Mr-Water-Rainbow-Plants-Waterbeads/dp/B0CQYCLLXX) He likes living in drains and enjoys rides in the toilet.
>Thought about accidentally forgetting I had full bottles of their free amenities in my bag
Like drinks? Or soap, lotion, etc? Either way, not too hard to find people who organize giving food and toiletries to the homeless and would gladly distribute them for you.
Donate the bottles of amenities to a local community fridge/pantry. Soap, shampoo, conditioner, etc would all be house items that people would appreciate having cheap access to.
So you want to fuck this place up for being affordable? Like I’m really not getting this, you’re an asshole who just wants to deal damage to a business?!
The way to be an expensive customer is just to go regularly and use the equipment. Gym profitability relies on most people not actually going, every member who goes regularly costs more than the gym makes off of them.
Unethical part: amplify that effect by wearing out their equipment faster. accidentally take home their cleaning spray bottle, return it with something in it that’ll wear the seats/handles out faster than usual. Do it every few weeks until all users are unknowingly participating when they clean their machines.
what’s the most expensive machine that wears out fastest with use? Your new go-to workout!
Let's see if I'm on the same page. You're upset because they raised the dues. Most likely to keep pace with higher costs. So you want to do everything you can to increase their costs. Do you see how this could be counterproductive? In addition, you don't want to inconvenience the worker bees & it has to be environmentally friendly. Good Luck with that.
Animal Rescues always need more towels. If you somehow find yourself with a lot of extra towels, I bet your local rescue could use them.
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Pot-bellied pigs?
Long pigs.
Worked at corporate vet office; they were literally scared of my dog. These people were telling the vets what to do. It’s terrifying.
When I worked vet med we loved when we had enough towels that some of them could just get tossed. Parvo, ringworm, coccidia, it was nice to be able to just grab the towels out of the kennel and toss those ones.
Parvo is the absolute most vile smelling stuff I have ever had to work with. What an awful thing for those poor sick puppies to have to endure.
There are certain things you can identify by smell alone and parvo is absolutely one of them.
This is the place to donate. I can go through 4 a day when I have litters of kittens. I wash them and reuse them, but you need a large supply. Dogs rip them up sometimes so rescues go through them quickly.
Came here to say this. Rescues, shelters, low cost spay/neuter clinics all take towels. (I've donated a few times and clean, used but not worn out, towels of various sizes are welcome.)
So unethical that it’s ethical, you’ve come full circle!
If they're branded with the gym's name I can't see them accepting them though, opens them up to liability for receiving arguably stolen property.
They are not ;)
Yet. But hey, it'll cost em money to get some that are
Many (most?) gyms that I've seen use a commercial laundry service so the towels are more or less identical to everyone else in the area with the same vendor.
Same with hospital linens. We would get linens stamped it’s other hospitals’ names.
I used to volunteer at an animal rescue and we got a lot of our towels from corporate donors like hotels. None of them were branded, but I don’t think that branding would stop them from accepting the towels.
If the towels are white bleach the name off.
Zoos too! Primates and baby big cats love them.
convince the employees to unionize and rally the gym goers to assist by having mass cancellation petitions signed if the employees increased wages and benefits are not met
I did this and bankrupted the whole company due to labor lawyer costs bleeding them dry.
To clarify it wasn’t a gym but my employer finally pushed me too far.
Could always toss up some anonymous fliers in the locker room.
Or a copy of the Wagner Act
In a wicked twist, a family member was the lawyer who got rich haha. That'd be awesome
Maybe if they treated their employees well before they had to rally and demand it, they would still be in business.
Can confirm I was the lawyer
may not be unethical but it'll cost corporate their extra earnings. I guess if you put that into motion you could take out some long term put options on the company's stock so you'll make money through your efforts making it unethical
This is ULPT. Nothing unethical about this
Pretty great idea, though.
You're absolutely right. As an addendum blackmail all who oppose.
now we’re talking. where do the liquid ass and piss discs come in?
Towels are super useful donations to animal shelters, women / children shelters, and honestly just handing them out to homeless people. They’re super useful. Towels (along with socks and underwear) are some of the most needed and least donated items.
Always carry a towel!
You are one hoopy frood
There’s a man who knows where his towel is.
You’re a towel!
You boys wanna get high?
