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I worked for this company for the first 6.5 yrs in my 19 yr career as a cosmetologist. It was a good place to start as a new stylist/ apprentice. In the beginning I had a great manager and some great coworkers I'm still friends with today. You get first hand experience with walk in clientele (mostly men), lots of free education on products,  selling product, up-selling services, as well as opportunity to grow and move up to management, and running a small corporate salon.  1 week of Paid vacation per year, paid holidays off (New years day, Christmas day, Thanksgiving day. You work the rest with no extra pay on MLK Day, Labor Day, Memorial day, Christmas Eve, Ect.,  No time off in Aug./ back to school season.) and okay health insurance. As well as and hourly base pay to fall on when its dead.  The down side is its minimum wage base pay, you are worked really hard and treated poorly by upper management in the corporate side, and by walk in clients on a regular basis for 5+  days a week , it's open all 7 days of the week too. Never any bonuses offered or nice incentives. The company "Averages" your pay every week so you make less than you should make for the hard work and great service you produce EVERY day and are under appreciated by the powers that be unless you are a top retail seller.  In my experience, They gradually took away the good benefits of this job ( 10% commission on retail, immediate family and our hair coloring Ect.)  and expected more work from us in the salons, like working for even less money and doubling the work load for $10 haircut sales. The job became more about the sales and retail sales and not about the care clients are receiving, or valuing the great stylist that make the physical business great and bring in the clients. You have to sign a "no compete agreement" to work here, basically it relinquishes your clientele ( including family and friends or anyone that walks in and pays for services) to this company.  We had a terrible supervisor for our area. She had the worst attitude. She would walk in to the salons to check in on the business and employees and talk down to everyone. Clients couldn't stand her. When I was in management She literally told me,  that if my licensed professional hairdressers didn't like the poor treatment,  new -less benefits, and less pay in return for our years of hard work, "That Frich's Big Boy restaurant was hiring." Needless to say most of us from my store left not to long after that and have been much happier elsewhere. 

I've only been at this place for two years and it completely ruined the beauty industry for me. I honestly don't know where to begin because there is nothing positive I have to say about this place except that everyone but my manager were pretty ok to work with. You get offered benefits through a sketchy third party where the co-pays for even the simplest of things will cost you at least a grand so you are forced to pay completely out of pocket. Next the pay....the awful joke of a pay. They try to justify their disgusting pay rate by saying that the option for guests to pay you balances it out to a higher pay per hour, however people rarely pay more than $3 as a tip. This leads me to the next issue: scheduling. I'm a full time employee and I should have at least 35 hours a week however their loop hole for this is to schedule your hours but not including your break in the shifts that you are scheduled for. This means that often times my hours will be much closer to 28-29 a week which again brings my paycheck even further down.
 
The management at my location (and from what I have heard so are many others) is completely incompetent, not only is she completely inefficient and unreliable but she also has zero problem solving skills. On top of her having multiple breakdowns because of her personal life and taking it out on us, she absolutely threw her entire staff under the bus directly to the owner because of what she did with our scheduling than had the nerve to reem all of us out for something that she did and got in trouble for. She also has a habit of making whoever she works with do 100% of the grunt work yet than she complains that shes the only one that does anything right. She has also told me to suck it up when I have told her about coworkers not doing their jobs, forcing me to take on all the roles she is too incompetent to preform. I am doing all the work of a manager and getting paid a lower tier rate. The company also expects your work/life balance to be all work as it isn't uncommon at all for me to pull stints of working 2-3 weeks in a row or multiple split shifts (8-8) only to find that we have a two hour long meeting directly after or the very next morning when my shift doesn't start until 2 pm. Completely trash company, work here at your own risk.

I worked for a corporate and a franchise location for over a year. Pay stayed at minimum wage (9.00) unless you worked like a slave and did more than 3 haircuts an hour for your shift which most of the time was 8 hours. 8 hours times 3 haircuts add in lunch and that's roughly 19 to 20 haircuts a day. My problem with that? That's way too much in a day for such little compensation. Managers are never really trained, I had a coworker tell clients about an abortion she had in the past yet somehow she still works there and another one cussed out multiple clients. There were 3 managers and 3 stylists at the location I worked at...Yeah that ridiculous and 2 with no previous employment or management experience. 

My store manager had been with company TWENTY years and only made $12 an hour. If it wasn't for the fact that I had another job I would never be able to live off this wage. They're a greedy company that only cares about speed and ripping off stylists, we're educated we have a license why should anyone go to school for something just to be paid minimum wage? 

On top of everything, I got hurt last year and they didn't let me seek medical attention. I kept getting answers like, wait till we hire a new person and stuff like that. When I finally was allowed it was 7 months later and I now need multiple surgeries to fix the longterm damage. Top that with an incompetent franchise owner and the whole workmans comp experience was a nightmare. 


