I have to tell you, if I didn't leave 9 miles out of town, I would have opened a salon in my home by now. Still considering getting building in town if I could find one cheap and small enough. At 43, I know how to run a business and where I work is not it. Sorry you are in the same boat. Maybe we are being led to do this sooner than we planned. Good Luck! Thanks for the reply. Kim
--- On Tue, 9/30/08, Nicole Cormier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Nicole Cormier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: NailTech:: Re: Should I be upset To: [email protected] Date: Tuesday, September 30, 2008, 12:36 PM HAHAHAHAHAHA.....it sounds like you and I got similar salons:) Laughing with you, LOL, not at you!!!! I started at this one place in April. The owner never paid me on paydays and never paid me what we agreed upon. It was over a month before I got keys. I lost out on so many clients because of that. He shut down (we found out from a client that went to his main location that he was selling the place) and was only going to give us a week's notice. The stylists I worked with there, offered me a job at the salon they were throwing together. What a mistake that was to go with them. Three months later, still no key, no codes to the system, the last three paychecks were LATE. She went on vacation on payday and didn't leave a check for me, the next payday she forgot so I reminded her nicely. Towards the end of the day I asked again and she got snarky "Well I'm doing my sister's hair now and I'm not stopping, so you'll have to wait until tonight and I'll bring it by your house." Nope. I sat there and waited until my presence bugged her enough that she paid me. The last payday she forgot the checkbook and so I got paid a day late. Twice in a row!!!! I'm telling you, some people's children.....but then, they get away with it because we put up with it. I started a part time job teaching again because I can't afford working for someone who won't put me on commission or pay me on time, and I love this school. It is so different than the last school I taught at. Its independent, not a chain, and the classes are small so the students get attention at their own pace. There's no pushing people through, and the owner actually expelled someone who wasn't following the rules. That never would have happened at the last school I taught at. The owner had to leave suddenly because her sister died. I have been dealing nicely with the salon, trying to do both but I decided enough is enough. Why stay somewhere that I am stressing? I told the salon manager last week that she is going to have to find someone else but she doesn't seem to get it. I have decided after the year that I've had in this industry, that from now on, the only salon that I work in will be the one that I own. Sometimes it feels like I've met every scumbag in the industry this year. The good thing that I've taken away from it is that I have redefined my standards in terms of what I will and won't put up with. Nicole Cormier-MacDonald Very Happy Instructor European School of Esthetics Winnipeg Manitoba ******************************************** The mighty oak is a tiny acorn that stood its ground. In a message dated 09/29/08 10:31:18 Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Because I am.... I was promised by my salon (where I booth rent) that I would get a key when I received my license. Well, I received them in August and still no key. Really no big deal until last week when I had two calls for sets of nails, Thurs and Friday nights. I called the salon to see if someone would stay late for me so I could do the nails. They said no. And that was that. Then I got a call on Friday to see if I could do an extra set on Saturday afternoon. I called the salon again to see if someone could stay late and they said that I could use someone else's key, but to be sure and bring it back on Monday night. (Remember I usually work Mon & Wed nights from 4:30 - ?? whenever the cosmos leave and the same on Saturday mornings). Now, since I'm a booth renter, shouldn't I have access to the building on my schedule? Shouldn't I have access to my business when I want? If I'm wrong please let me know. Maybe I'm asking too much since they are doing me a service by lowering my rent for the first 6 months? Thanks for your advice! As always, it is greatly appreciated!! Kim Tobin Find phone numbers fast with the New AOL Yellow Pages! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NailTech" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/NailTech?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
