Mayfield Graves County YMCA

"Don't be fooled by the 1 star review! As a former Mayfield Graves County YMCA CEO, I was privileged to interact with hundreds of people who made positive comments about the Y and the work being done there. Do not let one bad review overshadow this amazing facility and the people who work there. As someone who mentored Andrew Burgess, I can vouch for his character and commitment to the Y. Also, you can talk to any member who consistently comes to the Y, and they will say the same thing about him. Maybe, just maybe, this former employee who wrote a bad review is upset because he did not have the skills it took to work in a member-first environment. This place has seen SIGNIFICANT, positive changes in the last 7 years, and Andrew will continue that trend."

"This YMCA has truly been one of the best things in my life. From coming together to build a community of friends, to aiding those with mobility challenges, to inspiring young leaders, the YMCA exceptionally demonstrates what a tight knit community center truly means. And WOW the renovations that the facility has been under in the past year is truly incredible! The pool and spa is absolutely terrific and classes are so much fun!! Zumba is definitely a total hit and the instructors are so welcoming! The Y in Mayfield is truly THE place to be!"

"Don't be fooled by the 5 star reviews! Cesspool work environment ran by a clueless inexperienced manager named Andrew Burgess. You're rewarded for sitting at the customer service front desk playing w/ your cell phone, watching movies and playing on the internet all while having your feet up in a chair. It's okay to sit up on the front desk and let non-employees come behind the front desk to hang out. Don't worry about showing up for work on time either because it was quite common during my time working there for lifeguards to either not show up at all or show up whenever they wanted and get no reprimand from it. Same with the nursery. Lazy employees who won't sweep, mop, take the trash out, dust, wipe down the counters, stock the drink cooler or really do much of anything other than sitting behind the front desk and play around. Oh, let's not forget letting a fill-in employee who worked there at most once per month (often only once every two months) to have his girlfriend sit behind the front desk and even leave the front desk and go out to his truck for 20 minutes with said girlfriend and do who knows what. Yes, leaving the front desk unattended for that long and the manager does nothing about it. But wait there's more! This same employee has been allowed to sneak his girlfriend in the back door to workout for free and even though the manager, Andrew Burgess, was told this on no less than 3 occasions he did nothing. The manager (or as he deludes himself into calling himself the "CEO") Andrew does nothing about most of this. He sent out group texts occasionally telling everyone to start doing a better job of cleaning and it did little good. That was his main form of employee problem solving. No, instead he railroaded one his best employees because he got tired of me complaining about the work environment and lack of employee work ethic. Didn't want to micromanage as he calls it. Or as I call it just didn't want to do his job! This YMCA has become so sad that it's like working in a daycare around a bunch of kids because of all the rumors and hearsay that go on. Andrew Burgess is a really nice guy, but that's about all the good I can say about him and that's the problem. He's too nice and let's way too many people get by with stuff they shouldn't be. There is no oversight for this "CEO" except for the board of directors and they don't seem to care as long as the place is making money. I would avoid this YMCA unless you want poor customer service, lazy workers and an inexperienced manager with no backbone running your gym! This is what happens when you hire a 25-year-old to run a business who is overly nice and has no managerial experience! He literally spends more time with his MSU interns than he does his employees! I won't even get into how the CEO's girlfriend spreads their sex life around the Y so much that practically everyone knows about it. To further put a stamp on this YMCA put it into perspective let me tell you a little story: One employee told me, while I worked there, that another employee said I was stalking her. Well, I told the wonderful "CEO" about this, and he absolutely did nothing about it. That is absolutely something to not spread around and not joke about. Allegations like that get around and they can ruin a person's life. At the very least one or both of those employees should have been fired. There's no place for that in the workplace. But when you don't know how to manage personnel effectively and nepotism runs rampant in the work environment this is what happens. Yes, cesspool environment. Do you want to work-out or work in a place like this? Again, comes back to oversight. Really pathetic and am glad I am gone from there! Irony is that me and another employee were thinking about going before the board of directors or at least talking to some of them about all this incompetent managing, but then better sense prevailed knowing they wouldn't do squat. I mean come on the employee of the year is allowed to do homework and have non-employee friends hang out behind the front desk! Nuff' said!"

"The staff is amazing! The gym is very clean and well organized. I enjoy my daily workouts at the YMCA!"