Anonymous wrote:Getting OT, but asking for the money back reminds me of a personal peeve: Handing a waitperson money and they say "Do you need change?"

If I didn't, I would tell you. And as soon as you ask that, I'd deducting a bit from your tip.

You do realize that at most restaurants there's a script that waiters/waitresses must follow, correct? Certain things they must say or do with each customer. They don't know you're not a dreaded secret diner that corporate sends out from time-to-time to spy on them. Even if you work at a locally owned restaurant, the owner can still hire secret diners to come in and report back, so it's not just chain places. For you to take from their tip because that bugs you is pretty shitty.

You do realize that they're being paid around $2.10/hr, right? And most don't even get a physical paycheck with more than $1 or $2 bucks on it after the taxes are taken out? And after you leave your 20% tip minus the money you take away for them asking a required question, they have to split that remaining tip with others... busboys, bartender/service bartender, food runners.

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Anonymous wrote:Getting OT, but asking for the money back reminds me of a personal peeve: Handing a waitperson money and they say "Do you need change?"

If I didn't, I would tell you. And as soon as you ask that, I'd deducting a bit from your tip.

This is stupid. As a wait person there are a great many people out there who say nothing about what's in the checkbook, they don't say if they need change, or don't need change, or if they are splitting a check on two cards, or if they want change for the 20 and the bill on the card.

So when there is cash in the book I always ask if the person needs change, it saves me a trip back to your table to ask you five minutes later. The fact you would deduct something off my tip for asking this is absurd

NP, but you're doing it wrong. A great many people find this rude. The correct thing to do is pick up the book and say, "I will be right back with this for you." This covers returning a credit card slip or change. If they don't need change, usually they say so. The way you treat your table as they pay their bill is a big factor in the tip. FYI, people also hate "you guys" and being asked if they are finished with their food.

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Anonymous wrote:FWIW I'm not sure why I tip on haircuts when I don't tip other service professionals like plumbers or babysitter. I wish I could just be given a price that included everything. I mean it's one thing if they go above and beyond, but nope normally it's just a regular cut for $35...

I would not call these people "professionals." Tradespeople, maybe.

They are professionals, why would you call them tradespeople. Is anyone a professional in your eyes? Because if that's how you feel about plumbers, than barbers are most certainly not professionals.

Anonymous wrote:I would tip $5. Think of how much they are making if haircuts cost $15.

This is exactly what I do, tip $5.

Eyebrow waxing is $12 and I usually give the person $20. it's once per month.

You all are cheap. The person stuck cutting kids hair is lowest on the totem pole and probably makes $20k a year. Yes, you give them the $5 tip. Our hair cuttery charges $13 for kids cuts and we always leave $20.

Hee hee. The place we go charges $17, so I can give them 20 without going through such agonizing internal battles

I would have guessed most people would just give a )20 for a $15 or $16 haircut. When the total is low you tip a higher percentage.

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Anonymous wrote:Getting OT, but asking for the money back reminds me of a personal peeve: Handing a waitperson money and they say "Do you need change?"

If I didn't, I would tell you. And as soon as you ask that, I'd deducting a bit from your tip.

That irks me too.

Just simply say, it's all yours, and leave it at that.

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Anonymous wrote:DC got a haircut and the charge was $15. All I had was a $20 so even though 20% would have been $3, I felt weird taking two of the singles from the change and handing her back the other three. OTOH, $2 would get me a cup of coffee. What would you have done?

I would have given a $5 tip this time, but made a mental note to myself to always have 3 $1 bills in my wallet forevermore so I can only leave a $3 tip next time without being tacky and asking for change.

+1 if it really matters to you. For me, I just know my DS hair cut comes out to $20 even so that's all I need to be sure to have. I'd spend $2 on a vending machine snack at work pretty mindlessly. It doesn't hurt me in anyway to give that to someone providing me a service in a long term relationship.

Anonymous wrote:DC got a haircut and the charge was $15. All I had was a $20 so even though 20% would have been $3, I felt weird taking two of the singles from the change and handing her back the other three. OTOH, $2 would get me a cup of coffee. What would you have done?

I would have given a $5 tip this time, but made a mental note to myself to always have 3 $1 bills in my wallet forevermore so I can only leave a $3 tip next time without being tacky and asking for change.

My SIL is a hairdresser in Georgia. She had to go to school full time for two years to get her cosmetology license. She has been in the profession 20 years. She makes $12 an hour plus tips. She said on a bad week, she makes $50 all week in tips and on a good week, she makes $200 a week in tips.

Anonymous wrote:FWIW I'm not sure why I tip on haircuts when I don't tip other service professionals like plumbers or babysitter. I wish I could just be given a price that included everything. I mean it's one thing if they go above and beyond, but nope normally it's just a regular cut for $35...

Do you really not know why you tip on a haircut? Everyone on this site went to elite schools and is an executive... yet you morons don't know why you tip a hairdresser?

Anonymous wrote:Why the hell are you people so cheap?! You claim to make these exorbitant salaries and live these luxurious lives but you aren't willing to just let the person who cut your crazy child's hair keep a $5 tip? You're more worried about your $2 coffee than how little the barber is making off a $15 cut? I swear this site makes me hate people sometimes.

Amen! The bolded is so true, but it tells me I'm truly crazy for continuing to come here.

I agree. I always tip $5.

Anonymous wrote:Getting OT, but asking for the money back reminds me of a personal peeve: Handing a waitperson money and they say "Do you need change?"

If I didn't, I would tell you. And as soon as you ask that, I'd deducting a bit from your tip.

That irks me too.