Pressing "NO TIP" when paying your barber is one of the most awkward interactions

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Dude, you need to tip barbers.

They make money off of tips. If the hairdresser doesn't own the barbershop, they're usually charged a per hour fee to "rent" a chair.
 
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Kyzer said:
No, you are going to regret it when a freak twilight zone incident happens and your only career option is a barber and youre getting minimum wage because your clients are too ideological to tip you. Their salaries already revolve around tips. Its not like youre standing up for something like vegans refusing to support the meat industry, youre literally just hurting the barber for no reason. Even if they one day eliminated tipping and paid the barbers better because the dozens of you made an impact, the haircuts would just get more expensive to cover the difference and end up at the total you should have been paying anyways. Youre not changing a system, you are just underpaying someone who gave you a service.

Out of curiosity, do you also not tip waiters and pizza delivery guys ? Because those are optional too, you know. I mean i just dont get howbyou acknowledge that the norm is to tip and that salaries revolve around them , and that you dont support that, and then rationalize not tipping in the same breath. Theres a reason you feel awkward my friend.
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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.
 
I guess this has been commonplace in most of the USA for a while and it's just starting to come into my small town. Sucks but you gotta do it.
 
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.
 
QuiteWhittle said:
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.
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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.
 
Korey said:
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.
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the barber has access to your head
 
Korey said:
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.
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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.
 
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.
 
Pickman said:
If you live in the US/Canada, nope.

They rent their chair in the salon/shop and pay a percentage of the house cost, usually a big percentage, for each customer they see. Most barbers make like 4 or 5 bucks per cut if they're lucky, depending on the services.
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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.
 
Zen_Arcade said:
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.
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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.
 
superdeluxe said:
No one ever asks you for a tip.
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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.
 
99Luffy said:
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.
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my barber is fucking expensive but hes a genius who's been cutting hair for a decade
 
Vincent Grayson said:
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.
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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.
 
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


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I wish I could feel like I'm making an ethical choice whenever I'm a cheapskate.
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Lol
 
I always tip. Faceless corporation gets the haircut money but at least I know the employee will get all the tip money. Service industry is tough, tons of asshole customers. It's nice to help out a fellow person especially when you know all the bullshit they go through.
 
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
 
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.
 
I always press 'no tip' using a credit card.

And then I tip them under the table and they can make the decision to claim it for taxes or not.
 
Korey said:
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.
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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.
 
The Exploder said:
I'll bet you anything that when the barber sees you coming he gets a comb that wasn't in the green water.
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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.
 
The barber got paid what he/she asked for his/her services, he/she is not getting anything extra from me. I'd be a horrible citizen in the US.
 
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