The Manager of this mall did not take any steps to resolve a public safety hazard that still exists. My corneas were burned by chemicals after visiting River City Hair Studio, and there are currently three formal complaints with the State of Montana open against that business. I am also going to request that they look into the 'attitude towards customer safety' at the entire Southgate Mall.
The Manager Tim Winger at Southgate Mall reported to me via voicemail in response to my complaint that he had called the Manager of River City Hair Studio in an attempt to mediate. She lied to him and said that she 'invited me to the salon to discuss the incident,' when in actuality she had banned me from the salon and had a hysterical emotional outburst on my voicemail threatening to sue me because I had reported my injury to the State of Montana.
I of course let Mr Winger know of these atrocities, and sadly, irresponsibly, Management of the Mall itself took no action to address the public safety concern that continues at River City Hair Studio. No one examined the evidence I offered including medical documentation or the police report. Sad that someone is going to have to suffer a PERMANENT injury, and file an enormous lawsuit to bring remedy.
Unprofessional, unethical, negligent, and outright dishonest. I had chemicals spilled into my eyes without apology, I had my hair ruined without apology, and I was charged full price without any restitution whatsoever. Several inches of my hair is going to have to be cut off, I can't even get a comb through to the ends due to the damage of the triple process Julia Meeks put my hair through.
Ms Meeks of River City Hair Studio, kept me for three and a half hours of negligent torture. During that time she put me under intense heat with the bleach on my hair and absolutely destroyed the health of my hair, I had moved myself away from the heat because it had begun to burn so badly.
My hair was shampooed and chemically processed a total of three times. It is now DESTROYED. Far worse than ruining years worth of my hair; she also spilled chemicals directly into my eyes from having my head laid back in the sink applying chemicals instead of sitting in the barber chair appropriately. When I immediately complained my eyes burned and there were chemicals in them, she laughed and said, "Great, now I'm gonna get in trouble with OSHA...just kidding!" She actually said that, and LAUGHED at me. Never offering me anything to flush my eyes or expressing the slightest bit of concern for my well being.
She then told me as I was leaving to let her know if I wanted to reschedule to 'fix' my hair. She still charged me full price. When I did contact her and texted her pics comparing what she did to what I had asked for; she was immediately hostile and refused any responsibility for any part of what she had done. That was the last contact we had, and she hid behind the Manager of the salon (who was not present during the incident) from that point forward.
I also received a very belligerent voicemail from the Manager telling me I was banned from the salon and 'warning' me that she had contacted a lawyer and I had better never harass her stylist again. At no point did I perpetrate any harassment. No responsibility whatsoever has been taken for what was done to me. I have all text records of all conversations (one) which took place between myself and the offending stylist that perpetrated those travesties against me, there is nothing harassing about me reporting that I wanted remedy made, and I am more than happy to submit transcripts of the texts.
I also have witnesses to the events, and Ms Meeks was working alone and unsupervised so she does not. My full time Nanny was present with my baby when these events took place. I of course have medical documentation, photos, and retained the voicemail from management that demonstrated the Manager was so incapable of controlling her emotions that further harassment was sure to follow, so I filed a police report. Management actually accused me of fabricating the entirety of these events, in spite of the wealth of evidence I possess to the contrary. I am an upstanding citizen with a clean record, highly educated, and exceedingly honest.
Look at my hair, how disgusting is that? Would you want to pay $150 for that? And risk losing your vision due to the criminal negligence here? No. You can't swing a dead cat without hitting a hair salon in Missoula...GO ELSEWHERE. Somewhere with some ethics and RESPECT for their customers money and SAFETY.
When someone else is injured, I will be the first person in line to testify in court that I already tried telling Mall Management there was a serious public safety concern, and for reasons unknown to me, everyone stood idly by and did nothing to prevent more people from being injured, abused, harassed, disrespected, insulted, the way that I was.
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