Salon Horror Stories & Hairdresser Pet Peeves: The Outrageous Things We Deal With Behind the Chair

If you’ve ever wondered what hairdressers really complain about when you’re not listening, welcome to the chaos. In this episode of Sh!t I Told My Hairdresser, hosts Jason and Jack — both seasoned hairstylists with decades of behind-the-chair experience — unload the funniest, weirdest, and most maddening things they see in the salon every day.

Think you’ve heard it all?
Try barefoot clients, speakerphone screamers, missing scissors, questionable music choices, and coworkers who can’t bother to dump the dustpan.

Yep. Welcome to salon life.

And if you love comedy podcasts about real people, real stories, and real mess — you’re in the right place.

The Beauty Industry Is Glamorous… Until Someone Takes Their Shoes Off in the Waiting Area

Let’s start strong.

One of the first stories in this episode features what might be the most chaotic salon guest in recent history:
A woman who sat on the salon couch for her color appointment, kicked off her shoes, put her bare feet on the furniture, and — because life is comedy — took a full-volume speakerphone call.

With no dryer running.
No excuse.
Just pure chaos.

Everyone turned their head.
Everyone judged silently.
And she stared right back like, “Yeah? And?”

As Jason says in the episode:

“It was loud enough to echo off our 20-foot ceilings. You would think she was calling the Pentagon.”

If you’re a hairdresser, you’re already triggered.
If you’re not, congratulations — you now understand why your stylist drinks.

Why Do People Yell on Speakerphone? Asking for Every Stylist Ever

To be clear: we get emergency calls.
We get quick check-ins.
We get “Hey, I’m outside.”

But this was none of those.

This was full-volume social conversation — the kind people normally whisper at a grocery store.

Jack puts it perfectly:

“Some people act like they’re using a World War II walkie-talkie."

Speakerphone + salon acoustics = the seventh layer of hell.

The Front Desk: Where Order Goes to Die

If you work in a salon, you know:
The front desk is either heaven… or complete anarchy.

For Jason and Jack, it leans toward anarchy.

Clients arrive and no one is there.
Phones ring endlessly.
The team scatters like forest animals when the lights turn on.

The fact that some salons have replaced human beings with an iPad check-in screen only adds to the absurdity.

Sure, it’s 2025 — but does anyone actually want to “Check In Here” like they’re scanning a boarding pass?

Not in this economy.

As Jack says:

“If I walk into a restaurant and there’s only a kiosk, I’m out.”

Same goes for salons.

Human beings matter.
Hospitality matters.
And if you’re receiving 50% of a stylist’s commission as an owner, maybe — just maybe — make sure there’s a human at the desk.

The Salon Playlist Wars: A Never-Ending Battle

Nothing divides a salon faster than music.

Some stylists want club music.
Some want top 40.
Some want moody indie tracks.
Some want rap with every explicit lyric you hoped your client wouldn’t hear.

And then there’s the brave soul who puts on Yoko Ono.

But here’s the real EEAT truth from two stylists with 25+ years in the industry:

Good salon music should be background music — not a nightclub.

Your clients shouldn’t have to scream their formula across the room.
Your playlist shouldn't scare the rich Bellevue blondes.
And no one wants an awkward moment where a client hears lyrics like “lick my—” well… you get it.

Jason’s solution?
An 800-song playlist on shuffle.
No repeats, no chaos, no “who put this on?”

If only the rest of the world agreed.

Salon Cleanliness: The Dustpan Debate Nobody Asked For

Jack’s next big irritation?
Stylists who sweep hair into a dustpan… and then leave it there.

No dumping.
No finishing the job.
Just a passive-aggressive hair pile waiting for the next person.

To be clear:
This isn’t a once-a-year issue.
This is daily salon warfare.

Even in salons with automatic hair vacuums, the same chaos happens:

People sweep.
The sensor doesn’t catch.
And instead of pressing the little button, they abandon ship.

In Jack’s words:

“They couldn’t have made it easier — and yet here we are.”

Borrowing Tools Without Asking = Hairdresser War Crime

If you’re not a stylist, you may not understand the level of rage this topic carries.