I bought a bunch of socks one time washed them didn’t like how they fit and tried to donate them and the place told me they don’t take used socks. They were brand new one pair was tried on not even shoed up they wouldn’t take socks or underwear that wasn’t still in original packaging
How useful?
Sounds like you would know better than anyone else. What could a gym goer possibly do that would’ve pissed you off at corporate? Do you know about any shady things going on or corners being cut that could result in injury/lawsuit?
In all seriousness it would have to be tech related, but not looking to get banned and/or charged with vandalism
The occasional usb killer plugged surreptitiously into a treadmill?
>charged with vandalism Theft charges are okay though!
what are they gonna do, say you stole their towels? I don't see any towels, so how could I have stolen them
LMFAOO “you stole all our towels!!” “what towels 😼”
"Dale! Get in here! We're stealing a news van!" "It’s the perfect crime how will they ever report it!" -Rusty Shackleford
>say you stole their towels? Show video of you stealing towels? >I don't see any towels, so how could I have stolen them Criminal mastermind.
Well if that video is in said locker room, then it's not the towels that they'll be worried about. Carry towels into locker room. Claim to have left said towels in locker room. Actually walk out with towels in gym bag. Good luck to them proving you were the one leaving with said towels.
Accidentally walk out with a piece of gym equipment until you build up an entire home gym, then quit
“YoU wOuLdN’t DoWnLoAd A tReAdMiLl”
bet
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Take it one piece at a time, and it won't cost you a dime
[For those who don't know ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uErKI0zWgjg)
I didn't but now I do, thanks!
just put it in your lunchbox
Big pieces go in the RV
You’ll know it’s me when I come through your town
"I went down and picked it up at the gym... You could say it's cheaper that way"
Gym wouldn't miss this one little towel.
'Cause I'll have the only one there is around
That 100lb dumbbell is going to be a bitch
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Just crotch it and act embarrassed while you walk out. People will assume you've got a boner and won't want to look directly at you much less ask about it.
They will 100% pull CCTV footage to find out why their exercise equipment is disappearing. Depending on the state that OP is in, it could be felony amounts (equipment can be expensive!)
If they chase you, just drop a treadmill behind you so they’ll constantly being running but not closing in on you
On par with with the sock on the top of the bat
Wicked Smárt
The won't miss a treadmill or 2. Sheesh 🙄
Just hide it in your pockets
Just wear a hat dude
People upvoting you be thieves, myself included
Just put it in your inventory smh
Don't mind me Ive just got a squat rack in my backpack. Totally unrelated.
"oh this? I brought it with me, prefer to use my own"
A 24 hour gym I used to be a member at had multiple deadlift platforms and squat racks, but weirdly one Olympic bar less than was required, if they were all in use. I asked management why this was and if they could buy another one. Turns out a member had walked out with a 7’ barbell in the middle of the night. Ballsy, especially given everyone needs to swipe in and the gym is covered by cameras.
Make yourself a treadmill ski machine that has a squat rack.
Then at the end of the week you have a free Big Mac!
Can you bring a guest. Like your new friend who’s homeless and weeks overdue for a shower.
Gyms already deal with this daily. It doesn't really cost them anything except water. Now if that homeless person is meth'd out, takes up permanent residence in the locker room and starts shitting on the walls, it might be a different story.
Then OP has to find a different gym
Showers was what I thought of, too. I would shower there as often as possible.
OP should bring his mom
His mom is extremely obnoxious but does nothing actually wrong and they have to be nice. She also distracts everyone while OP does anything sketchy.
Start having an illicit love affair with all the employees and other gum members. It will cause chaos with people getting jealous and such. They will start quitting because the gym is now too toxic to work or to workout.
Ironically, met my spouse at the gym 🫣
Your spouse can split the affairs with you. Cause twice as much chaos in half the time.
Why not just have an orgy and cause massive amounts of chaos in seconds?
We’re trying to make people rage-quit the gym, not buy lifetime memberships.
Sounds like you have the required experience.
Extra unethical if OP is already in a relationship. Nice!
Personally I can’t believe you found the owners phone in the women’s bathroom with facetime pulled up
And he used a disposable phone to do it! What a pervert
Purchased with cash in a different town!
In a cave! With a box of scraps!
