Hi my geek friends i need to chat bout my new work situation and get your ever helpful advice. Hope you've got some spare time!

I have moved to a new area, got this job in a salon where i get paid £8 per treatment that i do. So if i have no work i have no money!
And guess what? they have no clients! So i have been at home all week and i have to wait for them to call me for when i have work in.

My first day was last sunday and that was for a couple of peds. I have had no work all week. They called me today to tell me that i have a pedi and a mani tomorrow and i could i hang around all day incase anymore booked in!
They have also want me in for sat and sun all day but there isn't any treatments booked in apart from one on saturday and one on sunday! I can understand they want a tech there all the time incase anyone books in.But bare in mind NO WORK NO MONEY. I have been thinking a lot about this and im not happy with this arrangement.

Before i moved here i was working for myself mobile and i might as well go back to that if they gonna pay me like this?!

I didn't actually apply for a nail tech job at this place, they called me and said that the position i went for was now gone but they noticed i did nails and would i be interested in doing nails instead as the nail girl had just walked out Well i couldnt refuse as i really need a job. Im not happy with the sunday situation either. They told me it would be every once in a while but i know it will be friday, satuday and sunday more than anything coz this salon is in a hotel.

And to top it off i did actually want to give nails a rest as i was really startin to loose heart in it as i seemed to be doing infills 24/7 for 3 years running!

Sorry to gabble on but im not a happy bunny . I have been in this sort of situation before in a couple of salons and i cant believe its happening again!
Oh why oh why did i get myself into this mess?

So i am thinking i want to leave already before i get stuck in another rut. What do you think is the best way to break it to them? I hate letting people down

hi rachel
what a situation to b in, but put the shoe on the other foot, there cheeky enough to use u, b cheeky enough to use them.
what you best bet is to have some leaflets made up with a good offer and go back to mobile, least then u can b getting on with whatever u want and wait for the phone to ring in the comfort of your own home.ann

Thank you ann i know exactly what your saying. And it does feel like im being used
I didnt actually wanna go mobile again as i had had enough of that but it would be better than this situation

Thanks for reading my dilema x x

Sorry to hear of your dilemma hun,
i can understand why they want you in even if no one is booked but i would tell them that i wanted x amount per hour for the time that you will be sat around waiting and then when you do get some one in you want the rate that was agreed
In the mean time it sounds like you may be as well looking for another job that is more suitable to what you want to do
good luck with it all

Hi there,

My advice would be to get outa there!

I was in the same situation recently and the owner wanted £20 a day rent, when there were no clients.

One week I earned absolutely zilch after i paid my rent and I decided to quit and use my money to run a home salon.

Needless to say, got myself some cards, flyers, a website up and running and a month later I have quite a few new clients, word spreads quick if you are good and believe in yourself.

Geeg had some good wording for flyers,, take a look at the thread and hope this will help.

Thanks hun. I couldnt ask for an hourly rate as this is how all the other therepists get paid. Someone was telling me they used to pay hourly but recently changed the system to this. then loads of people left! What a suprise!

Yeah your right! I just hate having to tell them im leaving but i gotta do it. Its a shame so many of us seem to get in this sort of situation. Thats what really gets me down about this industry.
I know im good at what i do but just wanted to give it a break for a bit. maybe i'll take a look at those flyers, might persuade me to go alone again!

Couldn't agree more. And I wonder why the old nail tech walked out???

Most definitely... especially if she was on the same deal/agreement.

Having said that, if you were self employed and renting space in the salon you wouldn't be in any better position than you are now and you'd have rent to pay when you didn't have any clients, although it would also mean that you were also in control of your own advertising.

To let potential clients know that you're available you need to be seen in the salon, only going in when there are clients booked won't help either the salon or you.

Good luck with whatever you decide to do.

Well this is what I was going to say. If you had your own salon you couldn't just shut up shop and go home because you had no bookings. The whole point of having a salon is to get walk in trade. If you get a reputation for never being in then you won't get the business at all.

However if you are not happy with the situation then best you leave asap as your heart is not in it. Good luck!

Thank you and i totally understand what you are saying as i know this myself. But to be truely honest im not prepared to do this. I need regular money at the mo and if i wanted to wait around for clients all day i would go mobile again and earn more out of it!

RUN!!!if they wont pay you for being there then u dont need to be there hmmm wonder why the last nail girl ran out. time is money they should understand that work your mobile and stay on call there if u need to that way either way your getting paid as far as the other techs if this works for them hey thats there thing do you its not your problem to work out their issues

good luck

Thanks sassy yep you got it!

[quote=becca boo;556061]RUN!!!

You read my mind!