One time I did a botched home bleaching of my hair so I went to a salon to get it fixed, the lady doing my hair was super nice and understanding about it. One of the owners of the salon came up to me and laughing and said “oh, YOU must be the one everyone’s laughing about in the back!” I was just a teenager at the time and it just made me feel so bad about myself. I never went back there after that.
When I was a teenager my grandmother took me as a gift for my birthday to a salon to get my hair done. While I was there the girl who was doing my hair asked "Do you think your grandmother would pay for me to wax your brows too?" I was so taken aback and uncomfortable. I just responded that I didn't know. Then I heard her say "And your lip too, UGHHH." I was so upset and uncomfortable that I almost cried. Being a teenager is hard enough already and like most other teenagers I struggled with self esteem/body issues. Then to have someone publicly call attention to something like that and act disgusted by it? Never went there again after that. My hair looked nice but it wasn't worth it.
I know someone who was fired for “talking too much time off”. His wife and small child were killed in a car accident and 3 weeks was too much time away from work apparently. When he was asked how much more time he needed and his response was “I don’t know”. The employer replied with “You don’t need to worry about time, we’re letting you go”’ That company was Royal Mail. They kicked a man while he was about as down as you can get.
OMG! Just how heartless and callous can people actually be! That’s just cruel! I can’t imagine anyone would feel okay about saying this, obviously their heart has turned to stone.
I haven't been to a salon for over 10 years. Last time I went, it was to have help to shorten my hair that I was in the process of losing to chemo. I was NOT wanting a full chop, but she started out, rubber banding to the proper length, chopping it there, then when I had my eyes closed face buried in tissues(yes, I was sobbing.. my hair was past my bum until the cut) I heard a weird click and hum, didn't know what it was, and then she used what I now know was clippers, and cut a strip from the center part of my hair... to the skin. I was not ready for it. She jerked back when I cried out, and then SCREAMED at me, "Damn bish! It's gonna fall out anyways, get that shit over with. It'll be better. Trust me." I left, didn't pay. I was too upset, and not thinking clearly. Still had on the drape as well. Went to my parent's home and just sobbed. My father got out his old hair clippers(loud as heck pair) and he finished what she started. He gave me a big hug and a kiss on my forehead, and told me I was a nice egg, which honestly, was so far out of character for him that I laughed till I was crying all over again. I will never forgive that stylist though. BTW, 7 years in full remission. Fuck cancer.
God I’m so sorry. I went to the hairdresser to shave my head from hair loss (non cancer) and it was such a vulnerable and uncomfortable process so I can only imagine what you were already feeling getting a big cut, let alone having a chance to shave your head in your own time taken away from you. Horrible behaviour from her to do that to you! So glad you had a moment with your dad later that was able to turn that around at least and congrats on remission!!
I had a hairdresser that loves to talk 💩 about the owner when she wasn’t there. It was very entertaining. I was like, I don’t need my hair done, but… I have to find out what Michelle did… 😂
Meanwhile I have broken up with mine because I’m pretty sure she got bored with me. (Admittedly don’t lead a very exciting life atm). Wasn’t listening to what I wanted, doing same old thing every time. Declining quality and increasing costs made me walk with my feet. Made for an uncomfortable conversation in the supermarket when I ran into her. I told her the truth (Calmly and respectfully) about how I felt.
Charlene boasts about going away on vacation and still making money. Can the staff do the same thing? Does she take care of her staff the way they take care of her???? Riddle me that BATMAN!
@@ChristinaMoralesMindfuqed Yes with Jay Baruchel and Nicolas Cage. That was 2010 , there was also one in 2001 and the third part of Disneys Fantasia as well i believe. Im not positive on this but i think its accurate.
You deserve even more awards darling, you're exceptional as an artist and as an individual. I have the utmost respect for you and I wish you were my friend, a treasure to have in one's life. Never change! ❤ @@Robert_Reacts
I quit working at a bank after my aunt passed away, and when i came back from the funeral and showed my boss the prayer card we had made with my aunts photo on one side, and my boss looked at me and said "do you think she would still be here if she wasnt overweight?" My aunt (52) passed from a very rare usually childhood form of leukemia. Her weight had nothing to do with it. Ill never forget that boss, she was horrible in several ways.
“Do you wanna know how to leave your salon for weeks and make the same amount of money? It’s so easy! Make the money off the backs of your stylists who are doing the actual work!!!”
That "shadowing program" sounds a whole lot like she wants someone to come work for "experience" and no pay 🤦♀️ she gives major skeezy vibes, and the woman with the long black hair in her video about the program DEFINITELY feels some kind of way about having everything dumped on her while her boss is "gallivanting through Europe" 😑
Ooohhhh... Robert! I loved your anecdote with your boss telling you you'll never be an influencer. Flip her. Flip her that bird Robert, you are amazing!
I worked on a cruise ship with a salon. It was as staffed by 3 hair stylists, and 2 nail techs. The captain ended up firing all three of the stylists because they kept stirring up drama and tried to bully the nail techs💀
@@crispyyrosee I thought the hotel staff had drama, and we were having whole fist fights about petty stuff🤣 It was because of the stylists that we got slapped with a bunch of new rules about “physical engagement” with passengers🤦🏾♀️
I remember as a 15 year old teenager the woman straightening my hair after a cut started shouting out "no her hair is too greasy to straighten" I was mortified and I know that my hair wasn't "too greasy to straighten" it was freshly washed.. she was just being nasty and mean
I’m biracial and the amount of stylists who have complained TO ME about my hair being too curly or “unmanageable” is astounding. I would be embarrassed but now that I’m old, I refuse to take that shit. Last dude who made snide remarks about my hair being “difficult” was immediately reported to the manager who apologized profusely and even sent his ass over to apologize to me. No client should ever be made to feel ugly or that something about them isn’t right. I’m paying for a service, not the unsolicited opinions and racism of someone.
As a former hairdressing apprentice I can confirm that salon owners are some of the most toxic bosses I've ever encountered. One particularly nasty one got spiteful after the doctor told me I had to take a week off work due to an injury - boss lady asked if I'd come in anyway and "just stay on reception" (no way would she have just had me do that for a whole week, Id' have been running around like normal, but injured). So I refused, then when I went back in a week later she called me over and said "from now on, you're not allowed to smoke in here unless you ask my permission first" - this was in the 90s so salons were basically smoke dens and everyone smoked. I thought at first it was a new salon rule (because she was the only one working there who didn't smoke) but no - it only applied to me. Not the other juniors, not the stylists - just the shy 17 year old who dared to take a week off and rest an injury. I handed in my notice soon after that, and I took great pleasure in seeing her crying as I walked past the windows outside after doing so :D (that wasn't the only example of her nastiness, it was just the 'final' one for me)
@@honeyOTU_ Yeah I think this was it TBH. She realised she'd have to try and find someone else to put up with her shit, do her shopping, take her laundry and fold the towels in the exact way she wanted them...!
As a beauty professional, I feel this in my soul😂 I got "so you're not coming in?" With double pink eye, an ear infection, and laryngitis "SO WE CAN'T REACH OUR GOAL THIS MONTH BECAUSE YOU WON'T WORK?!" While I had to get shots of chemo for ectopic pregnancy. Dear god why is this our industry. P.s. I work for myself in a salon loft now. No more bosses.😊
Oh, so they outsource the boss's work while she's away. I bet that goes well. Charlene is lucky her own employees don't burn both her and her salons to the ground.
