ManeMess

I’m back at my old salon guys! New management has completely overturned the vibes in the salon! We are all making so much money and building our books!

...that’s what I would have said had this been posted back in October of 2017. Everything has changed now. We have lost 5 stylists within a 3 week period including the manager. Everything is falling apart in the salon and the store managers don’t even realize it. We have 7 stylists left. 7!

Since the manager left, our schedules have been nothing short of chaotic. The managers of the store came talked to each stylist individually to get their schedule straight, but then they didn’t even use it. My schedule is constantly getting messed up and I have to go to them to fix it.

Hair for me used to be fun! I loved transforming people and watching their faces light up with excitement when I turned the chair around. The passion is being overshadowed by the numbers. Meet this goal. Meet that goal. Your numbers aren’t good so you must not be a good stylist.

It is so refreshing when the manager isnt in the salon. Everyone can just relax and enjoy doing hair. Its sad to say but its true. A lot of things go on in the salon that shouldnt be happening but she lets it. Because of course she makes a bonus off of it. It is all about the money.

What i am referring to though is an incident that occurred this past saturday, October 8, 2016. As i was walking into the salon for my shift, it was pretty chaotic up at the reception desk. Apparently some men came into the salon and decided that they were going to pretty much buy out all of our salon products. Now i am not exaggerating. We had almost nothing to sell to our clients. We knew that they were obviously buying all of this to sell. They hit up all of the salons. Want to know the sad part? The manager knew about it. She just let them because she knew that was money in her pocket. 

I just feel like that is not right. I dont want people to think they are getting a good product if they buy it from these men. They honestly are probably watering the products down to get more use out of them. As a hairdresser it just makes me sad. I take alot of pride in my work and i care about what my clients buy and put on their hair.

Money, Money, Money! That is all this is to her. The employees are just money makers for her. We make her bonus check bigger. She could care less about whether a client is happy or not as long as she has the money.

Upper Left : Before

Lower Left : During

Have any one of yall had horrible management? Has it made you consider leaving your career? The sad part is im sure at LEAST 80% of people can agree with this. I work for a Corporate salon. The salon itself is not the problem for me. The problem is when it comes to the management. Now i am not saying you need to be an expert at your job, but i feel like you should at least care about your employees. We have suggestions to make things easier and better in the salon and the manager will not have it. It is her way or the highway pretty much. I feel like i am being managed by a highschooler (no offense). She is constantly rolling her eyes and just being plain rude. What is even worse is that the employees are not the only people to see it. I have had several clients comment on her behavior and tell me that their friends told them not to come to our salon because of the horrible manager. That makes us look bad.

Now yes i am new to the hair scene. I have not been in the business very long, but i know that this is not supposed to be this hard. Employee after employee are being hired everyday. We do not have enough clients that walk in to help performance. Management wants to comment to us about how bad our performance is but how are we supposed to perform when we are competing with 30 other employees??? it just doesnt make any sense to me. We are slowely trying to change this salon. The only problem really is the manager. Once she is out of the picture i know the salon will flourish and so will the employees.

Let me know what you think. Any Input?

Well guys here it is. This is me. Molly. Just a girl from southern Louisiana trying to make it in the wonderful industry of hair. The ManeMess is a collection of rants about my salon job, and just hair things in general. I wanted to create something that stylists could come to and either get some inspiration, laugh with me about my happenings, or simply just pass the time looking at a similar passion. This is just somewhere to put my creative mind to work. I am always open to give anyone advice or if you just want to ask me something, don’t be afraid to ask. The only dumb questions are the ones that you do not ask.