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When you go to the hairdressers and you are happy with your end result you tip. We make mim wadge which is hard to live off of!
start tipping your hair Dresser!
—Jane D’oh
This article appears in Feb 26 – Mar 4, 2009.
27 Comments
If you make minimum wage and not commission, you need to find yourself a better salon. P.S. Tipping is voluntary, not mandatory.
I agree with what SwampDonkey said.
Welcome to the wonderful world of cutting hair. Go somewhere else and build a client base. That’s what my friend’s wife did and she’s more than happy with her job.
I always tip about $5, I know that they’re not making big money and sometimes have to deal with crazy rude people.
SwampDonkey is right. Or maybe you’re actually a horrible hairdresser and people are too nice to say it to your face. Either way, if this is how you feel towards the people who keep you in business (resentment, entitlement) then good luck building a client base.
Any happy client will tip. ‘Nuff said.
true, except when said client asks for a quick trim or buzz. It’s in and out of the chair in 10 mins for $20… screw the tip. I could have almost bought my own clippers for that much. Greasey bastards.
Hairdressers have to report tips as income on their taxes whether they receive them or not. It’s customary to tip the same as anyone else in the service industry. BTW – what the HELL is mim wadge? Learn some proper English people!!!
I fucking hate the sense of entitlement from people who work in the “tip based” industry. If you work in a field that pays you minimum wage and you rely on tips to make a decent living, you’d better be goddamn good at your job. And guess what ladies and gentleman, if you’re getting shitty tips, it’s not because customers are “cheap assholes” it’s because you’re doing a shitty job. I worked as a cook/chef for almost 10 years, so I know how a restaurant really works. If I get great service when I go out to eat, I give a great tip. If I get ok service, you get an ok tip. And if I get shitty service, you get a shitty tip. Leaving no tip doesn’t make any impact in my opinion. Leaving a shitty $1 tip is my way of saying, your service sucked. And any server/hairdresser/etc that has the audacity to complain about ANY tip can kiss my ass! If you’re a server and you take 5 tables per hour and each one tips you $1, you just made $5/hr more than minimum wage, which puts you around $13/hr I believe. That’s any awefully good wage for not really doing a whole lot.
Well said, good sir.
Not to mention too, it’s not taxed either. so it’s a double win. That’s if the restaurant allows you to keep cash tips, and doesn’t pool them on you paycheque.
To tip or not to tip! Well it isn’t mandatory, and people are finding it hard now with layoffs and companies closing. Some people just can afford to tip. Suck it up or get another job.
Also, learn to appreciate that you’re in a tip job to begin with. There are lots of other folks who make a living on minimum wage and don’t get tips.. You’ll just have to squeak by like the rest of us.
Let’s see….the last time I went the brain-dead hairdresser, who had a “Masters” license tape to the mirror, went around my head like Edward Scissorhands, stabbed me behind the ear, made me pay full price AND expected a tip. A tip is for above average service. I went for a haircut, not a blood donation!
Oh the tip debate! How wonderful…
My two cents (pun intended);
If you go rummaging through various dictionaries, they will likely define a tip or gratuity as sometime like an amount above the listed price for a service, and give one of two reasons for granting said tip. The first being appriciation for superior service, and the second, probably more common I would guess, would be social norms or standards.
In my mind, the idea of tipping for tips sake (ie. because it’s the social norm) is a rediculous idea (although, hypocritically, I would always find myself leaving a tip regardless of service quality. Forgive me, I’m weak!). Despite my practice of tipping regardless of service, my theory towards tipping, in the food service anyway, was that the servers get paid to take my order, bring my food, and check in every once and a while to see if I needed anything else. If this is what the servers would do, then great, they did what they were paid to do, welcome to the work world. In my mind, where the tips came into play was when the server went above and beyond what they were already being paid to do, whether it was with superior service, a fu personality, anything that made my expereice more enjoyable, and would make me want to some back to the restaurant again. Those are the actions that would warrant a tip from me, and would certainly get one.
Another eliment of this that comes up, is of course the whole tip sharing issue. It doesn’t make any sense to me (a third party opinion with no experience in the service industry save for my sisters waitressing back when we were kids), for servers to have to share thier tips with other support staff. Given my previous take on tips only being earned when the servers went above and beyond what they are required to do, I dont think it makes any sence to have to give away they money they earned through extra effort and share it with the servers who didnt go the extra mile, or the support staff in the back, who don’t have to put a smile on all day and be nice to the rudest of customers etc etc.
Now, for what in my opinion is the most terrible and disgusting practice in any modern developed society, Servers Wage. I don’t believe they have it here in NS (could be wrong, again no experience in the field), but when one of my sisters moved to Ontario and continued to serve through her school years, I could not believe what I was hearing when she told me that they got paid somewhere around between 2 – 4 dollars below minimum wage because “they would make it up in tips”. I could ramble for days on how that is fucked, but i’ll leave it at simply that, it’s fucked!
Before I get fired for time theft here at work, I suppose I should touch on the original post, as it relates to tipping hair dressers. SHUT UP AND STOP YOUR BITCHING! I don’t know how the hair care industry managed to get it in their heads that they deserve tips, and what makes them defferent from any other service provider. Now, as with anything else, I am paying you for your service, and if you happen to go above and beyond
to make my experience better or more enjoyable, then maybe I’ll tip you, but what Reall Grinds My Gears, is the habit that started with waitresses, and seems to have spilled over to hair dressers, is that regardless of how shitty their service or attitude was, they would EXPECT a tip. It’s one thing to hear about waitresses bitching about not getting tips, but it’s just rediculous to hear it from hair dressers. I’m pretty sure my chiropractor, mechanic, and vet don’t call me an asshole when I leave their office without tipping after they provide me a service, and they did stuff for me that I couldn’t do myself with an $80 hair trimmer!
