Is There a More Unreliable Profession Than Barber????

I've been the person in the chair when something like this broke out at a barber shop I use to get my cuts at. My barber of 20 years retired and all of his apprentices bought his old building. Like 8 guys. Well the shop was on a busy street and everyone from Pasadena would get a cut there. So I'm sitting in the chair one day and black car rolls up dudes just start yelling "F your crew" " What now" "catch it" and everyone waiting is like what's going on, looking around. The older gentleman are talking Spanish like we don't want any problems. Well my barber gets called out by his name. At that point one of the guys is like "go." So i'm sitting in the chair with half a cut.
 
^^^ so if your barber is losing, like do you intervene to save your barber and your cut? Or do you let nature take its course. You know if the barber gets scrubbed he likely isn't coming back to finish, and do you trust his peers. You're just sitting there with a incomplete cut, cape and all, can't even turn your neck all the way because the neck paper is super tight. So you have to use one of your feet and kind of scoot the chair in the direction of where the action is going down. I'd be heated.
 
Art Vandelay said:
^^^ so if your barber is losing, like do you intervene to save your barber and your cut? Or do you let nature take its course. You know if the barber gets scrubbed he likely isn't coming back to finish, and do you trust his peers. You're just sitting there with a incomplete cut, cape and all, can't even turn your neck all the way because the neck paper is super tight. So you have to use one of your feet and kind of scoot the chair in the direction of where the action is going down. I'd be heated.
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I go to a Mexican barbershop, I'm usually in and out in 30 mins. Plus I only pay 10 bucks my barber doesn't speak English but I always leave looking fresh.
 
Man I remember it was the summer going into Junior year & I had grown my hair out all summer so I could go back to school with the fresh taper + spikes combo (no Jersey Shore).

My boy was nice with the clippers & he would cut hair at his crib so it was convenient & cheap.

I get there & he's cutting some dude up so I just start chilling.

I notice he's high but he left dude with a fresh cut so I think nothing of it.

Ok, my turn.

I specifically told him I wanted a taper & after about 10 mins I'm like "why the **** is this mfer going so high up on this taper?" Son was giving me a ****ing fade :stoneface: :stoneface: :stoneface:
I had spent so long growing my hair out I couldn't just chop it all off & take an L.

First day of school comes around & im rocking ****ing 3rd grade spikes, bruh :smh: :lol:
 
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RobTooFresco said:
Man I remember it was the summer going into Junior year & I had grown my hair out all summer so I could go back to school with the fresh taper + spikes combo (no Jersey Shore).

My boy was nice with the clippers & he would cut hair at his crib so it was convenient & cheap.

I get there & he's cutting some dude up so I just start chilling.

I notice he's high but he left dude with a fresh cut so I think nothing of it.

Ok, my turn.

I specifically told him I wanted a taper & after about 10 mins I'm like "why the **** is this mfer going so high up on this taper?" Son was giving me a ****ing fade :stoneface: :stoneface: :stoneface:
I had spent so long growing my hair out I couldn't just chop it all off & take an L.

First day of school comes around & im rocking ****ing 3rd grade spikes, bruh :smh: :lol:
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Literally had to cut my hair because dude turned my August Alsina DS5 thot fade into some Wayans Bros. 1993 Don't Be A Menace ********.

Low key should have ran his goddamn fade.

But it's cool females say I look more mature with the Nas Belly fade with the waves.

But still ***** I liked my fro.
 
OP struck the nail on the head with this one. Hair stylists and barbers are so unprofessional. Some chick that twisted my hair for months all of a sudden stopped doing my hair because she was going to "bartending school". She must of gotten so drunk that she may have forgotten our appointments. No phone or anyway of contacting her. Had to find a new loctician.
 
The shop I've been going to the past few years has been solid. Though my last cut, I texted my barber if his chair was open because I was about to swipe out for lunch if he could take me, he says "come over now". I kid you not, 30 seconds later I walk into the shop (I work around the block) and he has a younger kid in his chair :smh: . Tells me he came in "last minute" .
 
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I usually have pretty good experiences with the barbers that I have gone to wherever I have been stationed. I do hate when barbers multi task with me in the chair. I have an appointment cool, that is my time, forget dude who needs his beard and hair darkened, his time is no more important than mine. Don't start cutting my hair, stop, tend to ol'buddy and applying what appears to be a black waxy substance to his hair and beard, come back and cut, then tend to dude. My haircuts are simple, shouldn't take more than an hour for my cut and beard shape-up. But no, because you're trying to make dude look like Gerald Levert (RIP) I have to sit in this hot *** shop while you run back and forth.
 
