Hi Ariana,

Another great group to start. I have never worked for ME, but have had dozens of great massages across the country at ME's and a couple of interesting ones. But I can say the same for every other establishment out there. There are varying levels of therapists. And thank goodness for that. Variety is the spice of life.

Hi Darcy,

I work for ME Daly City, CA right next door to San Francisco.  I love that, as a ME employee, I can focus on massage as well as training and reading while the spa gets me clients.  I just recently obtained my own space and am about to get started in building my private clientele. 

Hi Christopher,

So glad to hear you are happy. Yes, I too have been doing a lot of continued education and just received the next slat last evening on Upper and Lower body injury along with all the Florida required classes. Our owner is arranging for us to have the Florida required State classes at our clinic beginning in Jan-May on Sunday nights for a cost of $6 per CE Hour. We have a wonderful owner and I hope you do as well. Take care.

Happy New Year Y'all.

I'm the Lead Therapist @ the Arbor Walk Austin location.  I work 26 hrs/week and am booked about 85% of my shift times.  Good tips.

hi my name is johnny i graduated in march of last year with honors from Antonelli College Jackson Mississippi. I worked for Massage Envy in Jackson six days out of the week , i was over booked and loved it. unfortunately , Massage Envy decided to close their doors and i lost my first love due to no fualt of my own. I live in a small town 25 miles outside of the city called Flora , mississippi is not the ideal market for massage therapy and living in the country just compounds the problem. if anyone has any advice i would truly be grateful . thank you and have a good one.

We are so excited for therapist. There is a brand new Association forming. it is for Massage Therapists by Massage Therapists. Please check it out and help pass the word. Massage Therapy Alliance of America

www.mtaamassage.org

I am the lead therapist at the Mid-Town Atlanta location, I LOVE the new Shirts, just wish we did not have to pay $20 for each one we want or need.  Outside of that I do like working for them. we are better off at the location I work at then most.

Happy sunday  all , four  weeks  from  tomorrow  ... I will be  in Arizona  ,  what  an  honor 

peace  and  harmony to  everyone 

 sincerely , d w  kornaus  

We are number one in the nation and all we hear is how we do a sub-standard massage. Hummmm! Makes no sense to me.

Also still waiting on new shirts.

I feel ya Darcy, we are #1 in Ga, out of 19 clinics, and we are told the same thing by our regional director ALL THE TIME! We have the highest new member numbers, the lowest turnover and we get attended 2 times a month (for they think we are “fixing” the numbers) but always get a 90+ and all are therapist have 800+ hrs of training (GA requires 500hrs), hell out of the 32 therapist we have 13 have 1000+ hrs and 4 have over 2000 hrs of training and we still are told we do sub-standard massages.  You know that “retell eye” thing, we get bad ones from members telling corporate that they can’t get in to get a massage, for we were told we need to see more “prospects” and we don’t have the open times for members (we were down to 2 prospects every 4 hrs and were told we HAD to see at lest 4 every hour now). Our prospect to member numbers were at 46% and it only has to be at 28%.  Now it’s down to 24% for we found that the regional director is telling the other clinics (he owns 4) to send prospects to us.

The American Massage Conference is here in Atlanta this year and 6 of ME’s big corporate guys are going to be there so we are taking a LONG list of complaints to them. 8 pages as of today.

BTW

What do you all think of the new shirts? We got 20 mock ups of them, in the winter we all LOVED them, now that it is 89 – 94 out side we HATE them, they are hot and hold on to sweat and you smell it after about 4 hours. And if you do not clean them RIGHT AWAY they hold on to that smell. You have to use a lot of detergent to get the smell out.

We have not received our new shirts yet so I have no idea. We are still wearing the gold shirts.

I met CG Funk last year at the World Massage Festival. www.worldmassagefestival.com She is  VP for Massage Envy. She knows there are problems with some of  the owners. She sent me an email and asked me to personally consider attending the American Massage Conference. I have met all the folks running it and I know too much and am not impressed with them. It is sad but the truth. Also Massage Envy and ABMP are hosting the Friday night meet and greet which is by invitation only and they are advertising in the Massage Today Magazine that they are serving Beer and Wine at that event. Just my thoughts only, Beer and Wine do not belong at a Massage Convention. It they want to take it out side to a resturant that is a whole different situation. But to have it available at the convention and advertise so, to me is so wrong. I did send Les Sweeny the President for ABMP an email letting him know I disapproved and how I felt about my membership dues being used to buy Beer and Wine to serve at a Massage Convention.

