Lots of hair stylists and barbers are employees and absolutely do not set their prices. My hair stylist is an example of that. But she’s good at working with the pricing to give me a good discount, so I tip her generously in return. That way she gets my entire tip instead of having to give a portion of it away to the salon.
When my haircut is done, I ask, "How much?" Whatever she tells me is how much I give her. If she wants more, just say a higher number. The lady I go to owns the building.
Yeah my barber owns his building and business so I never stopped to think about tipping. He told me a price and has a sign with his pricing for services. So I assumed that was good enough. And he never said a word about tipping for 10 years 😂.
If you don't tip your barber there's something wrong. People say "oh they set their own price". If the owner of the store wants to keep prices down so more people come then typically they can't change the going rate. However, if one barber is better than the others then you'll want to tip them because, why should the barber that cuts your hair the best be given the same amount of money as the guy who sucks at cutting hair?
I'm a better paramedic than a lot of people because I've done it for far to long. I'm phenomenal with IVs and was part of a critical access team at a major hospital. Should I go around with a card machine asking for tips because I only poked you once instead of the 13 times that happened yesterday? We all get paid the same.
My friend. I am not American. Please stop justifying your deranged tipping culture to me. The rest of the world does not do that. Maybe you are the only ones that solved this mistery. Or maybe vice versa.
Because they agreed to that setup of their own free will? I mean I'm not against tipping in this situation but it's not like the better barber is being punished or something.
I tip people. While I agree tipping culture has gotten out of control, i still believe that people deserved to be tipped in certain professions if they do a good job.
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u/Carebear7087 8h ago
Always felt the same about barbers/hair stylists. Like they set a price, but then expect a tip on top of it. Like just tell me an all inclusive price.