We had a great thing going until you bought our salon. You had to ruin it with your control-freak nature and your inability to understand us artistic girls. Before you bought our salon, we were talented, vivacious, and loving our craft. You destroyed our joy in doing hair. You, with your software millions, your fancy motorcycle, and your “come blow me” $80,000 car, don’t have a clue what it takes to work day in and day out shampooing and trimming and coloring clients. Our salon was our safe haven, and you swooped in and bought us and thought you could sell us… as long as you made a profit and made us jump when you snapped. Well, Boy Wonder, it’s not that simple. Not all hairdressers are dumb broads. Not all hairdressers are willing to roll over and play dead because you and your money tell us to. So next time I do a blow-out, I won’t be thinking of blowing you, as you so hope, but I will be thinking of blowing your business scheme up… because you fucking blow! Take care, asshole, because your salon is soon to cut itself out of existence… chop-chop, bitch!

—Anonymous

40 replies on “I, Anonymous”

  2. That situation sounds particularly bad because, while the employees can leave for other jobs, they are unlikely to find jobs at a place *together* where they’ll enjoy the atmosphere that made this salon great. The consistent use of “we” gave me the impression that it was a sort of community being ruined, not just a job.

  3. YA! He can BLOW himself, into oBLOWvian. He’s a BLOWhard, that can BLOW a big fat blower that blows. Cuz when you gotta blow, it’s time to go. If you know, when a doe eats a crow the mofo can suck a toe!

  6. That sucks. They were good employees who just wanted to do hair and do it well and now they need to find new jobs because the guy is a tool who doesn’t know how to manage a shop. I totally believe her side of it.

  7. Hair styling is still being done by humans? Why haven’t you been replaced by a robot? Maybe that’s his real interest for the business.

  10. Good grief… What do you bet this “hair artist” is the minority voice, and that the rest are OK with the “new management”? Seriously, the IA sounds like a bitch.

  11. Your salon’s former owner obviously didn’t share in the sense of community you all enjoyed, because he sold you to a cut throat businessman.

  13. Wow, a lot of you automatically come down on the side of management. Without knowing which business this is or hearing other voices, you just decide the rich guy is the right guy. How Tea Party.

  14. @15: Maybe, but “our salon was our safe haven” sounds an awful lot like someone who is more invested in the experience than in the actual work.

  15. Move on~ Envy is ugly…Vendettas are ugly…Public bithing is ugly…One sided stories are useless…Get a job…Get a life…And don’t assume eveyone wants you to “Blow them”…

  16. Move on~ Envy is ugly…Vendettas are ugly…Public bitching is ugly…One sided stories are useless…Get a job…Get a life…Adn don’t assume eveyone wants you to “Blow them”…

  17. A good group dynamic, and a safe haven and sense of community in the workplace is a rare and wonderful thing, and especially valuable for bringing out the best in creative professions.

    And since the workplace is where you spend most of your days, to have that destroyed is a big deal. I don’t blame I anon for being bitterly disappointed for having that ruined by someone who doesn’t know how to not destroy that.

    Sadly, we live in a capitalistic world, where most people are at the mercy of a boss.

    Hating the boss isn’t the answer though, but saving your money or getting a loan to start a co-operative / business with your favorite people is the way to go. These hairdressers and other creatives currently working for “the man” need to get serious about strengthening their alliance further and being their own bosses.

  18. Bullshit. Your comments reek of jealousy and anger. Blow yourself! And do your part to make it better instead of stewing in bitterness. Better yet, leave n find a job. Maybe if you spend time being grateful and take some responsibility, you’ll be able to buy an 80K car too!

  19. Wow, UltraViolet! Your response is “stewing in bitterness”. Makes me wonder if you’re the owner of the salon, and you can’t handle this, or if you have nothing better to do than to rant against an I, Anonymous…anonymously?! See the parallel?

    I feel bad for this girl. Sounds like she loves her job and is really upset that it’s not going so well, anymore. But she’s right; my mom is a stylist and she’s not a dumb broad, either. Good for this girl! I hope it works out for her…and her fellow stylist girls!

  20. Find another job, Anon. Or better yet, open up a competing shop on the same block with your hair-stylist sisters and put el douche out of business.

  23. @16,

    Salons are just as much about the experience as “real” work. Customers forge relationships with their stylists that are generally closer and friendlier than the usual worker/customer relationship. And I say this as someone who generally just wants to get my shit and go in most service environments.

