I’m a hairdresser. Lately it’s been crazy cause it’s back to school season. I’m also trying to come off some anxiety meds so I’ve been super stressed and suffering a lot more lately. I’m almost there but these people I have to deal with on the daily at work are the bane of my existence sometimes. This mom comes in with her two kids. She immediately asks me who her boys are with. I tell her “oh yeah it’s me and ___” (my coworker). She immediately starts saying something about wanting something “specific”. I’m confused and I’m like “oh..? Did you request someone specifically today?” And she immediately says “oh no I just wanted these specific haircuts” acting like one of us was unable to complete her request. Huge red flag for a stylist when the client is already doubting you before they even give you a chance. I say “okay, that’s fine we can totally go over what we want once I get you guys back there”. I just had a bad feeling in my gut. The way she looked at me like I was the wrong person right away just immediately set off a ton of red flags. She knows I’m new and already she judged me. Just to be clear I’ve been cutting hair for several years. I’m new to the salon not cutting hair so this sucks when people act this way knowing nothing about you. 
Anyways, I bring her and the boy back. She immediately is complaining that she’s been at work all day snd she’s tired.. okay cool me too lady. I try to be nice I’m smiling I’m being bubbly. She’s not having it at all she’s glaring at me. She pulls out a picture of the cut she wants. It’s a mullet/Mohawk.. then she shows me another one that’s just a mullet. I try asking her which picture she prefers and what she likes about each one. She immediately is saying “I don’t care I don’t care” and is yelling at her son asking him what he wants. This sucks. I’m a little unsure and she picked up on it and at that point I was done before I knew it. She starts complaining again saying “well I had HER last time..” and I knew exactly what she was trying to say. She didn’t want ME she didn’t trust me and it was clear. I tried again to figure out what it was that she wanted and then she flat out says “well can you do this?” Glaring at me like a bug. I respond: “yeah I can totally do that I’m just trying to be sure we’re doing the right haircut that you guys want” she says she doesn’t care again. I get it you don’t like me and you don’t care. At this point I’m sweating I just want to cut the hair and get her out of my way. She wouldn’t let up. She was trying to get me to give the haircut away to my coworker. And guess what. I folded. I was done. I was like “you know what yeah.. my coworker can probably do this a lot quicker she’s done it before many times” I’m not going to lie that haircut is something I haven’t done a lot. I was willing to do it and work it out because that’s what hairdressers do but she clearly didn’t want me doing it. I folded.. I switched and grabbed her other kid who had a simple fade. She immediately is happy walks over to my coworker and is being super nice and helpful with the haircut. My coworker does it. It takes a long time cause it’s a freakin mullet Mohawk disaster and that takes a long time to get right even for a more experienced stylist. I did the “easier” haircut and they left... but I let her get her way because I literally could not handle it anymore. I burst into tears after we closed the shop. I’m sick of people coming in and treating me like this. They can see that I’m a little timid and they just walk all over me. This is making me want to put my scissors down and quit my job. 9/10 of my clients are awesome but then this one idiot always comes in and just sh*ts all over me. I don’t know if I chose the right career with this anxiety thing. It doesn’t work. I hope she’s happy that she just crushed me.