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03-04-2010, 12:13 PM
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03-04-2010, 12:24 PM
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I give $5 tip everytime too. Haircut itself is $20.
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03-04-2010, 12:39 PM
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Originally Posted by t8v6  i always tip my barber $2 since she already charges pretty cheap ($10)
u can choose not to tip, but you might end up with half your head shaved the next time you get your hair cut  .. so u might want to reconsider lol | The idea of this is silly. It basically implies that the asking price = shitty service; asking price + tip = the good job one was supposed to do to begin with.
I'd rather not tip if it wasn't a societal taboo. If businesses want to increase their asking price for a quality job, then let their original prices reflect it. Posted via RS Mobile | |
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03-04-2010, 01:06 PM
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its a courtesy
$40 dollar hair cut at jap place, and i usually tip $5 dollar. Cant complain about their service, hot towel, hangs ur coat when u arrive and put on ur jacket when you leave etc...
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03-04-2010, 02:24 PM
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Originally Posted by freakshow THIS.
edit: OP, once you get older and grow out of your naivety, you'll realize that the world doesn't revolve around you. In NA, it's customary to tip certain services, and usually the worker's pay is reflective of that fact. I hope you don't go to the states too often; they'd hate you over there. | that's the problem..it doesn't revolve around you. It's the problem that I am hated on for being a customer and paying full price and no haggling. I am not asking for any special service. I just go to the barber to rid myself some hair.
It's like this: I walk into a barber. I have clean shoes. I quietly sit or stand and wait in line for my turn. They ask me to sit down and I do so obediently. I don't question the price of the haircut. Barber will ask what I want to be done with my hair. I just respond "shorter but keep hair on my head" and will be satisfied as long as my hair is shorter. I don't smoke or have any sort of body odour. I get up after my haircut and say my thanks. I pay for the haircut and pocket my change and leave.
I am the perfect customer; no? It's the imaginary mandatory tip that doesn't make sense. I get hated on because I don't tip. It's a backwards system where my barber is my customer. fucked up eh?
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03-04-2010, 03:12 PM
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#56 | | I contribute to threads in the offtopic forum
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Originally Posted by Eff-1 In North America we tip restaurants, barbers, taxi drivers, and hotel staff. That's just the way it is. There's no need to tip the gas station guy, so why would you even care about that? | I thought you're supposed to tip a gas station attendant when its full service pumps?
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03-04-2010, 03:54 PM
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#57 | | I STILL don't get it
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I usually tip 10-20% depending on quality of service to my barber, waiters/waitresses, hotel staff, taxi drivers, car wash attendants, bartenders, etc.
I get the Canadian custom and have no problem tipping since I do believe in it. However, I really don't understand this mentality that it seems a lot of people in this thread/in Vancouver in general have, where you only get/ only should get good service if you tip well. Honestly, if the majority of your job entails customer service, I'd expect that you do your job and serve customers to the best of your ability since you're getting paid to do it; not do a half assed job if a customer doesn't tip or doesn't tip well, cause then you're not really doing your job are you?
And I don't buy the their wages are built to require tips. You don't think people working at McDonalds, or any number of retail stores get paid just as little, work just as hard, put up with just as many crappy customers, yet get no tips?
No problem with tipping, but this "I'm only going to do my job well if you pay me outside of my wages" attitude is utter bullshit
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03-04-2010, 05:15 PM
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Think of it this way:
You're doing your job in service and you just do it to par all day, and then someone comes along and gives you a tip, so you smile.
Next week you're at the same job, and the person that tipped you comes in, you give them extra good service because you are thankful for last time, they tip again.
And so on. . . .
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03-04-2010, 05:22 PM
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Originally Posted by wstce92 I usually tip 10-20% depending on quality of service to my barber, waiters/waitresses, hotel staff, taxi drivers, car wash attendants, bartenders, etc.
