Hair Cuttery Reviews

Pros

There was great team work and everyone got along really well. If help was needed you can always count on another stylist for help and the salon leaders are amazing as well.

Cons

Sometimes I feel that dealing with the public is hard, and the pay should be a little bit higher for everything that you are required to deal with. My manager was always working and I know she deserved higher pay than what she received.

Advice to Senior Management

keep up the good work!

Pros

The free education is great, as is the dental and vision insurance. They have programs to help you in certain life situations. They give you good discounts on products.

Cons

You don't get breaks if there are clients waiting even if you have already been there for 8 hours. They don't do anything about employee concerns with co-workers or management. Health insurance is almost non-existent. The leaders do not lead they tell you to do things that they themselves don't do. They allow employees to continue to work there even of they disrupt the working environment with all the other employees. They think that it's okay to reprimand you for the smallest thing in front of clients on the salon floor.

Advice to Senior Management

I would like to see them hire leaders that actually know how to lead their fellow stylists not just tell them what to do but actually do those same things. Not just make them leaders because they have
High numbers. Not to keep potentially destructive employees just
Because there numbers are higher. My district leader is the most exceptional leader she is a wonderful boss. But my salon leader has no idea how to lead her stylists all she does is put down most of us even those of us that are hard working. Also, there master stylist needs to be based on experience & technical abilities not how much they can manipulate the
Computer to make their request percentage higher.

Pros

Superior training and development, great earning potential, internal promotions , open door with upper management , technical and professional skills that can be beneficial anywhere

Cons

Uneducated, low class co workers, constantly understaffed, expected to accomplish a tremendous amount of work with limited resources, work almost every weekend

Advice to Senior Management

I love the company and truly believe in the values of the brand, but staffing issues make effective leadership nearly impossible at times. We are expected to lead a team, produce behind our own chair, manage operations and train very inept stylists without going to overtime.

Pros

Meet different people, never a dull moment, great career opportunities for advancements. awesome staff, appropriate work hours and time off, offers workshops for products, styling and services.

Cons

commission split, company doesnt offer enough hair supplies to benefit for all ethnicities, needs to have more multicultural marketing and adverstiments

Advice to Senior Management

keep doing what your doing

Pros

Good place to start,But do not stay long.

Cons

They give you nothing and want more and more from you. Cut benefits, take away vacations, upper mgmt. does not care about stylists. Claim to have values that they do not do. Quality of life but expect you to work every holiday all day. Cannot take time off. When you go to upper mgmt. they dont want to hear what you have to say and just blow you off. No loyalty to employees!!!!!!!!

Advice to Senior Management

Spend more time listening to your people, not let district leaders make decisions alone.

Pros

comission was ok , can be busy at times, they use professsional products.

Cons

dress code, mall hours, bad scheduleing, bad managers, high turnover,

Advice to Senior Management

hire better store managers, receptionists, and district leaders. Stylists are here to cut hair not to clean the salon occasionally hire a janitor if you want it spotless !

Pros

Pretty good tips
Fairly nice co-workers
My manager was very nice (assistant manager-not so much)
Okay training (could be better)
Built in clientele
The Redken color line

Cons

-Performing way too many extra duties in addition to hairstyling (cleaning bathrooms, mopping, washing and folding towels, checking in and out clients, having to stop while your doing hair to answer phones, etc)
-Going several hours without breaks( when clients are waiting), and if you want one, having an assistant manager tell you to take 5 mins when you're starving (this during an 8 hour shift)
-Bad hours
-You have to bust your behind to make so so money
-Tons of children's haircuts
-High turnover
-Poor compensation structure (Thank goodness for tips!)
-Getting out of the salon 45 mins after closing at time because of cashing out and cleaning!!!

And no I did not get fired, I quit because it was too much stress for too little pay. I see that someone else in the Orlando, FL area feels the same way judging by an earlier review!

Advice to Senior Management

How about hiring receptionists for min wage (at all salons) and then the stylists can actually be MORE productive and make you MORE money instead of making them be your janitors and piling on duties that slow them down. They're supposed to be CUTTING HAIR! This company would have been tolerable if it weren't for that.

Pros

insurance is a big thing with anyone right now
also the promotions you are able to recieve

Cons

holidays should be how they used to work 2 off 2.
higher % on retail would also be nice
after you make a certain amount in services for x amount of weeks you should then be granted the option of taking appointments or not.

Pros

some of the best reasons to work for hair cuttery would be because they send you to free educational classes, because hair styles and trends are always changing.

Cons

working with some of the girls, yu become like family, but also there can be drama, and rumors all the time.

Advice to Senior Management

some people that are in management should want to be in management, not just throw it around as a power against others.

Pros

Hair Cuttery is known for it's excellent customer service. On going education is available for Stylists free of charge. Health Insurance is free to employees after 90 days of employment.

Cons

Would like stations that are a bit larger. The space is very small for the number of Stylists that are using the area.

Advice to Senior Management

I am very fortunate to have a great Salon Manager and District Manager. Keep doing what you do, because you ladies are very good at it.