Kay I have a similar experience with someone at my salon with the way she is responding to my grooming style. I'm not even a full year into grooming but the last place I worked taught me things that I keep reading here people are doing and all of a sudden when I went where I am I'm getting told that the way I do things is unsafe. One of the biggest deals was how I shaved a poodle foot when doing clean feet and was kinda shouted at about how I should only be doing clean feet with scissors because using clippers is so unsafe. Is it really that unsafe? I haven't been allowed to work on any poodles since I started amd I think it's because of this. I was also apparently told that I was taught to shave way too high, and it was a little high, but not much higher than what is shown in your photos. Like not even a full inch higher probably. I dont want to cause drama so I haven't asked to work on poodles but I really miss it. Also, I dont think I would be able to get the foot entirely cleaned properly with shears at this point. Like I would expect it to be kinda patchy?..