Rommel Bradley My door is open, backstabber, bogus writeup. Lier, incompetent, Fredricksburg virginia

The area GM, Rommel Bradley is the perfect manager for what consumer affair groups call predatory lending. When I worked with him he was a sort of employee predator. Seeking weakness in people and pounding on those weaknesses to make his staff conform to his egarious management standards. If you want a professional environment that nurtures your career, stay away from this company and Rommel Bradley. This company apparently likes browe beating, cruel and barely competent managers. They come cheap. True intregrity not needed. Need a title loan. I recommend Lxxx Mxx  (REDACTED) I used to work under a current titlemax manager. It was the worse work experience I ever had. I have heard of abusive, ineffective managers, but until I worked under Rommel Bradley, I had not really experienced truly incomprehensible behavior like his. In 2007, I decided to take a leave of absence to take an extended cross country trip. I left on my trip and a month and a half later had another bad heart attack on the Road. I got patched up and went home. I needed money and a job. My bosses promised I could have my job back and they honored that, with some stipulations, Rommel (instated as GM after I left) and I met in person. He seem a reasonable man. I came back to work.

Happy to be home and in my Club again. It's didn' t take long before Rommel's true character kicked in He accused me of being involved in thefts at the club over the years before he came. There were many to be sure. I learned about them, like anybody else, after the fact. He made a long time, highly respected female employee, who was very good at a thankless job cry. This lady was tough as nails and managed a staff of young females. I always saw her as very capable and successful at her Job. Without knowing all the in and outs of club operation. Denied an African American female member entrance to the club because he was wrongly sure her children weren't members., even after I tried to explain the policy to him and she wasn't doing anything wrong. When I was MOD I took a members word till I clarified the situation than take relevant action. This sweet lady was an army solder and mother. Rommel stood her in a corner, with her children having seen the whole, demeaning embarrassing thing, holding back her tears till he finally was informed on policy by the staff involved and let her in. Yes, Rommel had every right to do what he did. But it was unnecessary and I think misogynist On my night off, a mentally impaired member accidentally set the sauna on fire. Rommel who had by this time been Gm for over six months, would have walked by a well marked fire extinguisher near his office many, many times. My understanding was that he wasted valuable time trying to put out the fire with water from the locker room.

I don't believe the extinguisher was ever used and the sauna was a total loss. This again was indicative of him not being aware of vital elements of his club. The club had a chiropractor, who rented space for several years, He got along well with staff and previous GMs. Not Rommel. I am not sure what happened, but I think the situation speaks for itself. It was so bad that after the Sauna fire. Rommel asked me if I thought the chiropractor could have done it or put the poor mentally impaired guy up to it. I told him no way, I was sore he even asked me such a stupid question. I wanted to say something to the chiropractor, but because I was really trying to get along with Rommel I kept my mouth shut. Rommel came back from a monthly corp sales meeting. He complained to me and the rest if his sales staff how degraded he felt, because the club managers that didn't make goal had to serve lunch to the clubs managers that did. I knew it was all in fun and thought to myself that his complaining was unprofessional. And as detailed further on relates to his own hypocrisy. Rommel treated me badly many times times. Even though I knew the club, it's members, staff and policy better than any body he rarely relied on me for input even as I watched him screw up time after time hopefully learning in the process. I would have gladly helped out of my better nature. Every once in a while he would ask me something when he really needed to. I am sure he hated to do that. I think it made him more resentful of me. Rommel took my club key away from me. I was an opening and closing MOD on different swifts for over 5 years I often had to stay late to complete daily sales chores. He told me to leave though a self locking rear door. A door that entered into a dark ally where there had been one murder and several assaults. I was getting over a serious heart attack at the time and was helpless to defend myself. I had a key under every GM I worked for. The GM, who took over for Rommel when he left, gave the key back to me. ( Things got so much better for everybody when he left) Rommel did give out keys to newly hired front desk staff, that I had to rely on. I know he didn't trust me to have a key, but he had no legitimate reason to deny it to me. I did gloat inside a bit, when one morning, his trusted front desk person didn't show to open the club and he had to come open it himself.