Dannie...Are you talking about the new gray shirts that are coming out in October? I hope they aren't stinky...that would be bad. I'm in Phoenix and it's like 113 in the summer. Right now our shirts are white and they are impossible to get clean, even soaking them in bleach for 2 hours. I had high hopes for the new shirts.

Hello  all ,  hoping  everyone  is  having  an  enjoyable  week ? I  am   .. With  respect to all , seems  like  there  is  more  complaining  going  on  here ,  compared  to  positive  feed  back  .. Our  clinic  here  in Madison , wi  is  focused on  providing  a  wonderful service  to  all  of  our  clients  and  the  needs  

 "  they  "  have 

Negative  energy  is  not  allowed 

peace  & harmony to  all  ,  enjoy  your  week

Katherine, yep the new gray ones. I am hoping they change
some from the mock ups we got.  In GA we
can no longer use the white ones = (and I liked them.  It seems that the new shirts hold onto the
sweat and even if you leave them for a day they start to smell, and hold on to
it!

David, there is negative and positive on here, and most of
the negative is about the corporate not the clinics themselves. Also this is,
for some, the only place to air their grievances and to get their feelings out.

We have no lead therapist in our clinic. The owner does not believe in them. We have asked him for a lead therapist and he says no to it.

As far as shirts are concerned I cannot say anything as we have not received our new shirts.  Still wearing the old Gold Shirts.

Maybe  someone from  within the staff of  therapist  would  be  willing  to step  forward  and  become  that  bridge  , ask  around  ,,, you maybe  surprised

Another thought  , work  through  your  clinic manager... we  are blessed  with  a  reall  good manager  ... who is  open  to solid  ideas

remember  , there  are  many  ways   to  improve  any situation

 Like  Dannie   mentioned  ..  and  Darcy  .." speak  up "   ... if your  intent  is  true  ... things  happen  

If  U  don't  get  the  answer you're  looking  for  , try  , try  again ... many doors may close  ,  before  the  right  may  open

we also ,  do not have  the new  shirts  ... and  that is  okay by  us .. wearing  gold &  white

peace & harmony to all  ... enjoy  the  day  before  us  .. it  truly is a  blessing  , to  be  working  as a  " Healer "  

a  channel through which  the  powers  flow  ,

 namaste    

Darcy !  I also  had the  pleasure  of  meeting  and  hanging  out  with  C G funk , a  wonderful  soul ... with  lots  of  insight  /  vision

did I   mention , very good  @ what  she  does  :)

REALLY???  It’s good
to be all LOVE and Light and S*@T like that WHEN you have a CM, owner and a
good regional manager that give a damn about the therapist, the bad thing is
90% don’t. Believe me, the people that talk on this chat have good people
looking out for them, on other chat rooms for ME I have been in they are
working in hell with CMs, owners and regional managers that don’t give a damn.  Hell the Regional manager here in GA is one of
the bad ones.  Our RM has told all the
clinics here that they should NOT HAVE lead therapist, hell your beloved CG
Funk has said that the clinics really don’t need a lead therapist.  In my clinic I am the lead, the only one in
all the 19 clinics in GA. the corporate office and CG Funk has NEVER returned a
call from a clinic here when we call with a problem.   Just remember that not even therapist works
in a good clinic with good manages.  I will
be seeing some of the corporate people and CG this weekend with a (now) 5 page
list of problems we have in the GA clinics. We will see what they do (if they
will do a thing).

I  must  agree , we  really don't  need  a lead  therapist ... we  all should  be  that within ourself  .. allot  of us ,  by-pass  the  lead  and  take   issues  straight  to  manager

 If  U   dis-like  your  job as much as  U  seem  , why  R U  working  where  U  do ?  just a  thought

Isn't  the  wellness  of  R  clients  the  important  factor  here  ?  how  can one  do their  job well , if  they  R  unhappy ?

Talk to your , managers  , owners  ... everyone  has a  heart  ... be  postive  on changes  that can happen ...

name calling is  not  the  answer , even if  you  have reason

all 19 clinics in GA  cannot  be  a  " nightmare "  per  say  .. in  which to  work ?

Maybe  you're  right  , and I'm  lucky  to have the  situation I'm  in  ,  speaking for myself  ... I wouldn't  work ,  where I wasn't  being  treated  fairly and  with  respect  

peace  &  harmony

 always 

Dan , I  want U to know ,  I enjoy  exchanging  thoughts  &  ideas  with U  , hoping  to not  ruffle  your feathers  and  keep the  peace

Like  U & Darcy  mentioned  .. this is the place  for  exchange

 I  judge  no one ,  I  listen  to  all

 looking  for the  positive  in every thing  ,  heck  .. more  like   let  the  positive  do its  thing

may the  force  be with U 

 peace