guess u must have tipped ok or guy wd have inked swastikas on u second time round
― their fantastic and relevant debut single, ‘Times Are Hard’ (Bananaman Begins), Thursday, 9 April 2015 13:23 (nine years ago) link
Believe it or not, some of us have no tattoos.
― Quack and Merkt (Tom D.), Thursday, 9 April 2015 13:29 (nine years ago) link
wat is buy back― their fantastic and relevant debut single, ‘Times Are Hard’ (Bananaman Begins),
― their fantastic and relevant debut single, ‘Times Are Hard’ (Bananaman Begins),
aiui you tip enough for five extra drinks and eventually you get one of them
― not content (onimo), Thursday, 9 April 2015 13:29 (nine years ago) link
er, cool lifehack
― their fantastic and relevant debut single, ‘Times Are Hard’ (Bananaman Begins), Thursday, 9 April 2015 13:52 (nine years ago) link
― Quack and Merkt (Tom D.), Thursday, April 9, 2015 2:29 PM (29 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
believe it or not, some people on ILX do, and that's who the question was addressed to
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Thursday, 9 April 2015 13:59 (nine years ago) link
Ha, yes, it was just phrased in such a way that seemed to imply that most of us have... which might actually be true!
― Quack and Merkt (Tom D.), Thursday, 9 April 2015 14:07 (nine years ago) link
I always tip properly (as instructed by ilx) at US bars and I've noticed no discernible improvement in bartender attitude or attention.
same here. but i always assume it's because i look like i'm 12 and the bartender already thinks they're doing me a favor by not calling my mom
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 9 April 2015 14:09 (nine years ago) link
By the time I go to a bar it's too packed to meaningfully believe that an extra dollar or two will get you better service
― 龜, Thursday, 9 April 2015 14:10 (nine years ago) link
tip on tattoos as you would for hair salon/barbershop.
― new noise, Thursday, 9 April 2015 14:30 (nine years ago) link
Tipping and Your Tattoo Artist?
― new noise, Thursday, 9 April 2015 14:31 (nine years ago) link
everyone wins except somebody who doesn't have $10 to give away obv― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, April 9, 2015 2:02 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
So $5 if you're getting a couple drinks, $10 if you're buying a bigger round. Don't think it's a preposterous ask if you're preparing to spend a bit of time at the same bar. If $5 is a crazy amount, how can you drink in any bars in any big city? Believe me - for a bartender it's much more about the gesture, really. Despite what that chart says, a SHITLOAD of people don't tip at all, or leave a couple bucks and then take one back when you're doing something else like some kind of Costanza move. A couple extra bucks to a hard working bartender is simply a gesture of respect that will be rewarded
The "egalitarianism of shit service" is a noble idea that leads to a culture of nonstop shit service everywhere.
― Your Ribs are My Ladder, Thursday, 9 April 2015 14:52 (nine years ago) link
a noble culture tho
― their fantastic and relevant debut single, ‘Times Are Hard’ (Bananaman Begins), Thursday, 9 April 2015 15:07 (nine years ago) link
A couple extra bucks to a hard working bartender is simply a gesture of respect that will be rewarded
Or won't, depending. I tip, as far as I can tell I tip correctly, though obviously it's an opaque and somewhat exclusionary system, I've even given up complaining about it being unfair and unhelpful, I am even happy about it if it means bar staff get paid a decent amount BUT it's fair to say that your description of tipping in bars as something which works smoothly to the benefit of the customer does not match my experience of drinking in America.
― Tim, Thursday, 9 April 2015 15:09 (nine years ago) link
Seems to me that the system is geared squarely in the interests of the bar owners, fwiw - pay less in wages, accept a bit more wastage, build in a reason for people to stay for longer rather than leg it after a couple.
I am used to experiencing both good and bad service in the US and the UK, I've genuinely not felt a substantial difference between the two. Maybe I'm tipping wrong, perhaps I should make a bigger show of it or something.
