Pros
Training in blowouts and updos, double shifts available to work, good products and tools. Also nice shampoo bowls.
Cons
Horrible cult-like attitude throughout company. Doesn’t respect requested time off or allow breaks on busy days. I worked a 13 hour shift with a torn hamstring and no breaks, no support during a domestic violence incident, was told I had to find a way in when my car broke down and slid into oncoming traffic (even sent my manager a pic of my car on the center median), tried to force me to come in immediately after my restraining order hearing, many people devised a way to get free blowouts by complaining to corporate. Most corporate managers refuse to back their stylists, the a/c would go out often during hot summers. They’ll tell you to do a blowout and style in 30 mins or less, as well as the occasional attempt to make you double book blowouts (which is physically impossible since you are with your client working on them the whole service). I only stayed as long as I did because of my sweet outside-hired manager who didn’t agree with their politics, I left when she left and the district manager was set to take over the salon, because I knew she was going to go back to the same guilt-trippy fake positive attitude. They don’t treat their stylists as people, my body is permanently damaged from how they treated me and how they made us work (can’t move the chairs at all and no padded mats or any protective equipment). Also, not allowed to take a minute to ice your hand when you burn it with a hot tool because you have to rush everything - I still have scars from the holes burnt into my hand.