    I’ve gone to bars and parties with my hairstylist, albeit not as frequently as with my real friends.

  24. Would your customers follow you if you all set up as independent? I bet they’d like to be far from Mr. Fancy Motorcycle…and let me guess, it’s a Ducati, right?

  25. @17/18 – they have jobs, only a douche like you ruined them, which wouldve been obvious if you’d actually read insteasd of just reacted.

    Put down the tea party, it’s not healthy for you or society.

  26. IA’s writing proves she’s destined for a life of low-rent jobs, like cutting hair. Perhaps if she were to actually blow him she’d find her life a little better? I mean, since she’s opening her mouth she may as well get some benefit from it right? Hot air won’t pay your rent but deepthroating wonder boy’s cock just might.

  28. Maybe you and your co-workers could ovary-up and confront the new boss with your grievances.

    Yes, the nerve of him for, you know as the owner of the business, to stick his nose in.

    Maybe if you spent less time stroking yourself for being “an artist” (LOL) and spent more time on business you’d own your own shop.

  30. I’m thinking the world really doesn’t need bosses anymore, let alone the doucebaggy ones. Why can’t hairstylists, since they, and NOT management, have the real connection with the customers, simply be allowed to run the shops themselves, democratically and humanely?

    And seriously, why, in this day and age, would anybody take the side of management and ownership against those who actually do the work? It’s not like their are really any situations anywhere in which the success of an enterprize depends on someone making and enforcing petty rules and chewing out people over trivial offenses, which, let’s face it, is basically all bosses do anymore. If we’re going to spend most of our lives doing some sort of jobs, we should have the RIGHT to expect that our dignity will be respected in the places where we do those jobs, that we will have the chance to learn and grow and find meaning while doing those jobs, that we won’t be denied the right to be creative and individual in the work we’re expected to do.

    That’s what the world SHOULD be life. Why would anyone prefer that, instead of that, the workplace be run by petty tyrants and control freaks and that most of us should have to live at the mercy of said tyrants and freaks unless we happen to develop the levels of arrogance and anility that would allow us to become more tyrannical and rigid than the people we work for now?

    And really, do control freak Sam Walton-type bosses EVER bring anything to the workplace that the workplace and the world simply can’t do without? Does any workplace really have to have petty rules about break room use, or the clothes you wear(I’m betting douchebag motorcycle guy forced the stylists to wear lameass uniforms and restricted them to bland fingernail polish colors), or bathroom breaks, or putting the coversheet on the fucking TPS report?

    This week’s “Anonymous” is simply speaking out for the right to dignity, respect, and creativity in the culture of work. Why would anyone say that anything else is more important?

    The only thing that should be expected of a person who works is that she or he should do their work and do it as well as possible. No other rules are ever needed.

  31. Also, happy workers are better workers, so he’s not helping his business, either. And if he thinks they are not working hard enough or “seriously” enough or something like that, there are non-douchey ways of motivating your employees as well. It really sounded like it was a good job until he came along.

    Oh, and did anyone explain this issue to him? I picture an insensitive computer genius who might be totally clueless what he’s doing or why it’s important to his employees.

    http://smallbusiness.chron.com/job-satis…

  33. @1 suddenlyorcas: Right on!!

    @35 sallyobally: Yeah, yeah!! Dolly can lasso him, and then chain up “Mr. Hart” and hang him in his bedroom!! Ha ha! Then sic Lilly Tomlin on him! Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-HAAAAAAA!!!
    Then Jane can chastise him about his “M & Ms”…..

  34. @20 – Not everyone *wants* to buy an $80K car. Maybe she and the other employees just want to make a decent living doing something they love in a happy environment with cool people, without some jackass fucking it all up.

  37. I feel for IA. It’s hard to be a stylist, and find a salon and a group of stylists that works with your own personality. Then when you finally do, and work so hard building your clientele (which is extremely cut throat) it’s upsetting to have someone come in (who doesn’t know the hair side of the business, just the books)and change things around, and dude sounds like a complete asshole on top of that. To pick up and move is hard; you lose clients, you have to find a place that’s just as comfortable and safe as the last which in itself is extremely hard. There’s so much more that goes along with it. It’s not as simple as just quitting and moving on… I understand the safe haven, as the salon I work at is practically my second home, and the people I work with like family. Best of luck IA.

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