― Tim, Thursday, 9 April 2015 15:20 (nine years ago) link
i tip my doctor and noticed a significant improvement in service
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 9 April 2015 15:24 (nine years ago) link
(x-post) Fair enough; we've just had different experiences, and really the entire bar/pub cultures are very different on either side of the Atlantic. I still think it benefits everyone, though - bar owners for the reasons you say, bartenders because they get more tips with customers who are more likely to return, customers because a few extra bucks will pay off then or down the road.
I've just found myself at so many central London pubs standing there for 30 minutes getting jostled, watching the bartender make no effort to try to serve waiting people in any kind of order, and I start to lose my mind. But again - different experiences: I've been lucky to have some great locals in D.C./NYC/even L.A.
Plus it feels good to tip people when you can and shouldn't always be seen as some elaborate shakedown!
― Your Ribs are My Ladder, Thursday, 9 April 2015 17:06 (nine years ago) link
it feels good to tip people
this is why its abhorrent, same w ppl who take pride in paying for everything & conspicuous charity
― ogmor, Thursday, 9 April 2015 17:11 (nine years ago) link
If your smallest bills were worth approx 8 dollars do you think ppl would still tip as much
― kinder, Thursday, 9 April 2015 19:26 (nine years ago) link
I'm guessing you've never worked a job where you hope people tip you
― Walter Galt, Friday, 10 April 2015 00:09 (nine years ago) link
site old questioms
― post you had fecund thoughts about (darraghmac), Friday, 10 April 2015 00:25 (nine years ago) link
Nice
― 龜, Friday, 10 April 2015 00:38 (nine years ago) link
seems patronising to assume an ethical position is beyond someone w a certain work history but I guess thats par for the course w you tippers
― ogmor, Friday, 10 April 2015 00:44 (nine years ago) link
it's abhorrent because it feels good
― brimstead, Friday, 10 April 2015 00:55 (nine years ago) link
right that's what makes it so insidious, at least w bribery no one is blinding themselves w romantic notions about individual endeavour or altruism
― ogmor, Friday, 10 April 2015 02:46 (nine years ago) link
vee must totally destroy all notions of romantic individual endeavour or altruism!
― lag∞n, Friday, 10 April 2015 05:55 (nine years ago) link
buybacks i feel like most often occur when youve been sitting at the bar for hours getting shithoused on a not that busy night, or at a place where ur a regular
― lag∞n, Friday, 10 April 2015 05:57 (nine years ago) link
i guess some places are more formulaic about it
― lag∞n, Friday, 10 April 2015 05:59 (nine years ago) link
or if u know the bartender u just tip them a lot and they charge u almost nothing which seems m/l like a crime
― lag∞n, Friday, 10 April 2015 06:00 (nine years ago) link
i have never tried tipping the bartender $10 that seems more just like paying for yr drinks in advance
― lag∞n, Friday, 10 April 2015 06:01 (nine years ago) link
yeah I prefer to just tip a dollar or two and enjoy normal guy status
― And let’s say a new Hozier comes along, and Spotify outbids you (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 10 April 2015 06:39 (nine years ago) link
Getting a haircut in America is a terrifying experience, sitting there so panicked about having to pay some spurious undefined bonus on top of the actual price
And then you're paying someone else at the front and don't know if you should say "...and this is for a tip?" after they give you your change, or go back across the floor to tuck a handful of money into the barber's apron
And if you shouldn't tip if the haircut isn't as good as the last one you got, somewhere else? You're never going to be there again anyway so
Basically way too stressful to even focus on communicating how you want your hair done
― oochie wally (clean version) (sic), Friday, 10 April 2015 06:59 (nine years ago) link
wait, u pay for haircuts?
