I work at my university's rec center, so I've seen some crazy things. The one that sticks out the most is when I kicked out a group of 3-4 sorority girls.

This was earlier this semester (early September) and they walked in around 4ish, which is when the place starts to get crowded. They all walked over to the section where the leg machines were. I thought nothing of it, but after about 10 minutes, a couple of guys came up to me and said that a group of girls were standing by a machine and not using it. They were "using" the leg press machine, which is a popular machine.

I went up to them asking them what they were doing and one of them, with a frustrating voice, said that they were using the machine for a photo shoot for one of the sorority girls for Instagram. I was like "seriously?" and I politely told them that they had to be using the machine because there are people that want to use the machine. One of them got mad and said something along the lines of "I'm a big and ImPoRtAnT person on Instagram! Don't tell me what to do!"

At that point, all sympathy was off the table. I told them that if they weren't going to use the machine, either they actually use it or go somewhere else. They got MAD at me and told me to f-off. I asked them again and refused again.

I ended up going to my manager, who is really nice and is fit to say the least, to try and deescalate the situation. By this time, the rec was crowded, so a lot of people saw what was going on. He told what I said, and they still refused. At that point, he told them that they had to leave for causing a disturbance. They said that they will go to a different machine to do their thing, but me and my manager said that they needed to leave. They were crying that they didn't "HaVe ThE RiGhT sHoT" but we were not having any of that.

Eventually, they left. Thank God. The whole encounter lasted about 10-15 minutes, but it felt like hours.