Racial discrimination is still in exsistence, especially within the South Carolina and Georgia region. There are laws that prohibit Franchise owners from "openly praticing" their views, but the ignorance remains as an epidemic. I am an African American female, I worked for Sport Clips and was told countless times, to create a "sensible balance" within my store, "do not hire anyone else black" and to "only hire someone black if you are replacing another black person." I was also told not to take these statements personally because and I quote, "it's only business" I was often left feeling very intimidated that I would loose my job, (which eventually happened anyway) if I ever "opposed" these views. There were plenty of days when the store could have been very successful, but was loosing business because of improper staffing. I specifically remember working with 3 other ladies including myself because there was a "freeze" on hiring anyone else black. The black applicants were the only ones coming in for a very long time to apply. It created unnessary stress on the staff and tension between the clients and stylists because the boss would rather have a "balanced store". My boss even went so far as to say, let's visit the beauty schools and find some "cute barbie doll girl...that's what the clients want to see anyway." The "ideal" management teams were told to always wear make-up and give the guys, "something to look forward to, even if the haircut isn't all that great, they'll remember a pretty face" The overall structure within the stores is very weak and biased. I worked there long enough to observe unequal pay between stylists with the same level of experience and time invested within the company. I personally witnessed someone recieve a promotion, (pay increase) and demotion (pay decrease) within a week without any explaination. African American stylists were always targeted negatively and discliplined with a "write up" form for trivial matters such as "tardies" under 5 minutes within their shifts . Caucasian stylists were allowed to "no call, no show, not attend meetings, steal money, (with proof of the theft), talk disrespectfully through text messages to their managers (using profanity and verbal assaults) and transfer between locations if they were clearly fired from another location, and continue working. Many of the stylists have been promoted since then with this terrible work ethic and have job security simply because they are Caucasian. These practices should be investigated, I would go so far to say that if someone called or visited any and I do specifically mean any South Carolina or Georgia locations for Sport Clips and ask "are you told not to hire blacks or men" the answer would be yes.