It's All A Façade - Anonymous employee ISM SPA Employee Review

1.0
21 May 2019
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The coworkers are nice, Helpful. Management ore snakes in sheep's clothing. It's a good place to start if you're fresh out of school, extensive training. Always training "new" services. They promote from with in.

Cons

The benefits are horrible, near non-exisent; they now offer PTO: accrue 1.2hrs/paycheck equalling 32hours a year BUT you can only take 4hrs/day! There's not enough work for you to even afford to take a day off. There is a high turn over for all staff, including MGMT. Especially MGMT! Fire MGMT like it's a past time. Favoritism, if they don't like you, they'll do everything they can to fire you. They try to book their fav employees first and all up instead of spreading out the service. The pay is very low for their 5-star standard. Apparently, they can also not afford to buy products we need to provide the service. For instance, they never buy new nail polish, they're old and separated, even changed colors. There is a 20-22% "service fee" they tell the guest it is our tip. So guest don't tip any additional. We get 18% plus $10/hr. The spa gets the entire amount from the service and 2% of the service fee. $120 for the service, $24 service fee= 21.60 + 10 for me, 120 + 2.40 for them. Not fair. Not fair at all. Really stepping on the little people.

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Cons

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1.0
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Pros

All their properties are very elegant and decorated beautifully. They offer to their full time employees health insurance.

Cons

The pay is offensive to our profession. They only pay you an hourly rate.(The base is lower than Massage Envy). You can get a little more money if you can con a guest into spending even more money. Although you will get a tip as it is included in the final bill, but they keep a portion of it. As for the health insurance you only can get it if you work 30 hours a week consistently. So even if you are available to them full time you can't get benefits without the hours. Speaking of the full time hours, when I was hired they told me I would get full time hours and this is true but unless you have appointments you are not allowed to be on the time clock. You give them all these hours and you have to be available within an hour call so you can't work somewhere else. And they pay you so little that you can't make a living without having another job. They ask you to be available for weekends and holidays. No big deal that's normal but when they say holidays they mean the actual days (Christmas Day, Thanksgiving Day) and this is something they don't tell you. This is just the start of the miscommunication they give you. They act like they care for their employees but they only care about money. (At least be honest about it like all the other corporations.)

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