What the work is
Six tables, three chairs, a full book on Saturdays and a quiet Tuesday. Everybody does their own sterilising and everybody sweeps.
One or two people a year
Working here
We take on one or two people a year and we would rather take on somebody good and wait for the right week than fill a chair on a Friday.
What we pay
An hourly rate plus your own tips in full. Tips are not pooled and the shop does not take a share.
Hours
Four or five days. Everybody gets Monday, because the shop is shut.
What we look for
A steady hand, a clean table and the willingness to tell somebody the appointment they booked is the wrong one.
How to apply
Telephone, or come in on a Tuesday afternoon with your hands and a set you are proud of.
What this shop is actually like to work in
Busy on Saturday, quiet on Tuesday, and the diary has a fifteen-minute gap between every appointment that nobody is allowed to fill. The gap is the shop's whole operating theory: it is where the table gets wiped, the steel goes back and you get to stand up. A shop that books back to back is a shop where somebody is always forty minutes behind by mid-afternoon.
Everybody sterilises their own tools and everybody sweeps. There is no junior here who does the sweeping while the seniors work.
The thing we actually look for
A steady hand and a clean table, and the willingness to tell somebody that the appointment they booked is the wrong one. That last one is harder than it sounds and it is most of the reason this shop keeps people for years.
Six tables · three pedicure chairs · a published price for everything
Book an appointment
Pick the service and any add-ons and the calendar adds up the minutes before it looks for a slot, so the times you are offered are times that actually fit what you asked for. A pedicure also needs one of the three chairs, and if none is free at four o'clock on a Saturday it will say so rather than book you in and hope.