To whom it may concern,
I will NEVER go to a “Great Clips” as long as I live and I will actively work to discourage family, friends, colleagues, and the general public to stay away from, boycott, and refuse service from ANY AND ALL franchises of Great Clips. Below is the description of why!
I have a very good friend in Manhattan, Kansas who has enjoyed being a patron to the Great Clips located at 100 Bluemont Ave #A for many years. My friend takes their mental health VERY seriously, partly because of their current work environment which does what other organizations and businesses should have been doing all along – realizing that MENTAL HEALTH IS PHYSICAL HEALTH! Because of this earnestness to uplift one’s own mental health and to self-advocate for one’s own mental health, my friend felt they needed to have a haircut/hairstyle while they were attending a meeting with their therapist. Since their therapist’s location was closer to 840 Commons Pl, the therapist strongly encouraged my friend to go to the closer Great Clips instead of traveling across town, which my friend has come to trust their therapist and so followed that advice.
The end result was disastrous! Not only did the stylist butcher and destroy my friend’s hair (because they were not paying attention to directions from my friend, from what I understand), the stylist started to trim my friend’s eyebrows WITHOUT a request or consent to do so from my friend.
Let me take a pause here to explain a few points that apparently your stylists and franchise owners do not seem to be aware of. At least this particular stylist and the resulting franchise owner in Manhattan, Kansas doesn’t seem to understand. The bond of friendship and trust between one’s stylist and oneself is a very important bond. Anytime trust is placed into the hands of a stylist by a person, that stylist MUST work extra hard to maintain that trust and to build a stronger relationship with it. Any deviation from that trust and the vulnerability that has been offered by that person is equal to the actions of hatred and malice that is often found in our current aberrant society and culture. Furthermore, as much as our society and culture wish to “reclaim” the LEAVE-IT-TO-BEAVER modality and ignore the reality of today, we live in a society and culture where people have been abused, raped, sexually molested, and then treated as if they are to blame for the evil actions of their attacker. Such is the life that my friend has been subjected to. Among my friend’s list of traumas include physical, mental, and emotional abuses. And anyone who has participated in any trauma informed care would understand that this basic list of trauma affects and reacts to one’s psyche in numerous mental health struggles and issues. Such is the lived experience of my friend.
So, based on what has happened to my friend just from the careless acts of the stylist, it should be obvious to you, if you have any compassion or understanding of trauma, they have had deep wounds ripped open and they are now in a mental health crisis. But your stylist is not the only perpetrator in this reintroduction of trauma to my friend. The franchise owner has apparently banned my friend from using your services, including the stylist that they have always worked with and had built up trust with at the 100 Bluemont Ave #A location. A police officer has call my friend and noted that if they set foot into ANY Great Clips, they will be arrested for trespassing. Still further, the franchise owner has convicted my friend of extortion because they were earnestly trying to self-advocate by delivering a letter to the owner. A side note: the attendant claimed that the owner was out for the day repeatedly when my friend asked to see the owner so that they could hand deliver the letter directly to the owner. When my friend and their friend left the place, the attendant proceeded to read the letter intended for the owner ONLY to anyone and everyone at the salon. I am sure that with a franchise owner, attendants, and stylists like those I have described, you should be able to understand the continued trauma that they are forcing on unaware persons of society both who make the mistake of visiting the salon and those who experience the struggles of mental health in the real world.
This tells me that your franchise owner in Manhattan, Kansas does NOT want to recognize and realize the fact that trauma is real and rampant in our culture, they DO NOT CARE for their clientele, they are not willing to participate or work with anyone who has experience trauma – not even to host and attend any “Trauma Informed Care” seminars for their employees or themselves, and they only care about the green paper that they hope to fill their pockets with!
Since they only care about money, as I am sure you do as well, then it only seems right to actively boycott and undermine the Great Clips Company nationally. Maybe when you start seeing your profits and your clientele leave, you will realize that trauma is real, that people today deal with this horror every moment of their lives, and that such a careless business as yours has no place in our world today. And, this is NOT extortion. This is simply a promise because no amount of money, no "free coupons:, no fake acts of kindness or concern can heal the trauma already inflicted on my friend!
May you have the day and life that you deserve and that you have dumped onto others! In other words, may Karma haunt you for the rest of your existence!
