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I didn’t give this much thought when signing up however I’ve noticed increasingly over the summer holidays especially, that I’m unable to use certain equipment or do things in the gym as there are kids there.
My gym has a rule that if your child is 10 or over they can be in the gym with their parent, however I think that the “supervision” is loosely applied and a parent will often be other side of the gym within eyesight rather than in direct supervision.
Some examples I’ve experienced are at peak times there being no treadmills available and 2-3 are taken up by children no older than 13 doing a variety of walking slowly and then standing on the outer edges and letting the belt move whilst they go on their phone. We have massage chairs in the gym which are more often than not taken up by kids waiting for their parents and the tipping point today was the stretch/recovery zone being taken up by a girl no older than 14 dancing and recording TikTok’s on her phone. I genuinely have never experienced this before as all my (cheaper) previous gyms have strictly enforced being age 18 (or some cases 16) and older.
I don’t blame the kids for this, kids are going to be kids, but I’m quite shocked that a gym that costs so much money allows its gym to essentially become a play area. I understand it’s a big attraction of DL that their kids can come, but I really feel the age restriction for the gym is far too lenient.
Most frustratingly, at times where I’ve not been able to get a cardio machine, both pools have also been “family swim” leaving no space for lane swimming and essentially no where I can get my cardio in. Does anyone else have this problem?
Again, I don’t blame the kids for this, I can see why the parents do this, but it’s frustrating as with the amount I pay I expect a little more of a premium gym experience.

Soon to be FY2. My Botox lady is looking for a prescriber to do joint in person clinics with her and asked if I would be interested.
Anyone have experience of this? Good side hustle? Or is it not worth the risk?
Edit to add: clearly not worth the risk from the jokey replies.

Hi all; I live in a large build to let estate with various 2,3 and 4 bedroom homes. Apart from various things with the estate remaining unfinished over a year and numerous complaints going unanswered, they are proposing random and steep rent increases and attempting to mislead people querying it. Example below:

I currently live in a 2 bed on the estate for £1050pcm
They are proposing my rent increases to £1150pcm (this is well above average market rate for a house of my size in this area up north, most let for £895-1050 so I am already paying at the upper end). When challenged why my rent is hiking by almost 10% and out of proportion with the local area they say “we have recently achieved lettings at this price for your property elsewhere on the estate which indicates to us this is current market rate for your property). “
What they fail to include, and when pointed out to them they say it’s irrelevant, that these properties currently let and listed at £1150pcm are let with the incentive “One month rent free spread over your 12 month tenancy!”
After the yearly rent is calculated, that free month is subtracted, it brings the monthly rental for this properties to £1054pcm (£4 above what I’m currently paying). Yet, they still use the initial headline rent of £1150pcm as evidence as to the current market rate and reason for my rent to go up to that amount despite the fact that no one is actually paying this amount.
I’ve been back and forth with them over this and included evidence from their own Rightmove ads that these inflated rents are only being achieved with the one month free incentive (so not actually being achieved) but they’re standing firm and it’s looking like I’m going to proceed to tribunal.
Does anyone have experience of this?
At best, it appears they believe I’m completely stupid and won’t realise their game, at worst, the listing of properties at hyper inflated rents with free months rent written into the small print appears to be a deliberate attempt to misrepresent what the current market rate is for these properties and to try and pressure existing tenants into massive rent hikes.

Recently joined a fairly new DL. Haven’t got round to buying a padlock for my locker yet but not an issue really as anything valuable like my phone comes to the spa with me. Twice now I’m fairly sure I’ve returned and someone has gone through my bag - items emptied and out in the locker etc. there’s nothing of value in there just dirty workout clothes, old makeup, my handbag is a bit of a dumpling ground.
This has never had happened at any of the cheaper gyms I’ve been at where most people just hang their bags up on the pegs in the changing room.

I’ve had a really good year, won multiple awards, had a great ARCP and taken good steps towards building a portfolio for my chosen speciality. My next 3 jobs are all jobs that are either my chosen speciality or directly relevant so FY2 should be a good year for me. I’ve made multiple friends both medical and nursing so generally have a good time at work and have recieved good feedback from various members of the MDT. Up until recently I’ve been feeling really positive about the future and happy with the way my life is going.

However, the last few weeks at work have been increasingly difficult in the sense we are constantly short staffed, we are a department well known for having absolutely shit seniors (registrars go home at 1pm, refuse to come and review patients etc). They’re often trust grade regs and the answer I’ve got when raising it is they’re the only ones that’ll fill the post. I haven’t worked a single on call shift this rotation where my fellow FY1 hasn’t called in sick so I often am doing the job of 2 or 3 others. More recently, I am finding myself being blamed for the laziness or lack of work of others. No one cares about the 12 jobs I did do, they want to call me out on the one job I didn’t do because time didn’t allow. When I say I escalated to the senior and that I was running out of time to do it all they’ll give me some sort of response “well a discharge summary/X referral etc etc is an FY1 job so you should be doing it”. I understand the job of a discharge summary is below that of the FY1, but when I’m literally the only junior in the team due to sickness I’d appreciate a bit of help from my seniors rather than them sitting in the mess.
The ones who don’t bother just lie low and fly below the radar. I work with an FY1 who is genuinely so lazy and absent from the department most seniors don’t even realise they are part of the team. The expectation on them is so low they can do bare minimum and it be ok. I’m finding myself become increasingly anxious and feel like today it’s come to a head. I’m supposed to be on annual leave but have had a call from an angry cardiologist regarding a referral I made; when I said I’m not at work so can’t action his recommendations and he’ll need to get in touch with the parent team he gave me a lot talk about how I shouldn’t have made the referral then and hung up on me. Things are coming back to me that are a result of a lack of appropriate staffing in the department or things I have done on instruction of my seniors. I’ve been trying to enjoy my annual leave but time myself constantly refreshing my work emails. Another example is that I mentioned in passing I might be available for locum in my annual leave. Someone’s called in sick and I’ve said I can’t come in. I’ve been named in the entire juniors group chat as being available by the rota coordinator, everyone’s tagging me asking when I’m coming in and when I say I am no longer available they’re frustrated at me. I never agreed to locum this shift on this day, I just mentioned in passing if any locums came out on my A/L I might pick one up as I’m short on money.
I have this feeling of dread that something awful is about to happen that I’m going to be blamed for and I can’t get out of the overthinking spiral.