Borrowing someone's $2,000 scissors without asking?
That’s not borrowing.
That’s emotional terrorism.

Stylists are attached to their tools like chefs are attached to knives — except hairdressers work in a room full of people who will absolutely “borrow” something and never return it.

Brushes.
Combs.
Clips.
Trimmers they drop and pretend they didn’t.

Jason sums it up beautifully:

“That’s theft. Should we start calling the police?”

Honestly? Maybe.

Food Delivery Chaos: Uber Eats From… Across the Street?

This one deserves an award.

Someone at Jack’s salon once ordered Uber Eats from a restaurant directly across the street.

Not down the block.
Not a few minutes away.
Across. The. Street.

The delivery driver even had to make an illegal U-turn because he assumed there was no way the order could be thatclose.

And of course, the client watched through the window.

You can’t write comedy better than real life.

The Official Shitology Tips: How to Make the Salon Even Worse

At the end of the episode, Jason and Jack share “Shitology” — a guide to making the salon environment truly unbearable. A few gems:

  • Blow dry your cut hair all over the salon. Make it everyone’s problem.

  • Join a stranger’s speakerphone call. Ask follow-up questions.

  • Play Yoko Ono on repeat.

  • Hire the Uber Eats driver to work the front desk.

  • Use someone’s missing tools and pretend you have no idea what “Lorenzo-ing” is.

Chaos. Pure chaos.
And absolutely on brand.

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What is the Sh!t I Told My Hairdresser podcast about?

It’s a comedy podcast hosted by two veteran hairstylists sharing outrageous salon stories, client chaos, and unfiltered behind-the-chair humor.

Why do people love hairstylist podcasts?

Because salons are real-life sitcoms. Listeners get relatable chaos, insider gossip, and hilarious stories you can’t make up.

Are the hosts real hairstylists?

Yes — Jason and Jack have decades of experience in top salons, giving them firsthand EEAT-powered credibility.

What are common salon pet peeves?

Speakerphone talkers, late clients, bad music, messy coworkers, and people who treat the salon like their living room.

Where can I listen to funny salon stories?

On Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or anywhere you get your podcasts — especially Sh!t I Told My Hairdresser.

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: Mm-hmm.

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: so there was no dryer on at all.

Yet, she had the speakerphone on and it was fucking loud. I mean, even everyone was turning their heads like, what the hell is going on? And on top of that, she had her shoes off, not just her feet on the furniture, shoes off dirty feet. I don't know if they were dirty. I don't care. Your bare feet

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: she

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: on the couch.

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: she didn't even have on,

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: No nothing.

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: so her dirty

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: Yes,

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: fucking athlete's foot

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: yes. To fungus, whatever. [00:05:00] Yes.

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: Uh, okay.

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: On the couch, and literally every time that phone went off, I would just stare at her until, until the point where she just didn't fucking care. She was staring back at me like, I don't give a shit.

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: She sure doesn't.

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: She did not. She did not care.

Fucking rude.

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: What was it that you had, uh, to talk about? Did you hear or

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: It was in a different language. I have

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: like an emergency? Uh.

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: yeah. Recipe or something. You know what I mean? Because let me tell you, I'm, I'm sure you know why, if, if, if it's something very serious when you look at someone's face, you know, they're talking about something serious. This was not happening. This was more of like, you know, how is your mother.

Kind of a conversation you can tell even in a different language.

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: no, but some of these people yell and act like it's a. two-way radio, like a walkie talkie from like World War they would never talk loud if other was just sitting right there.

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: absolutely, but with [00:06:00] the phone,

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: or allowed.

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: they have to be extra. Like that microphone can't pick anything up. But here's the thing.

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: picks up everything. I don't know

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: Oh.

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: they think that. Yeah. Yeah. Technology is how old you gotta yell into it.

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: But here's the thing. When she went to go get shampooed, she walked into the shampoo area, sat down, and because of the noise of the water while being shampooed, she turned the phone volume all the way up.

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: Hmm.

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: So now it's, we have 20 foot ceiling. So now it's echoing throughout the salon. I'm like, you've got to be joking.

I literally stopped, my client walked back there and looked at her and gave her that dirty look,

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: You gotta say something.

