London Ink - Dan and Louis

I'm big into tattoos and at the moment there's quite a few tattoo reality tv shows which is awesome.

The newest of those being London Ink, set in, you guessed it, London.

The owner of the shop is Louis Malloy, famous for inking the angle tattoo on David Beckham's back.
One of the other artists in the shop is Dan Gold, a relatively young guy who used to own his own shop but like many others fell into finacial difficulty but is nevertheless a talented artist.

But Louis seems to have a very big problem with Dan, not trusting what he does, not liking his work ethic or how he goes with his clients.
Personally i don't really think this matters a whole lot. It's up to the customer to decide on these matters.
Sure Dan is slow, but as long as you're not paying by the hour then who cares?

What I don't like, and as a customer I don't think I could stand it if another artist came over and started to work on my piece.

Customers go to Dan because of Dan, not because he has Louis looking over his shoulder.
If I was Dan I'd tell him to shove it... He'd get offers from other studios and he has a loyal enough clinetelle to survive.

Dan is highly talented, and so is Louis, the whole world has seen that, but not everything has to be done his way... the first thing he did when he opened his shop was to tell all of the artists he employs was that they were going to be doing pieces that weren't their speciality, the very thing that people are coming to them for... it just doesn't make sense to do things that way and you would be hard pressed to find any shop manager forcing artists to do pieces that are way outside their speciality.

Personally, I think Louis wants everything done his way and that's not the way it goes...