For all the people who are taking advantage of all these online deals, I think it is great! Although if you are getting a great deal why not tip? Especially if your in a tipping industry! This drives me nuts. Here I am staying after my normal work hours to give you a service which is less then half price so i get payed WAY less, you tell me how happy you are but yet don’t tip? What the heck? —Jane D’oh a distressed hairdresser
This article appears in Aug 18-24, 2011.
thats the worst! I have this friend and we would go out to lunch together and she would tip maybe like a dollar or sometimes even nothing. It made me feel so bad for the server that I felt like I had to leave more of a tip just to compensate for what she didn’t leave. I especially know how it feels to work your butt off and have some one compliment you on your hard work but yet tip nothing. This just goes to show how people are so selfish.
bla bla bla tipping. You picked the industry you wanted to work in. Although tipping may happen for frequent for you not everyone has the means to do so. So next time you don’t get tipped, think for a second maybe that person just don’t have Extra to give to you.
Fucking hell.
*Groupons
Groupers?
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Groupies?
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Brain hurty now. >: (
Does the voucher state gratuity not included?
Is tipping a requirement to have my nutz dusted?
Why do you get paid WAY less when a voucher is the form of payment? The owners should absorb this one and not the low life holding the weapon.
You don’t get a tip for cutting hair. You get a really large amount of money for it.
My wife tips at the massage parlour. She seriously pays $90 for a 1 hour massage and tips on top of it. It is ridiculous. Do your job and shut up.
“payed”?
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So other than no tip (which last time I checked was not mandatory in Canada), how did you get paid less? Did the employer cut your wage?
Generally speaking – Tipping is not mandatory it is to a nice way for a person who has the money to tip to extend a thank you for a job well done.
What makes one profession so entitled that you should tip one and not the other?
I don’t tip my mechanic or my tailor so should we start tipping everywhere you go?
shit just fucking happens jane. and unfortunately, you just got your share of it. yeah, it sucks, but you can’t twist arms for tips. sorry baby.
If you don’t tip your server when you recieved good service, you are a shit. But that is the only place that tipping should be mandatory. But a mandatory tip for a haircut? The fuck outta here. Although I do tip my barber, it’s because he is the funniest person alive and he guarantees a piece of ass with every cut.
lol, good thing your job doesn’t depend on being able to spell properly.
I dunno, don’t offer the service if ‘your’ getting ‘payed’ way less and ‘your’ not comfortable with that?
I always tip a hairdresser, but my GOD, when did people forget about the OPTIONAL part of a gratuity? Cheese and fucking rice!
LOL @ furious styles.
I actually LOL’d at your post.
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you are required to perform your job well no matter what. Customer Service = Customer Service. If you don’t like it, get a different job and shut the hell up. There are 100 other people that want your job and will like it.
a tip is not manditory unless you’re doing group events and that tip is tacked right on to the bill, regardless of quality of service, so maybe you should start serving 10 or more at a time.
LOL….another service drone who thinks they are entitled to tips. OP, go ask your boss for a raise. Those Groupons are awesome, and if people feel like tipping, they should only tip based on the price they paid for the Groupon. I personally leave them nothing.
It does say on the Groupon that the discount does not include taxes or gratuity. So, if folks aren’t tipping, it’s because they’re non-tippers. And unfortunately, you’ve gotta suck it up.
Its not a ‘haircut’ its a ‘hair style’…
Don’t want to sound too much like Montreal Man, but if you look at the history of tipping, it is typically for those jobs I consider being in the ‘Pink Ghetto’ (e.g. wimmen’s work). Since historically, women (and their associated occupations: nurse, teacher, waitress, hairdresser) make less then men do, I will postulate that the gratuity was a way for society, in the form of individual consumers, to ‘make it up’ to the grateful woman. Over decades, this has become the norm, as have tip cans in places where tipping was not the rule (counter service).
In the case of Groupons, who does it benefit? the customer, who is either broke or cheap, and the owner, who is only out the extra shampoo because your wage does not change. Do the math and get a new chair or a new business.
Who cuts your hair Furious? Wouldn’t mind getting to know that barber.
I tip my barber, but the odd time I do go to a salon, I never leave a tip. the haircut costs enough as it is and they always somehow manage to fuck it up. I don’t let women cut my hair on principle, unless they are barbers. There aren’t too many female barbers, none in HRM that I know of. There was one in Ottawa I went to who did a great job, really expensive though.
I find they (female hairdressers) are too afraid to hurt you, so you end up with a really uneven cut. I can deal with pain, I can’t deal with over-paying to have a fucked up haircut for the next couple weeks. People look at my short hairstyle and ask “how hard could that be?” You’d be surprised.
If you don’t take AT LEAST half hour you’re not doing your best. I wanna be in that chair about 45 minutes, no matter how many people are waiting. The thing is it it’s hard to tell if it’s uneven when it’s so short, so attention to detail is required.
Anyway OP, I don’t blame people for not tipping when some women tell me they pay 80 bucks for a frickin haircut. Not belittling what you do but damn. I leave a tip but if my haircut cost even 40 bucks I ain’t leavin a dime.
I stopped going.
20 bucks for a 5 min buzz… that’s 120 dollars an hour job FFS.
rip off.
I’ll spend the extra 10 and get the clippers to give myself the cut for the next year.
Phat’s on Windsor st. Best lousy haircut in town.
Roger that my brother. P(h)at’s one crazy Irishman.
he’s a laugh riot ” you look like a bum, you no get girlfriend looking like that”
There’s this one shop in Halifax on the corner of Spring Garden and Robie, I can’t believe I forget the name of it. It’s on top of that pizza shop, across from the professional centre with the Starbucks and the clinic. Anyways they have two barbers there that are both really good and they stay open late. It’s so hard to get a good haircut when you work days. I refuse to go to first choice.
I can’t believe I forget the name of that shop, I’ll probably go back there for my next cut.
Funny side story. I went to Montreal a few weeks ago, and went to my favorite barbershop in the neighborhood I lived in when I was 18. The dude that cut my hair was from Dartmouth, Pinecrest to be exact. I live in Highfield. Small world eh? He did a damn good job too, grew in really even. Took him over an hour to cut my hair and line me up a sharp chin strap. I didn’t mind.
Phat is getting T shirts made with a pic of him in his chair holding a big glass of scotch, his ‘getting ass guarantee’ emblazoned next to his austere visage. It is the greatest garment I have ever seen, I’ve prepaid him for one.
LOLz – next time I’m in I’ll have to put a down-payment on one. Didn’t some local group record a song about him?
Strangely enough I always tip my hairdresser, it just seems like the appropriate thing to do. With that said, I don’t have to, I do it because I want to, so be grateful to those who tip. It’s not required!!!
Man I gotta check this Phat guy out.
My ex would always go to Phat when he was in town and he always did a great job. He would only get a simple buzz cut but it’s amazing how many people can’t do one without making it all patchy!
Yes Mel, it’s not as easy as most people assume.
It’s amusing how when you go out to eat, I tip my waiter/waitress (not because I have to but because I want to) but when I go to the cash, I’m also expected to tip the person working the cash? WTF…
SHOWCASE HAIR DESIGN!!!!!! I’m going there right now for a cut.