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: you know? And I was like,

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: you say

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: 'cause it wasn't my client. So we went over to the person whose client it was. We told them.

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: If someone walked in the and was yelling at the of her lungs like that, you would. Tell them how to get out.

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: You would I And you wanna, I didn't. It was just one of those things I just, I gave her a, I looked at her, it was like, you [00:07:00] should know, it was like that third grade teacher look, that's the look I gave her. My wife's a teacher, so I know the look, you know, so I gave her that look. Didn't get it. Walk over to the person whose client it was and said, you go fix the goddamn problem right now.

'cause you driving, your client's, driving everyone nuts, you know? And finally it was kinda like, turn it off, you know? But it was like,

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: you

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: what is the deal?

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: it, you know, instead of just giving looks.

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: And I don't know what her deal was. So I thought like, I'll talk to the person who, whoever was doing her hair. To go through and tell them what is going on. Maybe there is something, maybe she does need to talk to the, maybe she's talking to the fucking Pentagon, or maybe she's curing cancer. I don't know.

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: that's what I was wondering. So there must have been like a, National security issue.

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: Literally the brink of World War III depends on this goddamn fucking phone call. It seems like

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: Then it's okay.

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: then we're all right. You know.

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: why wasn't anyone else,

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: Because it's Seattle. We're passive aggressive. Everyone here is super pa. If you been, you've been to [00:08:00] Seattle, everyone here is passive aggressive. But my point for this,

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: like a bunch is what

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: well pretty much, yeah,

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: like. Yeah, yeah.

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: but my point of this is that what drives you crazy?

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: Okay,

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: the salon.

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: you're asking me,

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: Oh, I know. That's why I asked you, because I know, I know you do.

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: You know, I have a list already. Um,

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: You had a list before the list. We even talked about this. You already had a list in your head, so I know, I know. I, I came to the right person.

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: yeah. Um, because me tell you, everything drives me insane. So,

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: know.

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: yeah. Um, where do I start? I don't even know where to start

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: Easy. We'll start the front. We'll start at the very front and work our way back. So let's start with the front desk. How about that? What drives you nuts About the front desk

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: no one is at the front desk. Okay. a desk [00:09:00] has like a few different functions. You know, the phone is up there, uh, the computer is up there, and.

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: tell them that's up there? Because it seems like they never know how to either use it a or actually pick up the phone.

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: They know how to use it. and you're right though. No one answers, no one likes answering.

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: Exactly.

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: there is someone who is in, in a remote location at our. or somewhere else. I, I don't know where it is. It's, someone who's hired to answer the phone if we don't, and it, rings her home? I think So whoever it is

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: That, or a bomb shelter up in the mountains in Colorado.

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: Maybe I don't, I don't know. Probably sitting on the couch in her underwear.

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: Oh, I hope so.

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: you know, hello Salon. checking out you know, ringing them up. That's another job.

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: Mm-hmm. Yeah.

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: And when they walk in for an appointment. So [00:10:00] if, no one's up there, what do they do?

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: Oh, I have your problem solved.

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: what?

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: We have an iPad. No, we have an iPad that says Check in here.

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: No, no,

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: Yeah, so impersonal

it. Seriously.

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: Why do you guys have it?

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: I know. It drives me crazy. Check in here. I'm like, really?

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: hate hotels who do that.

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: I hate restaurants that do that where you walk up, you have a kiosk and know one to talk to.

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: if I walked in, like rest and then I had off of a I would walk right out.

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: That's what I do too. Yeah, I'm done. I won't do it anymore. if you're ordering from like their menu at, you're like, you're gonna go do a pickup or something like that, and you're ordering online off your phone, that's one thing.

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: Yeah.

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: But if you walk up and there's no one there, it's so impersonal.

You can't ask any questions. You don't know what's going on. What if the client is there early or late and there's no one there to greet them, or to even find out, or they're not even

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: [00:11:00] They're

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: exactly.

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: and standing there and, and you know what app? Oh, here's where it drives me insane is, hey, I'm two and a haircut. I'm about halfway deep in the I can see who walks in I can see a desk, they'll walk in, there. I don't know what to do. I have an appointment, so I will have, to top a haircut.