I made 310 a week, working on my own now i make that in a few hours of working. Working in this McDonald's version of a Salon will not let you reach your goals financially. 

Reality of the company is they pay their stylists, managers and even trainers horrible pay and keep most of the profit and work stylists to the point they need surgery to correct carpal tunnel. My advice? Don't fall for the hourly wage, build your clientele and rent a booth. Or be an apprentice for a seasoned stylist who can help you build. Supercuts is not a career, it's the fast food of haircutting.

i left a hairstylist job to go train with supercuts > i was all excited as i love to learn and advance my skills as a hairdresser > I went to the hair salon school at supercuts and immediately they tell you to wear only whote black or grey > Your on your feet for hours and you have to wear shoes no sneakers . I have problems with my heels so i have to wear comfortable shoes or sneakers. The teacher showed us a haircut and although she was knowledgable and a good hair dresser she was prejudice i feel , we started with mannequins and right away she said my sections were not neat enough and made me do them over and over and only gave us a small amount of time to complete each haircut . I checked my haircut and could not find any stray hairs or anything wrong with it . she wrote me up and made me sound like an idiot or like i dont know what i am doing. This is peoples lives they are playing with and its a dirty game to lead you on thinking you will do better with supercuts when you leave your job to work with them . Dont do it coz they can kick you out of the school which she did embarrassing me infront of the whole class and leaving me unemployed . if you want a good career in the hair industry your better off paying for your own classes then going to theres They teach you opinch partings and c shapes which are useless if you dont have customer service of people skills which the teacher showed me she does not. Grow up supercuts and learn your playing with peoples lives coz hair is our life and were serious about being the best we can but we cant do it with companies that inhibit your color of clothing and the way you have to cut. Nothing like fling your creativity!!! dont do it be smart find a job your happy at seems to me they have the most complaints of any hair salon too and when i entered they were rude and made me wait an hour beofre i got up and left which was lucky coz the last hiarcut i got at supercuts i was very unhappy with they did me a favour!! and thanks for throwing me out of your class i dont want to learn how to stifle my creativity and wear only black or white clothing how extrememly dull and uncreative. Noting like pushing your girls to sell products too all the time!!!

I worked here for almost four years, and immediately I noticed that there was poor management for that location.  Our location was even threatened at one point by our District Leader to be shut down; leaving a staff without a job.  The entire staff was too small for the demand, and although we all spoke up about issues/problems nothing was ever done to help us.  The work schedule was the absolute worse schedule I've ever had; like working a retail job.  The pay was completely unfair to everyone there.  My job in particular demanded a lot of me, without sufficient pay.  And although I was managing the salon, I was never promoted to manager after bringing it up several times.  I felt as if my hard work was not being appreciated.  And for the last 6 to 8 months I worked there we were given a new District Leader, that, although was helpful with maintenance in the store, was unappreciative, rude, and money hungry.  The staff became bitter, and began to turn on each other, and I felt as if the staff I helped manage once was slowly turning on me. I began to have problems with the staff; which I never had, and one employee in particular sabotaged me by making false accusations.  After that I found it very difficult to be able to work comfortably in the environment as it became clear to me that no matter how hard I worked, and how well I did my job it was causing massive amounts of stress, and anxiety.  I tried to make the best of everything, but it came to the point where I couldn't put up with the high demand and no pay, the bitterness of the staff, and the unappreciative District Leader.  There are no raises, the promotion raises are minimal and hardly worth it for the amount of work/expectations, the benefits aren't the best, the work schedule is awful, and I believe the pay is too little.  Supercuts makes you think you will do well if you exceed everyone, but it isn't for your benefit it is only for the company; you're not going to see that money.  We had a matrix scale, which didn't amount to much.  Do not stick around for a long time, but listen to the hair cutting techniques, styling, and color. 

I started working at Supercuts in 2016, I have been with the company for a little over two years now and I have honestly been met with nothing but disappointment. When I was hired I was falsely told that I would be making a lot of money in tips at my first location. I walked out one day with $8.00 in hand after working an 8 hour shift. I got literally one person an hour, I would bring in my school work to pass time. While I was there I spent a lot of time working by myself too. Girls from another Supercuts location walking distance away would come work when I would not. The location eventually closed because there was not enough business coming in the door.

My next location I was thrown into the middle of a disaster. The manager was already on her way of not being a manager. She left the company. Now I am working in a salon with no manager, two shift leaders, and two other stylists one which including myself is part time employed. Soon the one shift leader leaves for a better opportunity. One of the stylists then took her place as shift leader. all this time we still have no real manager. Come late December our district leader hired a new manager and a new shift lead. That now brings to me working with one manager and three shift leads. Myself and one other are still part time. While this manager was here I have never been more disgusted in my life. Coffee cups were left in the office with coffee still in them for days, spoiled food left in the fridge, the audits would not be done, our 360s are still not being done because long story short she's gone and we still have no manager.

meanwhile a lot of useless drama is happening between all of the girls 

Come present time we have a new manager, lets hope things get better.