Exactly. It‘s giving „I eat cake every day! Do you want to know how I manage to eat cake every day?“ à la Marie-Antoinette. Even letting her peasants read off a line or two, cherry on top. I genuinely thought the segment at 11:00 was satire at first.
yea unless they give the employees a part of profits if they go up why would we care? They pay employee as low amount as possible while they get richer
I called out of work becasue i lived with my Aunt and her wife who was on hospice, my job knew this. I called out the night before because she passed and they said "didn't you know she was going to die though?" I said "yes, but my Aunt just lost her Wife and I am her only family here she needs me to help her with the funeral." I was so taken aback from that heartless response. honestly people will show their true colors in your time of need.
I'm a manager and my first priority is ensuring my coworkers are safe and comfortable. they stand for hours and deal with customers first hand. if they need bathroom breaks, water, a stool, more mats, it's my job to provide that. plus I've done their job I worked my way up so I understand.
I stopped going to hairdressers about 9 years ago, because I don't like most of the "normal" haircuts and the disgust in their eyes when I told them what I wanted made me feel so small, stupid and even ugly. I taught myself how to do it myself, because I have cried more than once on the way home after they convinced me to get what they said was the better option.
I cut my own hair too because i always dread the hairdresser. The relief when I realised I didn’t have to anymore 😂 I also have an alternative haircut, some hairdressers make such a big deal in-front of the other customers.
Tbh she looks high when she’s talking and everything she is saying is just empty words that have no real purpose, there’s no actual point to what she’s trying to put out there
I noticed the same thing, it was painful to listen to her repeat herself and talk in circles. But she uses that "passionate guru" cadence. She keeps telling you what she's about to tell you.
She is a stereotypical hairdresser in Australia. I’ve seen this so many times and experienced it myself. All they care about is money. I get the bad chills everytime I see here.
That “ad” or whatever it was Charlene did about going on vacation, was so tacky. Her employees were smiling, but they looked like they wanted to bury her in the basement and tell people she went on vacation 😂
I feel so incredibly sorry for Brock and what happened to him at that age. Difficult enough to go through without the horrible job experience on top. Traumatic.
The satisfaction of you proving that salon owner wrong and flipping her off, so iconic! I also really hate the mentality some business owners have of treating staff so poorly and expecting them to go above and beyond while the owners are nowhere to be seen.
My mom worked for a company and her supervisor would watch her every time she went to the restroom and tell her she shouldn’t be going except during breaks. She brought it up during a meeting and after that he wouldn’t talk to her much. I ended up working there for two months and he was my supervisor. I was new and still learning. I was basically only trained for two weeks and then left to run four machines on my own. I ended up injuring myself and had to get stitches. They made me come back to work that same day and he wrote me up a few days later. In fact he wrote me up a lot. For various petty reasons. I ended up quitting a few weeks later while he was away on vacation. HR and the manger tried to get me to stay, but I couldn’t stay at a place that didn’t respect me. That wrote me up and made me do the work of three people by having to run three machines at once. The manger said she would be there for me, but she really wasn’t. She barely had me trained and had an awful supervisor in the department I was in. Funny thing is about a year after I left he was fired. My mom said he was escorted out of the building one day and never came back.
Ugh i remember my last year of undergrad i was trying to get into grad school and i had to get letters of recommendations from a few professors to send to the schools i was applying to. One of the professors who agreed to write a letter was a lady i knew well. I worked on her research lab for years and looked up to her. AFTER she sent the letters to the school she sat me down and told me that she didn't think I was cut out for grad school and while she did send letters, she did not recommend the schools accept me in any of the letters. Of course I didn't get into any of the schools and had to take a few years off before trying again. A few years later i did get in, graduated with my M.ed in counseling with a 4.0 and now own my own counseling private practice and a nonprofit. I still have no i idea what inspired her to try to ruin my academic future, i was so shocked when she told me that i agreed with her that i wasn't cut out for grad school, thanked her, and left. Still pisses me off!
Wow I just don’t understand some people. I’ve had a similar situation but where they just didn’t respond to the request for a reference after they went out of their way to confirm they would provide one to me prior to me providing their contact info. They basically ghosted me and my future employer so I had to find someone else… Ughhh now that I’m in a position where people have asked me for references I’m always super diligent and make sure I follow through because I know how awful that feeling of betrayal is when someone lets you down like that.
My worst boss ever was at a hair salon in a mall. I was a receptionist and she straight up hated me (along with large clique of stylists). She cut my hours in half without even telling me, I had to get a second job. It’s fine, I ended up taking a bunch of products from the overflowing pile of returns she was supposed to keep track of to teach her a lesson. I’m sure she never noticed.
Something about hair and beauty seems to attract drama... I did about four weeks of a hair and beauty course at college before I dropped out because of all the drama in my class. I don't think I'm cut out for working in a salon!
My mom is a hairdresser and the salon was practically my second home for most of my life. I wanted to be a hairdresser so bad but when I was 18 my mom convinced me to try other careers and school first the beauty industry wasn’t going anywhere and now 15 years later I am so grateful I never pursued hair. The drama, the hours, the customers, the all of it is definitely too much I just needed step away to see it and I’m so glad I did.
I am a retired stylist. My greatest joy was having my apprentices assist me with clients. I can get my own coffee and lunch. They are there to learn the craft, not how to be a waiter/waitress/housekeeper.
Hoo boy, yes I've had horrible bosses. My last boss was downright abusive actually. His favorite thing to do was gaslight me. I never made it a secret that I struggled with severe anxiety and depression, and depression usually hits me sometime getting into the holidays. I felt it hit me that year I worked for him and told him that I was struggling. I brought it up in a meeting, asking if it would be okay for me to ask my coworker and my boss if I needed some help getting things done (it was just us three in the department). They said, "Of course! Sure!" But when I actually asked for help, my boss sighed at me, would shake his head, roll his eyes... One day I had a panic attack at work before I went to lunch. When I came back from lunch, he lit into me with a list of things I had been doing wrong the past two weeks that he had never brought up to me, including asking my coworker for help. When I threatened to quit over his unfair treatment of me, he said, "Well, I just want you to keep in mind that you wouldn't just be giving up on this job, you'd be giving up on yourself." He went on a ten day vacation the following week. I quit the day he got back.
@@barbaratatton3855 Yeah, I also worked out a two weeks' notice bc I cared about our clients. He and that company didn't deserve it at all, and sometimes I think I should have just walked out in the middle of his tirade, but alas...that's not what happened.
Come to Australia to get an apprenticeship.... A hair stylist told me her experience at her 1st salon. She worked their for 1 year for free before they even offered her an apprenticeship. Once she was signed up the boss told her she needed her bottom length hair cut and styled to suit the "edgy salon". She ended up with bleached, mostly shaven short hair. The trauma of losing all that hair finally took a toll on her mental health and she quit. She was still growing it out when I met her. Thankfully another salon took her on and treated her with the money and respect she deserved. Sadly Salons get away with this kind of behaviour bc they have so many candidates to pick from.
The best way to avoid drama in the salon is to not go in the back room I think the back room is the breeding ground for gossip and drama I have been treated unfairly at a salon that I worked at and also at a salon that I owned, which is why I close the doors and went to go on to renting a booth. The best thing I ever did.
I'm a licensed professional and I stopped doing hair because of all of the back stabbing that goes on in the beauty industry. I'm not thin and not blonde, I was often ridiculed and made fun of behind my back.
I've worked a lot of service jobs during my gap year and first years of university, and the one with the most toxic environment was a nail salon. I mean, a bakery I was working in was literally robbed at gunpoint once and I still would choose that over the amount of toxicity and passive aggressiveness of the nail salon.
