If you have experience, you’ll hate it
Pros
Nice treatment rooms, good product selections, good location for a mall setting.
Cons
Dead-end job. No advanced training opportunities, raises, performance reviews or positive feedback (negative, right on it!). Gaslighting is imbedded in the toxic culture. Admins, management and leadership have no experience in clinic operations or scheduling and they don’t care if your day flows or makes sense. There is no team mentality - it’s us against them and they control your schedule. Bait and switch tactics from the job description and interview to what your schedule actually looks like. Only a select few are favorites and get to choose what treatments they do, get paid a significant higher commission & hourly and have less education and experience (ie, they have not completed the 450 hour Masters Aesthetic program instead the company wrote a letter stating they had been “trained” and were grandfathered in). If you’re not one of chosen (you won’t be), good luck growing your clientele and getting your appointments scheduled properly. Admins routinely offer your clients to see another esthetician because your schedule is full and they’re too lazy to add the client to your waitlist, which they don’t call anyway. Bathrooms are dirty and always out of soap and toilet paper. When not shopping online, admins are gossiping about everyone to everyone. It’s clicky and sharky. Overall moral is low and the clinic is not a positive, supportive or happy place to work.
