I know, I know, change is good.
Easy for you to say you’re not a Hairdresser! The only change we like are style changes, color changes and price changes.
We Do Not Like to Change our Location.
If you’re a sick demented person and would like to see your hairdresser stress out, tell her/him you’re moving states and this is the last appointment he/she will ever see you.
Or how about, if you’re a salon owner and you tell your girls/guys, the shop is closing in a month.
Or even better, if you’re a stylist and you tell the owner you and every girl/guy who work in current salon have decided to move on to another salon, together!
Yep—— change in the hairdressing world is a very black and white topic. No grey area here. It’s stress or be stressed.
Creative thing watching each scenario play itself out.
If you, the client are moving and the relationship with the hairdresser has history, meaning we’ve been with you from anything to a life threating disease to births. The change we experience in losing you as a client is sad, we’ll miss you but you can and will be replaced just as easily as you replace us. I’ll use a Madea analogy here, if our lives represent trees then you the client are our leaves, seasonal. None the less you are a change, if even for friendship, a dent in our wallet, and you will be missed.
A Salon owner closing its doors, is another hard change to have to happen. For the owner giving up and throwing in the proverbial towel must be an overwhelmingly depressing situation to have happen. I believe in my heart of hearts the weight of this decision must be a horrendous. Now let’s look at it from a hairdresser’s point of view. “What the hell! You can’t close! Where do we go! All the other salons in the area hate us! You’re breaking up a team!”
Yeah for the most part it’s an ugly change to happen. Breaking up a work family is the reality of it all. Situations like living in a small town, work may be difficult to find, and leaving a work area you’ve stood behind for over 15 even 20 years can be a hard change. Worse the only other salon you can possibly work at has 3 girls you went to school with and they hate you for no other reason than …they just do. Don’t try to figure it out, it happens in all work facets. Personally I think being a nurse would be worse. Off topic and on we go.
Ah! The last change on our list! Hairdresser’s Revenge!
You know what I’m talking about, leaving your current area of work, taking all the clientele. Gasp, secretly conspiring, luring all the hairdresser’s from a shop just to piss off the owner and bottom out your old bosses cash flow. I’ve never done this, I’d like to think I’m a better person than that, I’ve never conspired to screw a boss in such a fashion. I’ve been lucky enough to work for some amazing owners. Yet, I could name several salons in which this very scenario has played out, all the girls gone in one day. No warning, no notice – just gone.
Do I think it’s right?
No. However… I say however, If you are a shitty boss, you lie, don’t take care of your workers. It may be the kind of change you need to get your ass right with your workers. Trust me when I tell you word gets out if you’re a sucky boss, and if that kind of change happens in your salon—— The Change needed may be You.
Recap
Change sucks, sometimes it’s necessary, and sometimes it’s forced. Whatever the cause, whatever the situation for the change, you need to remember some things.
Change happens every day in every way and how you react to it is key. Be happy for the clients moving on. Be sympathetic for the people whose change will cause strife and heartache. Be ready for job switches and be nice to Other Hairdressers! You’ll get farther in this business with a better, happier attitude. No one likes a whiney bitch. So perk up, embrace change!
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