Pros
This business pays an hourly wage plus commission and fills your books for you, which is a plus. Their facials are very detail oriented which is something I loved about working here.
Cons
I started when the company was fairly new. When I started, pay was amazing, I had a 401k, my first day on my own as an esthetician my book was completely full. Slowly, once we started getting more popular, ethics of the company went downhill. The CEO is a sweet woman who I’ve met personally, and I believe she had an amazing vision starting this company. We began to see lots of changes very quickly before our eyes. Employees started getting paid less hourly and less commission, but the price of services went up- SIGNIFICANTLY. Us estheticians were trying to get skincare brands that were research backed and good, reliable brands, but management wanted to do their own research even though none of management were licensed estheticians, and they would opt to stick with expensive luxury skincare instead. I work 2-3 days a week and I was held to a standard of of the same rebooking and sales percentage as a full time, 40 hour employee and if I didn’t meet those percentages they would take clients away from me and I’d have an empty schedule, but still be expected to show up to work. Our lunch slots would be deleted in order to fill schedules with as many clients as possible, and still be expected to complete our client charting, completely clean and sanitize our room for the next client, all with less than 5 minutes turnover in between clients. And if we were running behind, we would get reprimanded. The ceos brother was in charge of inventory but would NEVER order anything when it was out of stock and we’d be out of stock of products for weeks and weeks. It was once a passionate place where I could express my skill, and quickly became obvious that everything was being done for more money. Employees would talk about how they were struggling because they had clients taken away from their schedule, and the CEO would show up with 4k YSL boots and 2k YSL belt on. It was obvious where we stood vs them. I hated to leave this company, but I began to hate showing up to work for a skill I paid thousands in school to master. It’s a shame.