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.

Oh, to say, that if restaurants add the service charge automatically, we pay to the very pence. But if they do not, we tend to tip about 15%. So I guess I do tip, even though I dislike it.

I used to travel to the US alot for work, and the tipping thing always got me terribly anxious because I could never really work out what was right or not. I would pay what i thought was a good tip, only to be scowled at and once swore at. Usually about 15-20%.

YABU I always tip and everyone I know tips...even as a kid I remember everyone tipping.

Scoobytoo - get real

Where you a kid in 1999?

When I wurra lass in 1977 nobody tipped.

i pay 45 for a cut and semi permanent colour or 60ish for cut and highlights. that's enough. so no, i don't tip. don't feel the need to at all. why should i, they are doing their job so what?

oh, and i would phone up the salon, ask to speak to the manager and explain that if the receptionist doesn't buck her ideas up, i will take my custom elsewhere!

I don't tip my hairdresser every time - that sounds strange doesn't it?

What I mean is, I give her a £5 tip probably every two or three visits, always at Christmas and, if I have been unusually awkward and changed all three of my upcoming appointments and she has made sure to fit me in as I did last time, then then!

As a former waitress in a very everyday restaurant you remembered the tables each night that did not tip as they were so rare and you should have heard what the waiters had to say about them- i tried not to but you counted on the tips to bring your wage up to a living wage( having said that i did better as a waitress than as a teacher in my first few years)....but it is an expectation to get 10% if you do that job.No one wanted to serve spanish or french people or other demographic groups, decided by checking them out as they came in , as certain people were less likely to tip- not in their culture/upbringing. It was harsh but after doing that I always tip the waiter.

I tip hairdressers even though i rarely feel like it- at least a fiver but never taxi drivers after meeting some black cab drivers 15 years ago who were pulling a grand a week back then-i just do not see the service in driving a car- bus drivers do not get tipped. I rarely take a cab though.

I just accept tipping is part of life and i assume people in these jobs expect tips and must be pretty shocked when they do not get them, as we were as most people did tip...the few that did not stood out as being mean I suppose.I guess I do not want people to think i am mean, even though i am with taxi drivers!

I tip my hairdresser, waiters, taxi drivers, delivery people, workman who have come to do jobs. I basically tip everyone I can. I just think it is a really nice thing to do and I enjoy being nice :)

I might add that we have enough money to buy what we need but not enough to go on holidays or for us to drive a car so I know how an extra for quid can make a difference to some peoples day (
Maybe thats why we have no money)

I know how an extra few quid not for quid!

I tip hairdressers, people who carry bags for me, and waiters (unless the service really is terrible in which case I am happy to insist it is taken off). I tend to be quite a generous tipper for these people. I tip £10 a week to chambermaids in hotels and about £2 to doormen to get me a taxi.

I do not tip bin men, milkmen and postmen as we do not have the same people regularly and I do not know where this money would end up.

I do not tip taxi drivers unless they have gone beyond the call of duty for me, for example helping with bags or the buggy or advising me on routes with the clock off.

cherrysoda,

oh heaven forbid anybody think their client is MEAN.

The truth is, I have less money than a waitress or a hairdresser and definitely less money than a taxi driver, and if the first thing that occurs to them if I don't tip is that i am mean then they didn't deserve a tip in the first place. They outght to value their clients' business a bit more.

Cherrysoda - what sort of teacher are you?