To have not tipped the hairdresser today

[Cumbrian07]

Basically didn't have any change to tip the hairdresser and paid for my highlights by card. Got a really dirty look from the receptionist. Felt really bad. I know they don't get paid loads.

I always tip and always have.

On Edge EXACTLY. And as for these people who tip because she does a good job - WHAT...that's their profession. If they don't do a good job then that's a problem.

Scattermummy has just told us hairstylists in the NE of England make £20k. Poor them (not!)

Tipping is obscene. Stop it now!!

I sometimes tip, depends on how much money I have that month, but to be fair I spend £100 every 8 weeks with the owner so figure she is inevitably doing ok without the few quid I leave her. Instead I attend their events, provide some of my business services to her for free and will chuck a bit in the pot for their Christmas do. I think that's fair over all.

Captain Barnacles mentioned tipping taxi drivers. I always did, religiously, until one round here said he would only be making half of what he normally did this year, earning 'just' £30k. Given I earn nothing close to this let alone his usual £60k I almost asked him for a tip.

exaxctly wingandprayer. it's not as though these people are butlers and valets serving only the very rich. They are cutting the hair of (some) very ordinary people - me included. I'm on OPFA.
I hardly EVER get a taxi, but on the rare occasions I do it's home from tesco with 5 bags and two kids. I feel comfortable not tipping. If a person is calling a taxi to take them from The Octagon Bar to their house in Dalkey then it would be slightly more embarrassing not to tip I guess.

I always tip taxis and waiters a minimum of 10% provided the service has been good. If it's not I don't tip.

My hair costs £120 every 10 weeks. I give £5 to the girl who colours it. £5 to the stylist and £2 to the boy who washes it (he does the most amazing head massage and deserves so much more .

"You had to tip the hairdresser in Germany when I lived there"

What happened if you didn't tip him or her, Clary? [nosey] They wouldn't give you another appointment?

FFS seems to be a lot of women feeling it's their duty to tip the servents here!

We are now in the 21st century. There is a minimum wage. WTF are you thinking of ????

frgr I don't really know what happened in Germany if you didn't tip.

The haircut was sooo expensive already I don't think I did actually (I was a very poor student), but I just remember noticing that everybody did (making a big thing of it, as they would in Germany).

I had never at the time hear of tipping a hairdresser. And in fact I have never seen it in the UK either.

The whole tipping thing is bobbins IMO, I work in a school and nobody pays me for helping their child to learn - nor should they, I get a salary for that! It's a lot less than £20k FWIW too.

i never tip, i mean the bin men don't get a tip for emptying my bins, or the nurse who looked after my daughter after a nasty fall didn't get a tip or i don't tip the women serving in tesco for scanning my shopping (even if she did help me pack).

so i don't tip for my 'treat' items

I never tip my hairdresser

I buy her some nice wine at Xmas

Are you meant to tip hairdressers?! I never do.

YANBU, it is your choice.
As a hairdresser I'm not going to think bad of you for not doing so. I'm on minimum wage but at the end of the day I chose my career. Tips are always very much appreciated - even more so when I was training and making £70 per week, and payed out £20 for buses etc - but it as I said it's your choice.
As for tipping because the hairdresser has done a good job, what's all that about? They should always be doing a good job!
I am amazed at the prices some of you are paying just for a cut!!!
We charge £8!!

YANBU I never tip, noone tips me for doing my job ( i am a credit controller ) so why should i tip others ... I especially hate it when the people i am with tip in places like harvester - you have to get your own drink and salad, there is also a noodle bar near me where you have to write down your own order on the paper and give it to the waiter ??

I NEVER tip. Hairdressers get paid to do my hair, staff get paid to wait on me in a restaurant and anyway service is nearly always added, (which I have been known to knokc off), Tipping is archaic. I don't get tipped for sorting someones tax out, nor would I ecpect it.

amothersplace...I have been known to remove the "discretionary service charge" on my restaurant bills when the service has been bad. It does confuse them so I don't think that many people seem to do it.

I tip in restaurants and I tip taxi drivers - but would never tip a hairdresser. I'd feel clumsy and awkward and patronising - what do you even say?? 'Heres a bit extra for you dear'.

Restaurant tips are easy as you just leave it behind. Taxi tips are easy as I just ask them to make the receipt up to the nearest £5 (only ever get taxis for work). But tipping anyone else would just feel odd.

I go every week, and don't tip. if I got a dirty look I'd go elsewhere. In our high street there are now about 10 hairdressers, so could easily move.

I don't tip ,my hairdresser is her own boss and I pay on average £60 .
If she gets that from most clients in a day, it works out at about £500 per day
I think she's fab BTW ,so happy to pay the price ,just not tips as well.

I dont tip my haidresser - he owns the salon, so dont know if that makes a difference.

I have neven seen anyone giving a tip though - I'm aware that tipping at the hairdresser seems to be the done thing, but, like Riverofsleep, wouldnt know how to do it - there is no bowl of coins on the counter, and have never seen anyone hand over any extra coins after paying with thier card.

Don't get me started on discretionary service charges!

DH and I once went into a restaurant opposite the local cinema for a couple of burgers and a drink each, it was horrific service. One burger came 15 mins later than the other one, a drink never arrived in the time we were there, etc. Couldn't get a waitress to get our bill so missed the start of the film (surely 2hrs is enough to grab a simple meal for 2 opposite the cinema?! We'd waited ages for someone to get our order...)

Anyway, when the bill eventually came (from a male waitor who arrived looking surly as I'd gone up to the "please wait here for a table" bit by the entrance to ask, since the waitresses kept saying "just a moment")... he had the cheek to roll his eyes when I snorted and asked for the 15% service charge to be taken off!

Lucky we didn't just walk out after leaving a tenner for the ingredients that day - "service" my arse.

So yes, I have removed the automatic service charge on these things - and got no end of stick for it. DH even wanted to leave it on "so there's no fuss"... it ended up taking another 10 minutes to get it rebilled.

In fact, I'm so annoyed by this now I am going to go and write this on trip advisor, i always meant to, but just forgot.

(and this burger place wasn't run by 15 year olds, not a fast food place, it was a normal restaurant, not a family friendly nor a particularly cheap one!)

I did not know you could take the discretionary service charge off! Good on you frgr!

I never tip my hairdresser. I hate the whole concept of tipping. We have a minimum wage, end of story. I have just become unemployed, but even when I did work, it was only a shit wage anyway.

are you supposed to tip hairdressers? whoops