Pressing "NO TIP" when paying your barber is one of the most awkward interactions
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BronsonLee
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You hook him up he better hook you up
There's a strong difference between a bottom line price and a price + a tip that you control
Regardless of what anyone in this thread says, the only obligatory tips are sit-down restaurants and food delivery. Everything else is up for debate. Well maybe valet too, but they have access to your car so you kind of are forced to.
QuiteWhittle
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I've never tipped my barber, I have not seen anyone tip my barber, nor have I ever gotten impression I'm expected to, even though I've been going to the same barber since I was in kindergarten. And we have a good relationship too.
Not that I'm opposed to tipping, I just had no idea that it was something people do. I'll keep it in mind.
Not that I'm opposed to tipping, I just had no idea that it was something people do. I'll keep it in mind.
But if the tip is always expected, you're just pretending it's cheaper than it actually is.
old manatee
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I'll bet you anything that when the barber sees you coming he gets a comb that wasn't in the green water.
TimeEffect
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My barber is my neighbour
She has her own salon in her basement. Am I supposed to tip her???
She has her own salon in her basement. Am I supposed to tip her???
the barber has access to your head
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Transhuman
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Is green water good or bad?
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Green water is good
Orbis Tabula
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Well, you don't want the comb that's been dipped in the yellow water.
But why just those and not anything else?
They're doing the job you expected them to do, by your logic you shouldn't be tipping them either.
poppedcollar69
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anyone who hasn't worked in a tipped industry, just fucking tip
Little late for that one. A little late.
Zen_Arcade
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So you're not tipping so tipping doesn't become normalized for barbers, but you made a thread that shows that tipping your barber is already so normalized that they have an electronic option on how to give your tip?
I think you lost your war buddy. Just tip the dude.
I think you lost your war buddy. Just tip the dude.
7DollarHagane
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Well local salaries are extremely low, too. Starting at $100 a month. I live in Cambodia.
Hmm didnt know that. Good thing my barber owns her establishment.
Still. I wonder what prices are like in the US. In Canada the average price seems to be >$20. Even at shitty supercuts its gonna be a good $17. For 5-15 minutes thats pretty damn generous.
CadetMahoney
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Do they tip barbers in UK?
old manatee
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Jack The Nipper
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If we are all tipping everyone for everything we end up back where we started with no tips.
StopMakingSense
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No, you're just incredibly ignorant. Jesus.
"DESPITE WHAT EVERYONE ELSE SAYS IN THIS THREAD I AM RIGHT!!!!"
Vincent Grayson
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Eh, that's not really a compelling argument. Every fucking place I go that uses a reader like that also includes a "how much do you want to tip?" screen, whether it's a legit restaurant or just a chain sandwich shop.
It's trivially easy to take credit cards today, assuming you own a smartphone.
Laieon
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Not verbally. If I'm at a restaurant, I'm aware that I should be tipping due to the part of the receipt that tells me so. If I'm at a barbershop, there's no such indicator. If I've never seen anyone tip a barber and I've never been told that's a thing, how am I expected to do so? I can't read minds. I'm not saying I'm against paying tips, I'm just saying I seriously wasn't aware this was expected.
Leave a piece of paper or a cup up or something that says "tips appreciated!".
Again, thankfully it's a non issue because I'm now living in a country who's culture considers tipping to be insulting.
poppedcollar69
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my barber is fucking expensive but hes a genius who's been cutting hair for a decade
Zen_Arcade
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But his whole point is that he doesn't want it normalized. It's clearly already normalized. Hell, it's been normalized for as long as I've been getting haircuts, and probably even way earlier than that.
LookAtMeGo
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OPs hair is getting fucked up next visit.
Goose_Se7en
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OP you are a cheapskate. I see my barber every 2 weeks for the past 12 years, guy knows me since I was 15 years old. I use to tip him $2, then $5 and now I tip him $8. For Christmas and New Year's I always gift him a bottle of Bacardi.
What kinda shit is that? Not tipping your barber. Foh
Lol
What kinda shit is that? Not tipping your barber. Foh
Lol
Barber tipping crosses borders and cultures
I think it's a profession that deserves it, especially considering the place I go to is relatively cheap.
Also I realized how dumb that sounded and fixed it.
Crimson_Echidna
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OP must be Mr. Pink.
But seriously, tipping your Barber is common courtesy espeically since a good poriton of their salary relies on tips.
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i don't even have hair and i feel like you are trolling with this thread korey
jesus christ tipping your hair cutter is even MORE mandatory than tipping your waitress. The waitress ain't even doing anything beside bringing food and you get into the well shouldn't the cook be tipped too??? but the barber is LITERALLY MAKEING YOU LOOK GOOD single fucking handedly
jesus christ
jesus christ
spazchicken
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I've had rude barbers. I've had barbers who would do a rush job. I've had barbers who would be on the phone the entire time. They all expected a tip.
Now I just rub a #2 guide across the entire head and be done with it.
Now I just rub a #2 guide across the entire head and be done with it.
Look at it this way
On top of the mentioned deal with how a lot of them are independent contractors who pay a portions of their earnings to renting a chair and thus rely on tips to make up for that loss (which already depends on customer flow, since they don't necessarily get paid per hour), cutting hair isn't some assembly line deal where every cut is going to be 100% the same to where it's on the same level as somebody "just doing their job" on a fast food line or something. Each and every session with a customer requires a ton of additional care given to a variety of things, requiring the worker to custom tailor what they do to the specific demands of the customer. Even when you explicitly just request a generic cut out of the style books, they still have to do a lot above and beyond replicating the cut to customize it to your specific needs. And depending on the needs/demands of a given customer, a session could go on long enough to where tending to a person could command enough time to where the worker has to pass on another customer that they could have fit in if the customer in progress had a simpler/shorter request. Given it's very much a similar effort to the kind of extra work you tip for in stuff like sit-down restaurants and food delivery, surely that is worth something.
QuiteWhittle
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Haha, I could probably count on one hand the amount of times my barber needed to use a comb for my hair, probably not since I tried to grow an afro in middle school.
Tipping? >$20 haircuts? Supercuts? Credit card payments? This thread seems like it's from another planet honestly. Social etiquette is social etiquette though, I'll slip an extra five every time I get a Caesar.
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same for servers because FUCK those places like Chilis or whatever that "pool" tips
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