Regis Corporation Employee Reviews about "upper management"

Cons

The company has been trending downward for awhile now. They have closed 4 salons in our market this year (2018). Upper management is focused on numbers and seem to forget what it is like on the salon level. They removed the educators which is listed as a perk and potential position for growth. The pay is laughable, especially once you grow past management.

Cons

comission rate MUCH lower than industry standard, employees don't count as people, only revenue generators. too much paperwork for managers and closeout considering it all gets downloaded to home office every night from the computer, I am a hairstylist, not a secretary or receptionist, I do HAIR, not paperwork! our salon does not get to carry all the colours that are offered to us in the colour chart we are given, so it can make formulating a challange. (why offer it if we can't have it there to use?) we are open more hours than we can cover comfortably and safely... we have stylists working alone, in an area the has a high crime rate. Upper management is difficult to get straight answers out and tend to talk in circles. They deflect questions and seem to make a show of being interested in what we think (as frontline workers), but nothing ever comes of our suggestions and input.

Cons

Near-minimum wage to start and little to no chance of increased remuneration. While friendly, staff does not subvert the industry tendency toward the immature and unmotivated. Internalized education is geared toward high volume, low quality production trains stylists to develop very poor techniques within their craft. Lower management is too busy with a high volume of patrons to complete basic duties. Middle management is severely limited in power by upper management restrictions and lack of lower management accountability. Upper management is rarely present on location and can typically by contacted only within a narrow time window and by middle management. Payroll and HR can only be reached by middle managers, all issues called in to payroll and HR by regular employees are redirected back through middle management or ignored. Scheduling is very haphazard; shifts are assigned randomly week by week. Seven to nine day streaks are not atypical. New scheduling optimization creates split shifts that span up to twelve hours. Work week is defined as Monday through Sunday so, for example, working nine days straight from Wednesday through Thursday typically will yield no overtime compensation. Legally mandated lunch breaks were rarely able to be taken and, when taken were continuously interrupted. Co-workers and middle management pressure one another constantly to not take said breaks. No upward mobility. Almost all positions above lower management and staff education are filled permanently or are not filled from within the company. Resigned voluntarily with three weeks' notice and vacation pay was not received with final paycheck on the next payday per Colorado law. After a second payday passed, contacted middle management and found that termination papers had still not yet been filed a month after the last day worked. Still unpaid, I'm told it will be another 15 days before the check is deposited.

Cons

As with any corporation change takes time, plus your not going to like everything about your employer.

Cons

the salary..if we want the best we need to get this company to pay more..7.50 to 850 for a manager is crazy

Cons

was an amazing company to work for but sad to say has all changed with upper management - trying to turn Regis into Haircuttery - what they don't get is its not their staffs its the malls- malls are dyeing - only mega malls will be left in the future -

Cons

This company paid less than minimum wage which was somehow legal (the hourly rate paid to employees was less than NMW but was made equivalent to NMW by taking from the employees earned commission). A very immoral and unethical approach to employees in my opinion. When needing to make some employees redundant, upper management chose to offer an impossible and unfeasible solution which they knew employees would not be able to accept. This was done with the intention of not having to offer anything else (i.e. a redundancy payment). Every employee was regularly threatened with disciplinary action by store-level management and upper management if customers were convinced to buy as many products as possible (employees were told to lie so customers would buy). Working conditions violated health and safety requirements (on one occasion, the store temperature was below freezing and upper management refused to resolve the issue, instead, calling employees liars).

Cons

Company was going through restructuring, which caused a great deal of uncertainty for employees.

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Everything else!!! Their commission goals are impossible to reach. Labour board said it a legal pyramid scheme. Upper management doesn’t know squat when it comes to their service prices or being a stylist. They will aide and harass you til you are forced to quit

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When I read comments from former employees makes me very sad.... Our current structure has a lot of support for communication,