Pros
If you need time off, they will allow you that and for the most part your co-workers are pretty good to work with.
Cons
They give you time off, because it is unpaid,they do not offer pay raises or benefits. They only have two days they are closed and it is Thanksgiving and Xmas and they do not pay you for these days.The only individuals that get a pay raise are the assistant manager and the manager. They do not have a lot of diversity and they never promote anyone but whites. I work in a salon in California, have for a long time and they only hired a few blacks since I've been here. They say they promote good workers, but they don't! Drybar puts individuals in management who have no experience at all managing stylist...not to mention that there are managers being promoted who haven't even been licensed cosmetologist for at least a year. If you disagree with anything that they say, you're not being a team player and they find ways to kick you out. As an employee, if the salon is busy they WILL NOT let you break your required breaks...they overwork you and then get upset when you mention that you are hungry after no break. Our breakrooms are the size of a 6x8 closet, mind you that most salons average about 12-16 people working at one time. We can't have a microwave or even a toaster oven for lunch so they almost force us to eat somewhere else, we can't have a clock in the salon due to it doesn't go with the look, no foot mats which would be better on our feets considering we're standing all day and they constantly over hire. Instead of payiing you what you're worth as an employee, they give you only $8hr and hold maybe 1 contest a week for 1 person to win and every once in a while they take us out to make us forget about the little pay we get. It is a fun place to work but the pay is HORRIBLE! We were given an employee review for the first time a couple of months ago since opening Feb 2010, mind you all we got was a review and no pay raise! What's the point of a review if you get no pay raise! They say they have no money for raises, but at the same time they spend thousands of dollars on wack music every month, they waste money on products we don't use on customers because of complaints, they buy unecessary overly priced equipement and they over pay the unexperienced managers that they hire. We don't get properly compensated because managers and assistant managers are getting paid all the money, when they do less work. The drybar is highly over rated. In California they actually bring clients in from the streets and offer them free stying to make the salon look busier than it actually is and they continuously run specials that bring them little to no money nearly every month. I'd be successfull too if I gave away free services on a monthly basis!
