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My former hair salon recently disowned me. It’s a very tragic story that I still cry about to this day, but this entry focuses on what happened next. I needed to find a place to get my haircut, and I remembered hearing something about Philip Pelusi, but I couldn’t remember what it was. Regardless, I decided to make an appointment.

Right away I felt pretty disappointed. After discussing my preferred hair style (shorter is better), the lady asked, “Do you want me to use scissors or an electric razor in the back?” C’mon now. There is clearly a preferred answer to that question. It’s like a Web Designer asking whether the client wants a giant image for a webpage that takes 5 minutes to load, or a nice streamlined page that makes good use of CSS and JavaScript. There’s the easy way, and there’s the right way.

That might have been a bit esoteric, so in simpler terms, imagine this reply: “Well… do you want me to pay with money or bits of string?” It’s one thing if they have a particular policy - but if you need the client to tell you how to do your job, then you aren’t doing it well.

On that note, I remembered what I heard about Philip Pelusi a while back when I was leaving. “Overpriced SuperCuts.” And it’s true.