I worked in a nail salon for 1.5 years and the owner was EVIL. I reported her to the franchise owner and she sold… not sure what happened in between, but she did some of the most horrific things that I won’t say here and I’m so glad she got her ass kicked out for it
My last job was terrible, the management treated everyone like they were nothing. I quit. Recently, I got a phone call from a lawyer asking to hear about my experience at my last job because apparently there's a class action lawsuit regarding how they treated their employees. Beautiful karma at work.
I was an assistant at a salon. The most toxic place I've ever worked in my life. Im a hairdresser. Ive nerve been late for a client, i do not cancel appointments or move appointments. I show up, coffee in hand 20 minutes before any body comes in, set up and ready for the day. These peoplewere chronically late, made me set up for them or even start their clients, they had me get their food, one time they even asked me to clean their fridge of their leftovers! The was the last straw. I didn't get paid properly and when i decided to leave they gaslit me and told me I'd never be anything without them. I have never been better, renting my own booth, i never want to own a salon, i never want an assistant, i just want to provide good honest work and be paid well for my talent. Ill never ever be like them because I'll never ever forget them....
The experience you described having almost exactly mirrors my last experience being employed in the industry. It seems this behavior is all too common and is ultimately why I decided salons are not for me 😅
This is why my daughter wants to open her own salon and be an amazing employer, because she’s had so many awful experiences with salon owners! What is it with them, is it just in their DNA or something? Because it is so common, unfortunately.
I've never worked in a salon, but I've dealt with salon owners while working in a shop that sells the products to licensed stylists. They're just as bad as customers. I'd say 90% (at minimum) were like that. They also go ahead and dump their gossip and drama while they shop too. I got really good at having automatic neutral responses while not taking in anything they told me because I just didn't care about their gossip haha.
I worked at a hair salon and the owner wouldn’t let me wear my natural hair, I have very curly hair and he said it looked trashy. I was born and raised in Naples, FL and it’s very ~high end~ and he treated me like shit. There is so much tea and law suits I can spill on this man. I don’t even make videos but I could make like an hour long one. And now I’m a paralegal and want nothing to do with doing hair.
Also another shitty thing, we went through hurricane irma in 2017 and he was texting my best friend who had previously worked for him asking to get in contact with me asking if i was coming to work lmao like sir im underwater with no power wtf
I was once told by a black dentist that i shouldn’t wear braids in the office. And I personify my blackness by wearing them. So one day he was talking about how delicious pigfeets was so I said now that pot the kettle black. So I had to break down my heritage and let him that no only am I black but also Cherokee Indian (first nation) and not one of family members worked on the plantation. So after he used the same instruments in the mother mouth as the children. I reported his ass and quit. Then I went to work for a white dentist who actually loved my hair and would request that I worn more braid bcz it was so sexy. And he had a crush on me.
This reminds me of the unpaid internships here in the US. I had to do one for my degree requirements- better yet- not only did I not get paid, I had to pay tuition for the apprenticeship because it was a “class”. So I paid my university a couple thousand dollars to work for free, and the manager of the gallery I worked at gave me a C. She almost failed me after I paid thousands to work for her.
I didn’t have to do this because I did a paid internship during the summer (got it through a non profit organization btw) and it qualified as my apprenticeship.
The biggest hair mistake of my early 20s was going to a friend's recced hair salon for natural waves and leaving it with a poodle like perm because the hairdresser decided it would look better without consulting me. Cried all the way home and wore various hats for 3 months. Genuinely traumatised me and I still struggle trusting hairdressers.
If you wash your perm within in the first 24 hours it will fall out, thats why we tell you not to wet your hair for 48 hours after. If it ever happens again at a salon 1) get them to wash it out immediately(you will still have a perm but it will drop from poodle to much more relaxed but will definitely fall out quickly afterwards) and then 2) don't pay for it because they screwed up badly. You don't make someone a poodle unless you're doing it on purpose or a total idiot because you have to use very small perm rods to do a poodle like perm lol Sorry you went through that, thats very traumatic
When I was working in a company I had a new boss who just go promoted and she wanted to show how competent she was by being rude and making us be afraid of her... one day I called her from an ambulance telling her I just had a terrible accident on my way to work with a broken rib, her reply was "You should have told me before... take today off and will see what to do with you with HR" let me tell HR had to tell her that her promotion was cancelled when I was back to work after 3 months.
Love the end of the video. You deserve alllll the success Robert 💜 so many of us tune in for every video you make because you’re not only a wonderful person who we trust but you’re so talented and knowledgeable- truly the best 💜
OMG.. where do I start!?!?!? When I was an apprentice my boss would shout at us if we were caught having a lunch break on a Saturday, make us clean the salon from top to bottom then swipe her finger along a surface look at it and say “that’s not clean, do it again” , would make my clients wait so I could wash her clients, take you off your lunch break if your client came in early, under paid me by £15 a week in my first year and £10 in my second year (bare in mind we were only meant to get paid £95 a week and she got a grant from the government to help pay us), take clients off of me when she had nothing in and then make me clean, make us go to the shop to get her lunch and any cleaning supplies for the salon, tell us to go home when it was dead and then deduct money for that, she told me that my curly hair it’s like pubes (I’m mixed race and I have fine soft curls) . I could go on forever but one of my best memories of working in that salon is my best friend of now 15 years one day just had it with this nasty client we shared called Ann that was into country and Weston re-enactments and breath stank of piss, she waited for the boss to go to the loo whilst my friend was brushing out her set to start telling him he takes the piss out of our boss , he’s ungrateful and basically a waste of space. It ended with my friend throwing the denman brush at her head saying finish your own f**king hair 😂. Best day of my life. My boss did not stick up for him, we both threatened to walk out and she kissed our ass’s for a bit . Didn’t last long though 💜
I was massively taken advantage of in my first vet nursing job. Was head nurse, but being paid the same as everyone else. My manager would regularly tell me I could be replaced in an instant if I left. She would also use me as a scapegoat for anything that went wrong in the place. She would tell me I cant be friends with my co-workers because I was their superiour and would blame me when protocols I was ordered to implement didnt work. I still carry trauma from that place.
The amazing opportunities in hair and beauty salons seem to always turnout to be BS. No lunch break, long hrs, unpaid overtime, and lots of broken promises. Will definitely be working for myself once qualified.
Oh Robert... the shit I can tell you about the place I left after almost 11 years. This place is the cause of my seizures. My 55 yr old aunt died and no one told me to go home, worked all day. So much shit. I'm at a different salon now that isn't toxic & everyone is so supportive it's weird. Love your content & shade! ❤
13 years ago I was fired as an owners assistant. I was ready to be behind the chair but she wouldn’t let me straight out of the gate. She treated me horribly as you can imagine. I have always known color theory inside and out because I’ve been drawing/painting as soon as I came out of the womb. She would explain the color she’s mixing and the end result to me every time she did a color. Most times she had no idea what the f she was doing. I’d make a comment “if you mix X and Y wouldn’t you get Z and not A?” I was just trying to learn but every single time the color came out exactly like I said it would. One day she called me out of the blue and fired me. I’m pretty sure it’s because I knew more about color than her and she did not like that. 😂 I ended up specializing in corrective color for 10 years and made great money. Due to health issues I had to give my career up. Now I work the Benefit Brow Bar inside Ulta which I love. She came in last week, had no clue who I was. She asked for a color match so I sent her on her merry way with a terrible match and the complete wrong brush to apply it with. I do not feel bad.
