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UKW Franchising

Is this your company?

Great company, not so great bosses - Manager UKW Franchising Employee Review

3.0
23 Sept 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

I like being proud of the product that I represent so I liked that I felt confident when recommending Uni k wax to new clients. The waxers are great.

Cons

I don't like getting yelled at for no reason. I felt like I was in the army. Maybe it was just that location. I would have stayed if it wasn't for one of the owners.

UKW Franchising Response
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It is unfortunate that you had a negative experience while working for one of our franchisees, as the Wantagh location is a franchised location. UKW Franchising Company LLC is the franchisor for Uni K Wax Centers and is located in Aventura, Florida. We hope that you have secured new employment and enjoy your job.

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2.0
21 Apr 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Good pay for a job that requires little to no experience and can be learned very easily - Great employee discount - Flexible schedule - Awesome, happy customers - Clean, comfortable work environment

Cons

- Extremely unprofessional and disorganized store management that does not know (or seem to care about) the fundamentals of management, customer and employee relations, marketing, the products and services of their own company or even how to purchase inventory efficiently - Owner leaves management to run the center without ensuring that it is being run according to the franchise agreement, or that management is properly executing the duties required of them, thus resulting in huge financial losses - No chances for pay raise and no opportunities for career advancement - No benefits, no matter how long you are employed with the company - No lunch breaks for receptionists despite working 12.5 hour days - you eat at the front desk while you work, or you don't eat at all. Meanwhile, all the other employees have 30 min - 1 hour lunch breaks every day - Receptionists are treated as disposable and unimportant, and are constantly fired and hired with no warning, no legitimate reasoning, and no records kept of why they were even fired; waxers, on the other hand, are treated as the golden dolls who often break rules, engage in enormous conflict with coworkers and have no regard for others, regardless of position - yet they are rarely ever fired due to the initial investment the company made in them to have them as employees

1.0
6 May 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

free waxing, not hard work

Cons

management is extremely controlling and doesnt care about employees, desperate for customers. wanted waxers to be extremely fast at services after only two weeks. manager treated me as though i was stupid for asking questions. discovered that a complaint was filed against one store for alleged wage-theft (google it, its available to the public to see)

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