Quote:
Originally Posted by Muta
Not a bad idea. The problem is, though, that the extra amount was from the people at the lunch, who all happened to leave the restaurant after paying their 'amounts'. There was no cost for the people that didn't show up.
One problem with booking big lunches like these, is that a good handful of people tend to round down their amounts, assuming that the rest would just be made up by others. When everyone does it, then that's when it starts to add up. And looky look, I'm the one that has to pay it.
One of my better friends in the office sent out an email saying that I covered the rest of the bill, and that everyone who was at lunch should just give me a buck or two each to make up for it. By the end of the day, I received $5 in total. From one guy.
|
Next time, record who paid what, then go back and audit the bill and publicly humiliate whomever it was that shorted you.
We had this problem in our office and someone ended up writing a spreadsheet to calculate who owed what. AND we switched to preordering. In addition to generally being bad at math and cheaping out on the tip and forgetting taxes (esp. if you are in a province with PST as well) people will often assume that drink refills are free or that when a waiter asks "would you like XYZ with that" they assume that it's free (which is funny because it never is.) My best buddy was one of the worst culprits at this.