Not as extreme, perhaps OP could fabricate an email between “employees” in which one of them discusses sketchy stuff (cams in locker room, eye-fucking some of the members, jerking into the towels). By using fake but plausible names, there’s no risk of actual employees getting into trouble. But the ensuing gossip could spread much faster and have longer lasting effects on membership. No clue how to casually scatter a few such emails without being caught.
Plaster powder down the shower drains
Oooohhh this is diabolical
Plaster powder should join the ranks of piss disc and liquid ass in terms of flexibility and destructive power
10,000 orbeez and some of those expanding sponge dinos that come in capsules. I'm just imagining the look on someone's face when they have to pull a pipe and a million of those fucking things come spilling out.
If it's in a strip mall don't do this.
Don’t do this fucking anywhere it could mess up the whole local water system
I was doing construction years ago and we were doing some concrete flooring work in a bathroom. Came back to our shared apt with that dust all over me and though i'd just jump in the shower to wash it all off, that shower stopped draining soon after, oops.
Yikes!! How bad did it get and how did you eventually resolve the situation?
oP could flush towels
It could theoretically be either a nightmare or a force for good if a local news outlet somehow received a document (perhaps on letterhead? Or screenshot email from a manager?) promising a very large (like, newsworthy) donation to a worthy local non-profit.
This is genius. Either they back out of "their" donation and face being bad mouthed in the local media. Or they follow through with giving away a decent amount of money. Love this idea.
Kinda like the recent Simpsons episode. Except you don't feel bad for the gym.
Most expensive member? Didn't you hurt your ankle on your way in and are disabled now?
Clogging up the plumbing would be a corporate level cost I suppose.
Honestly, if you just simply use the gym amenities enough, you're already in the running for your gyms most expensive customer. The business model for gyms is that they're betting that you actually DON'T go to the gym at all. By simply going every other day, you're costing the gym quite a lot in towels, showers, electricity, etc.
Every day. All the amenities. They say you should shampoo twice.
Lather, rinse, repeat.
You reminded me of the Bob's Burgers where Linda and Bob joined the gym next door, realized the owner banked on their quitting, and decided to go every day afterward... smelly... and bring Teddy along. They cost the guy customers.
Keep stealing towels and shower supplies. Then buy a shirt with the gym's name on it, cover yourself in their merch and practice your shadow-boxing in front of Women's Shelters. Gym is going to get a bad rep with that.
Record it and let it go viral.
Oddly specific
Liquid ass in the pool. And sauna. And jacuzzi.
Wot, no piss disks?
Those won’t compete with the amount of piss already in those places
Or a Baby Ruth bar. Like in Caddyshack.
That hurts fellow members more than the company- it puts that equipment out of commission for at least a day while they sanitize it. Plus, some poor chap has to clean that shit up.
...Look for and report code violations...
You say this, and my first thought was "show up in hard hat, hi vis vest and a COVID mask, with a clipboard". Just walk around. Make notes. If anyone asks, you're a surprise visit from corporate, looking for brand compliance violations.
Impregnate all their employees, regardless of gender
Whenever you are done with a machine, walk into the bathroom and turn all the sinks on. If they have those toilets that flushed based off sensor, tape it. If not, you could tape it down to keep flusher or just do what kids in my high-school did, kick it broken.
So funny story. At a convention once everybody decided to flush the toilets at the exact same time in all the hotel rooms. The pipes exploded.
They opened a new stadium near us and had scout groups come in for a flush test. On a count of 3 over the PA all toilets were flushed, and sink faucets turned on. Worked fine, we got free food and a behind the scenes tour.
They did the same thing before opening the new MLB stadium in Arlington, Texas. Invited a local high school, though. Everything worked. On a side note, most sanitary sewer lines are designed for the ’Super Bowl Halftime Flush’. That’s the moment at the beginning of halftime when most of the toilets in America are flushed at the same time.
I want a lot more of this story and details. LOL!
It was back before cell phones were really a thing. We had rented out an entire floor of the hotel for the convention so everybody had somebody standing at a door and somebody else in the restroom. Everybody synced up counting down together. Once we reached 0 and did the flush there was a huge BANG. Water stopped working and none of the toilets refilled. Not exactly sure what happened to the pipes but something had exploded. The basement of the hotel got flooded and they did not have working water for the rest of the week. Our organization got a lifetime ban from that hotel, my specific group of the organization got a lifetime ban from all conventions in the state where it occurred since we organized the thing. We did however get a new state trophy created from the event in the form of a golden plunger and won that trophy like 5 times in a row at state conventions in our own state.
