Be Boss (Part1)
Yesterday, I went to meet my barber to have my haircut. He is young man around 25 years old come from Zhejiang province. He has left the barber shop he stayed over 5 years, this time he has becoming boss of his own barber shop.
I don’t know his full name , and I never asked, his last name is 韩(Han), so I just call his 小韩(XiaoHan). In China, we usually call someone young than us as “小(Xiao) + Last name”. For more example, you can call me 小杜(Xiao Du) if you are elder than me. 小(Xiao) means junior in Chinese.
I have already known Xiao Han for about 4 years since my wife introduced him to me (4 years ago she was still my girl friend). He is a talented and honest barber in our point of view. All most every time I have my haircut from him, my friends think my hairstyle is good.
Xiao Han leave the previous barber shop due to the high working pressures as he told. The haircut industry, or beauty shop industry, is full of competitions in China. Professional barber like Xiao Han usually started to his barber career from very young (Xiao Han stated at 16 years old as an apprentice). They need to give more than 500-600 customers haircut in on month to ensure his base salary. And they don’t have usually paid holiday, and usually they can’t enjoy public holidays or weekends because people need their hair managed just in those days. The life spec of China is fast, especially in metropolis like Shanghai, we don’t have enough leisure time to the barber shop in working days. And the barbers in chained barber shops or beauty shops have to selling membership cards as their boss required, the bonus of selling membership also be big part of their salary.
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Be Boss (Part1)
I had my hair cut yesterday. My hair dresser is a young man. He is about 25 years old. He comes from Zhejiang province. He left his barber shop which he has worked for over 5 years. He is the boss of that barber shop.
I don’t know his full name , (As I have never asked,) his last name is 韩(Han), so I just call him 小韩(XiaoHan). In China, we usually call someone younger than us as “小(Xiao) plus their Last names”. For more example, you can call me 小杜(Xiao Du) if you are elder than me. 小(Xiao) means junior in Chinese.
I have already known Xiao Han for about 4 years since my wife introduced him to me ( she was my girl friend at that time). He is a talented and honest hair dresser from our point of view. I always get compliments from my friends every time after hair cut from him.
Xiao Han left his previous barber shop due to the high working pressure. The hair dressing industry is full of competition in China. Professional hair dressers like Xiao Han usually start their careers when they are very young (Xiao started his apprenticeship when he was 16.) They need to have 500-600 customers a month to secure his basic wages, And they don’t usually get paid extra on weekends or public holidays when they work. people like to have their hair done during weekends, As they don't have spare times to see their hair dressers during week days. The hair dressers also need to sell membership cards to customers as their boss required, therefore the commision from selling those membership cards becomes a big part of their wages.
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