The last spa I worked at kept trying to pass their social media off to any other employee and give them no time to actually do it. They wanted daily posts and just expected the staff to do it in 5 minutes between clients. When they first started trying to get me to do their social media they very generously offered me an HOUR per week. Of course they offered no extra pay and got frustrated at their expectations not being met. I spent a solid 5 years telling them the social media work they expected was at least a part time job. They kept giving it to the overworked receptionists. 🙃
Robert, you’re my favorite beauty influencer/professional human on the internet, for sure. I love your attitude, sense of humor, knowledge, and skills. Thank you
"Making coffee for the clients" You guys get coffee at your hair salons? 😮 They don't even give us water over here! I finally cut my hair after years. The only hairstylist I trusted left the salon because of the owner. They were getting more money when they started getting brides, but the owner wouldn't raise the employees' salaries, and she would also take credit for work she never did herself. That hairstylist is now independent, and she also took a lot of the salon's clients with her because she's amazing (unfortunately, not me because she moved too far away 😢).
I worked for a small state department for about 8 years. I thought I was working a little above my actual level while I was there, but I really loved my job and the work that we did, so I stayed. When I finally left due to a swift and severe change in company culture and got a promotion at a different department, I realized I had been working several positions above my level (like executive level work) amd several others had been too. I don't regret my time there, as I still pull on the experience I got to this day and it's resulted in several promotions since, but it would have been nice to receive executive-level pay for executive-level work.
That’s so damaging to someone’s confidence to be let go after the 2 week free trial. Not to mention B’s terrible, sad situation not even being acknowledged. Ms. Circle is most likely a liar and is expecting everyone isn’t truthful either.
I've never been to a salon but I work in a barber shop. The owners are actually nice people, but most of the barbers are... rough around the edges. One of them yelled at me and I broke down into tears, in front of customers, within my first month working! Not all of them are mean, I just can't hold a conversation with most of them. I only truly get along with one of them, and even she doesn't really conversate with the others. I'm not even a barber, I'm just the receptionist. I'm still new to the job but I don't think I'll hold onto it for a long time. 😮💨
Anytime anyone says “you’ll never become or be able to xyz” just know they already can see your future and know *they* are the failure. They have peaked and on their way down and you’re just starting the climb!
Salon owners are a different breed! I worked as an assistant in a hair salon during summer break and I was studying makeup in college and my boss got me to do her makeup after work unpaid before she went on a night out. She said it would be ‘good experience’ 16yr old introvert me felt too awkward to say no🥴
I was a dog groomer for about 6 years and the drama is there too! - I was taught from the age of 16 and basically, I just got all the awful jobs to do. Health and safety was not there. I had a select few colleagues that would also talk down to me because of my age. Words can't express how awful it was there
Lol you should hear the drama with tattoo shop owners! I've overheard several juicy tidbits while getting work done in at least three separate studios 👀👀 You just gotta stay quiet and pretend you're not listening to the employees, eventually you'll overhear something good 😂
I once had a professor I worked with that missed treated her research assistants tell me I would never survive in academia because I was quitting my job with her. Not only did I earn a second masters degree, I also earned my doctorate degree. And guess where I worked for the past 27 years? If you said a university ding ding, you got that right!
Oh my! You go Robert!!! I love hearing about someone's story where they are told they will never accomplish a goal and they prove them wrong. You are a success! And you will keep rising. On another note, the audacity of Sharlene preaching about apprentices going somewhere else to be treated properly when she herself treats them horribly.
Thank you for that last bit of proving haters wrong with the receipts to boot. That wormed my soul! Especially with the snap to flip off as the cherry on top! ❤
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One time I did a botched home bleaching of my hair so I went to a salon to get it fixed, the lady doing my hair was super nice and understanding about it. One of the owners of the salon came up to me and laughing and said “oh, YOU must be the one everyone’s laughing about in the back!” I was just a teenager at the time and it just made me feel so bad about myself. I never went back there after that.
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When I was a teenager my grandmother took me as a gift for my birthday to a salon to get my hair done. While I was there the girl who was doing my hair asked "Do you think your grandmother would pay for me to wax your brows too?" I was so taken aback and uncomfortable. I just responded that I didn't know. Then I heard her say "And your lip too, UGHHH." I was so upset and uncomfortable that I almost cried. Being a teenager is hard enough already and like most other teenagers I struggled with self esteem/body issues. Then to have someone publicly call attention to something like that and act disgusted by it? Never went there again after that. My hair looked nice but it wasn't worth it.
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@@Jennilynne oh my word!!
I know someone who was fired for “talking too much time off”.
His wife and small child were killed in a car accident and 3 weeks was too much time away from work apparently. When he was asked how much more time he needed and his response was “I don’t know”. The employer replied with “You don’t need to worry about time, we’re letting you go”’
That company was Royal Mail. They kicked a man while he was about as down as you can get.
WTF!!!
Absolutely revolting
That's so incredibly cruel. I hope he told everyone and they got a lot of blow back.
OMG! Just how heartless and callous can people actually be! That’s just cruel! I can’t imagine anyone would feel okay about saying this, obviously their heart has turned to stone.
That’s so disturbing, poor guy :(
I haven't been to a salon for over 10 years. Last time I went, it was to have help to shorten my hair that I was in the process of losing to chemo. I was NOT wanting a full chop, but she started out, rubber banding to the proper length, chopping it there, then when I had my eyes closed face buried in tissues(yes, I was sobbing.. my hair was past my bum until the cut) I heard a weird click and hum, didn't know what it was, and then she used what I now know was clippers, and cut a strip from the center part of my hair... to the skin. I was not ready for it. She jerked back when I cried out, and then SCREAMED at me, "Damn bish! It's gonna fall out anyways, get that shit over with. It'll be better. Trust me." I left, didn't pay. I was too upset, and not thinking clearly. Still had on the drape as well. Went to my parent's home and just sobbed. My father got out his old hair clippers(loud as heck pair) and he finished what she started. He gave me a big hug and a kiss on my forehead, and told me I was a nice egg, which honestly, was so far out of character for him that I laughed till I was crying all over again. I will never forgive that stylist though. BTW, 7 years in full remission. Fuck cancer.
God I’m so sorry. I went to the hairdresser to shave my head from hair loss (non cancer) and it was such a vulnerable and uncomfortable process so I can only imagine what you were already feeling getting a big cut, let alone having a chance to shave your head in your own time taken away from you. Horrible behaviour from her to do that to you! So glad you had a moment with your dad later that was able to turn that around at least and congrats on remission!!
I'm so sorry. Your dad sounds lovely, and I'm so glad you've been remission for so long!
Yassss ! F U C K cancer and F that stylist she had no right and why should you have to pay for that?
I’m a hairstylist and I’m horrified that you were treated that way. I’m so sorry.
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I had a hairdresser that loves to talk 💩 about the owner when she wasn’t there. It was very entertaining. I was like, I don’t need my hair done, but… I have to find out what Michelle did… 😂
😂😂😂!!! I love some chair gossip!
Meanwhile I have broken up with mine because I’m pretty sure she got bored with me. (Admittedly don’t lead a very exciting life atm). Wasn’t listening to what I wanted, doing same old thing every time. Declining quality and increasing costs made me walk with my feet. Made for an uncomfortable conversation in the supermarket when I ran into her. I told her the truth (Calmly and respectfully) about how I felt.
Charlene boasts about going away on vacation and still making money. Can the staff do the same thing? Does she take care of her staff the way they take care of her???? Riddle me that BATMAN!
You can just tell she’s one of those bosses that guilts any of her staff that want to take a vacation. “Oh, but we’ll be so overrun without you…”
@ghoultooth Yeah... you always know who does the real work at a place. If that person or group take a day off and the place falls apart
This is the kind of boss who says they can’t promote you because you’re just too good at the job you have. 🙄
sorry i dont have an answer
@@secretlythebatman thank you BATMAN
"Apprentices ...it sounds so weird it sounds like a Wizard's assistant.. " 😂 I adore how your mind works!