Walk up there, see what they want. And I walk way in the back, uh, to see if whoever's asking is, here. and I walk in the back room and there's three people hanging out, out

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: Oh yeah. Yep.

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: one of theirs now. I left a haircut to go let them know they have an appointment.

Who's here? That knows they have an appointment.

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: Yes,

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: Why aren't they up there waiting on them? Why are they hiding in the back

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: true.

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: somebody else,[00:12:00]

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: If you know you have an appointment at one o'clock, at least at one o'clock, be at the front if there's no one there, but it's the owner's responsibility to make sure that somebody's there. Okay? If there's no one at the front desk, maybe if they're like getting someone coffee or something like that, that's one thing, but if there's like no one there all day,

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: yeah.

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: are you giving the owner 53% of your commission or 57% of your commission?

Or if you're 50%, the other 50% goes to the owner.

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: No, but here's also the thing. there also, uh, the. Person who does laundry. they will go and the towels and change it out and everything. Meanwhile, no one's up at desk. timing it out. you know

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: Yep.

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: people are about to come in, you don't go and do laundry at the. Top of the hour or whenever everyone's coming in, you

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: five minutes. Five minutes to the top of the hour.

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: You wait until

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: You were there checking everyone out until five [00:13:00] minutes after normally. But then you have the computer there to say like, who's coming in? And if they're not there, maybe you stay there until everyone's checked in.

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: nobody wants a of that,

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: But ultimately it's the owner's responsibility to make sure that this ship runs well,

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: Right.

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: know, that they're properly trained because where does my rent money go to? Where does your commission money go to? If you have someone who's running the place, who's really not running it, you know, I love these owners who are like, oh, I'm the owner of the salon by title only, but you want to act like a staff member.

All day long and have no responsibility, but want the title of owner. How about you man up and actually go through or woman up, whatever you want to call it, and actually run the place and actually have some responsibility because you don't want the responsibility. That's usually the main problem. Or no one wants to train the front desk or the person they just fired at the front desk.

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: Yeah.

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: They want them to hire their replacement and then train 'em. [00:14:00] Before they leave, before they get fired or something like that. And it's like, wait a minute. But you hate the way they did it and yet you have them training them how to do it.

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: Imagine you're, your, your is like, Hey, I'm gonna, have a new husband. I need you to train him.

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: Right.

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: What

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: Exactly. That's

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: out?

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: they're reason being

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: I'm,

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: replaced.

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: I'm gonna a good job doing that.

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: The reason they're being replaced is because you don't like something that they're doing, so you replace them.

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: Yeah. Yeah.

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: Don't have them train their replacement. but that is definitely, well, that's the first one. The second one I would say that drives me crazy. We're gonna start with, and it belongs usually at the front desk.

That's usually where it's at, is the music.

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: Oh,

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: All right. That is a hot. Button topic right there.

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: Um,

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: so

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: so. Music in the salon is always an issue.

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: always, no matter [00:15:00] what.

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: Every salon I've in since beginning, you know, like I um, the first. Time, like hating music and, and like sneaking over and changing it out. was at and Guy in 1992. Um, I was like 19 years old, so, um, music was good

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: Yeah.

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: Um, however, we had this, he wasn't manager. was like a regional manager.

he worked there once a week, she loved, the, Sundays.

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: Please tell me. This was Mary.

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: Yep. I.

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: I, we, we gotta talk about her later on, on different episode when she got punched in the face. Oh yeah.

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: so, so he would it and then he would change it back, you know, it's like she loved hearing the Sundays

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: Oh yeah,

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: and so, um, we out, it's like we gotta ruin that Sadie, you know, it's like, it,

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: because that's what it was back then,

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: had like a six disc. [00:16:00] Changer in the back. And, and that was like one of the coolest things I'd ever seen.

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: right?

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: so, so scratching it, that's an option, but it, is permanently dead, you know? Um,

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: sure.

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: so didn't want to ruin her cd, you know, just. for a

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: Modify it.

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: temporarily.

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: Yeah.

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: So we would, take this, product called, pure Colos

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: Oh, I remember that.

