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day after day..
I'm not really sure where to post this and I don't think the "9 to 5" board is very poppin so Im hoping to get some advice from here. I go to school full time to a smaller cosmetology school. Since I have gone from the classroom to the working salon it seems there has been nothing but problems.
Its very obvious that the instructor picks sides with the other class. We all share the small room but there is my class the adults and the younger class which is highchool. She always makes excuses for them and I feel as though she lets them run wild. This instructor always make everyone feel as though they aren't doing anything right and always yells, I feel like everyone is yelled at everyday for no reason.
Some examples-- Adults are at the back of the salon and can't hear washer and dryer when they are finished, we try to go back and check once in a while but highschool girls just do it without asking for help, to just b!tch about adults not doing as much. Yesterday we had hardly any towels and wanted to finish them so we through a pretty good load in but it wasn't jammed full like she wanted so she them b!tched about how it wasn't completely full.
We have theory from 9-10 am. This is were we get our classwork and book work each day and study for tests. I can't count how many times the instructor has asked a student to leave from class to go do an early client because they were there already even though they know that is our class time. I go anyway and prepare my cart and my instructor is just yelling across the room to "hurry up go mix this and that and HURRY" So I go to the back and start mixing to hear her yelling my name again, I walk out and take a deep breath and nicely say "yes"?. She told me I had no done the front desk yesterday and I was being lazy and I will need to do it again today, infront of the class, infront of my client humiliating me. I explained the her she did not need to yell and I had in fact done the front desk and asked the other instructor if I could participate and still listen for the phone and she said that was fine, and there was no reason to tell me I was "not" doing my job, she looked at me and said there was no reason to be "serious" whatever that means.
My chore this last week was to do "back bar" I cleaned and organized shampoo bottles and refilled them, She also told me to tell her what we needed to I spent a good 20 min. making a list of stuff we need. I brought them to her and she then told me that most all shampoos are the same, just throw these 2 small ones out there that will last a bit. SOOOOOO why did you just have me do that if you think all of them are the same and it doesn't matter what we have or don't?
This is the stuff that drives me insane and a lot of people really want to quit, it makes me sad because its taking the passion out of everything and the younger girls are running rampid, but her excuse is well they are "kids". It just doesn't make since to me and I really don't know how to handle this type of person anymore. She told us yesterday the adults are much much worse than highschool when we asked why she explained because one girl is never there and doesn't want to be there. So you are going to say the whole class is horrid because of one girl?
The school almost went under, and when people have had a problem before and try to talk to someone else it just seems like she gets worse and she then won't teach them anything and they are screwed. She isn't a great instructor anyways and has taught me its ok to cut someone's hair if its not the right color and I know its not. I just feel stressed and like I can't do this anymore. I have no idea how to handle this type of person or what to do. I feel like Im just loosing my mind, the adult girls are a great group of girls and we always help each other out and we never have any issues with each other.
I have tried laying low and just being quite but there is still nothing but yelling and fighting and crap in that salon. How do you deal with this type of person? Would you suck it up or look else were? The only issue is this school is cheap and now I know why, the others are a bit expensive. The school is very disorganized and doesn't have their *** together. They have "lost" a lot of payments and tried to screw people over.
Re: day after day..
I'm sorry, that sounds awful
My first thought was that it might actually be better for you in the short AND long term to leave and go to a better school. If the school is very disorganized and almost went under, what are the chances that it has a bad reputation in cosmetology in general? My fear from reading your post is that you might soldier all the way through it, have it on your resume, and have a future employer look at the school and go, "Aw, geez, If we hired her we'd have to re-train her, because we've gotten some from that school before and they don't even know not to cut hair that's not the right color."
The other reason is- it's clear from the way you handled the situation with the instructor berating you over the front desk that you are professional, and you would value working at a salon that handled themselves professionally. I feel like you're going to have more of those opportunities in the job market and be taken as seriously as you should be if you decide to go to a school where you know you're being instructed well and you know your school environment is as respectful as your working environment should be.
Best of luck to you!