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Originally Posted by Morrigoon
Stress: the emotion that results from not kicking the ever-lovin cr@p out of someone who sorely deserves it.
In other news... the park was busy tonight.
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I had a similar day- very busy, and I wanted to beat my head against a concrete floor in frustration after dealing with a very high-maintenance client that I am about to fire. She's a friend, or was, but she stresses me out more than words can say as a client and I think today I finally hit the wall. Here's a small example of our conversation:
Me: You want a change of color, but you keep changing your mind about what color. First it's auburn, then strawberry blonde, then that's too red and maybe it's golden tones that you're thinking of.....I need some guidance here. Clip out some pics and bring them in to me so I can get an idea of what your trying to verbalize.
Client/friend: Well, maybe you could pick out some colors for me and tell me what I want.
Me: We tried that on Thursday, for two hours. Myself and a team of other stylists could not figure out what you wanted, and I told you that I wasn't comfortable proceeding until you stopped giving me conflicting information and settled on something that I could go on. You were the one who insisted I do something, so I went ahead with a semi-permanent golden blonde. Now you think that's too dark, yet the first color you said you wanted was permanent auburn, which is red-brown and stays until you cut it out. Good thing I didn't do that, eh?
C/f: Well, I think I'd almost prefer that to this color- it's too dark.
(Sound of me banging my head on the desk)
Me: Uhm, you do realize that auburn is about 4 levels darker than what you now have, don't you? Well, fine- come in and I'll just slap some of that on then.
C/f: Well, I don't want to do that if you can't take it out if I don't like it. ....
.....and the conversation went on for a frustratingly long 20 minutes until I got so irritated I told her she was responsible for her own homework and I would be very happy to do whatever the **** she wanted, provided she figured out what that was. What she really wants is to be 20 years younger and there's not a lot I can do about that. My co-workers all say that no friend would be such a consistent PITA and that I should tell her to go elsewhere, but I just don't have the heart to- yet, anyway. Maybe I'll get lucky and she'll go elsewhere- I told her I was booked solid for quite some time (true) so she may move on to someone else.