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Does your thought come from Sorcerers Apprentice??
A poem written in 1797 before Disney made the cartoon movie.
@@GlitterGlamGal wasnt there a live action Sorcerer Apprentice movie that was a comedy with the guy that played in Out Of Her League?
I love that too! And I’m going to use it!
@@ChristinaMoralesMindfuqed Yes with Jay Baruchel and Nicolas Cage. That was 2010 , there was also one in 2001 and the third part of Disneys Fantasia as well i believe. Im not positive on this but i think its accurate.
Robert's calm flex of his awards and nominations
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You deserve even more awards darling, you're exceptional as an artist and as an individual. I have the utmost respect for you and I wish you were my friend, a treasure to have in one's life. Never change! ❤ @@Robert_Reacts
This made me cackle! Loved it!
Robert for PM!!!
@@justilou1 He couldn't do any worse of a job than the last three.
I quit working at a bank after my aunt passed away, and when i came back from the funeral and showed my boss the prayer card we had made with my aunts photo on one side, and my boss looked at me and said "do you think she would still be here if she wasnt overweight?"
My aunt (52) passed from a very rare usually childhood form of leukemia. Her weight had nothing to do with it. Ill never forget that boss, she was horrible in several ways.
What a piece of crab!
Oh …. My god that’s awful!
Wow.
My jaw is on the floor. What a horrible person to say that!!
Jc, I'm so sorry, what a terrible thing to say 😮
“Do you wanna know how to leave your salon for weeks and make the same amount of money? It’s so easy! Make the money off the backs of your stylists who are doing the actual work!!!”
That "shadowing program" sounds a whole lot like she wants someone to come work for "experience" and no pay 🤦♀️ she gives major skeezy vibes, and the woman with the long black hair in her video about the program DEFINITELY feels some kind of way about having everything dumped on her while her boss is "gallivanting through Europe" 😑
Trying sooo hard (and failing) to mask the sarcasm.
@@kelqueen9998 and her eyebrows are too dark andfilled in..... (its a small thing but annoyed me!)
Really her own hair and brows say all one needs to hear. And her half off shirt.😂
"Now theyre half salon half cafe" 🤣🤣😭😭😭😭😭 and we love that for them🤌🤌
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I’d love to go there and sip some coffee while watching your videos! 😂☕️
Please tell me they serve tea, I like it when @Robert_Reacts spills it. 😉
The TEA 😂
The Snappy Bird Flip©!😅😊😂❤ Love the sass so so much!
Be in my own drama 🙅♀️ ✋🚫
Watch people online in drama 🙂↕️👀👀👏🏻
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Fr also, as a side note, your pfp is GORGEOUS! ❤❤ I love that pink eyeshadow
@@ghoultooth 🥹💜💜💜
Truth
As a person who owns a hair studio and works alone. I still have drama. 🤣🤣🤣
😂😂😂 it’s a hair thing!!!! It has to be!
I love this. Where is your studio located? I need a haircut and some good gossip
@@amandaterrio4823 I'm in a really small town in SOCAL.
@@Robert_Reacts it is 🤣🤣
@@StephaniePratt887 I’m all the way across the country on the east coast.
Ooohhhh... Robert! I loved your anecdote with your boss telling you you'll never be an influencer. Flip her. Flip her that bird Robert, you are amazing!
😂😂 thank you! 🖤🖤
Yessss!!!!!
Loved that bit so much! I really hope she sees it 😂😂😂
I bet she hate watches 😏
@@jocelynsmyth6604while crying in her latte and still wondering why her MUAs aren't launching successful marketing campaigns... 😢
I worked on a cruise ship with a salon. It was as staffed by 3 hair stylists, and 2 nail techs.
The captain ended up firing all three of the stylists because they kept stirring up drama and tried to bully the nail techs💀
LMAO this doesn't surprise me. Stylist of 11 years and it's just a shit show everywhere.
@@crispyyrosee I thought the hotel staff had drama, and we were having whole fist fights about petty stuff🤣
It was because of the stylists that we got slapped with a bunch of new rules about “physical engagement” with passengers🤦🏾♀️
I remember as a 15 year old teenager the woman straightening my hair after a cut started shouting out "no her hair is too greasy to straighten" I was mortified and I know that my hair wasn't "too greasy to straighten" it was freshly washed.. she was just being nasty and mean
I’m biracial and the amount of stylists who have complained TO ME about my hair being too curly or “unmanageable” is astounding. I would be embarrassed but now that I’m old, I refuse to take that shit. Last dude who made snide remarks about my hair being “difficult” was immediately reported to the manager who apologized profusely and even sent his ass over to apologize to me.
No client should ever be made to feel ugly or that something about them isn’t right. I’m paying for a service, not the unsolicited opinions and racism of someone.
As a former hairdressing apprentice I can confirm that salon owners are some of the most toxic bosses I've ever encountered.
One particularly nasty one got spiteful after the doctor told me I had to take a week off work due to an injury - boss lady asked if I'd come in anyway and "just stay on reception" (no way would she have just had me do that for a whole week, Id' have been running around like normal, but injured).
So I refused, then when I went back in a week later she called me over and said "from now on, you're not allowed to smoke in here unless you ask my permission first" - this was in the 90s so salons were basically smoke dens and everyone smoked.
I thought at first it was a new salon rule (because she was the only one working there who didn't smoke) but no - it only applied to me. Not the other juniors, not the stylists - just the shy 17 year old who dared to take a week off and rest an injury.
I handed in my notice soon after that, and I took great pleasure in seeing her crying as I walked past the windows outside after doing so :D
(that wasn't the only example of her nastiness, it was just the 'final' one for me)
Ugh that’s so awful! 😩🖤
And she was upset you left???
@@maryeckel9682shitty bosses normally get upset when they lose someone they can’t crack a whip on anymore lol
@@honeyOTU_ Yeah I think this was it TBH. She realised she'd have to try and find someone else to put up with her shit, do her shopping, take her laundry and fold the towels in the exact way she wanted them...!
As a beauty professional, I feel this in my soul😂
I got "so you're not coming in?" With double pink eye, an ear infection, and laryngitis
"SO WE CAN'T REACH OUR GOAL THIS MONTH BECAUSE YOU WON'T WORK?!" While I had to get shots of chemo for ectopic pregnancy. Dear god why is this our industry.
P.s. I work for myself in a salon loft now. No more bosses.😊
If I saw you walking up to get me with double pink eye, I would report that manager/salon to the health department so fast.
Oh, so they outsource the boss's work while she's away. I bet that goes well. Charlene is lucky her own employees don't burn both her and her salons to the ground.
Exactly. It‘s giving „I eat cake every day! Do you want to know how I manage to eat cake every day?“ à la Marie-Antoinette. Even letting her peasants read off a line or two, cherry on top. I genuinely thought the segment at 11:00 was satire at first.
A boss should never expect employees to love their business as much as they do. It's stupid and unrealistic.
I worked for a business like that. The most stressful five years of my life. "We'Re A fAmIlY." Never again.
yea unless they give the employees a part of profits if they go up why would we care? They pay employee as low amount as possible while they get richer
I called out of work becasue i lived with my Aunt and her wife who was on hospice, my job knew this.
I called out the night before because she passed and they said "didn't you know she was going to die though?"
I said "yes, but my Aunt just lost her Wife and I am her only family here she needs me to help her with the funeral."
I was so taken aback from that heartless response.
honestly people will show their true colors in your time of need.
