Vantaggi
The customers are lovely and you do a lot of wedding/formal occasion hair, and the non-admin employees are all great to qork with.
Svantaggi
Oh god. Where to start....because I'm an experienced stylist, I got exactly 1.5 days of training of the week we were promised. The owner sold the position to me as a high-paying, drama-free position, but I make $12/hr plus maybe $5/appointment, so I make around $18-20/hr, and the only benefits we get is one free blowout a week, but itust take place durong the first half of the week...i was deliberately acheduled so I work all weekends and have off durong those days....I do mot recieve any benefits at all......no insirance, nothing. And on top of that, the owner IS THE DRAMA. She's not a stylist so she has no idea what state board's requirements are, and she keeps enforcing her own aesthetic preferences over corporate policy. I used to think it wasn't on purpose, but lately I'm positive she's being intentionally discriminatory. There's zero flexibility with hours for anyone except the manager, who takes hours off here and there when it benefits them, and the owner hires the bare minimum stylists to cover the hours needed, and cuts corners on EVERYTHING just to make an extra dollar or two. I frequently end up being the only stylist on shift on busy days. I had massively high hopes for this job and they got squashed within my first day.