If you’re fresh out of beauty school they do train you before you hit the floor that is the ONLY good thing this is mainly franchise and depending on the owner they usually do you dirty and do everything legal in the CHEAPEST way possible. The people who stay usually have been there forever and they’re terrible to work with, most people don’t stay long because they realize that you could literally panhandle and make more money. The tips are good sometimes but you basically live off of them because you Make penny’s hourly. The commissions are HORRIBLE only after 400 dollars of sales can you make commission on products or color not off anything else and after 400 you’re only making commission AFTER 400 so you don’t get the commission for the full 400 only what you do after. They DO NOT want to give you your paid vacation they tell you they short staffed but see what they can do and nothing ever comes from it. The managers are TOXIC. No team work because of the pay other stylists will try to steal your clients if they know they tip you well because you make garbage hourly. No set schedule ever so your clients never know when you’ll be there. Retention is discouraged they think everyone should be able to do the same thing therefore anyone can do what you do so if someone does take a client requesting you no harm comes to them. Never restocks back bar. Shampoos and conditioners are watered down. No products out on the floor you need to do your job. Missing colors that are intentionally not ordered because “they’re not used often”. I can go on and on and on if you have expierence dont go here unless its a corporate ran store if its franchise DONT DO IT

A normal work day started by preparing warm towels for the customers, setting up the cleaning solutions for the brushes and combs, and making sure the opening till was in the cash register. As customers are being serviced, I would make sure each hair stylists station was clean and stocked with the supplies they needed, and keep the rest of the shop clean and sanitary. Inventory of products was also a responsibility of the receptionist. 
  The workplace relations between coworkers would often become stressful due to the small and confined nature of the store. Conflicting management styles were also present. Manager A would often have me start one task, and pressure me to do multiple others before the first task is complete, while Manager B would present a list of responsibilities for the day, and would allow me to complete them at a reasonable pace. 
  The most difficult part of working at Supercuts, however, was balancing the customer needs with the duties associated with my position. But when that balance is achieved, it became the most satisfying part also. When the customers are happy and I have completed my tasks for the day in an efficient manner, I found it to be very rewarding. 
  Working at Supercuts taught me valuable customer service skills, such as how to act and react when an unsatisfied customer comes to me for assistance. Learning how different people manage the same set of people and tasks is also an experience I can carry over into other workplace environments.

Soccerfest is a grassroots soccer festival for the communities of the Pioneer Valley. The event includes a soccer tournament as well as live entertainment, games, and attractions for locals with ages ranging from U6 to adult. The event is created and run every year by an ambitious group of Mark H. McCormack Sport Management undergraduate students, offering us a unique event management experience. 

I was an entertainment coordinator for this event, one of four in charge of creating the "Soccerfest Funzone". My responsibilities included finding, scheduling, and working with the live entertainment. This included moving away from the local cover-band used every year. My alternative entertainment plan was to use a student DJ and separate Master of Ceremony to provide the music and act as the face of the event. After 15 years of running the event, the new entertainment was well-received, as was my plan on adjusting the layout of the “Funzone”. Because of my layout change suggestions, I assisted in layout design of the entertainment area. I helped breathe new life into the event by creating a new stage placement. I was also in charge of providing power for the DJ and sound to the event. This was a great experience for me because of the changes I helped make. After 15 years of running the event in a similar way, I was key in making a new plan. This also meant that blame for a poorly designed “Funzone” would fall onto my shoulders and mine alone. I was scared, yet excited, to have this opportunity. In addition to these responsibilities, I assisted event sponsors by creating and running an activation strategy for the event in the form of a sponsor scavenger hunt.

I worked there for almost 3 years and I didn't like the experience. They are not good at allowing you to juggle you home life and work life. The managers I worked under were very miserable and were not good at being a part of a team, Where other girls were cutting non stop the managers as well as other employees weren't helping at all. There Is favoritism that goes on there so basically if u aren't the boss's favorite then you are on the low end of the totem pole. That salon is very busy and you are required to work like a robot. I loved my customers but you could be working w someone several times and your fellow co workers will try to steal your customers if u are busy. As for job advancement that's a no. I have never been asked for move up in the company at all. towards the end I felt that I didn't like my job so me exceeding the limits were a no. I love doing hair and always worked very hard for this company but there was a lot of unorganization there while trying to get someone to take over management position cause the previous manager was released. in the end result the rules weren't always applied to everyone and I felt that I need a job w equal opportunity for me as well as my co workers. working for a company that didn't appreciate your hard work and devotion can be draining and working for them was. they were understanding to women w kids if there was something that came up n you needed off. If you don't have kids then they don't care what happened in your life you'll be written up... they are not understand that we have lives too. The other employees can be VERY lazy too.

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