Posted on 05/04/2020 8:23:57 PM PDT by rintintin
Despite California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s stay-at-home-order, some California business owners have begun reopening their doors to customers, saying their companies — and livelihoods — are becoming unsustainable.
Juan Desmarais, the owner of Primo’s Barbershop in Vacaville, a Northern California community, told CNN he was forced to close his business after the statewide stay-at-home order went into effect on March 19.
“I took on the risk so I’m the one who is absorbing the costs,” Desmarais said. “The only way to mitigate that is to do haircuts under the table and that’s exactly what we’ve been doing.”
Desmarais says he’s shifted entirely to cutting his clients’ hair at his house but is still required to pay rent for his shop that is temporarily shut down.
He said his employees are also continuing to cut hair to make a living — mostly inside their living rooms and garages.
“Why would you want to move an industry that has an expertise in sanitation and force us to go to our homes and cut around our kids or cut around your kids,” Desmarais said. “Every single barber has to do 1,600 hours of sanitary classroom work for the state of California and that means we’re cleanliness experts.
“This is ridiculous,” he said.
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Doing haircuts under the table would require a very tall table, I think.
Doing haircuts under the table would require a very tall table, I think.
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Not at all, just a short barber and short customers!
Who could have foreseen the day when ‘going to work’ became an illegal, subversive and possibly revolutionary act of defiance?
I am praying for you. Hope your sense of humor improves with your condition.
From the Palo Alto Daily Post (May 5). An article about how a cafe and its owner are struggling to survive during lock-down, sandwiched between an article about how a city manager (government employee) makes over $400k per year and how the city of Mountain View doesn’t plan to cut any employees.
An abstract and brief chronicle of the times….
Vacaville home of Cindy Sheehan.
Black-market haircuts.
Vacaville is a Bay Area community.
Looks like a lot of violations in that photo!
No shit!
Back alley manicures
We started up Friday. Fuch this bullcrap
Of course all the city losers are still closed. ( only online permits )
My hair stylist came to my home today and did cut and color EVERYONE has had enough they are dying out here!! I gave her an extra hundred bucks!!
Back alley manicures
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Ayn Rand had predicted this back in the 50s....
make enough laws and EVERYONE can be a criminal..
The best ‘irony’ of today is the excuse of ‘let them out of jail so they don’t get the beerflu’, then turn around and lock up your manicurist because she did your nails.
MADNESS!!!!!
There are stylists doing that in California but at the risk of losing their license!
I know that is where I live these peop,e need to work my gal applied for unemployment 2 months ago and STILL has not heard a word, I don’t know how in the hell this governor expects people to survive!! These bastard legislators are insane WE should demand that their salaries be revoked also they are not working WHY should they get paid??
That one picture sums up this entire sorry situation
The articles above and below the cafe story say it all.
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