The Gemini Center closes at 7pm on Saturdays; however, tonight I stayed until 8pm because of Jack. Don’t get me wrong, I have stayed late before due to tournaments or banquet parties, but I always had notice. Tonight an AAU basketball team was holding tryouts. They started at 6pm and when I told the head coach that he only had an hour for tryouts he brought up the fact that Jack told him that he had the main gym reserved until 9pm. I was very taken aback since this was not on the schedule nor had Jack mentioned it to me previously. A member of the front desk actually called Jack and he stated that he had never talked with that coach and that they should not be there. When I questioned the coach, he showed me e-mails from Jack that said the facility closes at 8pm and he could use the gyms until close for today’s date. At this point, there is really nothing that I can do. They were told they could stay and the second age group for tryouts from 7-8pm were coming in. I have to stay until the building is empty so I just sat up front and made sure no members were trying to come in to work out. The unfortunate part is that it definitely slowed down the maintenance staff. Whoever was cleaning the gyms got an hour taken out of cleaning time. Personally, I do not understand why Jack would not remember being in contact with this coach or why he would say the Gemini closes at 8pm.
Everything was going smoothly today until about 8:30pm. I saw this guy limping in the gym so I went over to see is everything was alright. He told me that he had landed on his ankle wrong in his pick-up game and may have sprained it. I asked him if he wanted an ice pack or a wrap but he refused. I noticed that he could not even walk on it, so I told him to sit down and we would get the wheelchair to take him out of the building. He was very hesitant and said he could make it but as he was gathering his stuff, you could tell he was in pain and eventually agreed to the wheelchair. A member of the maintenance crew wheeled him to the front while he waited for his parent to pick him up.
There are two schools in Fairview Park: St. Angela (K-8 catholic school) and Fairview Park (public school). Today I learned that these two schools do not get along. There was a birthday party in one of the banquet rooms and after the party, a few of the boys signed in as members to play in the gym. I learned later that those boys went to St. Angela. When I walked into the gym, the St. Angela boys were playing 4-on-4 with a few of the Fairview Park boys. To me, it seemed like nothing; boys were playing a pick-up game. When I came back into the gym, the boys were up in each other’s faces. I go over to see what is wrong….this is how I know I have matured because the issue is so stupid to me….the Fairview boys had won the game but the St. Angela boys were still playing on the court. The gym was pretty full that day and I wasn’t surprised that the boys didn’t move. They should have all just played together. The Fairview boys started smack-talking the St. Angela boys and I had to pull a few of the Fairview boys aside. Unfortunately, like the boys they are, they all surrounded me and tried to interrupt my conversation with the Fairview boys, who were in the wrong. At one point, one kid got in my face just to tell me it was all the St. Angela’s boys’ fault. They were the ones causing a scene, not the St. Angela boys. One of the Fairview kids started calling them names and a St. Angela boy responded with a middle-finger and swearing at him…..all over basketball court mind you….so again I had to pull more kids aside. With all of the chaos, I was so frustrated that I just brought both groups together and told them they either have to go home, play on a different court or co-exist. If the fighting continued, I was just going to throw them all out. No one wanted to leave so they all calmed down and separated themselves. Literally 15 minutes after all of the chaos, they were all playing basketball in the same court together.
Well my supervisor just resigned. Personally, I am not emotionally effected by this; she was always gone by the time I came at 5pm so I rarely had a chance to talk with her. However, there are many employees who were thrilled to see her go. One aspect of the Gemini Center that I have failed to talk about is the gossip between part-time, evening employees. Everybody talks about everything that happens and fills each other in on news of that week. When Amanda resigned, there were many people at the front desk who were happy. Apparently, she would send them e-mails that appeared demeaning and as though they did not know what was going on. Many of the fitness floor, building supervisors and maintenance workers were happy because, during her 3 years at the Gemini Center, she would create these ridiculous rules and not work. When the Gemini Center got a new director in 2013, he had brought Amanda with him and created a position specifically for her. Her position was facility director and I kid you not no one knew what her job duties were or what her day-to-day tasks were. She would apparently leave for hours on a lunch break and always leave the office by 4:30pm.
Right now, we do not know who is going to take Amanda’s position. It is highly rumored that Jack, the programs director, will move over to her position and Bob, the programs intern, will move into a full-time position as the new program director. Again, nothing is set in stone, but Bob has been working with the Gemini Center for over a year helping Jack. Lately, I have been talking about how busy the Gemini Center can be. Overall, it has not been too crazy for myself. I spend a lot of my time just talking to the kids or watching them play basketball. If I am not in the gym I am most likely on the fitness floor talking to the worker up there, sitting in the break room and eating dinner (since I come straight from my full-time job I do not get a chance to eat) or at the front desk talking to members as they come into the Gemini Center. It is nice when you now that the Gemini Center is running smoothly and nothing too crazy is going on.
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