So the past few days I've been trying to get a haircut and beard trim. Past 7-8 months my gf has done my hair/beard for me; which has made it choppy/uneven, no offense to her... but she really is no salon artist v.v XD anywhore, I see that all barbershops in my area have taken in the 'check in' system...

Online check ins are fucking stupid. Why? Not too long ago, you walk in, and you wait maybe 10-20 minutes max before you get called for your cut. Now, they have online check-ins... So as soon as I walk in at opening this morning, the place opened at 10, I got there at exactly 10, me and some Japanese guy walk in. We're the only people there and they tell us: "Oh, that'll be an hour and a half wait." Me and the other dude were like, "Wait, why?" 

The lady tells us 15 people have reserved a spot online. You could only apply for online check in as it opened so 15 mother fuckers reserved as we walked in the door. And yes, they prioritize the check ins vs the walk ins, giving each person who checked in online a 10 minute grace period for them showing up. And you better believe each one of those people took their goddamn time. The Japanese guy left about 15 minutes back, clearly frusterated. I am too, but all are like this right now. I went to 7 different barbershops yesterday with all having a miminum 2hr wait time cause of these fucking online check ins. 

Also, some of these places are low end hair cut places like Great Clips. Guys, your business already sucks asshole as it is, why would you guys make it worse? I'm not just attacking them. Most big brand barbershops suck. Just saying them cause I tried going to them yesterday.

WHILE WE'RE ON THE TOPIC OF BARBERSHOPS... let me tell ya, 99% of the time I walk out with hair longer than the people coming in. You'll see these barefaced fucks with hair cuts that make a buzzcut look long. And I think to myself, why the hell are you here? You're spending $10+ on them tickling your bald head with a beard trimmer or somethin'? I mean unless theyre trimming some overgrown pubes or something you don't need to be here. Maybe they just like when the razor tickles the back of your neck or something. I like that shit too. 

I'm not a fan of conducting any business online. True story, I just made my first amazon purchase last week. :) 2 32gb Vita memory cards. I hated setting up 2 accounts, one for the post office service (my stuff gets delivered there), and one for Amazon. That's now done, but Amazon will be a last resort whenever possible. I remember when pizza places started with online ordering close to 20 years ago, I was like, WTF? How could this possibly be any more convenient than making a phone call? The answer is: it wasn't. At least not then. As for your barbershop issue: I always make appointments, so I'd be calling ahead every time anyways. There have been a few times I called ahead on the day I needed it and got lucky, but the 2 places I go are almost never able to accommodate same day appointments, much less walk-in's.

Why not just make an appointment then? You can even do it like me and do it one year in advance because that's how often I let those bastards touch my hair.

What can't leave and do some shopping while you wait?? That's what I do when the wait is that long. Otherwise just make a damn appointment, not that hard.

Online check-ins for barbershops? That's a thing now? That's ridiculous.

I literally never heard of this. I have not had a haircut since 2012 since I let mine grow out. So now I am learning if I plan to cut my hair I can't walk in with money to give them like normal. So what I have learned on this forum is. Fake internet money is a currency for nothing except fake mining? And some tech stuff that makes no sense. You can't walk into a place to get a haircut unless you reserve online. This world is getting more and more bullshit.

Online check-in for a hair cut... Have you came from the year 2200 or something?

I walked into a barber shop and sat down, taking careful note of who was in the shop, in order to keep track of when my turn would come up. I waited patiently for 45 minutes in plain view of the cashier. Finally I think it's my turn, since nobody that was in the barber shop when I arrived is still there. I walk up to the cashier, expecting her to point me to a barber's chair to sit in. Only then does this dumb **** ask me "Can I help you?" I say, yeah I'm next in line to get my hair cut. She says, "Oh what's your name?" I give her my name, and she says "Oh you're not in the system. I can put you in now. You have about five people ahead of you in line." My eyeball twitches. I ask her what she means. She says, "Oh we have an online check-in system and there are people ahead of you", as she turns a computer screen around so I can see it. My name is at the bottom of a list of six people.

I lost it. NO! NO! I HAVE BEEN WAITING HERE TO GET MY HAIRCUT FOR 45 MINUTES! I"M NEXT IN LINE! **** YOU AND **** YOUR ONLINE CHECK IN SYSTEM. YOU ****** SAW ME SIT HERE FOR 45 MINUTES, AND DIDN"T EVEN HAVE THE COMMON SENSE TO ASK ME WHAT I WAS HERE FOR?

She immediately bumped me to the top of the list, and I got my haircut. I even tipped nicely too. That's how you handle that nonsense. These days I make sure that whatever barber shop I go to doesn't have any stupid online check in system.

I've never even heard of barbershops with online check-ins.

Yeah I never checked in online for my haircuts. Most walk ins take up to 15 minutes wait. And actually making an appointment usually I walk in and the barber is just sitting there waiting for me.