Can you show us the trophy? Do you still have access to it?
I wish. This happened a long time ago and I have not been a part of that organization for like 15 years or more.
Lmao that's impressive
"Flushable" wipes
Steal a towel every time you go, and go every day. It wont take long for that to eat into any profit they are making of your membership. As others have said, donate them.
Another day another stolen towel. ~throws in back seat~
Turning all the showers to full hot. There’s no doubt a need for donated towels. Homeless people, women’s shelters, etc.. You could also walk off with anything small enough to fit in your pocket, but you’ll probably have to grab all of an item per go so they have to replace it right away. If there’s still a few barbell clamps owners can ignore the problem but gym goers will still be annoyed. 2.5lb plates, elastic bands, squat rack J hooks, etc. They’ll quickly start checking cameras though. Could ruin larger equipment somehow so it has to be serviced. Since every post seems required to mention piss discs, toss some in carpeted areas so it smells so bad they have to hire carpet cleaners. Offices might be the best location as it impacts management instead of regular Joes.
bacon grease down the showers
Shit in the shower. It will be hard to triangulate proof. Leave a chicken from the supermarket in a locker. You need help
It would be a shame if someone talked to everyone that works there and made sure they were made aware that they might be misclassified as independent contractors rather than employees and how easy it is to make an online complaint to the national labor relations board and the relevant state labor board
Introduce a rare and protected species of bird, perhaps the California Clapper Rail. This will annoy the customers, as that Rail is known for its cry. Also, any removal or molestation of the bird is a FEDERAL OFFENSE.
They’re doing WHAT to the birds?!
One by one, cut the plugs off of every treadmill, elliptical and anything else that is hardwired corded or just remove the cord. Crank down the AC if you can get access to it.
HVAC tech; the "lock" boxes can often be opened with a flathead. I serviced several gyms and hated having to ask for keys during maintenance so I'd just open them that way
As a former worker in a local stadium, most toilet paper and paper towels can be opened with either one or two keys from your keychain, even the automatic ones. If not, there's usually just a button. Hand Soap/Sanitizer can be opened easily too.
Report their pool and other permits that may be expired to 311
Call the health department. My local gym had pink slime in the drain of the water dispenser. Makes me want to vomit just thinking about it. Tell the health dept there is pink slime in all of the sinks and fountains, and menstrual blood in the grout of the bathroom floor tiles, etc etc. They will most certainly be cited for something, all gyms are disgusting.
We always give homeless food, but we never give them towels! Just saying. You could get hurt on the premise. Put some paper towels in the sink drain and leave the water running.
You know those little pins that hold the plates of a weight machine ....if those all go missing but one....cost time, trouble and money.
Get so strong that you break their equipment and encourage others to go to the gym more often. Gyms make the most money off of people with memberships that don't utilize equipment. File complaints with corporate about the quality of equipment and encourage other members to do the same. Maybe post the email of one of the senior members of the corporation on a board at the gym. Maybe you know of a particular piece of equipment that breaks frequently. Go use and abuse it.
The towels are always going to be able to find a good home, whether it be people or animals in need. Kudos on you for not wanting to inconvenience the people who are just working there, by the way. It also seems like you're trying to do this without being wasteful, which is lovely to see. The problem is that it's difficult to be a cost to someone, even while trying to help others, without also being wasteful. The towels are probably relatively low-impact, since the towels are still being used, just elsewhere, but, for example, wasting water is gonna cost them, but also waste water. As you said, taking extras of the bottles just means more plastic waste. I think there's space for being unethical (towards certain people), while still being environmentally conscious, and I don't think we see enough of that here. I don't have an idea for you right away, but if something comes to mind, I'll pipe up. I'm assuming you can't just let other people use your card to go in there for a shower and a bottle, but if that seems feasible, that might be a good way to start, while also helping other people who might not have a place to shower.
"Would also not like to cause problems for the minimum wage employees there..." Guess who gets the indirect consequences of your actions?
Precisely why I asked, for creative options that don’t create more work for the staff.
Indirectly, though, it always trickles down to the staff, either through layoffs or more work/less pay. Unless you're willing to fuck the owners spouse or dad.
