I worked at drybar for 2 years - Anonymous employee Drybar Employee Review

1.0
Oct 24, 2013
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

beautiful decor. great concept. very flexible schedule. Ability to make decent money. loved my clients.

Cons

I worked for the company for a long time and had really high hopes when I started. I loved working there until the last 4-5 months. Everything changed and stylists and bartenders were treated with no respect. Our regular clients were not receiving the customer service they deserved and were accustomed to from our new management. We were given no room for advancement or raises. It basically turned into a blow-dry sweatshop. We were constantly being micromanaged by upper management who have no salon background. Constant back to back blow-drys with little to no down time is an unacceptable standard and causes a lot of turn over in the salon. Also the music was so loud I could never hear my clients.

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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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