Today’s quandary: You’ve had the same hairstylist for years. You’ve shared some of your deepest secrets with him/her, he/she has shared his/her deepest secrets with you. YOU HAVE A RELATIONSHIP. That being said, you’re bored, and it’s time for a change. You want to dump the hairstylist without hurting his/her feelings. SO WHAT DO YOU DO? Lie? Tell the truth? Tell a modified version of the truth? Face to face? Via phone? Text? Mysteriously disappear and drop off the grid forever? WHAT??
Your definitive solution to this well-known conundrum is welcome in the comments.
Bang bang, choo-choo train, let me see you shake that thang. Wm. Steven Humphrey is the editor-in-chief of the Portland Mercury and has held the job since 2000. (So don’t get any funny ideas.) More by Wm. Steven Humphrey
You start by not forming a relationship. But I don’t think you owe the person an explanation either way. Just move on.
Two words: Humpish Lightning.
Shut the fuck up and go find some news.
Do you see him / her socially often?
In the end, it is a professional relationship, and I’m sure for this job having people open up to them is common.
But ones’ sense of loyalty. How long anyway?
years….hmmm
I’d imagine you’ve just told them, right?
I think you did it sweetly though.
I got broken up with by my hairdresser. Soooo…I’m probably not the best person to answer this question.
Start humping their leg. They’ll be eager for you to go.
HOW IS THIS EVEN A QUESTION? YOU START BY MAKING AN APPOINTMENT SOMEWHERE ELSE. I MEAN, SHIT. DO YOU NEED TO BREAK UP WITH YOUR PLUMBER?
Show up to your next appointment wearing a wig.
Share all your and his/her deep secrets with us, thus taking care of one problem: TOO MANY SECRETS.
lice.
Good lord.. I feel like the Frank Cassano of commenters, but FUCK THAT FUCKING PUSSY SHIT, you just stop going there. How about a REAL ethical dilemma.
Gotta stand by the Hump here – loyalty in buisness is a real ethical dilemma.
Steve just tell the hairdresser the truth that you slept with their boyfriend.
If this relationship is just professional then just start going elsewhere and don’t say anything. If for whatever reason you ever talk to him/her and you have to answer for your absence the most ethical thing you can do is lie. Your investment in this person isn’t deep enough that you are required to be honest and that honesty serves no benefit either one of you. You will just feel awkward about hurting someone’s feelings which you probably will do, and it won’t make him/her a better hairstylist or be appreciative of your honesty. This is easy, it’s much harder to navigate the ethical dilemma of what to do when you’ve had the same drug connection for sometime and then you find a better deal….