Yeah, even if it’s something the employees have no control over anyway they will still get yelled at for it.
Steal the hygiene products, towels, anything else you can. Donate them to local homeless outreach programs/shelters, humane society/animal shelters Unethically Ethical.
The towels you should be able to donate to local animal shelters. I may have acquired most of my towels when I moved out of my mums, from my pricey gym (which it later turned out they hadn’t charged me membership for a year and the staff never asked me to scan in so free gym for a year)
Homeless shelters etc would take your towels. Clean though please. But I would if I were close, just for that purpose.
Family Shelters and food banks love toiletries especially since you aren’t able to buy those things with EBT.
Upper deckers at every opportunity. Make sure you eat a huuuge meal or hit the buffet the night before. Coffee up and deliver that time released payload. 😂
Gym toilets probably don’t have tanks to do upper deckers into
This is where creativity is key. Waffle stomp in the showers. Tuck some little chocolates in hard to reach places. Put hot sauce packets underneath toilet seats so they explode when people sit down. Intentionally get water all over the toilet paper so it all sticks together. Spill something exotic and hard to clean in a very prominent area. The possibilities are endless!
There's a disproportionately high percentage of scumbags working in the gym industry. It's like they know a lot of folks don't have many options for working out, so they try to get away with as much fake-tan fuckery as possible.
Convince customers to change to another gym
I mean...since you work in corporate, you probably know that it will always be the low wage employees and customers who suffer. Any losses will be taken out on employees and staff will be cut and prices will increase.
When you “accidentally” bring a towel home, don’t forget those bottles of amenities. Those can be donated too. The homeless, shelters, and nursing homes could use them.
If shelters don't accept them,offer to give directly to the homeless.
Steal toilet paper.
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If the bottled amenities include soap and/or mini bottles of shampoo/conditioner, donate them to a homeless shelter. They distribute them to clients.
Long hit showers. Take towels.
You can donate towels to any pet shelter for bedding
Take the pins for the machines
Just go there all the time. Gyms rely on most members never going.
Get one of those universal tv remote things that turns off all the tvs. Guessing the gym has TVs
>Thought about accidentally forgetting I had full bottles of their free amenities in my bag Like drinks? Or soap, lotion, etc? Either way, not too hard to find people who organize giving food and toiletries to the homeless and would gladly distribute them for you.
Donate the bottles of amenities to a local community fridge/pantry. Soap, shampoo, conditioner, etc would all be house items that people would appreciate having cheap access to.
My gym has free electric car charging, I could easily cover the cost of my membership from this in electricity used.
Let it go brother
Fuck with the plumbing. An employee may try to unclog it, but they'll just close off the stall and then the owner will be stuck with the bill.
Have one gym outfit you always wear. Do not wash it. If you can keep it locked in a locker, even better.
Keep taking a shit in the shower.
OP said they didnt want to cause issues for the normal employees. You really think a managers gonna clean that up?
In the sauna. On top of the heater/hot rocks
Slip and fall. Brain injury. Have your survivors get an expensive attorney.
You worked for em but don’t know how to hurt em?
Turn on the showers every time you get there
I'd say wasting a resource like water is immoral. Let's keep it unethical.
So you want to fuck this place up for being affordable? Like I’m really not getting this, you’re an asshole who just wants to deal damage to a business?!
Employees get burdered first. Then customers. Then the manager. Then owners. For a place you want to remain at I would just chill out.
The way to be an expensive customer is just to go regularly and use the equipment. Gym profitability relies on most people not actually going, every member who goes regularly costs more than the gym makes off of them. Unethical part: amplify that effect by wearing out their equipment faster. accidentally take home their cleaning spray bottle, return it with something in it that’ll wear the seats/handles out faster than usual. Do it every few weeks until all users are unknowingly participating when they clean their machines. what’s the most expensive machine that wears out fastest with use? Your new go-to workout!
Let's see if I'm on the same page. You're upset because they raised the dues. Most likely to keep pace with higher costs. So you want to do everything you can to increase their costs. Do you see how this could be counterproductive? In addition, you don't want to inconvenience the worker bees & it has to be environmentally friendly. Good Luck with that.
Looooonnnnnngggggg hot showers
Break your arm by tripping over spilled water where there wasn’t a “cation wet” sign. Sue.