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: like rub it on, half of the CD and it, just wouldn't play at all. You can wipe it off,

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: Yeah.

It was that silicone based product. I remember it. Which, yeah.

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: skip over that desk.

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: Yep.

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: it just, relieved us, I guess, of, of horrible music, however, so throughout the years, you know, it's like, it's really a, a matter of like, who wants to hear what? More

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: For me, it's more of like, and I get it, you know, people want to hear certain music, but also you gotta read the room, because there's been times where, I mean, I'm in Bellevue, which is like [00:17:00] a bunch of ultra rich white women, And someone will start playing rap music and it's like the N word is just flying around everywhere, you know what I mean?

Or you have some other. Female artist saying, lick my pussy, lick my crack lick, you know, do this. And I'm like, what the fuck? I'm like, guys, we're not in the

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: It, it,

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: side of Chicago. You're scaring the white people. You're, you're scaring the white people. Look, the white folk are running.

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: they want to hear, um, who do they want to hear? Coldplay,

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: Sure.

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: who they want to hear. Shit like that.

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: Which you wanna what though? It should be. Background music inside the salon. It, you shouldn't be walking into a nightclub. It shouldn't be that loud. You should have, people were actually, they can talk it. Maybe if you're in a salon where it's all, everyone's like 20 years old and they have no problems, like, you know, reading lips or screaming at each other, fine, go ahead.

But when you're at a high-end salon, the people that come inside there normally do not wanna be screaming to their stylist. They wanna be [00:18:00] able to talk to them in a normal voice. So it should be just background music and not anything that's like, you know, n word this or all, you know, country music where they're the country.

Music has fucking changed a lot as well though too,

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: no,

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: talking about doing coke now and getting fucked up and I'm like, holy shit.

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: I will not have it. I don't care what SOI work at, no one will play that. New or

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: music. Yeah. It doesn't matter, right?

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: not. and that is at the top of, uh, the no-nos list of, music. And next is, club music. If I hear the, like

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: The bass. Yeah.

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: bass loud. No, that's a

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: the thing though.

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: and

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: What do we do? We're hairdressers, we're the interpreters of fashion. Have you ever been to a fashion show where they're playing Yeehaw country music? No.

It's never happened.

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: to another part of this is, uh, a dis hunting on like what music [00:19:00] is good. Mostly they want to hear the music they already know. You know, just like all the top 40 basically American music right now. It just happens be really bad. So

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: Yeah.

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: they don't mind it. That's all they know. I guess I don't, I don't know. But don't you want to hear something new? You know what I liked? I, I liked when we worked at salons and there was always like someone who was into music and they would get,

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: Yes.

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: would keep up with it.

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: Yep.

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: and are like, who is this?

Wow, this is really good. You know?

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: Exactly,

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: and, hey. there, to see what's happening, see what's happening. That's new. They let, might have a pouring life at home in the suburbs and, and they want to come in to get their hair done, something that's current. want to see what the kids are wearing. They want to hear new music that they

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: yes.

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: normally hear.

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: My last playlist, the old shop, my last playlist had over [00:20:00] 800 songs on it. You wouldn't hear the same song twice unless you started from the beginning again, every single morning. You know, you'd hit random and you wouldn't hear it, but that's what you need. You need someone who's willing to do that.

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: I gotta do that. I guess don't, I don't know except they'll like skip over something they don't like, or

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: That's fine. At least it'll go on to the next 800, you know what I mean?

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: Yeah. Yeah.

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: Because the playlist now, even when you get on Spotify, there may be like eight songs on it, maybe 40. So what it'll do is start repeating the same songs all day long, you know?

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: Yeah. I don't know.

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: I hear that bottle song, whatever

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: get better. and you know what I've noticed on, on. they have these stations that are like, a lawn vibe

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: Yes.

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: So it's so bad. It's, you know

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: Yes,

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: is. Do you know what it is? it's some hairdresser. who thinks he's. Uh, his a guy, by the way. Um, whoever it is this, [00:21:00] um, he's a douche. I, I know it.

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: his name's Jack.

