I’ve had tattoo artists state they expect a tip up front.
I’ve had others say don’t worry about it.
It all depends I guess. But I do agree, considering they set their own fees why not just be upfront about all that? Maybe for tax purposes? But I highly doubt most tattoo artists are experts at tax law.
That's such a weird and wild statement when talking about tattoo artists, considering many of them are very much NOT on drugs. As someone who is covered in tattoos while holding down a corporate job, I gotta say, the assumption that tattoos = drug users needs to be lost to the annals of history. That's some boomer shit.
That's you though. Again, your anecdotes are not data or fact. Stop hanging out with junkies and maybe you'll meet some tattoo artists who aren't on hard drugs.
Well sure it could be a total coincidence that all the tattoo artists in my city just happen to be into drugs for some reason and other cities for some reason don't have the same issue. You also seem to be confusing tattoo artists with people who have tattoos.
But nobody cares about YOUR experience. You're making a blanket statement about every tattoo artist. I'm saying being a tattoo artist doesn't automatically make you an addict. One of us is provably wrong and it's you.
But nobody cares about YOUR experience. You're making a blanket statement about every tattoo artist. I'm not saying being a tattoo artist automatically makes you an addict. I'm not provably wrong because your assuming I'm making a claim that I'm not in your made up chronically offended version of reality.
MY experience doesn't matter. The person I responded to made a blanket statement implying all tattoo artists were addicts. You jumped in and decided to say "everyone I know is an addict" so if you weren't trying to back that person up, what exactly was the point of your first comment? Or did you just want to insert yourself?
It's not an assumption about tattoo artists. It's an assumption about literally anybody that expects a tip before they do the work. That shit is preposterous.
Your comment makes no sense in that context, considering most people don't get tipped in advance and the ones that do are most likely delivery people who aren't using for drugs but are using the tipping amount to decide if a delivery job is worth taking because they otherwise don't make (or sometimes lose) money by taking the job.
Tattoo artists who ask for the tip up front are not automatically drug addicts. For one, they wouldn't even have time to buy more drugs before they did your work. That's not how drug deals OR tattooing works. They're WRONG for expecting the tip up front before the tattoo is even completed, but that doesn't mean they're asking for it because they want drugs.
In my case, I go to an artist I have a history with and I know the quality of work I'm getting, so I have them factor the tip into the estimate and just pay them everything up front. But they never ask me to do that. I just prefer to know the full price with no strings up front rather than have to do math to figure out the real price beyond what's in the quote.
Why don't drug deals work that way? I originally made the assumption because I was an addict for like a decade and that's totally the type of shit me and the people I hung around with would do, not because I'm a boomer.
Because a drug dealer is not just waiting in the back room of a tattoo parlor for a tattoo artist to get their tip in advance so they can give the artist their drugs secretly before they go back out and start the tattoo. I am with my tattoo artist for the majority of the time from when I pay through them setting up their station to start my work and they never leave the shop in that time. When exactly are you imagining these drug deals and drug administrations are happening between payment and tattooing?
It's really easy to get drugs delivered or even get a front if you know for sure someone is going to be giving you money. It's also really easy to do drugs in the bathroom.
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u/OldmanChompski 9h ago
I’ve had tattoo artists state they expect a tip up front.
I’ve had others say don’t worry about it.
It all depends I guess. But I do agree, considering they set their own fees why not just be upfront about all that? Maybe for tax purposes? But I highly doubt most tattoo artists are experts at tax law.