as i type this this late at night I have a lump in my throat!!! Yall know my friend Darlene the one ive been kicking along to get her to lose weight and helped her get her driver permit at the age of 50 the one im so PROUD OF> ok she joined ww just a little after I did I made my goal and now im a leader blah blah blah....last night when I weighed her in she is 2.6 pounds away from Losing 100 POUNDS!!!! Whoooo HOOOOOOOOO!!!! PROBLEM GRRRRR WW! when my friend joined our boss had in place lose 100 pounds get 100.00 money!! mind you my friend has not stopped going to class if she missed a week she paid her fees they stopped doing the 100
00 money thing and told us they would have something else in place for members ok we can deal with that right NOT@@@ I called today to see what they were going to do for her can you belive this THEY ARE DOING NOTHING!!!!!!! I said Well im taking her tomorrow and buying her a new outfit!! she said and I quote Gina you cant do that !!!!!!Who the crap is she??? I can do with ever the crap i want too!!!!! it aint her money she said you would have to do that for all your members I said hey I will!! but anyway IM READY past READY to quit!!! PLEASE help me im PMSing and I have a gun kidding on the gun but I am pmsing Help!!! Gina

let me add she joined in 2003

Yeesh what a great accomplishment. That should definitely be recognized somehow. Really think WW should reimburse you if you do something nice for her. I'd prob quit too. Could you go over heads and speak to someone higher up???

Lizzy

Being that it is your friend, you should do something for her.
Now.....since I used to work for WW I am going to give you the corporate side of it.
First of all, your boss had no business offering money as an incentive to lose weight. TM's are NOT allowed to do that.
What she said is correct....what you do for one, you have to do for all.
By chance were you bought by WW International since that $$ thing? That might explain it.

That said....if you want to do something in front of all the members, present her with flowers. I never had anyone hit a huge number like that when I was a leader, but whenever someone hit goal I bought them flowers.

You know as well as I do, they do not reimburse you for anything you spend on the members.....

hey jen she wasnt my friend until ww. and it wasnt tm it was the owner of the ww i work for!!

First off don't quit you are doing this for you! You can succeed. As for your friend first off let me just say WOW!! So proud of her accomplishments!

Now as for doing something nice for her I think that's a great idea. You can do this without WW's being involved directly. Just go in front of everyone and say that you know WW doesn't normally do this and it won't become a habit but you have a friend that you are so extremely proud of that you decided to do something nice for her but that you wanted the whole group to be able to share in it. Then present it to her.
Another thing you might consider is going to the members and telling them you'd like to do something special for anyone who hits 100 and see if anyone wants to help start a fund for this project. See if there are others who'd like to participate.

Anyways don't let it get to you be proud I'm sure she's not to worried!

OK...well she is your friend now. Do for her but not in front of the others.
You just explained something......you are a franchise and not WW International.......If WW found out about that $$ thing they would be PISSED.
I am sorry but, like I said that explains some things to me. Just some of the things you have said over the years and such, it seems to me that person has no clue what they are doing.

Jen i just cant believe they are not doing what they say they are but today im taking her im not doing that in front of members and when ever a member makes goal i always get them something real nice

bummer that WW corporate,doesnt have something like that in place for their biggest losers. But I can understand if it's a financial business decision

Lizzy

Oh it totally is a business decision.
When I was working there I was NEVER reimbursed for anything I did for the meetings. I always had give aways, always had recipe cards handy(I did a new recipe every week), funny props, and if someone hit goal I always did a tiara and a dozen roses.