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: with these, like, I'm not talking about you. You're our douche. Okay. Um, um, no, it's, just. Real bad. it's some hairdresser coming up with, his stuff and

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: Yeah,

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: it out there to say, you should listen to this.

You know, if you want cool shop. No.

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: right. In the meantime, they're from the Midwest and have like never seen a fashion show or Yeah, exactly. You TVs just kind of hit their neighborhood. All right? Music is a big, big one, you know what I mean? But what's, what's next? What have we got next, Jack?

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: what so like here's something that just like came to mind as soon as you said, what you most at the salon? And I was

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: Uh.

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: God, where do I, alright, so near the top of her list was leaving. Hair up, hair in, the dust pan,

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: Yeah.

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: to the trash How lazy

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: Oh [00:22:00] yeah. That is lazy.

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: like you, swept your hair up, you know, it's like you got it off the and everything. You sweep it into the dust pan.

And you just leave it in there.

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: Will you guys still have a pan?

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: who has

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: Do you still have a dust pan?

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: Yeah.

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: Oh, now, 1994 of you guys.

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: you guys,

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: We have the, the, the I vac or the, the vacuum is in a little, looks like a little robot. And you push the hair up to it.

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: and, and

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: God. Yeah. Absolutely.

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: have

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: one.

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: we don't have your technology here.

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: Uh, that's true. You don't? Yeah, we have all new stuff here. Yeah. Things you've never seen before.

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: broom and a dust pan.

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: So old fashioned.

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: standing one, you know? But really, who told them it's fine to leave hair in there. You know, it's like, who? dumps it out?

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: Who doesn't up?

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: Everyone except me. I'm the one who trumps it, so

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: Okay. That, that's delegated to you then. But you, you wanna though, here's the thing. [00:23:00] Even when we have the little vacuum that's right there, we have two of 'em, by the way. And you push up the hair and it sets off a sensor and it sucks the hair up.

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: Right. Yep.

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: But one of them, the sensor isn't working. or it doesn't sense that there's any hair there.

So there's a little bar you push and then that sucks the hair up, right? Well, people will just go through and push the hair up to the machine and just leave it and walk away. I'm like, hit the bar. And not only that, it makes such a loud noise, you know, if it turned on or, or not.

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: yeah. Yeah,

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: definitely know it's loud.

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: So it does have a manual option.

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: Absolutely.

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: Oh my God. Who's doing that?

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: Everyone

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: Who is so lazy?

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: that they can't even hit the little bar and you don't have to bend over. You get to do nothing. You just push the broom right there to it,

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: Yeah,

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: if it doesn't turn on you hit the little bar and then it turns it on for you.

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: they couldn't have made it easier.

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: No, that, I mean, they've made it for the laziest of hairdressers, and yet [00:24:00] still

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: No,

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: they can't do it.

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: there is lazier. is someone who, um, who will have delivered by Uber Eats

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: Uhhuh.

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: a restaurant directly across the fucking street.

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: No,

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: Yeah.

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: no way. Now, Del Food delivery in our salon is a big fucking deal. That it, it, it, it's insane.

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: I get it.

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: It is insane, but from across the street you can't walk across the street and get your food.

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: no, that's too hard.

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: Oh my God.

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: so. Did you hear what I had It's not the, a restaurant, someone who works at a restaurant ringing over that I I'm talking about going online to Uber Eats, hiring a third. Party to drive a car from wherever they are over to that it up, drive across the street and deliver it.[00:25:00]

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: Why just call the restaurant and have him throw it across the street too. You can catch it. I mean, is it that close? And we just do that.

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: it

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: You know,

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: really is.

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: you can't walk your candy ass across the street.

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: her window. You can see this restaurant

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: Does she watch the driver pick it up and then watch it? Oh my God.

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: Because her making a u-turn in the middle of the and he was nearly

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: Because they realize it's literally across the street. You could have saved them the effort of actually getting into his car and packing your shit away. You could just walked it across the street.

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: That's what, Google Maps him to do.

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: Exactly

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: yeah,

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: because he thinks he's going somewhere because he doesn't, can't believe that. Why This person can't believe there's someone that fucking lazy, that they can't walk across the street and get their food.

