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Never work at a hair salon...

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My first job was as a receptionist at a hair salon. At first I thought it was pretty good; I'd get discounts on hair products, 50% off my hair (and considering I had been going to a stylist there for a few years, I took advantage of that discount) and most of my job consisted of checking people in and answering phones. But I quickly learned that a hair salon is the perfect place to see complete psychos. We had a customer yelling at the stylist three weeks after getting her hair done and complaining that the color didn't match the hair piece she had brought in (it took her three weeks to consider checking the color against it, we will only do a redo for free within two weeks), my last day we were close to calling the cops because a guy was pissed off and yelling at us because he had sent his 18-year-old daughter to get her hair done, and the daughter wasn't paying attention (we told her that it would start at about $65 but would go up each time they had to mix another bowl. She told her dad it was $65 flat). The most infuriating was when a client called in to cancel an appointment because she was sick, and reschedule to a day the stylist didn't normally work. The stylist agreed to come in that day and I confirmed by date (not just day of the week, by actual number date, the 28th) what day the appointment would be for. Well, apparently the customer hadn't been paying attention because she came in a week early, on the 21st. OF course the customer is always right, and I should have been psychic to know that she had the date wrong and called to confirm (a week earlier than I would usually do confirmation calls). So she had to wait a couple hours for her stylist and she was given a $20 dollar discount. Guess who's paycheck the discount came out of?

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