Hello fellow anti workers. As the title says this is for people who have worked in salons (nails, hair, beauty etc) on a self employed basis with an owner who's effectively a romanticized landlord.
These owners are almost always insane which I'm sure you'll all have had your respective experiences with.
My particular experience includes lying, bullying, manipulation from the manager/boss/landlord. If I try to set any sort of boundaries they are automatically on the defense and will bring up things 'that I have done' to use against me (keeping in mind when these things have happened she's shown full support but will proceed to change her mind and use them against me).
She's come in with covid without telling any clients, I'm disabled with a compromised immune system, i asked her to take two LFT's before training with her and she refused and proceeded to get defensive and be rude and effectively cried white woman tears about how she was being attacked.
These petit bourgeoisie/small business owners are hard to be around as you don't have another person higher up to go to in situations like these.
I know there are plenty of you out there that will have similar experiences and my question is how did you cope or did you not?
Any advice or stories in solidarity are welcomed.
Lots of love a disabled nail technician ️