This tanning salon job is getting ridiculous. I have to have my hair and make up done every day just to be deemed acceptable. I have to be tan, but apparently, bed tanning isn't enough, so my manager made me do a cocktail, which is where you tan in a high pressure bed (strong UVA light, lower UVB, delivers color into the deeper part of the skin) and then go straight into a spray tan
Not only that, but I got reprimanded yesterday for not having my nails done.
I am now orange and have a gaudy manicure.
The sales part of this is fun. The numbers and money and all that is fun. My coworkers (not management) are fun.
The extra bullshit, such as getting 20 leads a day, getting called onto shifts constantly despite having shit to do, and having to tan constantly? NOT FUCKING OKAY.
This job is great money and experience, but I honestly hate it. I am adequate, but I don't feel passionate and I dread picking up my phone whenever a manager calls me. I need the money, but I'm so stressed now that my ulcer, which hasn't given me any problems since before graduation, is acting up again. I need the money, but the stress is what I was trying to avoid.
Advice please?
Julia
In my experience, management usually sucks. My manager literally only hires conservative women with something to do with church on their resume, which kind of makes us the least interesting and diverse staff of a corporate coffee shop of all time. She leaves passive aggressive notes in all caps with smiley faces everywhere and notes telling us how to act around customers taped on things.
ReplyDeleteIn my experience, what's made things easier is deliberately not taking things personally. Management is usually just the face of a soulless corporation anyway who views you as a number, not an individual. Occasionally vent about the shit that annoys you and then try to unwind and move on from what's no longer relevant.
Being called in all the time sucks but at least you have money and your co-workers are fun. It's not a permanent situation and you'll probably get a hold of it more as time goes on.
Being a grown up sucks. At least, the young adult, always sort of broke/desperate for money bit does.
ReplyDeleteI admire you for sticking it out so far. I wouldn't be able to handle that BS. Not one bit. You're doing what you need to do to get shit done, and that is awesome.
I've never held a corporate type job so I don't really have much advice to lend to the situation other than to focus on all the positives!
Money, woo!
The only thing I would be weary about is the forced bed-tanning. Tanning beds are literally avoided like the plague where I live, considering the high risks they come with.
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