What’s a reasonable tip for a barber? (America)

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• ExtremeDullard@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m so glad I don’t live in the US no more…

  Where I live now in Europe, people earn a salary that allows them to live a decent life. And if you try to tip em, they get offended because you assume they’re poor and they don’t make enough money.

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  • magnetosphere@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Wow… are you saying tipping sucks? I didn’t know that! Thank you for providing such an original response instead of a useful answer!

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    • ExtremeDullard@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The hidden answer was: don’t tip. When nobody tips, workers will finally ask livable wages from their employers instead of relying on semi-compulsory handouts.

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  • False@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s the US, they are poor.

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    • mursejoy@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Nobody gets offended by tips here because if you’re working for tips you are poor.

      It’s pretty awful that all of the service people make shit wage, but if they’d just band together and unionize things would get better. Assholes in corporate America can’t show up without a good haircut. Barbers should strike for a month and see what that does to their wages.

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    • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I have yet to meet a poor barber. I see them generating over $200 an hour in a cash business. Mine talks about his new house, his Vegas vacations and he’s barely 30.

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    • ExtremeDullard@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I know. But they allow themselves to be poor: they consistently vote against their own interests and they don’t unionize.

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  • schwim@piefed.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    But that wasn’t his question.

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• billwashere@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  0% because my barber is an asshole. (I shave my own head in the shower)

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  • CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    But how do you contort your body enough to hold the razor between your butt cheeks like that?

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    • billwashere@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Practice.

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  • nocturne@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Same here.

    Electric or bladed razor?

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    • billwashere@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      A bladed razor. One of these days I’m gonna splurge for one the headblades with the wheels.

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• schwim@piefed.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  20% is more than reasonable for a barber’s tip. Unlike wait staff that don’t make a living wage, barbers usually make a more fair wage and the tip is an honest “thanks for taking care of me” and not a “Here’s some money so you don’t starve”.

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  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Ha! I’ll tell my barber he doesn’t need to do Uber anymore, since his day job is paying so well.

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    • schwim@piefed.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Super cool story.

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    • AskewLord@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      my barbers commute in from 2 hours away, and bitch about bike lanes and progressives destroying the city.

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• AskewLord@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  25-30 but i like my barber.

  i also stopped going and I cut my own hair now because paying $50-60 for a 10-15m haircut is just insane.

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  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I give a solid 25%, but my cuts generally take the better part of an hour, because I have thick and relatively curly hair; also I’ve known my barber for over a decade and she does reliably excellent work.

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  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    every 8 weeks and spend like $25

    $35+ every 3 weeks here. I sublimate from Tidy to Schlub overnight on day 22.

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• birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  0% because everyone should have decent wages. Tips are a way for bosses to avoid properly paying their employees.

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• rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I refuse to participate in tip inflation. I tip 15% to all service employees. The only exception for me is tattoo artists, which get 25%

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  • ghen@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Wait tattoos get tips? That’s the one field where they can just charge any random number and people will continue to pay it if the results are good. I expect tattoo artists to be paid very well by the company they work for if it isn’t themselves.

    We’re getting so far beyond just waiters making $2 an hour now. We’re getting into people that are actually skilled getting skilled labor money.

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  • otp@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I tip 15% to all service employees.

    My rule of thumb is to tip more to service workers that incur more personal expenses.

    Restaurant workers? 10~15%. (They make at least minimum wage where I live just like takeout/fast food workers. I wish I could tip them 0% culturally)

    Barbers/hairstylists? 15~20%.

    Rideshare drivers get 20% minimum or more if it’s a cheap fare.

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    • rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Tbh I forgot about rideshare, because I don’t use them. I refuse to feed those tech companies.

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• Astronut@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I always tip 25%.

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• IWW4@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I go with 20% as well.

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• bluGill@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  0. Barbers do no get tips. Hair stylists do get tipped though, all your big chains are stylists.

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• bizarroland@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I typically go with 50%.

  That way, when I come back to that barber, if I come back to that barber because I like their work, they’re going to remember, oh shit, this dude tips 50%, I’d better hook him the fuck up.

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  • CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This trick also works for waitresses in Vegas. Tip well and they’ll bring you a fresh, non-watered down drink as fast as you can drink them.

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  • bizarroland@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    And for the down voters out there, I’m a guy, and men’s haircuts are typically like 20 bucks, so a 50% tip is an extra $10.

    It’s not like I’m shelling out a grand or something.

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• palordrolap@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  "Customers should leave your purview with the hair on their head, and possibly face, styled, trimmed or even extended, as close to their preference as possible."

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• Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  so here’s my “no stupid questions”: How on god’s green earth could you possibly afford tipping a barber 20%? Are american barbers dirt cheap or do you just actually consider it perfectly reasonable to pay closer to 100 bucks for someone to trim your hair?

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  • otp@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    …a haircut/trim is $80 where you live?

    It’s under $30 where I live, and some places are cheaper.

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    • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I checked the places near me and yeah a normal-ass haircut STARTS at $50, many places get very close to literally charging 80 bucks for a standard haircut.

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