Barbers Tipping Etiquette (NSFW)

[kaiser78]

So my local barbers (Turkish bunch) do a pretty good cut. However they are so unfriendly and ignore the customers, not even saying hello or thankyou, just talking amongst themselves in their own tongue. Oh and then expect a tip at the end, making remarks if customers don't as they are leaving.

Who here tips their barber still ? Do I just sound like a whinge bag (which is how I generally feel at the moment) ?

[stek]

So my local barbers (Turkish bunch) do a pretty good cut. However they are so unfriendly and ignore the customers, not even saying hello or thankyou, just talking amongst themselves in their own tongue. Oh and then expect a tip at the end, making remarks if customers don't as they are leaving.

Who here tips their barber still ? Do I just sound like a whinge bag (which is how I generally feel at the moment) ?

Doesn't your mum cut your hair?

[FatLazyContractor]

Doesn't your mum cut your hair?

She does.

[WTFH]

So my local barbers (Turkish bunch) do a pretty good cut. However they are so unfriendly and ignore the customers, not even saying hello or thankyou, just talking amongst themselves in their own tongue. Oh and then expect a tip at the end, making remarks if customers don't as they are leaving.

Who here tips their barber still ? Do I just sound like a whinge bag (which is how I generally feel at the moment) ?

If they are talking in their own tongue, how do you know what the remarks are?


The Wife (tm) cuts my hair, and I like to give her a big tip.

[FatLazyContractor]

and I like to give her a big tip.

Are you saying MF is right in calling you a massive bellend?

[WTFH]

Are you saying MF is right in calling you a massive bellend?

MF never calls me (thankfully), unlike your wife.

[Malcolm Buggeridge]

I went for a scalping in Basingstoke recently and was spoilt for choice by the number of establishments offering personal grooming services.

Most of them run by folks of middle eastern origin. Have you ever noticed how these places only do one cut no matter what you asked for?

Anyhow, just when the finishing touches were being put to the back of my neck, the Kurdish gentleman who was attending to me got very animated about Turks in response to an innocent comment I had made about being partial to baba ganoush and started waving his cut throat razor around.

It got me thinking that it is prudent, when at the mercy of such an individual, to make it very clear that a handsome contribution to the establishment's annual p*ss up will be made upon egress from the shop.

Particularly in this day and age

[vetran]

at £5 (its piece work) seems mean not to give them a £1

[vetran]

She does.

wait till she manscapes you. She loves checking you are really smooth.

[SueEllen]

Who here tips their barber still ? Do I just sound like a whinge bag (which is how I generally feel at the moment) ?

Yes.

Also in those situations you are suppose to round up. If the place are too stupid and have made their cuts £5, £10 etc then it's their own fecking fault they get sod all from customers.