Wonderful on the surface but extremely disorganized and unprofessional behind the scenes - Bartender Drybar Employee Review

1.0
Oct 19, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

New facilities, wonderful architecture and color scheme, luxurious products, and there are at least some cool people who work there that aren't management.

Cons

Where to start? They are so absolutely disorganized at scheduling their staff. Management rarely makes appearances in the salon and leaves the "bartenders" (receptionists) to their own devices (running the entire salon) with little to no experience in doing so. The majority of bookings are done via a "call center" because they don't want to disturb existing guests with phones and not have hair dryers going off in the background. Understandable, however this is entirely impractical because it causes a major disconnect with appointments and communication. Some of the stylists are serious divas who need to keep their entitled attitudes in check. Some of them also had horrendous tattoos on their arms that looked like prison gang stuff (I have tattoos and know the difference with good work, but these are badtattoos.com material here), which hardly the impression one wants to make with their high end facade at the Drybar locations. A very important here is that just as you wouldn't go to a personal trainer who was out of shape and appeared disheveled and sloppy, you would not go to get your hair done by someone who had awful hair themselves! Many of the stylists made zero effort. It's very embarrassing how little people get paid at this company. The angel investor money will dry out if they don't get their act together.

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Cons

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Pros

The BEST thing about being employed as the hairstylist is that you do not have to worry about bringing/having a “BOOK” ; like in some cases where hair salons would prefer a new stylist to have a clientele base upon starting! Drybar hairstylist can easily build a “Booked & Busy” client based request if you follow these 3 tips: •SPEED (45min tops for the whole process)! •CONSISTENCY (Client consultation, Shampooing, Styling, ReBook)! •SCHEDULE ( wether you Full/Part time); Time Management is the key to maintaining your daily/weekly/monthly schedule!

Cons

Drybar is NOT your average corporate salon, they DO NOT like for hairdressers to sit around riding their CLOCK w/o nothing to do, they will have you clock out for the rest of your shift and send you home (ex.; if your shift is from 12pm-6pm and the salon slowdown around 2:15pm ( if you NOT cleaning, sweeping, restocking) they will send you home); literally, just putting you at 2hrs 15min for the day!! Highly played FAVORITISM (Depending on your “Home Salon” from District, manager to Salon manager ), *YOU DO NOT HAVE TO HAVE A VALID REASON * ( JEALOUSY or HATING either or both are very UNPROFESSIONAL in the workplace)!

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