I'm a manager and my first priority is ensuring my coworkers are safe and comfortable. they stand for hours and deal with customers first hand. if they need bathroom breaks, water, a stool, more mats, it's my job to provide that. plus I've done their job I worked my way up so I understand.
YES! Give your people what they need to succeed and shine. They'll make you and your business look its best.
I stopped going to hairdressers about 9 years ago, because I don't like most of the "normal" haircuts and the disgust in their eyes when I told them what I wanted made me feel so small, stupid and even ugly. I taught myself how to do it myself, because I have cried more than once on the way home after they convinced me to get what they said was the better option.
I cut my own hair too because i always dread the hairdresser. The relief when I realised I didn’t have to anymore 😂 I also have an alternative haircut, some hairdressers make such a big deal in-front of the other customers.
Been cutting my own and my husbands for the same reasons for last 30 plus years. Learned to do my own nails too.
I hate going to the salon. I never liked the result haircut and it's expensive. So I do my hair myself and it looks okay.
When you said “do I have food in my teeth? No. I haven’t eaten today. Okay.” I felt that.
Tbh she looks high when she’s talking and everything she is saying is just empty words that have no real purpose, there’s no actual point to what she’s trying to put out there
I noticed the same thing, it was painful to listen to her repeat herself and talk in circles. But she uses that "passionate guru" cadence. She keeps telling you what she's about to tell you.
She is a stereotypical hairdresser in Australia. I’ve seen this so many times and experienced it myself. All they care about is money. I get the bad chills everytime I see here.
I wonder what Tabitha Coffey would have to say to this salon owner? Oh, to be a fly on the wall for that convo 😬🤣🤣
Omggggg I loved her show!! 😂😂
I was never sure what kind of boss she'd have been. But most of the salons from that show had leadership issues. I do love a make over!!
omg. especially as a fellow aussie. she’d rip her a new one. i love tabitha so much. genuinely a queer aussie icon
That “ad” or whatever it was Charlene did about going on vacation, was so tacky. Her employees were smiling, but they looked like they wanted to bury her in the basement and tell people she went on vacation 😂
It sounded like they were shading her for going away!! My thoughts are if it runs the same without you, they dont need you LOL
I feel so incredibly sorry for Brock and what happened to him at that age. Difficult enough to go through without the horrible job experience on top. Traumatic.
The satisfaction of you proving that salon owner wrong and flipping her off, so iconic!
I also really hate the mentality some business owners have of treating staff so poorly and expecting them to go above and beyond while the owners are nowhere to be seen.
Can someone please tell me the name of the salon!? 😅
that lady is totally growing on miserable workers costs 😭😭
Not Robert showing off all his accolades then flipping the bird 😂
My mom worked for a company and her supervisor would watch her every time she went to the restroom and tell her she shouldn’t be going except during breaks. She brought it up during a meeting and after that he wouldn’t talk to her much. I ended up working there for two months and he was my supervisor. I was new and still learning. I was basically only trained for two weeks and then left to run four machines on my own. I ended up injuring myself and had to get stitches. They made me come back to work that same day and he wrote me up a few days later. In fact he wrote me up a lot. For various petty reasons. I ended up quitting a few weeks later while he was away on vacation. HR and the manger tried to get me to stay, but I couldn’t stay at a place that didn’t respect me. That wrote me up and made me do the work of three people by having to run three machines at once. The manger said she would be there for me, but she really wasn’t. She barely had me trained and had an awful supervisor in the department I was in. Funny thing is about a year after I left he was fired. My mom said he was escorted out of the building one day and never came back.
I have IBS, and that shit would have me calling a labor attrorney
i’ve considered working as an mua in a salon but all the people who (i saw) doing it here are so unprofessional and unhygienic, i can’t
Ugh i remember my last year of undergrad i was trying to get into grad school and i had to get letters of recommendations from a few professors to send to the schools i was applying to. One of the professors who agreed to write a letter was a lady i knew well. I worked on her research lab for years and looked up to her. AFTER she sent the letters to the school she sat me down and told me that she didn't think I was cut out for grad school and while she did send letters, she did not recommend the schools accept me in any of the letters. Of course I didn't get into any of the schools and had to take a few years off before trying again. A few years later i did get in, graduated with my M.ed in counseling with a 4.0 and now own my own counseling private practice and a nonprofit. I still have no i idea what inspired her to try to ruin my academic future, i was so shocked when she told me that i agreed with her that i wasn't cut out for grad school, thanked her, and left. Still pisses me off!
Wow I just don’t understand some people. I’ve had a similar situation but where they just didn’t respond to the request for a reference after they went out of their way to confirm they would provide one to me prior to me providing their contact info. They basically ghosted me and my future employer so I had to find someone else… Ughhh now that I’m in a position where people have asked me for references I’m always super diligent and make sure I follow through because I know how awful that feeling of betrayal is when someone lets you down like that.
Robert ate with all them awards
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Awww yay Robert saw my comment. I love you and your brothers content because I can't forget Marcus.
My worst boss ever was at a hair salon in a mall. I was a receptionist and she straight up hated me (along with large clique of stylists). She cut my hours in half without even telling me, I had to get a second job. It’s fine, I ended up taking a bunch of products from the overflowing pile of returns she was supposed to keep track of to teach her a lesson. I’m sure she never noticed.
Ugh they sound awful!
“I quit and deleted all of it off their instagram” in dyinggggg at the pettiness 😂😂
Omg making the “actual a$$hole” with your hand!
I’m dead. I have actually died 💀
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Something about hair and beauty seems to attract drama... I did about four weeks of a hair and beauty course at college before I dropped out because of all the drama in my class. I don't think I'm cut out for working in a salon!
It really does attract drama! 😂
You can do online courses if it ever suits you :) I can’t work at the minute so I’m hoping to do a cosmetics at some point
@@ghoultooth would that get you a full certificate doing it online? My training was 3/4 practical.
My mom is a hairdresser and the salon was practically my second home for most of my life. I wanted to be a hairdresser so bad but when I was 18 my mom convinced me to try other careers and school first the beauty industry wasn’t going anywhere and now 15 years later I am so grateful I never pursued hair. The drama, the hours, the customers, the all of it is definitely too much I just needed step away to see it and I’m so glad I did.
You DEFINITELY dodged more than just a bullet, you dodged a nuclear BOMB!
I am a retired stylist. My greatest joy was having my apprentices assist me with clients. I can get my own coffee and lunch. They are there to learn the craft, not how to be a waiter/waitress/housekeeper.
I love your short "HAHA LOOK WHERE I AM NOW!" rant at the end 🤣🤩
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Working in a salon literally led me to a mental health crisis, I had an evil boss that was so two faced and passive aggressive it was awful!!
Hoo boy, yes I've had horrible bosses. My last boss was downright abusive actually. His favorite thing to do was gaslight me. I never made it a secret that I struggled with severe anxiety and depression, and depression usually hits me sometime getting into the holidays. I felt it hit me that year I worked for him and told him that I was struggling. I brought it up in a meeting, asking if it would be okay for me to ask my coworker and my boss if I needed some help getting things done (it was just us three in the department). They said, "Of course! Sure!" But when I actually asked for help, my boss sighed at me, would shake his head, roll his eyes... One day I had a panic attack at work before I went to lunch. When I came back from lunch, he lit into me with a list of things I had been doing wrong the past two weeks that he had never brought up to me, including asking my coworker for help. When I threatened to quit over his unfair treatment of me, he said, "Well, I just want you to keep in mind that you wouldn't just be giving up on this job, you'd be giving up on yourself."
He went on a ten day vacation the following week. I quit the day he got back.
Kind that you waited.
