Do you tip your barber after a haircut?

Colgates_shaving_foam said:
I wish there was a way of signalling you don't want to chat sh** with the barber without being obviously rude about it.

I reckon a barbers advertising that they have TVs and music on and will only chat if you want to would do a roaring trade with the grumpy sods like me out there.
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I was in a 'Turkish' barbers the other day and the guy cutting my hair wouldn't stop chatting.
I struggled to understand his accent but picked up enough recognisable words to answer him.

He would say things like "Sport football yes? Family as well or just sisters?"

So I would say "I'm from Middlesbrough and support the Boro. I don't get there often now but go with my brother in law if I get chance. My sister lives in Ireland".

After about 5 mins I realised he wasn't actually talking to me but chatting with his workmate in Romanian. A bit rude, but he must have thought I was a nutter.
 
I tip when taking my son because although it's not Wrestlemania with him anymore now that he's getting a bit older, he is incredibly ticklish and it takes ages to sort him out. I call it the patience levy.
 
£7 for a haircut, £2 for a beard trim and a free cup of tea/coffee, which you make yourself. Good chat, gem of a guy, ask for Ron.
 
It depends. My usual one I pay in advance online and always add an "optional" tip of £2 because she always does a good job.

If I go elsewhere where you pay afterwards I tend not to, but mainly because it feels a bit awkward. Anything more than £2 seems excessive for a haircut, yet in the "current climate" £2 feels a bit tight so I always imagine them sarcastically thinking "ooh big spender" if I give them a couple of quid in person!
 
Sheriff_John_Bunnell_ret said:
If you don't want someone to talk to you just pretend you are a bit deaf and can't really hear what they are saying.
Doing anything nice this weekend?
Half a sack of potatoes.
Where you going on your holidays?
Ian Beale.
Bit chilly out there today.
No thanks I'm driving.
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Sounds like the sort of conversation I have with my mother in law, who insists her old hearing aids are still working.
 
Did you know that the red and white spinning barbers “pole” represents the bloody white bandages when barber/surgeons offered bloodletting services, since the 12th Century.
That’s nice int it?
 
When it was £10 I didn't. Once I reached OAP age it went down to £8 so I tip the extra £2.
 
I really struggle with the concept of tipping. Maybe I'm just tight, but these days you generally already pay premium prices for a service, why should you be expected to pay more on top of what you're already paying?

Tipping taxi drivers is a strange one. You wouldn't give a bus driver a fiver and say keep the change, when it's £2 for a single fare. I can appreciate that taxi drivers provide a more personable service, but to be honest I actually prefer the taxi drivers who are miserable and don't want to awkwardly make small talk.

Regarding tipping the barbers, my barbers charge £11.50. It's awkward because I've noticed a lot of customers who pay contactless will say "Just take 15", then you've got the likes of myself who litetally pays on the nose (although I do give them a few extra quid when they trim my eyebrows). If they pay £15 each time they get their hair cut, and they get it cut once a month, then they're paying £42 more than they're being asked to pay each year. Madness.

I just hate how there now is this expectancy for people to tip. I went to Signals in Saltburn for a meal recently and the waitress showed me the card machine and said there is an option to pay so much of a percentage of a tip or no tip at all. I literally just went with 10% to spare the embarrassment of declining.
 
The only time I’ll tip is at Christmas time. Other than that, we have set prices for a reason.

I personally hate forced tips, I’ll always decline them and I have no problem asking them to remove it.
 
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