I'm so sorry for the rant I'm just very tired of this and extremely disappointed
For about 1-1 1/2 years now I've been trying to get into a company paid grooming certification program. i started at petsmart and was on the road to academy in a fair amount of time at my original store, but then I moved at 3-4 months of working there (just months away from being sent to training) and transferred stores. new store had an awful salon lead who hated me and wouldn't send me to academy, even though I was beyond ready and well over the time limit of being there to go. so I got a new job in a smaller corporate salon with the promise of training after the current trainee in about 4-6 months. okay great! get the job and wait. she quits because she's moving so I ask about training again. THEN corporate decided to tell my store manager I had to be there for at least 6 months (despite my at least 1 yr of not more worth of experience) and come October I should be good. a bit disappointed but that's not a long wait, so I hold out. now we are less than a week before October so i asked again if they said they'd do it come October. NOPE, now they won't do the training until at LEAST (if I'm lucky but my doubts are high) January because it's "the end of the year so we need to spend less" WOW OKAY THAT'S AWFUL. so now I'm extremely disheartened after 2 years or more of bathing and absolutely no certification despite good knowledge of grooming, AND experience doing full grooms (with happy customers, no injuries, and loads of compliments from experienced groomers) and regular trims. I'm tempted to say f you to the company and take certification into my own hands so I can FINALLY start doing regular haircuts and make better money. so if anyone has done online certification please help me out on if I should do it myself or just wait for the company to finally give me training. are there any really good affordable ones?
tldr: experience bather with 2 or more yrs of hands on training (bathing, trimming, and full grooms) being promised grooming training, but it keeps getting pushed back. do I get myself certification online or wait for the company to finally train me?
For about 1-1 1/2 years now I've been trying to get into a company paid grooming certification program. i started at petsmart and was on the road to academy in a fair amount of time at my original store, but then I moved at 3-4 months of working there (just months away from being sent to training) and transferred stores. new store had an awful salon lead who hated me and wouldn't send me to academy, even though I was beyond ready and well over the time limit of being there to go. so I got a new job in a smaller corporate salon with the promise of training after the current trainee in about 4-6 months. okay great! get the job and wait. she quits because she's moving so I ask about training again. THEN corporate decided to tell my store manager I had to be there for at least 6 months (despite my at least 1 yr of not more worth of experience) and come October I should be good. a bit disappointed but that's not a long wait, so I hold out. now we are less than a week before October so i asked again if they said they'd do it come October. NOPE, now they won't do the training until at LEAST (if I'm lucky but my doubts are high) January because it's "the end of the year so we need to spend less" WOW OKAY THAT'S AWFUL. so now I'm extremely disheartened after 2 years or more of bathing and absolutely no certification despite good knowledge of grooming, AND experience doing full grooms (with happy customers, no injuries, and loads of compliments from experienced groomers) and regular trims. I'm tempted to say f you to the company and take certification into my own hands so I can FINALLY start doing regular haircuts and make better money. so if anyone has done online certification please help me out on if I should do it myself or just wait for the company to finally give me training. are there any really good affordable ones?
tldr: experience bather with 2 or more yrs of hands on training (bathing, trimming, and full grooms) being promised grooming training, but it keeps getting pushed back. do I get myself certification online or wait for the company to finally train me?