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Ex-employee Experience
I worked for the now-closed location in Mayfield Heights, Ohio last year(2022). Here's what I experienced both personally and when servicing customers. ** Not sharing names, though I know all of them.. So much had happened that I haven't shared that $11/hr was not worth it (especially when new hires got more). I lasted about 5-6 months, and my last couple weeks were humiliating and upsetting to say the least. ** I was brought in as an urgent hire for the location and QUICKLY became a key-holder and assisted with managerial work, including bank deposits (while still being compensated as a 'Beauty Advisor') because I put a lot of time into the company and was often available to the extent of 'on-call' work. I eventually asked about the Assistant Manager position with my Store Manager (as the AM was leaving the company), and was told that the SM would talk to the District Manager. Along with this, I was able to begin designing a new floor plan to take to the North-Side Manager (and I was very excited). Near the end of my employment, I found these were not true when I brought up my concerns with the SM to the DM. The DM also confirmed my concerns would be private and would not be named upon ant investigations, again, this was a lie as the following day the SM starts going off on me in front of 3 co-workers on how "she trusted me." Note that I hadn't brought up the issues until they began affect my work or ability to work. We got a fill-in SM after her walking out from a location in Mentor (not sure the exact one anymore), who treated myself and my coworker as if we had been new hires. Any questions I had were cut short and pushed away as "that's not how that works" and I was not allowed to have ANY contact with upper-management. As we began working the shift, myself and my coworker (who has another job on top of this) decided to walk out. My local Sally Beauty (South Euclid) is much better than the Mayfield location was, but I only visit as a customer. Sally Beauty behind the scenes is truly a mess. One of the SMs had employees mix returns (this was told to me back my excoworker that worked under him prior and the SM I worked under). The example used was taking 2 returned nail polish removers and filling one before hazarding out the other, same with hair developer. Our store did not do this as all of us agreed on it not being worth making someone sick because we wanted higher numbers (which didnt make sense as we were not tracked on this for progress). – Admittedly, customers were not the friendliest, but Sally's has no backboard or care for customers as a company, even if the employee in the store cares about the wellbeing of you, your health, your time and your finances. Sally Beauty is just another brand with focus on power. So many things that happened were unfair, unsafe, or just disrespectful. I regret putting so much into my work, but I do every time anyways. I still purchase from them occasionally when i need something faster than shipping and only at my local location, but would never recommend them for anything but an 'only option'