― post you had fecund thoughts about (darraghmac), Friday, 10 April 2015 08:14 (nine years ago) link
should you tip your airbnb hosts?― bizarro gazzara, Thursday, 9 April 2015 09:25 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― bizarro gazzara, Thursday, 9 April 2015 09:25 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this was a srs q btw
― bizarro gazzara, Friday, 10 April 2015 09:06 (nine years ago) link
Tipping barbers? Crazy USA.
― Quack and Merkt (Tom D.), Friday, 10 April 2015 09:09 (nine years ago) link
Have always tipped my barber in England/Scotland!
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Friday, 10 April 2015 09:11 (nine years ago) link
Never heard of it tbh.
― Quack and Merkt (Tom D.), Friday, 10 April 2015 09:16 (nine years ago) link
Haven't been to a barber in 10 years though, so maybe I've just forgotten the etiquette.
― Quack and Merkt (Tom D.), Friday, 10 April 2015 09:18 (nine years ago) link
Tipping hairdressers and barbers: at least enough for them to buy the drink they'll richly deserve after the unpaid emotional labour of asking customers about their holidays, etc.
― camp event (suzy), Friday, 10 April 2015 09:20 (nine years ago) link
These days I'm mostly tipping them for finding some hair to cut
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Friday, 10 April 2015 09:21 (nine years ago) link
I would tip them not to ask me about my holidays etc. I think that's what Enoch Powell used to do.
― Quack and Merkt (Tom D.), Friday, 10 April 2015 09:27 (nine years ago) link
he gets a bad rap but enoch had the right idea about barbers
― bizarro gazzara, Friday, 10 April 2015 09:30 (nine years ago) link
I get around the emotional labour bollocks by going to friends, where it's obvs good to talk. One of my friends cuts my hair now, and I find that the round-up from £54 to £60 dovetails nicely with any tipping intention (10 per cent is normal for hairdressers, who are mostly self-employed and hire stations in a salon workplace).
― camp event (suzy), Friday, 10 April 2015 09:34 (nine years ago) link
― ogmor, Friday, April 10, 2015 3:46 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I think it would be funny if you said this every time as you left a restaurant stiffing the server. "Just so you know, it's nothing personal, it's a stance - not blinding myself w/ romantic notions, etc. Ethics in dining, etc...."
― Your Ribs are My Ladder, Friday, 10 April 2015 10:25 (nine years ago) link
lol do u tip video game journalists as well
― their fantastic and relevant debut single, ‘Times Are Hard’ (Bananaman Begins), Friday, 10 April 2015 10:34 (nine years ago) link
Have always tipped my barber in England/Scotland!― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Friday, 10 April 2015 10:11 Bookmark Flag Post PermalinkNever heard of it tbh.― Quack and Merkt (Tom D.), Friday, 10 April 2015 10:16 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Friday, 10 April 2015 10:11 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Quack and Merkt (Tom D.), Friday, 10 April 2015 10:16 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
standard £2 tip for a standard guy haircut imo
― not content (onimo), Friday, 10 April 2015 11:02 (nine years ago) link
I was in the barber's at Christmas and a junkie & his dealer fell in through the door fighting and threatening to kill each other over a debt. They scared the shit out of my daughter who was waiting on me and I ended up (with half a haircut and an apron/collar thing around my neck) manhandling one of them out the door while the barbers stood and watched.
I still left an extra £2.
― not content (onimo), Friday, 10 April 2015 11:07 (nine years ago) link
^ tipping practices i can get behind
― their fantastic and relevant debut single, ‘Times Are Hard’ (Bananaman Begins), Friday, 10 April 2015 11:20 (nine years ago) link
For real. Great story, onimo.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 10 April 2015 12:29 (nine years ago) link
i tip and bribe according to cultural norms, h8 the patronage not the player is the only way
― ogmor, Friday, 10 April 2015 13:15 (nine years ago) link
Barber charges $9. I give him $11. He whines that I only come by every three months instead of every week like the retirees.
― pplains, Friday, 10 April 2015 13:46 (nine years ago) link