To think I don't need to tip?

[Charlieboo30]

I go to my hairdressers every six weeks (sometimes five) and spend £31. I also have it coloured every three months which is £62 and buy all my products from there. I spend easily £600 a year with them. To me, that's a lot.

Anyway, I was there today and when I went to pay the lady in front of me left a £4 tip for the Saturday girl. I have never done this. Personally I think I pay enough.

I'm now wondering AIBU?

I tip when I go to the Hairdresser and Beauty Salon because of the level of intimacy involved in having a treatment done. I also tip in restaurants when I've had a very good level of service, its a way of acknowledging someone going the extra mile - remembering how you like your drink or remembering where you prefer to sit, giving a suggestion based on their knowledge of your food preferences for eg.

Taxi Drivers - only if they help with my luggage.

It's nothing to do with the persons salary or lack of one.

I never tip hairdressers or taxi drivers. Its so prohibitively expensive anyway. Maybe occasionally I tip the pizza guy if I have change. In a restaurant I will tip cash to the waitress / waiter if service is not already added.

I hate this tipping lark.

Why don't we tip all people who are on minimum wage eg care workers, shop assistants as they can give pleasant friendly service and go out of their way for people?

Recently went to a restaurant with friends and didn't tip the waiter as the food was late. But he'd brought us nibbles and made a fuss of us and surely it's the chefs fault the food was late? My stingy friends disagreed!

I tip taxi drivers, pizza delivery people, waiting staff in restaurants, hairdressers and various others.
I do it automatically.
I pay £60 for just a cut and style and leave a fiver tip.
I have worked in pubs and hairdressers and the tips massively made a difference to the money I brought home every week so think it's nice too.
But it's not compulsory, so don't if you don't want to!

I tip my hairdresser because after 20+ years of not finding anyone who could understand what I wanted done she appears to be a mind reader and I'm finally happy with my hair. I will cry if she leaves the salon and goes somewhere I can't follow.

Should add- she was very surprised to get a tip the first few times so I'm guessing it's not the norm here.

I often tip at the hairdressers/ pizza men/taxis aswell as in resturants. Although usually just by rounding it up to the £ or £5. Restaurantsthe amount depends on service bit usually 10%

I always tip the usuals - taxi drivers/hairdressers etc. I don't have the nerve to not do it even if they have done a rubbish job! I am never sure what about what to do about randoms like tradesmen etc and get really English and inhibited about the whole thing - I find it a massive cringe.

I tip the girl who washes my hair a couple of quid. She's only a kid and earning pennies and when I did the same job at 14 I was SO happy when people did this.

The haidresses gets a fiver on top of the bill. I was taught that "Personal services" get tipped....so...massage therapists, waiters, hairdressers, drivers...that kind of thing.

Granny explained it better than I did...personal services do have an element of intimacy...and that's why you tip. It's tacky not to.

I always tip.

I do tip but I agree the tipping some jobs and not others is illogical. I would prefer to live in a country where the price is the price and tipping doesn't exist.
Care home workers are on low salaries and provide a service but they don't get tipped, swanky restaurants charging £50 a head expect a tip. It's illogical.

I always tip waiting staff, bar staff, salon staff - esp juniors as they don't get paid well/may still be studying. I like to think that people did the same when I was a waitress. I did notice once while dining at a posh Gordon Ramsay restaurant there was no service charge which impressed me. It showed confidence in his staffs performance that they would get tips because people wanted to give them, not because they were obliged to. I also tip 25 percent when going to the us for waiting staff - pretty much standard over there to tip.

Hollycomputer I always tip hairdressers, beauticians, waiting staff in cafe/ restaurant, bar staff and taxi drivers too. It's the way I was reared.

YANBU at all. I had my hair done today and it was £93 for a cut, colour and blow dry After paying that I genuinely couldn't afford a tip. However, before that I had my eyebrows waxed and it was £8.50, I handed over a tenner and said to the lady to keep the change.

I tip everyone... Taxi drivers, waiters, pizza delivery guy, hairdresser... I agree in principle with BackforGood, but in practice I like to reward good service. I'm not sure why shop girls/boys don't count though... Convention, I guess.

I always tip. I would be too embarrassed not to. I was a waitress as a student and remember some regular customers were known (and disliked) as non tippers.

My beautician owns her business and I still tip her £5 every time I have a waxing, even though I think that's not the done thing. I am a compulsive tipper.

Tip 10% ish in a proper restaurant

I get my hair coloured for £20 and I tip £2, I wouldn't tip much if anything if it was more than £20. When I take dd to get her hair in a french plait they charge £3 and I round it up to £5

Don't tip delivery people or taxi drivers (though I would round it up) or anyone else

I always tip hairdressers/hair assistants, taxi drivers, pizza delivery drivers and waiting staff. I can afford to do that. If I were on minimum wage I might not be able to do that.

I handsomely tip the beautician who does my waxing and spends hours pampering me.

It is NOT tacky not to tip, MrsWinnebago, it is a bit smug though to suggest that it is. Some people genuinely cannot afford to do it.

I am on a very low income since having Ds, when I was on a higher income pre-DC I used to tip. I don't do the hairdressers/restaurants (never taxis, too much of a luxury !! ) as often as others mention on here -maybe twice a year? and on those occasions I can ONLY do it if I budget for the prices involved - not tips as I'm on the same wage as them IYSWIM ?
I appreciate their service but also agree it's random about how you should tip and I just don't have the money to tip people who earn the same as me. Listening to some of these threads it feels like I should never treat myself/family and I already feel guilty when I see the waitreses face when I round up to the next ££s. I WANT TO SCREAM ITS NOT A SNUB !! I know you work hard!! But I wouldn't do anything ever if I had to factor in tips. And the places I eat in are so cheap they are not so much about the service
Plus there's the shoddy, Crap service givers in the 'jobs you SHOULD tip for categorys' that expect it no matter how appalling they've been because you didn't spend much.
I have been a BARISTA/WAITRESS/CLEANER at some point

Even teachers get tipped - what do you think all those end of term presents are?

I've only ever tipped restaurant staff and taxi drivers! Didn't know it was normal to tip hairdressers?! seems very odd to me, but then again I am not british.

I always tip my hairdressers. Usually how they make most of their money. Im out of work at moment but still save up so i can tip few pound.

at 'it's tacky not to' tip!

I find it tacky to expect a tip when you are already paid to do a job. I appreciate the pay might not be very much, but that's not the customers fault!

I can afford to tip, but don't routinely tip out of principle. If service has been exceptionally good and someone has gone above and beyond what you would expect, then I will be very generous with a tip in recognition of that. But exceptional service doesn't happen very often in this country in my experience, unless I'm in a place that always has a high standard of service in which case they add it to bill anyway.

If you tip everyone it becomes a pointless gesture.

OK, if you "should" tip people who offer 'a level of intimacy' (although I fail to see how taxi drivers come into that category) why don't care workers get tips?