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: you're having like a whole. Punch of food like the whole salon or like that.

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: Maybe.

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: Maybe do that.

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: Maybe, but you wanna wait, [00:26:00] walk across the street, make arrangements, the people that work there.

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: Yeah. Yeah.

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: My favorite though, is when they fuck up and they don't realize that they've ordered food to the salon. As opposed to their house, and this actually happened where one girl got wasted and she must have ordered, I think it was close to like $80 worth of Taco Bell at one o'clock in the morning and had to do, and it was delivered to the salon because she didn't go through and get the right address on there.

Didn't change the address, so right. So she woke up hungry, hung over. Right. And then one of the girls that opened the salon that day took a picture of it because literally 80 worth of Taco Bell was in right in front of the salon door.

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: she must have been having a party.

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: No, it just for her.

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: Oh,

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: Yeah.

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: worth of Taco

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: It was a lot of food and it was all.

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: there

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: Yes, with the name, so [00:27:00] you know who ordered it and it was all in the trash. The next day it was like a couple of large sodas and it was like, well, who was with you? No one, just by myself. $80 worth the Taco Bell. Yeah.

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: hard. Hadoop, you remember like you inning more than $10 on be for yourself. was like so much food. You're, gonna have leftovers.

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: I now I don't even know. You know what I mean? I don't know what 80 bucks to talk about will get to, but

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: No, it's like, they had a menu, it was like, 79 cent tacos

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: can't imagine though. Let's just say it's like one burrito is like $7 $80 worth of food, dude. I mean, I know you're drunk, but shit, that's a lot. That's a lot. It's a lot. How many burritos can you eat now that though? Do you imagine that toilet the next day you're just gonna wreck it, you know?

'cause you know that shit's not good for you. Imagine. Oh,

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: Oh,

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: oh, I hope you have some soft, you know, moist toilets to go through my behind with because woo, [00:28:00] you're gonna have some trouble in the morning.

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: kill with mild sauce, not the hot.

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: Exactly. All right, so one of the things that bugs the fuck outta me though for sure, is people that go through and borrow your tools without telling you and scissors are not cheap.

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: that's not borrowing.

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: Okay.

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: would what if I said I, went and borrowed someone's out of lot. You're wondering, do they know about it? No.

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: Ah,

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: And it's not borrowing, is

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: that's Grand Theft auto, isn't it? Yeah.

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: Stealing a car. It's not borrowing.

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: Well in the salon it's technically I borrowed your brushes.

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: not

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: clips.

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: you let them know.

It's like, oh, hey, I borrowed your car. What? No. Borrowing means like, Hey, Jason, could I use your, dryer, whatever it is,

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: [00:29:00] sure. That's borrowing.

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: So what happens? I, I just like

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: no.

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: and, hey, just like,

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: Oh, I lock up my shit now. I lock up my shit. Now. I tell, I definitely lock it up, but people will come through,

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: think it's

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: are missing, clips are missing sometimes,

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: they walk over to,

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: I don't know.

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: use anything that they

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: Or they feel like they're too busy to come and ask you because they were like working on a color or something like that.

So I just gotten into your station and borrowed something and I'm like, no, don't do that. Or.

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: lock up

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: I have, you know me, I have specific combs for different things, you know what I mean? So I have like white combs for dark hair. I ha, you know, vice versa. And one of the girls used one of my white combs on a color to co uh, comb it through, and it was a dark brown.

So I had this stained comb. Now I'm like, what the fuck? Why didn't you ask me? I would've gotten you a black comb. Or grab the black one. They're all there.

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: Become okay to do.

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: I don't know,

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: how that, in that, on. there's [00:30:00] no consequences, I guess

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: but I mean, this has been going on since any salon we've ever worked at. You know what I mean? They've all been like that.

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: maybe of them. Yeah. Yeah. Um, but. My drawers, locked. And I that how one at my salon tears, how to borrow my I would flip

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: do now. I bet they do now that you said it, but No, but especially because they'll use like tremors and drop them.

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: immediately if I do it. Yeah.

