Hi, my name is Hilary, and I don't understand tipping.
Here is an interesting tidbit for all of you. If I literally save your life, I still get my hourly wage. If I literally play on facebook on my phone the entire day, I still get my hourly wage. I've never had the aforementioned happen, but I've heard rumors.
I watched a YouTube video last night from a hairstylist, she had a lot of interesting info on how to interact with your stylist, but one of the questions she answered was about tipping. She said that the standard now is 20, it used to be 15, but now it's 20, and it's just going to continue to rise.
Here's the video. I really liked her, and she had a lot of good advice... the tipping part juts got my goat
{mind melt down}
She said that tipping is you telling them that they did a great job on your hair.
And here's a newsflash, I expect people that I am paying to ALWAYS do a good job on what they are doing, regardless of a tip or not.
I get it in the waiter industry, as they are paid below minimum wage, and then plan to make it up with their tip income. Problem is, they still expect me to pay 20% even if they AREN'T doing a good job. And I don't. And I'm slowly heading back to 15% with 20% for a great job, which honestly is rare anymore -- because people just expect the tip -- doesn't matter what they do!
I don't get the tip jar, by the ice cream place. You just scooped my ice cream, that I just paid for. Why on earth am I going to tip you for that?
I hate tipping the skycap because I am literally afraid for my bags if I don't. Why doesn't the company pay them enough to just keep bags going in the right direction tip or no tip?
Drew doesn't get tipped either. And honestly, if anyone deserves a tip, it's a teacher. He spends countless extra hours keeping kids busy instead of doing things they shouldn't, but he often doesn't even get a thank you.
BUT IF YOU SCOOP MY ICE CREAM....
Anyway, is there something I'm missing here? I mostly am seeing people who don't believe they are paid enough for the service they offer. If that is truly the case we need to raise the price of the service and then let people decide if it is worth it or not.
I am ALL. FOR. people getting a little tip when you think they have really taken some extra time with you or you feel just fabulous when you're done. But I think that's just 5-10 extra bucks as a way of saying thank you. And honestly, the rest of the time, "thank you" should suffice.
What are your thoughts here? Honestly, I think I wrote this blog before but it was just bugging me after watching that video...
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It is traditional to tip the "service" industry. This is valets, servers, bell-hops, skycap etc. I am fine tipping them. I am not fine with the tip jar, and so I don't put anything in it.
I always tip my hairdresser. You are not supposed to tip your hairdresser if she/he is the salon owner, though. That's because a percentage of what you pay for your haircut goes to the salon owner, and not the stylist who actually did your hair. That's why you tip. But if it's the salon owner, you don't, because she gets it all. Make sense?
My haircuts cost $30.00 and I generally tip $5.00. Not quite %20, but it's a nice round number.
Oh, huh.
I guess the etiquette has changed a bit, and now you do tip the owner.
I'll have to research why we tip, but it doesn't really bother me that we do.
Tipping makes me frustrated. I would actually prefer if restaurants would did what they needed to do price-wise so that they paid their employees a reasonable wage and didnt allow tipping, even if that meant my food cost a little more. I think when you are being paid to do a job you should do a good job period and should not expect to have extra compensation. I feel like tipping might have started out as a good thing, a way to tell someone they went above and beyond but now is just expected so that even if your service is bad you still need to tip.
Andrew hates tipping even more than I do. If it were up to him he wouldnt tip at all. When we go out he hands me the check so I can write the tip in because he just refuses. I have had enough friends work as waiters that I could never in good conscious not leave a tip.
Tip jars are just a joke.
Also you never should be expected to tip the owner. So the lady in the video is wrong on that front. Also I think she's trying to play her advice super safe. I have never tipped everyone at the salon who so much as looked at my hair, thats just crazy. And I would never tip the owner and personally I dont think the owner should accept tips if a person tried.
Hope you dont mind the long comment, I have a lot of resentment towards tipping.
One more thought, I feel for people who are in the service industry. Especially for hair stylists, I know renting a chair can be super expensive or the owners take a chuck of the money they make so tipping is where they make their money. It sucks. But I dont think I should be expected to make up the difference.
I can't believe that we still allow the legal minimum pay for servers to be 2.13 an hour, which I what I made serving tables TWENTY YEARS AGO. It's immoral.
I rarely put a tip in for the jars, unless there was some sort of extraordinary service offered. I always tip my stylist 20% because he is worth it.
Tipping in the food service industry is just the restaurant owner's way of putting more money into their own pockets, and letting you take care of the "wage" of the employees. If the food and the service cost more than the price on the menu, they should change the price on the menu. Tipping is a VERY American thing.
I can understand it a little better for a hair-stylist. They are renting a spot and can only charge what the salon allows. They don't get a wage other than what they bring in, and then they owe money back to the owner. So I can see paying a tip as an extra appreciation if you really love that particular stylist and not another.
I do not understand tipping someone who does hair out of their home. I've even asked my stylist who does hair at home. She said "Oh, a tip is always nice. Do what you think is fair." Nice. What does that even mean? You told me the price, you owe nothing to someone else at the end of this cut, and still you actually expect a tip on top of the cost of the cut, which you came up with, because you thought it was a good price? So strange!
I do tip though, and pretty generously. Because that is the system we have, and I know that my server at the restaurant, and the folks who split tips in the kitchen, etc. do not get paid what they should. I just hate the owners every time I do it!
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