I belong to a local club for the sport I compete in. I have 2 different trainers at the club, so pay for 2 x lessons weekly. I am relatively new to the sport (less than 2 years), but have been competing now in it since last autumn and have been doing pretty well, winning a fair few events.
There is a fb page for the club, and everyone tends to post their results on there, everyone else says well done etc, you get the idea. Now, whenever I post something, the woman who actually owns and runs the club never puts a like or a comment, but does on literally everyone else’s results (even if they’re not great results!). Similarly, although I am also friends with the club owner on fb, she never has any interaction with any of my personal posts, whereas she does with everybody else from the club that she’s friends with on fb.
She obviously doesn’t like me very much, and I don’t know why. I’ve been nothing but friendly towards her and everyone else at the club, I support the events the club runs as well as pay for my regular training. I could handle the FB stuff, but where it starts to affect me is that she deliberately overlooks me in favour of people who don’t even train with the club. Eg I have a friend who follows our club’s FB page even though she belongs to a different club (I actually introduced her to the FB page as I’d got to know her at competitions). There have been times that there have been guest trainer events (a post will go up on the club’s page and people will comment if they’d like a space. I will comment, so will the friend who isn’t in the club, she’ll end up being given a space and I’ll be told there’s no room for me. This has happened a few times, with different people who definitely don’t train at our club. It’s a bit weird, even if the club owner for whatever reason has taken a dislike to me, you’d have thought it would be savvy business sense to let the people who train with the club have first dibs on the spaces, to keep them sweet.
It is ridiculous maybe but I’m getting flashbacks to mean girls at school experiences and I’m thinking about leaving the club and finding another one. Not that the owner would care 🤣. But at the same time, I get on with all of the club members, so would miss them, I really like my trainers, and location wise it’s definitely the handiest for me. Just feels like a bit of a kick in the teeth every time my posts get ignored or I get turned down for a training space. AIBU?