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: So people will borrow your trimmers and drop 'em and not tell you they dropped 'em, they come back ruined, and you have no idea like, what happened? I'll turn on clippers and I'm like, what the fuck? These don't work anymore. I didn't drop 'em. And you can tell they've been dropped, you know, or a blow dryer that's been dropped,

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: Right.

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: I'll open up my, my, my brushes and like, there's hair all over my brushes.

And I'm like, what the fuck?

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: Allowed to. Dryer ever. that's my uh, to drop it, you know, like I bought it. [00:31:00] that's tough is, ruined. It's because I did it

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: The housing's cracked. That's your job to crack it. Not anybody else. No, I know, but that's the, it's scissors, people borrowing scissors. That drives me nuts.

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: Not ever.

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: No, so my scissor I have at the salon I'm at now, no one's ever borrowed my scissors unless they wanted to try them. And I'm normally like right there showing them how to use 'em.

But I mean, they're like two grand for one pair of scissors. I'm not gonna be like, oh, hey, just use 'em. Whatever you feel like, fuck no. Yeah. Okay, buddy. You know, like, I don't think so. I would never let anybody just pick up my scissors. Just walk away with them. News.

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: friends and family here? No, we're not.

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: In fact, I hate you. Get the fuck outta my face. Yeah, but I mean, it's just they, they think they're entitled to anything that's yours. You know? It's like, no. Or especially when someone quits and their shit is still [00:32:00] there and they haven't been back to pick it up. People will go through and start rifling through their shit and just take it.

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: That happened to me during COVID. All my shit

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: Wow. So it now it does happen.

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: what happened to it.

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: Oh, imagine that.

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: it maybe got, uh. Packed away in a box, in storage or maybe it got thrown away. can't say

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: Sold on Facebook marketplace maybe. Yeah.

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: fuck them. There were scissors

rushes. You can't

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: Wow.

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: that. I had for 20 years almost.

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: Yeah. People steal shit that's stealing if you don't ask and you don't have someone's consent to let you borrow their things. That's theft. Should we start calling the police now? Whenever you see someone using your stuff, just have 'em arrested.

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: Calling ice.

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: I think that's a little too far. What else we got, Jack? What else? What else? What else bugs you? What's, what's burning a fire in your butt hole? Anything else?

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: What do I got? Um. [00:33:00] I can't think of anything. Honestly, Jason,

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: Hang on a second. You can't think of one thing that might bother you. The, the, the king of everything bothers me.

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: I have to, now that I've gotten all this out, nothing me anymore.

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: Oh my God. Was this the great purge for you? You're all done.

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: I'm at. Peace and harmony

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: Wow, there. This is the first time I've ever heard that come out of your mouth.

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: Yep.

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: amazing. This was like a massive therapy session for you.

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: Thank you

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: You're welcome. All right guys. Anything that's bothering the fuck outta you, we definitely wanna hear. So we have some stories that are gonna be coming out to you guys pretty soon.

Uh, hit us up on shit I told my hairdresser.com or hit us an email at info at shit I told my hairdresser.com. Let us know and keep letting other people know about our podcast and helping us grow. We really appreciate it.

All right, let's [00:34:00] make things shittier with shit ology. Jack,

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: just when you thought things around the salon couldn't get any worse, here's some ways that they can, and you can do it if you apply yourself after your next haircut. Take your blow dryer and blow it all over the salon. Now it's everyone else's problem.

No need to sweep it up and use, uh, the desk pan. Use that for trash. Everyone else does. You hear a loud asshole talking on a speaker phone, pull up a chair, join the conversation. When they say, this is a private conversation, is it though

jason-_1_11-04-2025_114547: someone complaining about the music? Just show 'em how bad it could really be.

Two words, Yoko Ono and the Plastic Ono Band. Put that shit on repeat. No one at the front desk. Hire the first Uber Eats driver that walks in with the food delivery from across the street. Tell 'em you'll triple his. Pay the wobbly English, [00:35:00] no problemo. Just talk to clients using the translator app.

Everyone loves that. Someone takes your tools, walk right over there and Lorenzo their stuff. You don't know what Lorenzo means. He's the guy that throws away your tools with no fucks given. And with that, stay shitty

jack_1_11-04-2025_124547: and see you next time.

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