How many men tip their barbers?

[Poiuyt]

Poll question: How many men tip their barbers?

[DS1]

1. Usually 2 bucks, I pay 14 for the cut

Give em 21 and ask for a fiver back.

[NewJeffCT]

2. I normally do, but

My most recent barber sold her business & had a baby and since she was the owner, she refused to accept any sort of tips.

However, now that I'm going to a new person, I do tip.

[mac56]

3. Always.

$2 tip at Great Clips.

[ohiosmith]

4. $14.00 for the cut $6.00 tip.

[Debi]

5. Okay, I'm not a man

But our whole family uses my husband's barber.

He owns his salon, so we don't tip him but alway purchase some products from him.

I read that you don't tip the owners of salons, only their employees...am I mistaken?

[phantom power]

6. I hate tipping. If you want to make more money, charge me more.

If I think you're charging too much money, I'll try going somewhere else.

[IronLionZion]

11. tipping encourages them to do a good job

or do a shitty job if you don't tip. That's how we do it in this country. Tipping is not just a city in China.

[enki23]

12. you are, of course, aware that the person doing the cutting...

usually isn't the owner (who you aren't supposed to tip) and almost certainly has nothing to do with setting the price.

[phantom power]

17. I know. But the whole system is offensive and wrong.

Nobody tips me if I do a good job. And if I have a bad day, nobody pays me less.

Why should people like hair-stylists and wait-staff be paid at the whim of those they serve? It's medieval.

And because of this medieval system, I'm forced to guess how much they should be tipped, to make up for the fact that they are being treated like modern day wage-slaves by their employers.

If I tip them, I'm enabling this insulting system, and if I don't tip them, the employee gets the shaft.

We should fucking outlaw tipping. Make employers pay these people a living wage, just like everybody else.

[AngryAmish]

20. way to go, Mr. Pink

[tk2kewl]

7. i only get my hair cut every couple of years

:)

but i tip if he is not the owner of the shop

[jcappy]

19. same here

hate mirrors and tipping and love long hair

[kmla]

8. Always. 5$ on a 16$ haircut.

She does a great job.

Three people you never want to piss off?

1. Your doctor.
2. Your hair stylist/barber.
3. Your mechanic.

[IronLionZion]

9. I recently found out you're supposed to tip barbers

so I just started giving about 2 bucks or more if s/he does a good job.

don't I feel like a shmuck :shrug:

[sniffa]

10. i just tipped $5

for my Last snip. he did a good job even though he nicked me good w/ the straight razor.

[mike_c]

13. Barber? What's a barber?

Whether or not to tip the barber is not a problem I have-- I haven't cut my hair in decades.

xoxo
mike_(letting_my_freak_flag_fly)_c.

[tk2kewl]

14. FLOWBEE!

[mike_c]

16. lol-- that's one of the funniest inventions of the 20th century....

eom

[brentspeak]

15. When my hair-cutter said that they don't get health insurance

I made sure I gave her a tip. ("hair-cutter", not sure what to call her. I'm a guy, no way am I going to say I go to a "hair-stylist")

[mtnsnake]

18. My ex-barber cut an upside down smile in the back of my head once

right down to the scalp, and I had always tipped the bastard, too. It was down too far for a hat to cover it up, and it was summer so I didn't want to wear a touque (sp?). Had to color it in with my wife's eye brow liner for a full month till it grew back in. To this day we still debate whether he did it on purpose or not, or if he just screwed up real bad, but my best friend says it was definitely on purpose. He wants me to kick the barber's ass.

[GOPisEvil]

21. Always.