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

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They're providing you a service, just as waiters and waitresses provide a service. If you can't afford to tip then you can't afford a haircut.

If they can't afford to provide that service without a tip.. maybe they should increase their prices rather than artificially keeping them lower than they need them to be?
 
If they can't afford to provide that service without a tip.. maybe they should increase their prices rather than artificially keeping them lower than they need them to be?

The disgusting thing is they charge what they do which is already enough to pay peoples wages. They just pay people an appallingly small amount as they know people will make up the difference in tips.

To change, they'll definitely higher the price even though they don't need to.
 
This whole "No Tips" thing really boils my blood. OP you have no fucking clue what it's like to be on the receiving end of not getting a tip. Not a single fucking clue.
 
If they can't afford to provide that service without a tip.. maybe they should increase their prices rather than artificially keeping them lower than they need them to be?
Exactly. Instead of charging a price and expecting a tip, why not take a percentage of the money paid for the food? It seems so simple, yet restaurant owners would rather make as much dollar as possible. Regardless, I'm still in the 'fuck tips' camp.
 
A decent employer would happily pay the difference to ensure an employees minimum wage is met. It's not on me, as a customer, to help pay your wages. If your employer isn't doing what the law requires and pays you minimum wage of $7, then look for a different job.
Lol. You think people do these jobs because they want to? They're wage slaves bud.

Of course they could just yank on their bootstraps so hard they fly to planet job, where there are infinite well paying jobs.
 
American tipping culture continues to amaze and surprise me.
Tipping your barber. I've never done that and not even once considered it. I'm very glad it's totally not a thing there. It's funny how different our worlds can be.
Also funny how hostile and angry people can get over this.
 
It's really not the end of the world if you can't tip, lol. It's just a nice gesture. My barber is really good so I let him know with my wallet
 
Do all you tippers tip bell hops who hold doors open for you? I mean, they're providing a service to you and are underpaid. They deserve your money too, just for holding a door open. Do you know how hard it is to hold a door open?
 
Wtf this thread...
Since when am I supposed to tip? It's not like my barber is doing my haircut for free. I've never even heard of tipping the barber before this thread. Is this an American thing? European here. I even left my barber once more money than I should have accidentally and he ran out of his shop and told me I had left too much money.
 
Based on the reasoning in this thread I have to wonder how anybody perform a job properly if your only intensive to do good work is getting tip
 
Do all you tippers tip bell hops who hold doors open for you? I mean, they're providing a service to you and are underpaid. They deserve your money too, just for holding a door open. Do you know how hard it is to hold a door open?
Do you know Bell hops rely heavily on tips to even make a half way decent wage?
 
I've never tipped my barber once

Until recently. They've been cutting my for 19 years now. I think it's about time I pay them their dues.
 
I can sort of get the argument that some people are paid below minimum wage and therefore should be tipped, that's fair.

My confusion is with the people that advocate tipping to show the provider of the service that they've done a good job, and in extension for them to not do a poor job the next time you visit on account of you leaving a low tip. With this stance, who draws the line on who you tip? Do you tip the window repairmen? Do you tip the garbage collection guys? Do you tip the bank clerk who kindly cashed your check, with a smile on her face?
 
Do you know Bell hops rely heavily on tips to even make a half way decent wage?
My post was half sarcasm but, again, it's not my problem. They're holding a door open. Why should I pay them fucking money for doing something that is considered common courtesy? Same as waiters. All they're doing is carrying my food from the kitchen to my table. It's a piss easy job that really doesn't warrant $5 per customer.
 
Please do enlighten me why the bartender refusing to acknowledge my existence because the first time they spend 10 seconds grabbing a beer bottle and taking off the top I didn't give them a dollar isn't bad service?
Because this doesn't happen. Bartenders understand you don't really get a tip for opening beers. They don't expect it.
Obviously there are some exceptions to this, some people are just dicks.
But if you're ordering maybe 6 beers at a time and you've done it more than once without a tip, yea they are gonna focus their energy on someone else who will make them money. Especially if it's busy.
Sorry that's how it is. People in the real world understand that some people work for tips, especially bartenders.
 
