1.10.01
I have just escaped from a one-hour meet-n'-greet with the professional corporate sunshine-blowers of DSG's salon management team. The upside is that I'll now have benefits commensurate to the normal Younkers flunkies (medical, dental, holiday/personal/grievance pay, stock options), as well as believably promised educational opportunities. The downside is that my ass is so full of sunshine that people may mistake me for the full moon, even though that was technically yesterday.
Everytime there is a buyout, the corporate reps come in an promise cool stuff, which I believe this bunch may actually follow through on, and then they tell us we need to raise our prices and network more to make more money. Duh. That's just common sense.
I'm raising my prices in the very near future. Not tons, but enough that Carol will be forced to raise hers too, in order to keep up with my skills that pay the bills.
I'm just stoked to get medical and dental benefits. It's hard not having any kind of insurance. It's not like I'm broke, but I'd rather have Blue Cross pay for an emergency appendectomy than to use my dwindling savings to fund surgery.
