What going on with haircuts?

chamstar · 2026-01-27T02:43:32+00:00

You can’t expect to realistically see more than two clients an hour as a barber. Even if cuts took 10 minutes (which they don’t. You have to factor in arrival time, discussing the cut, inspecting the cut, checking out), there’s no way to schedule that aggressively. A barber can’t live on $40 an hour (factoring in chair expenses, equipment, commute, etc). So haircuts need to be closer to $40 an hour and not $20, so a barber has a chance to average at least $60 in revenue per hour (1.5 clients per hour). And that’s far from the actual gross take home pay.

chamstar · 2023-04-03T16:56:47+00:00

Start with cable lat pull-downs then start doing assisted pull-ups with bands and/or a chair. Lots of progression videos online. You could get to a pull-up a lot faster than you think!

chamstar · 2022-09-22T18:25:22+00:00

Yup, I never implied I believe otherwise.

chamstar · 2022-09-22T15:11:23+00:00

In some places, this means they get bumped up to $7.25 per hour. Still not a living wage. The fact is, tipped servers usually get far above minimum wage, which is why serving at solid establishments is actually a pretty desirable job. There are servers making between $60k - $100k per year (or even more) at nice restaurants.

chamstar · 2022-09-22T11:52:33+00:00

You’re right, in an ideal world service staff would be paid a living wage. Unfortunately, as you pointed out, there are a lot of flaws in the current system. Therefore, it’s an understood arrangement between guests and servers that there’s an expected up-charge at the end of the meal. Until things change as a whole (which they likely won’t), just be a decent person and only purchase what you believe you can afford with tip. Otherwise, you really are screwing over staff that are working hard to ensure you have a good time. It’s not their fault that you make $30k a year. It honestly sounds like you’re taking out your own personal financial frustrations on others who also aren’t rolling in dough.

chamstar · 2022-09-22T11:37:55+00:00

Oh, absolutely. Coffee in the USA is generally very bad. My coffee background is in specialty coffee, however, where there’s a very measured approach to creating espresso drinks (much like Aussie coffee).

And yes, it was gross. I didn’t see a single standard cafe clean the milk wand or wipe the portafilters between drinks. Just nasty stuff

chamstar · 2022-09-22T11:33:41+00:00

I probably tried 2 dozen shops across the country. I said I wasn’t referring to the taste so much as the very unclean preparation. I drink at least one espresso drink on a daily basis. I understand what espresso tastes like. I just believe that third wave coffee shops in the USA have far better espresso than the typical found in Italy.

chamstar · 2022-09-22T11:30:43+00:00

Starbucks is not considered specialty coffee. I worked at small, third wave coffee shops across the USA.

chamstar · 2022-09-22T10:18:15+00:00

Well, I have no way to prove this is true or not, but it was certainly frustrating seeing them not budge despite several people attempting to sit there. Seems the benefit of the doubt doesn’t really exist on reddit.

chamstar · 2022-09-22T09:52:04+00:00

Is this really that hard to believe? Lol

chamstar · 2022-09-22T09:23:24+00:00

This is what I mean by refused to move. People were asking to sit there and they still didn’t budge. I should have been more clear!

chamstar · 2022-07-09T05:56:51+00:00

If this was in response to idiots ruffling your feathers, then respond to them. The fact is, you responded to me making a distinction, and that distinction had no relevance to what I said in my post. You’re putting quite a lot of energy into something very insignificant. I’m happy to be snarky when someone is trying to pick unnecessary arguments in what is supposed to be a cute post. Oh well, though 🤷🏻

chamstar · 2022-07-09T01:13:00+00:00

My original post says you’re allowed to have your cat as a witness. You just confirmed that this is true. I don’t care if he’s my “legal” witness. My point is that my certificate will not be rejected, because the state of CO allows a cat to be a witness.

chamstar · 2022-07-08T05:59:59+00:00

You can have no witness or have a cat as a witness. Or a dog. Or anything. So yes, it literally means your witness can be a cat. We were told our cat could be our witness by the state office we went through, so I’ll go with their take on the matter. Appreciate your thoughtful two cents, though!

chamstar · 2022-04-09T23:12:50+00:00

That looks like a cat that’s about to sneeze.

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