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Most solid cuts 25-45 minutes, anything more than that, the barber is over correcting and you as a patron should be worried, especially if he is spending most of that time on the hairline and and the corners. Even though my cut took an hour plus while dude was dying Gerald Levert Jr's hair and beard, it was still a clean cut.
 
Art Vandelay said:
Most solid cuts 25-45 minutes, anything more than that, the barber is over correcting and you as a patron should be worried, especially if he is spending most of that time on the hairline and and the corners. Even though my cut took an hour plus while dude was dying Gerald Levert Jr's hair and beard, it was still a clean cut.
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na my barber only takes 5 mins

 
Art Vandelay said:
Most solid cuts 25-45 minutes, anything more than that, the barber is over correcting and you as a patron should be worried, especially if he is spending most of that time on the hairline and and the corners. Even though my cut took an hour plus while dude was dying Gerald Levert Jr's hair and beard, it was still a clean cut.
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This.
 
championboyz7 said:
Uhhhh mechanic sir are far more unreliable .
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but you can get your car fixed and/or not pay and/or scam yo insurance and/or find a less shady mechanic. 


barbers can **** up your next 3 weeks. 

but financial office aids can have you wait for about 5 hours and then tell you " you missing some paperwork." 
 
This thread is so ironic...

I usually get my haircut every Saturday morning. The barber I've been going to has been consistent for about 2 years. I've been going to him for a while but every now and then he starts actin hollywood and I pick up someone else before we eventually hook back up again. Of course Saturday he's on his Hollywood ish again because the shop is busy and he's got like 3 heads in front of me. He knows I come into the shop every Saturday around 10 am and he usually tells the next customer I had called in even though I usually don't but he wasn't with that today and was tryna make me wait...I wasn't trippin, told him I would come back later and ended up coming back the next day. I come back and the shop is closed :stoneface: I'm hitting my barber up and he isn't pickin up so in like "F it" I've been meaning to replace this ***** anyway so I hit up this spot ive been meaning to check out. Spot had a nice hood feel to it so I'm thinking "I know these cats can hook it up". Right now I'm rockin the low low cut with the beard like drake :lol: and it's damn near impossible to F it up. I hop in this barbers chair, tell him what I want and he's like "I gotchu" ......this ***** put the mirror in front of my head and he takes my line back and gave me the smiling hair line :stoneface: I was bout to spazz on dude! He kept telling me it was straight and I was like nah man I'm not hearing that ****. I didn't even want him to touch it cause I didn't want him to take me back even more :smh:

Now I'm out here with the Carl Winslow hair line and in need of a new barber :smh: :smh: :smh:
 
lamekilla said:
This thread is so ironic...

I usually get my haircut every Saturday morning. The barber I've been going to has been consistent for about 2 years. I've been going to him for a while but every now and then he starts actin hollywood and I pick up someone else before we eventually hook back up again. Of course Saturday he's on his Hollywood ish again because the shop is busy and he's got like 3 heads in front of me. He knows I come into the shop every Saturday around 10 am and he usually tells the next customer I had called in even though I usually don't but he wasn't with that today and was tryna make me wait...I wasn't trippin, told him I would come back later and ended up coming back the next day. I come back and the shop is closed :stoneface: I'm hitting my barber up and he isn't pickin up so in like "F it" I've been meaning to replace this ***** anyway so I hit up this spot ive been meaning to check out. Spot had a nice hood feel to it so I'm thinking "I know these cats can hook it up". Right now I'm rockin the low low cut with the beard like drake :lol: and it's damn near impossible to F it up. I hop in this barbers chair, tell him what I want and he's like "I gotchu" ......this ***** put the mirror in front of my head and he takes my line back and gave me the smiling hair line :stoneface: I was bout to spazz on dude! He kept telling me it was straight and I was like nah man I'm not hearing that ****. I didn't even want him to touch it cause I didn't want him to take me back even more :smh:

Now I'm out here with the Carl Winslow hair line and in need of a new barber :smh: :smh: :smh:
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should have gave him the hands.
 
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