Tattooists, barbers, hairdresses, taxi drivers, food delivery people, baristas, breakfast or sandwich (but not other fast food)
restaurant workers, servers at "sit down" restaurants, tour guides, bartenders, and (deep sigh) "budtenders".
Tattooists and hair people are usually self employed and so use the culture of tipping to trick people into thinking their services are cheaper than they are. Everyone else just works in a shitty industry that takes advantage of workers.
In before the cosmetologists and tattoo artists say: But THeY hAvE tO pAY for THeir ChaiR!!!1
Last time I checked, most if not all licensed independent contractors in my State for those services aren’t making $2.17 an hour with the implications that tips are their “real” wage or salary.
In before the cosmetologists and tattoo artists say: But THeY hAvE tO pAY for THeir ChaiR!!!1
My response to that is: "Then they can price their services to cover the cost of paying for their chair." (Which is, in fact, what they've literally always done since forever anyway.)
I tip my stylist because she takes really really good care of me. Like will let me buy backbar only products and products at wholesale prices through her. She‘s also never torched my hair despite how much I do to it in terms of chemical processing.
So yeah she takes really good care of me so i take good care of her, but if im like traveling for work and just drop in somewhere for a trim. Idk why they‘re expecting an insane tip. Like… you used some scissors on my hair what do you want from me. If you want a tip then do something to earn it. They shouldn’t be expected.
If they're independent contracts paying for their chair, then they are almost certainly NOT GETTING paid by the top business -- they are PAYING the top business.
If they're getting paid per hour by the house, then they're employees not independent contractors.
I hate tipping culture as well, but even cosmetologists who are paid normally don’t make shit without tips.
Everywhere my wife’s worked, it’s minimum wage plus tips, which is ridiculous for how much school she had to do. Even as a Salon manager, she only made like an extra dollar an hour. She may as well go work in a warehouse or at McDonalds if she wasn’t tipped. I’d prefer they just pay her what she’s worth.
She doesn’t even work anymore since we had our son 11 years ago, she never made enough to make it worth it and I was already making good money by the time he was school aged, so she just stayed home.
I hate tipping culture as well, but even cosmetologists who are paid normally don’t make shit without tips.
Then the appropriate thing to do is raise that concern with whoever's paying that wage. And if that doesn't work, well, maybe they're in the wrong line of work.
It's never the customer's responsibility to pay extra to subsidize the employee's wages because the boss made a decision to underpay them.
I didn’t say it was. All I said is that just because a cosmetologist is making minimum wage instead of whatever bartenders and servers make, it doesn’t mean they’re getting paid what they’re worth. The person above me implied that cosmetologists don’t have any right to complain because they’re not making what servers and bartenders do.
So when you walk into a grocery store and I start guilting you into tipping me in produce because I cut the broccoli you're buying, you're going to relent because I make minimum wage, right? You're going to tip your cashier and bagger as well, right? Do you understand why what you're saying is ridiculous? Do you understand that a lot of other people you think owe your wife a tip are in the same or worse financial situation than her?
No. Most salons just hire cosmetologists who work for minimum wage. It’s LESS common for a cosmetologist to rent a chair and set their own prices. That’s usually only in high end or privately owned salons.
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u/I3adIVIonkey 10h ago
Tipping culture in the US is actually for every service rendered?