@@barbaratatton3855 Yeah, I also worked out a two weeks' notice bc I cared about our clients. He and that company didn't deserve it at all, and sometimes I think I should have just walked out in the middle of his tirade, but alas...that's not what happened.
I AM CLENCHING MY PEARLS. THE SECOND HAND EMBARRASSMENT 😳
I have first second and third embarrassment after finishing..
My all time favourite line that I always wait for ‘are you fucking stupid’ 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
have i ever been treated unfairly in the workplace? hmmm…. the class action lawsuit against my old employer would suggest the answer is yes 😂
As a hair stylist I love me a little drama, but I’ve worked at salons where it was a bit MUCH and had to find a better salon team 😬
😂😂😂 I love listen to clients drama!
A salon is 1 place I've actually never worked, I would imagine it's FULL of all kinds of drama. Looking forward to this one!
Jerseylicious was an entertaining reality show about a salon - makeup artists maybe? Anyway, I was fascinated.
Come to Australia to get an apprenticeship....
A hair stylist told me her experience at her 1st salon.
She worked their for 1 year for free before they even offered her an apprenticeship. Once she was signed up the boss told her she needed her bottom length hair cut and styled to suit the "edgy salon". She ended up with bleached, mostly shaven short hair.
The trauma of losing all that hair finally took a toll on her mental health and she quit.
She was still growing it out when I met her.
Thankfully another salon took her on and treated her with the money and respect she deserved.
Sadly Salons get away with this kind of behaviour bc they have so many candidates to pick from.
The best way to avoid drama in the salon is to not go in the back room I think the back room is the breeding ground for gossip and drama
I have been treated unfairly at a salon that I worked at and also at a salon that I owned, which is why I close the doors and went to go on to renting a booth. The best thing I ever did.
I'm a licensed professional and I stopped doing hair because of all of the back stabbing that goes on in the beauty industry. I'm not thin and not blonde, I was often ridiculed and made fun of behind my back.
Hahaha I love the snap to middle finger transition, I'm going to have to use that 😅😅😅
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I've worked a lot of service jobs during my gap year and first years of university, and the one with the most toxic environment was a nail salon. I mean, a bakery I was working in was literally robbed at gunpoint once and I still would choose that over the amount of toxicity and passive aggressiveness of the nail salon.
I worked in a nail salon for 1.5 years and the owner was EVIL. I reported her to the franchise owner and she sold… not sure what happened in between, but she did some of the most horrific things that I won’t say here and I’m so glad she got her ass kicked out for it
My last job was terrible, the management treated everyone like they were nothing. I quit. Recently, I got a phone call from a lawyer asking to hear about my experience at my last job because apparently there's a class action lawsuit regarding how they treated their employees. Beautiful karma at work.
I was an assistant at a salon. The most toxic place I've ever worked in my life. Im a hairdresser. Ive nerve been late for a client, i do not cancel appointments or move appointments. I show up, coffee in hand 20 minutes before any body comes in, set up and ready for the day. These peoplewere chronically late, made me set up for them or even start their clients, they had me get their food, one time they even asked me to clean their fridge of their leftovers! The was the last straw. I didn't get paid properly and when i decided to leave they gaslit me and told me I'd never be anything without them. I have never been better, renting my own booth, i never want to own a salon, i never want an assistant, i just want to provide good honest work and be paid well for my talent. Ill never ever be like them because I'll never ever forget them....
The experience you described having almost exactly mirrors my last experience being employed in the industry. It seems this behavior is all too common and is ultimately why I decided salons are not for me 😅
It’s so similar in every salon! I had so many hair stylist friends growing up and they all had similar experiences!
This is why my daughter wants to open her own salon and be an amazing employer, because she’s had so many awful experiences with salon owners! What is it with them, is it just in their DNA or something? Because it is so common, unfortunately.
Rooting for your daughter ♥️
@@sojinnn Thank you so much!! ❤️❤️
I've never worked in a salon, but I've dealt with salon owners while working in a shop that sells the products to licensed stylists. They're just as bad as customers. I'd say 90% (at minimum) were like that. They also go ahead and dump their gossip and drama while they shop too. I got really good at having automatic neutral responses while not taking in anything they told me because I just didn't care about their gossip haha.
I worked at a hair salon and the owner wouldn’t let me wear my natural hair, I have very curly hair and he said it looked trashy. I was born and raised in Naples, FL and it’s very ~high end~ and he treated me like shit. There is so much tea and law suits I can spill on this man. I don’t even make videos but I could make like an hour long one. And now I’m a paralegal and want nothing to do with doing hair.
Also another shitty thing, we went through hurricane irma in 2017 and he was texting my best friend who had previously worked for him asking to get in contact with me asking if i was coming to work lmao like sir im underwater with no power wtf
I was once told by a black dentist that i shouldn’t wear braids in the office. And I personify my blackness by wearing them. So one day he was talking about how delicious pigfeets was so I said now that pot the kettle black. So I had to break down my heritage and let him that no only am I black but also Cherokee Indian (first nation) and not one of family members worked on the plantation. So after he used the same instruments in the mother mouth as the children. I reported his ass and quit. Then I went to work for a white dentist who actually loved my hair and would request that I worn more braid bcz it was so sexy. And he had a crush on me.
For some reason, I was thinking she looked like one of the mentors that people were running away from, and then Brock entered the scene. 😂😂
This reminds me of the unpaid internships here in the US. I had to do one for my degree requirements- better yet- not only did I not get paid, I had to pay tuition for the apprenticeship because it was a “class”. So I paid my university a couple thousand dollars to work for free, and the manager of the gallery I worked at gave me a C. She almost failed me after I paid thousands to work for her.
I did Meals On Wheels for mine and it was actually awesome but I know that isn't the norm
I didn’t have to do this because I did a paid internship during the summer (got it through a non profit organization btw) and it qualified as my apprenticeship.
The biggest hair mistake of my early 20s was going to a friend's recced hair salon for natural waves and leaving it with a poodle like perm because the hairdresser decided it would look better without consulting me. Cried all the way home and wore various hats for 3 months. Genuinely traumatised me and I still struggle trusting hairdressers.
If you wash your perm within in the first 24 hours it will fall out, thats why we tell you not to wet your hair for 48 hours after. If it ever happens again at a salon 1) get them to wash it out immediately(you will still have a perm but it will drop from poodle to much more relaxed but will definitely fall out quickly afterwards) and then 2) don't pay for it because they screwed up badly.
You don't make someone a poodle unless you're doing it on purpose or a total idiot because you have to use very small perm rods to do a poodle like perm lol
Sorry you went through that, thats very traumatic
When I was working in a company I had a new boss who just go promoted and she wanted to show how competent she was by being rude and making us be afraid of her... one day I called her from an ambulance telling her I just had a terrible accident on my way to work with a broken rib, her reply was "You should have told me before... take today off and will see what to do with you with HR" let me tell HR had to tell her that her promotion was cancelled when I was back to work after 3 months.
Told her before?? These bosses expect you to have clairvoyance. Oh sure, let me see into the future and see my accident ahead of time.
It's not just human hair salons - the dog grooming salons are also drama. not sure why cutting hair has to be so stressful lmao
Love the end of the video. You deserve alllll the success Robert 💜 so many of us tune in for every video you make because you’re not only a wonderful person who we trust but you’re so talented and knowledgeable- truly the best 💜
Thank you so so much!
