employers, please don't do the following....
*If you are employing on call therapists, please don't start the conversation with your massage therapist with this following... "Now this client is a tough one..." or "this is a difficult client".
We do not want to hear this type of attitude from the get go. This will only turn us off to not accept the job.
*If you are employing chair massage therapists to do massage jobs, please do not tell the massage therapist that you will be paid in such amount of time and not pay them. If you are honest with them, they will not call you every day after the due date asking where the money is. Be honest and tell them up front, "I have not recieved the checks yet. I don't know when the payments will be sent. Please be patient. " So many employers lose massage therapists this way.
*Do not ask for a demo massage unless you are willing to either pay for it, or you have a paying client for the therapist. Nothing worse than employers saying they are hiring, to rack up a ton of free massages only to never get a phone call from the employer. And for employers out there that say this practice is not being done, you are lying. How can you tell if someone is a good massage therapist if you are laying down and falling asleep. Personally if I put someone to sleep, I could sit next to them and read a book and they wouldn't know if I did a massage on them or not. I have never seen hairstylists do demos on people before they are hired. So massage therapists should never have to do demos. They are just a cheap way of obtaining massages for free. That's bad practice.
We do not want to hear this type of attitude from the get go. This will only turn us off to not accept the job.
*If you are employing chair massage therapists to do massage jobs, please do not tell the massage therapist that you will be paid in such amount of time and not pay them. If you are honest with them, they will not call you every day after the due date asking where the money is. Be honest and tell them up front, "I have not recieved the checks yet. I don't know when the payments will be sent. Please be patient. " So many employers lose massage therapists this way.
*Do not ask for a demo massage unless you are willing to either pay for it, or you have a paying client for the therapist. Nothing worse than employers saying they are hiring, to rack up a ton of free massages only to never get a phone call from the employer. And for employers out there that say this practice is not being done, you are lying. How can you tell if someone is a good massage therapist if you are laying down and falling asleep. Personally if I put someone to sleep, I could sit next to them and read a book and they wouldn't know if I did a massage on them or not. I have never seen hairstylists do demos on people before they are hired. So massage therapists should never have to do demos. They are just a cheap way of obtaining massages for free. That's bad practice.