Pros
They recently increased hourly rate to $15
Cons
the biggest con working here is definitely gossip within the company by store managers as well as corporate employees gossiping about the employee’s at each store. You’ll always have a bad apple or several no matter where you work but it’s sad and unprofessional when it’s coming from the people above you. There’s no way of reporting things like a hostile work environment or anything that makes you uncomfortable at work anonymously to an HR department so it really makes you feel like you have no choice but to stay silent when there are things happening at work that are not okay. When you do speak up, upper level management doesn’t believe you or won’t take you seriously and defends the employee that’s causing the issues. Managers that decide they don’t like an employee for their own personal reasons ranging from ridiculous things like a friendship ending on a poor note and not being mature enough to leave that problem outside of the company/away from work, customers liking a stylist more than the manager and losing “their big spender”, jealousy, and being intimidated by someone “below” them will purposefully make work a nightmare hoping the stylist will quit. Certain managers will gossip to customers about you without shame and go out of their way to make you feel excluded from the team or like you don’t fit in/belong. Speaking up about issues within the store tends to always do more harm than good the majority of the time and just puts a target on your back for the company to find any possible way to fire you if making work a miserable place to be in the hopes that you quit do not work. Management will also take your sales so that they have a better chance at making their sales goal so they get their store gift card and if you confront them about it they’ll justify stealing a sale by saying if they make their goal before the month ends then all of the sales they get after that will go to whoever is the next closest to their goal which is not okay and shouldn’t be a common practice across the stores. If you are the person that is working hard to help a customer and the manager is spending their shift behind the register and not helping with anything on the sales floor then they shouldn’t get the sale. Not only will they just put the sale under their name and not help on the floor but they will also go and change big sales from days that they didn’t even work just to hit their sales goal. Management never works on Sundays and it is incredibly rare that they will have a closing shift and they also leave an hour or two hours early while staying clocked in just to ensure they reach their 40 hours. All in all, it’s a pretty decent job when you ignore the hypocrisy of management and if you don’t speak up about problems you shouldn’t have to worry about retaliation from those higher up in corporate. It’s sad that in the 20 years of Fab’riks business, there isn’t a way to report issues especially the big issues like bullying from your boss and not having to worry about repercussions in the workplace because you aren’t able to remain anonymous. You never know what someone is dealing with in their personal life and getting bullied by management at your job is no way to live or work and could really drive someone to do something awful. This should be something that the company needs to take care of and look into before they end up in a terrible legal situation for not providing a safe work environment or take appropriate action when someone expresses any concerns for how they are treated at work. At the very least, maybe take a closer look at your management team and see how they really treat some of their employees because it’s highly doubtful you’d be proud of what you see.