OMG.. where do I start!?!?!? When I was an apprentice my boss would shout at us if we were caught having a lunch break on a Saturday, make us clean the salon from top to bottom then swipe her finger along a surface look at it and say “that’s not clean, do it again” , would make my clients wait so I could wash her clients, take you off your lunch break if your client came in early, under paid me by £15 a week in my first year and £10 in my second year (bare in mind we were only meant to get paid £95 a week and she got a grant from the government to help pay us), take clients off of me when she had nothing in and then make me clean, make us go to the shop to get her lunch and any cleaning supplies for the salon, tell us to go home when it was dead and then deduct money for that, she told me that my curly hair it’s like pubes (I’m mixed race and I have fine soft curls) . I could go on forever but one of my best memories of working in that salon is my best friend of now 15 years one day just had it with this nasty client we shared called Ann that was into country and Weston re-enactments and breath stank of piss, she waited for the boss to go to the loo whilst my friend was brushing out her set to start telling him he takes the piss out of our boss , he’s ungrateful and basically a waste of space. It ended with my friend throwing the denman brush at her head saying finish your own f**king hair 😂. Best day of my life. My boss did not stick up for him, we both threatened to walk out and she kissed our ass’s for a bit . Didn’t last long though 💜
😂😂😂!! Omg she sounds horrible!!
It's so easy to try and tell a good story, until someone else who was there tells their side. Ha ha! Couldn't have happened to a better person 😂
I was massively taken advantage of in my first vet nursing job. Was head nurse, but being paid the same as everyone else. My manager would regularly tell me I could be replaced in an instant if I left. She would also use me as a scapegoat for anything that went wrong in the place.
She would tell me I cant be friends with my co-workers because I was their superiour and would blame me when protocols I was ordered to implement didnt work.
I still carry trauma from that place.
"apprentices- idk it sounds like a wizards assistant" 🤣🤣🤣 omg I died, I love that so much!
The amazing opportunities in hair and beauty salons seem to always turnout to be BS. No lunch break, long hrs, unpaid overtime, and lots of broken promises. Will definitely be working for myself once qualified.
Oh Robert... the shit I can tell you about the place I left after almost 11 years. This place is the cause of my seizures. My 55 yr old aunt died and no one told me to go home, worked all day. So much shit. I'm at a different salon now that isn't toxic & everyone is so supportive it's weird. Love your content & shade! ❤
Robert that snap was perfection!!!😂😂😂😂😂😂
13 years ago I was fired as an owners assistant. I was ready to be behind the chair but she wouldn’t let me straight out of the gate. She treated me horribly as you can imagine. I have always known color theory inside and out because I’ve been drawing/painting as soon as I came out of the womb. She would explain the color she’s mixing and the end result to me every time she did a color. Most times she had no idea what the f she was doing. I’d make a comment “if you mix X and Y wouldn’t you get Z and not A?” I was just trying to learn but every single time the color came out exactly like I said it would. One day she called me out of the blue and fired me. I’m pretty sure it’s because I knew more about color than her and she did not like that. 😂 I ended up specializing in corrective color for 10 years and made great money. Due to health issues I had to give my career up. Now I work the Benefit Brow Bar inside Ulta which I love. She came in last week, had no clue who I was. She asked for a color match so I sent her on her merry way with a terrible match and the complete wrong brush to apply it with. I do not feel bad.
The last spa I worked at kept trying to pass their social media off to any other employee and give them no time to actually do it. They wanted daily posts and just expected the staff to do it in 5 minutes between clients. When they first started trying to get me to do their social media they very generously offered me an HOUR per week. Of course they offered no extra pay and got frustrated at their expectations not being met. I spent a solid 5 years telling them the social media work they expected was at least a part time job. They kept giving it to the overworked receptionists. 🙃
Robert, you’re my favorite beauty influencer/professional human on the internet, for sure. I love your attitude, sense of humor, knowledge, and skills. Thank you
"Making coffee for the clients"
You guys get coffee at your hair salons? 😮 They don't even give us water over here!
I finally cut my hair after years. The only hairstylist I trusted left the salon because of the owner. They were getting more money when they started getting brides, but the owner wouldn't raise the employees' salaries, and she would also take credit for work she never did herself.
That hairstylist is now independent, and she also took a lot of the salon's clients with her because she's amazing (unfortunately, not me because she moved too far away 😢).
I worked for a small state department for about 8 years. I thought I was working a little above my actual level while I was there, but I really loved my job and the work that we did, so I stayed. When I finally left due to a swift and severe change in company culture and got a promotion at a different department, I realized I had been working several positions above my level (like executive level work) amd several others had been too. I don't regret my time there, as I still pull on the experience I got to this day and it's resulted in several promotions since, but it would have been nice to receive executive-level pay for executive-level work.
That’s so damaging to someone’s confidence to be let go after the 2 week free trial. Not to mention B’s terrible, sad situation not even being acknowledged. Ms. Circle is most likely a liar and is expecting everyone isn’t truthful either.
I've never been to a salon but I work in a barber shop. The owners are actually nice people, but most of the barbers are... rough around the edges. One of them yelled at me and I broke down into tears, in front of customers, within my first month working! Not all of them are mean, I just can't hold a conversation with most of them. I only truly get along with one of them, and even she doesn't really conversate with the others. I'm not even a barber, I'm just the receptionist. I'm still new to the job but I don't think I'll hold onto it for a long time. 😮💨
Anytime anyone says “you’ll never become or be able to xyz” just know they already can see your future and know *they* are the failure. They have peaked and on their way down and you’re just starting the climb!
Salon owners are a different breed! I worked as an assistant in a hair salon during summer break and I was studying makeup in college and my boss got me to do her makeup after work unpaid before she went on a night out. She said it would be ‘good experience’ 16yr old introvert me felt too awkward to say no🥴
Damn I wish any of my toxic former employers were on tiktok so I could call them out like that
THE SNAP TO MIDDLE FINGER AAAAAAAAAA Robert, thank you for sharing your awards and recognitions with us 🏆
I know it's not the subject but you sound like you've lived quite the interesting life. Congratulations on doing so well with your work!
Oh thank you so much! 🖤
@@Robert_Reacts You're very welcome!
I was a dog groomer for about 6 years and the drama is there too! - I was taught from the age of 16 and basically, I just got all the awful jobs to do. Health and safety was not there. I had a select few colleagues that would also talk down to me because of my age. Words can't express how awful it was there
Robert, you showing your old boss she was SO wrong ⭐️ & Brock coming in hot with the tea! I love the come backs
Lol you should hear the drama with tattoo shop owners! I've overheard several juicy tidbits while getting work done in at least three separate studios 👀👀 You just gotta stay quiet and pretend you're not listening to the employees, eventually you'll overhear something good 😂
16:01 The cackle at “now they’re half salon half café” 😂😂😂
“Not they’re half salon, half cafe…. *evil laugh*” 😆
I once had a professor I worked with that missed treated her research assistants tell me I would never survive in academia because I was quitting my job with her. Not only did I earn a second masters degree, I also earned my doctorate degree. And guess where I worked for the past 27 years? If you said a university ding ding, you got that right!
I’m a corporate girlie now, can’t stress enough how much I love being out of the salon
That whole “Robert is the best” montage is just a thing of beauty! Take THAT.
Justice for Brock!
Yesss!!
I'm a dog groomer in Australia, and even I've had a boss like this! Dog grooming salons can be just as crazy 😂
Oh my! You go Robert!!! I love hearing about someone's story where they are told they will never accomplish a goal and they prove them wrong. You are a success! And you will keep rising. On another note, the audacity of Sharlene preaching about apprentices going somewhere else to be treated properly when she herself treats them horribly.
Thank you for that last bit of proving haters wrong with the receipts to boot. That wormed my soul! Especially with the snap to flip off as the cherry on top! ❤