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Input: Get ready, because this is a long one.

For reference, I sell body jewelry.  I’ve been doing so for about two years now.  I know everyone in the industry in the area now and there is exactly one shop I’ll go to BECAUSE of this incident.

I had my nipples pierced about a year and a half ago in a different local shop. I’d met the piercer in passing a little while before this and he came highly recommended by a friend. My piercer was out for health reasons, and I knew I wasn’t gonna do it if I didn’t do it that day, so I trusted my friend’s judgement and went to him.

He was very cocky and sarcastic through the whole process.  Not my favorite, but whatever.  First nipple went in fine.  In a moment of mid-piercing desperation, I asked him to put the second needle in before he did the jewelry for the first.  He smirked and said no.  Second was a lot more painful and came out crooked.  I normally taking pain pretty well but holy hell, that shit hurted.  I was really lightheaded and almost fainted; he put a cold washcloth on my forehead and said nothing, then left the room.

After about 10 minutes, he came back in and asked how I was doing.  I said I was fine and wanted to leave.  My friend that had recommended him was with me and wanted to get an opinion on a bump on her nose ring.  I threw on my shirt and went out to the waiting area.

After we got in the car, she told me that he had said I was a “pussy” and I should “get out of the industry” if I can’t handle such a “simple piercing”.  She’d known him for a couple years at this point and even she was shocked.  I cried a lot about his comments and my crooked piercing.  I still haven’t taken it out because it healed okay and I don’t wanna go through the trouble of getting it redone again.

While at work today, I had three women come in.  They were all quite friendly and one in particular was looking for jewelry.  She got her nose pierced by the same guy, who now works out of a different shop, and was having trouble with it.  I recommended jewelry for her and sent her to my guy to change it.  I also asked her how she liked him, she said she didn’t, and then asked why I had said that.  I paraphrased my story.  She wasn’t surprised.  She bought her stuff and left. 

While I had been telling the story, another woman had walked up and started looking at jewelry.  After the other people left, she said it was unprofessional of me to be badmouthing piercers and that she was going to call customer service to complain about me, (joke’s on her, we’re a tiny company.  My DM handles any complaints.). I told her that it was only my experience there, it wasn’t an unwarranted personal attack by any means.  She didn’t listen.  I already texted my DM and gave her a heads up, she’s heard the story before and is kinda indifferent on me repeating it as long as it’s not embellished or me bringing it up with no reason.

So...  AITA for talking shit about an unprofessional piercer, or should I have kept it to myself?

badmouthing a piercer while at work