$10 tip every time I get my $20 haircut. Means way more to the young woman who keeps me looking great than it does to me.

Exactly. I've been going to the same woman for 6 years now, $15 haircut, $10 tip. It's something I only get once a month, if that, and given that it's how my hair will look for a while, don't see how it's not worth the money. At this point if I had to find another person to cut my hair it'd be a real hassle because she knows exactly how to cut it and it comes out perfectly. Not tipping your barber/stylist (I actaully go to a salon) is insane.
 
My post was half sarcasm but, again, it's not my problem. They're holding a door open. Why should I pay them fucking money for doing something that is considered common courtesy? Same as waiters. All they're doing is carrying my food from the kitchen to my table. It's a piss easy job that really doesn't warrant $5 per customer.
Be very very fortunate you don't have to do such a job.
 
Everyone who posts in the thread needs to start with "I'm from (insert country)" and then make their post.

That makes things far easier to see where people lie.
 
My post was half sarcasm but, again, it's not my problem. They're holding a door open. Why should I pay them fucking money for doing something that is considered common courtesy? Same as waiters. All they're doing is carrying my food from the kitchen to my table. It's a piss easy job that really doesn't warrant $5 per customer.
Oh wow
 
There is no possible way that anyone actually does this, right?

Depends. Here in Toronto, you'll find a lot of take out places and food trucks with a tip jar.

Heck, there was a tip jar at the cake shop I was at last week. And these weren't cheap cakes ($36 for a 6").
 
I didn't realise waiters were contractually obligated to stay at that job forever.

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Man, the barbers I go to take cash (only the shitty ones that don't know how to deal with my hair take cards), and I still tip. That's a bad move, mang.
 
Is this an American thing, because in the 8 years I've been here I've never heard of tipping barbers before?
I always cut my own hair, never been to the barber's in the U.S.
 
Made a social media post about tipping and everyone who responded says they do tip and if you don't well that's fucked up lol.

We're Americans bruh, it's what we do.
 
They should charge more then if they want more money. No way am I tipping barbers.

In the US: Barber's don't set the price, the shop sets the price. Barbers are generally contractors who have to rent their space and don't earn a wage. Get a small commission usually on each cut. Tips are the bulk of their actual income.
 
Do all you tippers tip bell hops who hold doors open for you? I mean, they're providing a service to you and are underpaid. They deserve your money too, just for holding a door open. Do you know how hard it is to hold a door open?

I'll tip them if they bring my luggage to my room.
 
Wow, you really are that dense? Sometimes people can't find a better job at the moment. That happens you know?
I'm guessing his retort to this is "how is that my problem?" This argument goes in circles.

The way I see it, you either care enough to do something nice for someone, or you don't. And if you don't, that's your prerogative.

Indeed, I must confess that the majority of the answers in this thread irritate me for this very reason.
See above. It's absolutely fascinating how riled up people get over this.
 
I tip for good service, voluntarily. If I didn't get good service, I don't tip.

I usually tip my barber if they did a good job, and it's not out of obligation, it's just me saying "hey, here's a little extra cause I like the work you did."
 
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"X should charge Y if that's the actual cost of Z."

I can agree with that. Logically, it makes sense. I love it when I don't have to think about tip in other countries. That said, that's not how the system works here. Stiffing professionals who largely depend on tips is just victimizing someone who has no control over the system. Add 15-20% when you see the cost of service in a profession that is largely tip based and tip accordingly, if you can't afford it then you can't afford the service. Stiffing someone on a general no-tipping principle means you're a fucking asshole.

I can count on one finger how many times I've stiffed a waitress, and you better believe she deserved it.
 
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