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It’s a practical matter, really. What is a self-employed electrologist to do when illness strikes? Most of us don’t have paid days off, two weeks paid vacation and a health-care plan resembling that of Bill Gates. But if we are sick – even if it’s just with a “miserable cold” – we should not be treating clients. A little under the weather is one thing (after all, we do wear gloves and a mask, don’t we?), but a condition that includes coughing, sneezing, nose blowing or expectoration, is something that must be treated with extreme caution. An electrologist’s
course of action is clear-cut when serious illness strikes. The practitioner
with a sole proprietor business knows exactly what she must do in such an
eventuality. She has calculated the risks ahead of time (while praying that such
a thing will never happen), and knows clearly that she – a relative, or a good
friend – must telephone each of her clients in turn and cancel their
appointments, for an indefinite period. Losing money is the least of this
electrologist’s worries at this time. Why are we even having this conversation? Plain and simple; money. This is best demonstrated by taking a look at how a business with several electrologists on staff (or contract) responds to employee sickness. Most businesses won’t pay an electrologist for sick days. The business is not well served by having a sick practitioner do work on clients. Clients will feel uncomfortable knowing that the person working on them would be better off at home in bed, or at least somewhere away from their broken skin. All of us learned in school that the laws governing the expansion of gases will make sure that a sneeze or cough infects an entire room in seconds. Every owner of a
multiple-electrologist practice should make it a point to have all clients
receive treatment from each technician on staff, at least once. This way, if the
client’s preferred technician is unavailable due to illness or a scheduling
conflict, she can receive treatment from a stand-in who is already familiar with
her case history. It is good policy to have an agreed upon (reduced) rate of pay for employees who are unfit to work on clients but fit enough to do other work around the office: work that does not impact the business’s clientele. With this kind of arrangement, both sides are happy. The employee makes enough money to keep the wolf from the door, while the business owner (finally) gets caught up on all those chores that normally never get done. I’m thinking of things like; bringing the business’s mailing list up to date, mailing out fliers, or simply straightening out the files – anything to avoid putting the clients and healthy staff members in jeopardy. If you have not figured it out yet, the sole-proprietor electrologist who gets sick can do little more than stay home and make all those calls to cancel and reschedule clients, or go into the office and do the things that are suggested for keeping a sick-pay electrologist busy. Nobody is going to worry if you sneeze on a file! |
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