Many angry waiting members knew I had had a key for years and Rommel just ended up looking incompetent again. What kind of person sends a sick man, just doing his job, Into a dark dangerous alley late a night. Rommel complained to me about memberships that I wrote before he worked there. Membership that weren't “by the book” but were signed off by my bosses. He called us unethical and dishonest. All this complaining, while he signed off “not by the book”memberships of his own. He even introduced me to a new word for it “deviated deals”. He even allowed his staff to write new memberships to members who were in collections for non payment. This way we got a new member sales point. Previous to Rommel this was a big no no. And we didn't do it knowingly. To this day I don't know how he got away with it. I didn't really care, a point is a point. Except to note again his hypocrisy. During this time, members I had helped, complained to me incessantly that their membrship problems weren't resolved. Many of them were people who's membership problems were sitting for days and weeks on Rommel's desk. I had already presented them to him with the proper paperwork. I had done all I could to help the members. It was out of my hands, I told members to talk to him. What else could I do. …... This was unprofessional on my part, but then again I was working in a very unprofessional environment created by Rommel. It was rubbing off on me.

All this time I was recovering from a heart attack that dame near killed me. I was going downhill physically, mentally and emotionally and Rommel was doing his unnecessary egocentric best to expedite the process... Now the coup de gras. I was at the point, I couldn't take this man any more. I knew that transfer between clubs was common and even though I had been At this club 10 years (5 as a member and 5 as an employee) and lived 5 minutes away. I was willing to commute to get away from this guy who I was pretty sure didn't want me around any way. Out of courtesy and professionalism I decided to discuss this transfer option with him before approaching Corporate about it. I thought maybe we might clear the air and I wouldn' t transfer. I approched him before my shift about the transfer. He told me he had an open door policy and let's talk. I discussed some of my issues, particularly not having the club key he took away from me. I tried really hard to be diplomatic with him. Mostly I just agreed with him and promised to do better. He didn't promise me anything. I was compliant. It's kind of a blur, but I remember him saying that the sales department was sucking (he used some variation of the work suck.) I was trying to agree with him and I remember using the word myself. I even remember wishing I could take that word back because even though he said it, he might not like me saying it. Anyway I left feeling better and with hopes for my future with this man. I worked my regular shift and had a good day.

On his way out, Rommel told me to check my email when I had a chance. He looked serious. So I figured it was some important corp memo. I was very busy, that evening, so I didn't check my email till I got home hours later. I was flabbergasted. It was this long winded, ridiculous writeup, Full of exaggerations and lies. I couldn't believe it. He wrote that there were member issues that I wasn't fixing as, if I refused to do so. As stated above, they were all on his desk. There were always problems with memberships it goes with the business. In five years I fixed hundreds if not thousands of problems. Most member problems had to go though the General Manager than corp for final resolution. My job was to take care of the ones I could. The rest went to Rommel with the proper corp forms. He wouldn't resolve them or wouldn't listen to how to resolve them. Especially if they involved refunds. GM's understandingly hated to give refunds as it would effect the clubs budget which was a measure of performance. Lucky for many of these members he didn't have much choice after blaming me in writing for his negligence. Silly man wrote that I had to remove my bicycle from the store room where it sat with a pile of mostly useless gym junk. Rommel somehow felt that my bike represented insubordination . It never bothered anybody else. Not even Rommel's boss, who would see it in my office all the time, when I rode it to work long before Rommel's employment. It was just a bike in a gym. It Just bothered Rommel! I surmise It bothered him so much, that it's location must have filled the place in his brain where the fire extinguisher's location should have been stored. Rommel wrote I couldn't transfer. I was stuck there with him.

This was revealing to me after long thought on the whole matter. Rommel didn't want me there, it was obvious to me. But when it was obvious to him I didn't want to be there with him. It incited his insecurity. I was rejecting him. In his immaturity he was going to get back at me in a big way. A BS writeup with maybe one real truth and a lot of misrepresented crap. I hope it made him feel better. The one real truth in it. I had a bad attitude. And I was talking and agreeing with unhappy members. I was wrong. Rommel was wrong to put me in that situation. I hope Titlemax keeps an eye on him. Because He will drive away many a good employee for his failures and blame the employee.