Actually - If I choose to spend $250,000 opening up a salon, I have the right to offer services of my choosing. Just because I went to school and learned how to do hair, skin and nails doesn't mean that I have to provide all of the services that I was trained to do.
I had a bad experience in school - that I wrote about here once. A mother routinely brought her 8 year old in to get a relaxer because the mother was too lazy to actually do the child's hair. The child has ethnic hair, commonly referred to as black hair. It is very course and curly and thick. Getting to the scalp is damned near impossible. Anyway - as a student, I had to put a relaxer in the child's hair. For two hours that kid screamed and cried, wouldn't sit still and grandmother made things worse by trying to get involved. I went to my instructor with three fellow students and told her I was leaving if she did not get the client and her family under control and reschedule the service with someone else.
Long story short - do I know how to do relaxers? Yes. Will I do them? Fuck no. Not after that experience. I also know how to do manicures and pedicures and facials. Does it mean that I have to do them? Not unless I choose to work at a salon where I am actually being hired to perform those services. Oh and none of that has fuck all to do with religious beliefs. Still not discriminatory for me to refuse the service.
Conversely, if I open a salon, I get to choose which services I want to offer. Advertised or not. If someone comes in wanting a relaxer, I don't have to provide that service. Period. I am not required to carry products needed to perform certain services unless I plan on offering those services. In addition - if someone comes in and wants their hair to go from a natural level of 2, which is the closest thing to black, to a 12, which is ultra platinum, and they want it done in one visit - I can refuse to do the service. Why? Because over processing a person's hair will cause it to fall out. Even after I have explained that - if they still want the service, I have the right to refuse to do it. Even if they want to sign a waiver. I can still refuse the service. Why? Because my license cost me $18,000 and I'll be damned if someone is going to cost me my license because they want what is physically impossible to do in one day. And that is not discrimination.
As a licensed professional, I also have the right to refuse service to anyone whom I feel might cause a health hazard to my place of employment. Technically, if you have dandruff and you go to get your haircut, did you know that you can be refused service because dandruff is contagious? Yes. It is contagious and legally, you can't get your service performed until you deal with it. And that is not discrimination.
I had a bad experience in school - that I wrote about here once. A mother routinely brought her 8 year old in to get a relaxer because the mother was too lazy to actually do the child's hair. The child has ethnic hair, commonly referred to as black hair. It is very course and curly and thick. Getting to the scalp is damned near impossible. Anyway - as a student, I had to put a relaxer in the child's hair. For two hours that kid screamed and cried, wouldn't sit still and grandmother made things worse by trying to get involved. I went to my instructor with three fellow students and told her I was leaving if she did not get the client and her family under control and reschedule the service with someone else.
Long story short - do I know how to do relaxers? Yes. Will I do them? Fuck no. Not after that experience. I also know how to do manicures and pedicures and facials. Does it mean that I have to do them? Not unless I choose to work at a salon where I am actually being hired to perform those services. Oh and none of that has fuck all to do with religious beliefs. Still not discriminatory for me to refuse the service.
Conversely, if I open a salon, I get to choose which services I want to offer. Advertised or not. If someone comes in wanting a relaxer, I don't have to provide that service. Period. I am not required to carry products needed to perform certain services unless I plan on offering those services. In addition - if someone comes in and wants their hair to go from a natural level of 2, which is the closest thing to black, to a 12, which is ultra platinum, and they want it done in one visit - I can refuse to do the service. Why? Because over processing a person's hair will cause it to fall out. Even after I have explained that - if they still want the service, I have the right to refuse to do it. Even if they want to sign a waiver. I can still refuse the service. Why? Because my license cost me $18,000 and I'll be damned if someone is going to cost me my license because they want what is physically impossible to do in one day. And that is not discrimination.
As a licensed professional, I also have the right to refuse service to anyone whom I feel might cause a health hazard to my place of employment. Technically, if you have dandruff and you go to get your haircut, did you know that you can be refused service because dandruff is contagious? Yes. It is contagious and legally, you can't get your service performed until you deal with it. And that is not discrimination.
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