Right, they don't know what to do. My point is that they should ask the staff.

I started allergy shots after one particularly bad allergy season the summer before I went off to college. They did the skin test to check what I was allergic too, and I began weekly shots. Eventually it went to every other week, every three weeks, once a month, and then once every couple months. I took allergy shots…

It's not that no one wants new people there. It's that the new people don't know how to gym yet, and sometimes don't ask for help. That specific portion of new gym members drives people up the wall. The people that don't ask for help or for direction are usually the ones that will loaf around being in the way while…

Notice if you'd like. The point was that it's not cool to leer/stare/make her uncomfortable because you have no control over your hormones.

I can understand women wearing makeup to an extent. I go straight from work to the gym, and probably have makeup on me still. You can usually tell the people who came straight from work / being out and the people who specifically applied it to go to the gym, though.

Oh geeze, sorry. I didn't realize you replied to the other guy!

If being an elitist jerk means having common sense and ASKING A STAFF MEMBER, WHO'S PAID TO ANSWER when I have a question instead of sitting around on the weight machines sucking my thumb and texting my BFF for 10 minutes, and expecting others to do the same, then I'm cool with that.

When did I say I actually say anything to them? Answer: no where.

So your excuse for not going to the gym now is because you can't be a decent human being in a shared public space? Good riddance.

I check-in to the gym on Foursquare/Swarm, but I typically don't also share the check-in to Twitter. I like to keep track of how often I go. I don't see anything wrong with that.

Most of them are just common sense / common courtesy. If you have trouble following these "rules", there's a problem.

Casual gym users are actually my biggest gym pet peeve. Every January after New Years and every March before swimsuit season, the gym I go to has a massive influx of new users. They crowd out all the regulars, and don't appear to put much effort into their workouts, and spend a lot of time chatting and milling about…

That's an important note to make - if they're asking you, a coworker, must be friends and/or family have a good reason to say no, so it's probably best you stay out of it too.

Frankly, I agree about birthdays. Unfortunately, the societal norm seems to be to celebrate coworkers birthdays anyway. Our department has the previous birthday person supply the birthday cake for the next birthday. If I skipped, I'd definitely be side-eyed and nasty-glanced for the rest of my time there.

I never thought of it like that. It does make sense; if no one knows what anyone else is making, no one knows if they're underpaid and has reason to complain.

Ah. I would think at that point (when they say they'll pay you back), you'd bring up the fact that they always say that, but have never actually paid you back. Tell them you don't mind helping them out from time to time, but that based on the past, you don't expect you'll be paid back. Then, don't let them take…

Unless you get things in writing and all the legal blah blah, always loan money under the assumption that you'll never get it back.

Show them what impact it will have on their bottom line. It costs this much? Show them how much it will either save them or how much it will bring in. Be able to turn quality costs into quantifiable costs (you spending less time supporting legacy equipment means you can spend that gained time other places).

If my boss were to request that I'm part of a working lunch meeting, I'd expect him to pay for it. If we're just going out to a casual lunch with a group of coworkers, I would pay my portion of the bill (probably ask for a separate check).

To say that Celiacs don't advocate for themselves is a gross underestimation.