I was at a training course once doing acrylics that my boss made me go on... The girl who was doing my nails had absolutely no experience in nails at all and it was just a hobby for her... Well when it came to cutting my cuticles she couldn't do it. So she lifted my hand mid air and had the cuticle nipper gripped on to my cuticle with my hand mid air... Absolutely no support of my finger or hand at all and was riving my hand back and forth to cut this bit of cuticle off... I was literally nearly doubled over trying not to cry... I didn't mind giving her some constructive critisism in telling her to never ever do that to a paying client. I was mortified.
And then another time... My boss again was a little bit obsessive and quite rude when it came to me doing treatments... Every single time I would do a set of nails or a pedicure or a tan ... Anything she would be straight in the treatment room thoroughly checking my work, she would come over in the middle of acrylics and start grabbing my clients free hand and filing and doing anything to the client. I can't even begin to say how many times I was made to feel tiny and embarrassed in front f clients, before anyone asks no I had never done anything wrong, never got complaints all my clients were always happy... It was just my boss!! I just used to put myself in the clients shoes and think how unprofessional is this and how rude. She would check everyone's eyebrows in the reception area telling them to face the big window in reception to make sure I had done them properly etc! It's fair to say I was getting sick of being made to feel like an absolute idiot!!! Anyway the last straw was when she went on holiday for 2 weeks and left me in charge on a ridiculous wage for doing absolutely everything... She came back and didn't bother to say thanks, not even a box of chocolates... No bonus.. Anything. And I feel I had dealt with everything perfectly well... There was no issues. At my appraisal I said I felt I was more experienced and deserved a pay rise... She told me she wasn't paying me a pay rise because I often forgot to dust the top shelf in the salon display cabinet..... :/ then was when I left!!
How those clients must have felt tho... And how rubbish they must have thought I was to have my work constantly checked... Still hurts me to this day