Just today one of the girls at the front desk, whom I used to train with in my first three months of lifting, came up to me and told me I couldn't drop the the bar from the rack position after cleaning it. Other people drop all kinds of much heavier weight on the floor, slam it down even, and now the concrete underneath the cheap mats is shattered. Even though the concrete is fine where I always clean, snatch, and deadlift, I can't clean anymore. Says I have to set it down really gently. I basically told her to go fuck herself, but she wasn't having it and I tried catching the bar on my thighs which worked perfectly fine. Still wasn't good enough, but I stopped caring before that point so I just did my cleans and got out. Save your floor by building a platform and restricting pulls off the floor to it, then kick everyone out who continues to pull on concrete. Easy, but no, why spend 200 bucks on a platform when you can spend thousands to renew the floor every few years. Idiots.
Reading the conclusion to this article made me anxious to start my own small, private gym. Even though I'm financially safe right now, I probably shouldn't. But damn it if I don't really, really want to right now. No chalk, no liquid chalk, no cleans or snatches, no heavy deadlifts, no coaching unless it's theirs (which sucks ass), no using yoga mats without putting your towels on them (100% srs), no benching without a towel, and be nice or we'll treat you like shit. Never mind the fact that I disregard all of these, um, instructions anyway. I just hate commercial gyms so much.