Working at Great Clips

pros: only doing haircuts & shampoos primarily. some style services, but they are rare.

the hours are awful. corporate refuses to get with the times and realize salons should not be an open 7-days a week industry. stylists do need to be available for clients when clients are available, but there should be a trade off of the salon being closed 1-2 days/week. traditional salons/barber shops are closed Sunday and Monday, this is also what the typical client coming into Great Clips expects, shocked we're open on Sundays. Other things include HEAVY restrictions on stylists. Not flexible on hours for full time employees. No work-life balance to be attained, especially if you're in management.

Franchisees are held hostage I think by out-of-date expectations for business operations.The younger generation does not want to work in an environment GC creates.

Be realistic with the new desires of the younger work force. Enable better work-life balance for people. Raise pay rates and be realistic about the products they sell and the expectation for their stylists to sell product. the cost of living is so high anymore, the average client can sometimes hardly afford a haircut, let alone a tip, and product is out of the question. their product prices continue to rise, making product even harder to sell. Great Clips needs to make some hard decisions that are going to be worth it in the long run to get quality employees that want to stick around.

I did not need to. I wasn't given an interview, just hired because I was another body.

I was a general manager when I worked under GC so my wage was higher than an average stylist. many full time employees would average about 40-50k/year. some made 35k.

Where I live, diversity is rare anywhere. But there was definitely a lack of diversity amongst our salons.

Feeling proud of my work and internal satisfaction drives me. I love connecting with people and making them feel better about themselves.

Flexible schedule, fast pace, customer experience and management

The pay, no benefits

Work you to death for not enough pay

None

They lie about benefits you get nothing

Receive tips daily on a prepaid card.

Toxic work environment, unprofessional and dangerous management team and co-workers, unprofessionalism and no upper management/salon owners support. OVERALL mistreatment of state license professionals.

Daily tips from customers.

Great tips and good management

Drama, and lazy coworkers that don’t have. A good work ethic

Getting good tips

I love helping the customers, love the environment

I don’t get enough hours

I get a stipend

I love the atmosphere, the perks, the co-workers, the clientele, and the owners.

Since COVID we are a lot slower so not getting enough hours and looking for work that goes more with my husband’s new journey he retired still does work but not as busy as the last 30 years. He was a firefighter/ chief and town administrator so after 30 years he was able to retire and enjoy life. I’m not ready to retire mentally or financially. I need to be busy.

The little special things the owner does to show we are appreciated and the family atmosphere.

Love cutting hair and im good at it too

Dont pay enough

Staying busy and getting tips

Working

No benefits and no advancement above management of franchise

No benefits for employees at Franchise level

Utilizing my skills to enable happiness and confidence

VERY erratic schedulle

the potential of increasing my hourly wage by being better at my job.

Clients were fun and I enjoy working with other people

Sometimes there can be too much drama also not always clear on regulations the tend to change depending on the situation

Tips were terrific although the hourly pay was minimum wage my tips made my checks look very good

I get to meet people of all different walks of life and cut there hair.

Hour are up and down you close one night and open the next there’s no balance

Pto

Great and helpful teammates, supplies nice acessories like blow dryers, straighteners.. combs but you get to bring your own haircutting tools. Management works hard to be fair with work schedules

Healthcare benefits is 50/50 with you & employer

um idont like the manager and low pay

compatable were i live

that i can work part time

Not much, decent money I guess. My clients are about the only thing.

Extremely unrealistic expectation of production and no realistic goals to make commission resulting in no where near enough income for how hard they work you. Franchised so a lot of them have ZERO room for promotion or upward mobility of ANY kind. Never see my 2 year old son because I'm always working. Don't waste your time or your health. Not worth it.

I enjoy my career very much People and products such as American Crew

Pay scale

Free training

No one at the salon cares lol. They would use it as a conversation starter to talk about product somehow if they were good and they would laugh it off if they were casuals :P. EDIT: Fun fact someone getting their haircut by our manager said "I would rather guzzle gasoline than be here." Man left buying a gift set of Tea Tree. You never know where it can go.

At all the branches I worked at, the phone number was just to look up your account without using your name, and it was preferable because there are never duplicate numbers, however there can be 20 John Brown's. So the worst that could happen is some checkout problems or slowness if you only provide your name. Around 40-60% of stylist's money is from tips. We still make a profit when doing our 7.99 haircut sales, and any coupons or free cuts people have are so rare that they hardly make a difference. Remember, prices are meant to be set so that we can have cheap sales, not to already be cheap.

1. In our record breaking salon I can honestly say if you were bad you were moved, replaced or fired. They were all capable people who did old people, first haircuts on babies and inverted bobs. In our other salons usually it was about 1-2 mediocre stylists that would mess up 1-2 haircuts a day. So it is not insanely unlikely you would just get a bad haircut on a random day. 2. Worst haircut was this, our older lady was a little sick but still came in, accidentally cut herself (happens often no big deal) and went back to fix it. Then when she came back just did a haircut that was completely different, like 3 inches shorter, used clippers on a scissor only cut, and the dude with luscious locks now had a buzz. Was too absorbed in his phone to notice. He was next level pissed and she got a write-up. 3. Wake, eat, brush, contacts, warm up motorcycle, gear up, head to work around 8 or 9 depending on the day. 4. Sleep at midnight wake around 7:30 on workdays, sleep in on non-workdays. 5. Someone in like Texas at a Great Clips threw away 4 out of about 50 donations to wigs for kids in sealed box. Some customer took a picture of the donations that they accidentally threw away. Long story short it was a social massacre online and now you have to donate your own hair after it getting cut off making the whole process much worse and now we get less donations. Some people need to let mistakes lie. 5. I am a NetTech now, Just got the new job, really helps me a lot. Also a supportive woman.