I get the Canadian custom and have no problem tipping since I do believe in it. However, I really don't understand this mentality that it seems a lot of people in this thread/in Vancouver in general have, where you only get/ only should get good service if you tip well. Honestly, if the majority of your job entails customer service, I'd expect that you do your job and serve customers to the best of your ability since you're getting paid to do it; not do a half assed job if a customer doesn't tip or doesn't tip well, cause then you're not really doing your job are you?
And I don't buy the their wages are built to require tips. You don't think people working at McDonalds, or any number of retail stores get paid just as little, work just as hard, put up with just as many crappy customers, yet get no tips?
No problem with tipping, but this "I'm only going to do my job well if you pay me outside of my wages" attitude is utter bullshit | Go back to china if you don't like it.
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03-04-2010, 05:47 PM
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Originally Posted by fishing666 that's the problem..it doesn't revolve around you. It's the problem that I am hated on for being a customer and paying full price and no haggling. I am not asking for any special service. I just go to the barber to rid myself some hair.
It's like this: I walk into a barber. I have clean shoes. I quietly sit or stand and wait in line for my turn. They ask me to sit down and I do so obediently. I don't question the price of the haircut. Barber will ask what I want to be done with my hair. I just respond "shorter but keep hair on my head" and will be satisfied as long as my hair is shorter. I don't smoke or have any sort of body odour. I get up after my haircut and say my thanks. I pay for the haircut and pocket my change and leave.
I am the perfect customer; no? It's the imaginary mandatory tip that doesn't make sense. I get hated on because I don't tip. It's a backwards system where my barber is my customer. fucked up eh? | next time don't quietly sit down or be polite and see what happens when they cut your hair. Again, this is a normal thing to do at the barber as it is to tip them. You're not doing anything special or unique by sitting down being quiet while they cut your hair. Just to let you know.
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03-04-2010, 06:25 PM
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#61 | | I contribute to threads in the offtopic forum
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Originally Posted by wstce92 I usually tip 10-20% depending on quality of service to my barber, waiters/waitresses, hotel staff, taxi drivers, car wash attendants, bartenders, etc.
I get the Canadian custom and have no problem tipping since I do believe in it. However, I really don't understand this mentality that it seems a lot of people in this thread/in Vancouver in general have, where you only get/ only should get good service if you tip well. Honestly, if the majority of your job entails customer service, I'd expect that you do your job and serve customers to the best of your ability since you're getting paid to do it; not do a half assed job if a customer doesn't tip or doesn't tip well, cause then you're not really doing your job are you?
And I don't buy the their wages are built to require tips. You don't think people working at McDonalds, or any number of retail stores get paid just as little, work just as hard, put up with just as many crappy customers, yet get no tips?
No problem with tipping, but this "I'm only going to do my job well if you pay me outside of my wages" attitude is utter bullshit |
you tip after service... not before. get it?
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03-04-2010, 06:38 PM
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i tip with canadian tire money. am i doin it right
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03-04-2010, 07:09 PM
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03-04-2010, 07:34 PM
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03-04-2010, 07:45 PM
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I only tip people that cut my hair and at restaurants.
I tip 10% max, rounded up to the closest 50 cents.
I don't think it's mandatory, so be grateful I'm even tipping.
I hate it when people think tipping more is of the norm, and if you get good
service, there should be more tip. They get paid from their boss to serve customers.
The tip is a bonus, not part of their salary. Get that straight.
The only reason I even tip is so we're not short on the bill.
Because my buddies is gonna have to cover my tip if I don't pay.
But the whole system is BS if you ask me.
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03-04-2010, 07:51 PM
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where you guys go for cuts?
so cheap!
the place i go to (jap) costs ~35.
and i usually go monthly ... lately its been getting a bit much as im unemployed..
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03-04-2010, 07:53 PM
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I go to some honger place in Richmond, 10 bucks a cut + 2 dollar tip
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03-04-2010, 08:08 PM
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I've been going to the same place for 15 years. The owner of the place doesn't charge enough to pay my stylist what she deserves. I tip her $5 on a $15 bill.
