September 21, 2021 (8 Hours)

My direct supervisors, as of right now are named Ericka Youts and Hannah Prine. I work hand in hand with them both everyday, depending on what club I am in. Our district managers name is Ashley Althouse. She is also my mentor for the sake of this project. Ericka actually turned in her two week notice because she got anther job and the company is still contemplating what to do to fill the general manager position. Today, I have decided to tell Ashley that I am interested in the position so I can move forward with the process. Ashley came and visited our club today so I told her that I was interested. We discussed whether that would be the best decision for me or not since I am a full time graduate student, but I assured her that I can take on both and I was interested in becoming the general manager of the Celina location. She let me know she will discuss it with our vice president, Whitney, and let me know what they think and what the next steps are.

Within Anytime Fitness, Ashley is part of the senior level management team. There are 5 of them all together, 4 district managers and 1 vice president. Before becoming a district manager, Ashley was with the company for about 2 years. She started out as the general manager of the Urbana, Ohio location, then she was promoted when the position for district manager opened up. She is the district manager for the western region which includes Urbana, Wapak, Celina, Van Wert, and Ottawa. She is in charge of a lot of business things, like items requests, cancellations, freezes, and things of that sort. The general manager always has to submit a form for things like that, but then she has the authority to actually change the status in the system or order the items I want.