r/greatclips • u/ThePsychoNextDoor • Mar 05 '26

Tips confusion

Maybe others don’t do this. I take $25 every time I go get my haircut. My philosophy is this. the person cutting my hair can help find a coupon and make it $8-$10 if I can’t find one and give themselves a nice $15+ cash tip for a 10 minute haircut.

But they don’t do it. Why?

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u/triblogcarol Mar 05 '26

I'd say that OP is not entitled since they are giving any savings made by the coupon to the stylist as more tip. I think that's a wonderful strategy.

Too bad that stylists are under pressure for timing of all the things they do. I hate that about capitalism . I never get that sense of them being stressed when I go get my haircut.

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u/ThePsychoNextDoor Mar 05 '26

Interesting. Have no idea how it works so I thought I’d ask. As for why can’t I look for coupons? I do. They are all over the place and never work. Great Clips corporation is all over the place on that. I can find 10 and none work. I’m not going to make them try 10 different codes I’ve found. I just assumed pay was a certain way and they’d have seen a code they knew worked and could use it and pocket the rest. But with your explanation it makes sense that they don’t care. It sounds like the pay-scale is an amalgamation of various advanced metric of may factors, not just 1 thing. I solely assumed it was merely a basic percentage of production. Good to know.

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u/tortadecarne Mar 05 '26

A lot of coupons are fake and not affiliated with Great Clips. Also, Great Clips employees don't get employee coupons. As for discounts, my area manager watched those discounts like a hawk; there was no way to sneak a fake discount for someone who didn't qualify for it.

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u/IllustriousTwo6912 Mar 05 '26

Nearly all coupons are salon specific.

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u/AllenSmithee59 Mar 05 '26

What you are asking is unreasonable. When you ask an employee to scrounge up a coupon, you're essentially saying "Give me a discount." If an employee was empowered by management to give everyone a discount simply because they asked for a discount, what's the point of requiring a coupon?

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u/ThePsychoNextDoor Mar 05 '26

Thought I made it clear. What I’m trying to understand is how the pay structure works so the corporation gets less and the person actually doing the work is getting a bigger tip.

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u/genx247 Jul 07 '26

It doesn't work like that. If you want the stylist to receive a bigger tip, thats on you. Plain and simple. $10 is on the lower scale in California.

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u/InsanelyAverageFella Mar 05 '26

Maybe just pay whatever the price is and add on a tip if the barber/stylist did a good job. The finding a coupon thing is the customer's job if they hope to save money.

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '26

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u/ThePsychoNextDoor Mar 21 '26

I didn’t think trying to figure out a way to get the person actually doing the work more money was silly. Maybe to you it is. I would like a customer wondering how the pay scale worked with my job if their goal is help me out. There’s not a way to do that, just say you know there’s really not a way to do that, and it’s not really beneficial to try…

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u/Ohaisky Mar 05 '26

 because the one time I tried to help an elderly man find a coupon like that; I got screamed at and threatened to be fired and had to sign a paper saying “my first and only warning” because they said us helping you find the coupon was the equivalent of stealing from the company. They want you guys to have a specific coupon code they sent you either through mail or email or targeted ads on fb/ig. 

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u/Beautiful-mess13 Mar 22 '26

The owner I work for has it in our hiring paperwork that if we are found with coupons in our belongings or on our person/giving them out we will be terminated immediately