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03-04-2010, 08:33 PM
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wow you guys pay so little. I guess all the asian super short haircuts are easy to do. my stylist place charges $30 and I always tip a fiver. But I have never been dis-satisfied with the job, and when you work in a professional environment you can't have a "bad haircut day".
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03-04-2010, 08:52 PM
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Originally Posted by fliptuner I've been going to the same place for 15 years. The owner of the place doesn't charge enough to pay my stylist what she deserves. I tip her $5 on a $15 bill. | where do you go?? i wanna go to a place that does american style haircuts, not asian etc.. i live in coq btw
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03-04-2010, 09:01 PM
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I know most of you guys are used to tipping for service since you probably grew up here and it's like 2nd nature to you. To me, it's like throwing away my money and it is no different from let's say tipping a your cable installer, busdriver, teacher, tutor, and even the guy opening the door for you. Am I wrong for not tipping? Where do I draw the line whether to tip or not to tip.
| I grew up in a house where my dad would often tip people for such things as cable installing or chimney cleaning, etc. The tip could be in the form of money, beer, soft drink, etc.
Something like that isnt mandatory but in a lot of cases is just nice to do out of the kindness of your heart. Using the example of the cable installer, if he comes to someones house and is shown such warm hospitality who knows, he may reciprocate with extra free channels. Even if nothing comes out of it, you never know, maybe you run into the guy at a bar one day, chances are he would buy you a beer or atleast strike up a conversation.
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03-04-2010, 09:13 PM
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#72 | | Head of HR....have a seat on that couch
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Originally Posted by DC5-S where do you go?? i wanna go to a place that does american style haircuts, not asian etc.. i live in coq btw | Hahaha.
1. I have a standard issue Asian/military cut, no guard on the bottom, faded up the sides and fairly short on the top. It's all about a good fade...
2. Hairstylist is an older Asian lady.
3. She's in Vancouver. I drive out every month to get a cut.
Sorry. LOL
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03-04-2010, 09:52 PM
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#73 | | I wish I was where I was when I wished I was here
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Originally Posted by PiuYi where do you guys get your haircuts??? do they include wash/shampoo??
my haircuts are $28 per and i go like once a month!! really cutting into my bank account
plus i have really short hair and a style that doesnt really need skill to cut
(for the record, i make it an even $30 everytime i go) | I go to the haircut place inside the Empire Supermarket mall square in Richmond.
$7.99 for haircut (I give a $10)
Or $12 to wash and she puts gel in your hair to get you on your way for the day. Which is pretty handy when I have a tight timeframe.
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03-04-2010, 10:02 PM
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#74 | | OMGWTFBBQ is a common word I say everyday
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Originally Posted by Mugen EvOlutioN its a courtesy
$40 dollar hair cut at jap place, and i usually tip $5 dollar. Cant complain about their service, hot towel, hangs ur coat when u arrive and put on ur jacket when you leave etc... |
does that include happy ending
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03-04-2010, 10:05 PM
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Originally Posted by spoon.ek9 i tipped my previous barber and it made zero difference. on the last haircut i had there, they fucked up bad and i still tipped them the $1 on a $9 haircut.
the debate on how much a haircut should cost is relative to how important it is to you. personally, i find haircuts for men above $20 unrealistic for my needs. | So a shitty hair cut was worth tipping for?
Wow, and here I thought tips were a reward for good service. Fuck this mandatory tip bull shit. I never tip if I'm unsatisfied as a customer. IT'S A REWARD GIVEN AS AN INCENTIVE FOR SERVICE STAFF TO GIVE YOU GOOD SERVICE.
All you people who tip regardless of quality of service are the reason there are waitresses and hairdressers who feel entitled to tips despite their lousy work ethic and service quality. Posted via RS Mobile | |
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