I suppose thats enough of my opinion for one post, but before the Grammar/spelling Nazis decide to set their correctional guns ablaze, just note that it was bad enough I took 5 mins from work to type away aimlessly, I wasn’t about to go through the whole proof reading process,.. you are all relatively smart people, try and infrence your way through any spelling or grammar errors, as well as the hundreds of commas that i’m sure I put in this, (bad habit when I freetype).
Thats my two cents on that subject,… and then some.
Cheers,
You want a tip? Get a better attitude and build yourself a decient client base. Obviously if you’re not getting tips you’re not a very good hair dresser. Find somewhere that pays you on commission and rent the bloody chair. Your sense of entitlement isn’t going to get you anywhere and neither is demanding a tip. It’s because of people like you that I cut, style and color my own hair. And I must say, I do a better job than any stylist that I ever went to.
I have worked as a bartender and hairstylists almost NEVER tipped me. And I tip them well when I get my hair cut.
Dalio: not everyone in the service industry gets tips. I worked in the service industry and I didn’t get tipped.
What bothers me is, whenever I go to a certain hair salon, I have to sit through the stylists bitching to one another (and to me a few times!) about lousy tipping after they really worked their ass off for a client. And the tips they’re bitching about are at 15% or over most times! They just figure since the person was difficult they deserve a bigger tip. Well, maybe if you didn’t bitch about being greedy about this one not tipping enough, or that one not tipping, you’d get more tips or maybe you should stfu and be grateful that you’re even getting tipped in the first place. I always tip when I get my hair and/or eyebrows done, but it really leaves a bad taste in my mouth that they expect it and if I somehow don’t tip enough (I do btw: I tip about 8 bucks on a 15 dollar eyebrow service for example and I even tipped when I went back to get my hair fixed because the stylist fucked it up majorly (and ended up fucking up during the fix: I had to fix it myself in the end) and it was a complementary fix because it was so bad) I’m going to be bitched about. Shit, if I ever knew of a stylist bitching about me tipping badly, I’d just stop tipping altogether.
> 50% tip kitty?
in these times, you’re either rich or are going to have a unibrow eventually.
Do you know why you earn minimum wage? You cannot spell. Tipping is a reflection of how pleased an individual is with the service they’ve received. Hearing you whine about being hung over, late on your rent, the fight you had with your boyfried, or – and here’s my personal favorite – how much better it was in your home town, are not an incentive to tip you. You don’t like the job, get an education and get another one.
I’ve never thought to tip for a First Choice hair cut. I’ve never tipped nor been expected to tip a gas attendant or my banker. All work in the service industry. Who should be tipped, how much but most importantly, why?
javagirl, be careful! I worked as a waitress while building my business. My co-worker was studying to become a doctor. There is a place for service / blue-collar workers and it’s not at the bottom of the shit hole. That’s what they’re talking about on that “other” bitch you commented on. Why not shed your “obvious” experience and wisdom on us more over there?
There you go again, kilo. Yeah, I’m trolling. I have the week off. Bitch boards are interesting and fun.
Maybe you should get over me and tell us how you feel about tipping for a hair cut?
Have a shitty day and fuck you very much.
I didn’t post there for you to hit on me.
I do feel that you should tip if the server is good at their job that means better than you normally get. Not for some useless cunt like you!
Kilo WTF? There’s an unspoken rule here about not carrying grudges onto different topics. Look at what you wrote, and honestly tell me it’s not you who is trolling.
BF I understand, and apologize to all other users but Kay, if my post seems to be trolling. it seems to me that everwhere I look she is stirring up some shit and cattying on like some retard. And BF I’ll direct you to Kay’s
” javagirl, be careful! I worked as a waitress while building my business. My co-worker was studying to become a doctor. There is a place for service / blue-collar workers and it’s not at the bottom of the shit hole. That’s what they’re talking about on that “other” bitch you commented on. Why not shed your “obvious” experience and wisdom on us more over there?”
She has been trolling all week and I’m sick of it!
TIPPING….I think the whole idea is screwed up and somehow degrading. Aren’t they normal working pleople like us? Maybe not, they have to make that extra special effort to put on a big phoney smile to ensure they get those hard earned twooneys you so enjoy dangling over their heads. I think it is a sick power trip that we have made socially acceptable. So how do all of you feel when they include the gratuities in your bill? Not so great huh? Take away all your power tripping. Oh we love to think how much our server needs our six buck tip for Li’l Timmy’s much needed riddelin. Like any other work environment, people are hired by their qualifications and fired if they f*** up. So why do we have to step in and get involved with their job evaluations? Cuz we love it… we love the power of a couple bucks.
I think most of us tip regardless because we know what its like to be human. The server would have to be a complete prick for me not to tip them and I have never come across that. If my order was messed up and my server appears to be flustered, having a bad day or stressed I tip more than normal cuz I put myself in their position. I can’t stand picky snooty fucks who get off on tip withholding cuz they did or didn’t get ice in their water while dining on their pub wings’n fries.
Okay-> well i will be a bit more clear
Mim Wadge is minimum wage sorry..
As for i do not find myself a “bad braindead hairdresser” ia m told i do good work by clients and co workers it is the fact i am new to this industry and refered to as “level 1” therefore people “assume” i am no good and dont tip (as co workers have exsplained)