This is the second time I've tried working for this Chain.. both times was treated horrible.
The manager at east lyme right from the start tried making me work every weekend both Saturday and Sunday while the other stylists were not required to.. Initially I told the manager I could work 3/4 days a week max.. I ended up working 5 with a changing schedule from one week to the next, while all the other stylists had set schedules. I felt this was unfair. .
One of the stylists there was constantly yelling and complaining at the customers and myself. Constantly.. she was very abusive to me, behaving in an intimidating manor. . Sge was constantly stating, very loudly i hate having to work with new people..and looking straight at me and saying no offense.
Once that I noticed, we cut a mother and daughter, she the daughter myself the mother. At the end the mother gave her 10$ for each of us I heard her say that .. I was servicing someone else, at the time. The stylist ended up keeping both tips hers and mine. When I asked her about it, her response was incoherent Followed by " I don't know what to yell you..
xtremely unprofessional to say the least. Her behavior was more tgan abusive, it was memtal terrorism ..
I was very draining not saying anything..but why allow myself to be sucked into the ghetto toilet bowl ???
The manager was having some health issues, which I understand completely but her giving me more shifts than I could handle or agreed to was not right.. just to cover her shifts while she recovered.. she would get dizzy, do to her health, which again is understandable.. but this was entirely inappropriate and cringy .. she would sit on the bare floor with customers around while she felt better and had other stylist work on her clients... my first week there she asked me to take a picture of her doing this... I told my husband and his response was...why can't she just sit in the back in a chair snd recover flike an adult???. I will inset a pic if this seems like a made up story..
The owner pays commission which allows him to get away with paying BELOW MINIMUM WAGE. A few times I calculated my pay vrs my hours and several times I got under 13$ an hour .. there are tears of commission silver, gold, platinum .. the more you sell the more you pay.. he, prolongs elevating people to a higher tear, because he has to give them a higher percentage of the store earnings.. the thing that really finalized my decision to leave was the last shift I was on.. he yelled out over his shoulder like a brat kid.. that Out of the 10 or 12 locations her owns.. He " will only allow 10 people to be elevated to Platinum, because if I let more move to platinum, you guys will make me broke" that's a total quote. I realized that even IF I worked super hard I'd never Make what I had actually earned with my hard work.. to add insult to injury the fact that he ACTUALLY ADMITTED HIS BUSINESS PRACTICES to the entire salon was shocking..and a bit insulting, he must have thought we as a whole weren't smart enough to Catch what his was Revealing!
Or maybe he's not smart for underestimating MY Intelligence.
IF you are a Stylist I'd skip this " opportunity " and save yourself the inconvenience of having to find another job.
And In Case Jess ( the stylist that was just awful to me) is interested
I have own chair now thanks to you...it was the push I needed to realize I can be happier running my
own show
I tried several times to upload the pictures.. but my device is not responding imagine a baby sitting in a diaper with legs out in front of them that on a public floor in a salon. read more