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Saturday, August 6, 2011
Paying Up
Went out after work last night with about a dozen other research attorneys. We started with happy hour at an old dinner house nearby the courthouse, and the waitress put everything on a single check. I figured it'd be one giant fuckery come pay-up time. Big group checks are always a mess because people so often don't pay for what they actually ordered, or forget to add in enough extra for tax and tip. I'm so tired of having to put in extra money for people who short their share that I generally do everything I can to stay off a group tab. But every single person in this group actually paid his or her share, and everyone was so afraid of coming up short that they put in extra. We ended up like $30 or $40 over. Can you believe it? I couldn't. I guess this is the difference between hanging out with writers and creative types versus boring but risk-adverse lawyers. The waitress actually got a decent tip.
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Or it could be that writers are poor, and also very very poor...at math.
But yeah, I hear you on the group tab. My least favorite thing with a group tab is when some twit decides that the "fair" thing to do is add the tip to the total and divide it by the number of people at the table, so I end up subsidizing someone's steak and drinks.
(note: this does not apply to you. I'd totally subsidize your steak or booze. Probably not both though.)
Yeah, but if a writer is too poor to go out to dinner, then he shouldn't go out to dinner. There's no excuse for either stiffing a restaurant or sticking your friends with a tab.
(Note: Good thing I almost never order a steak ;)
Group checks are a major part of why I generally don't do dinner with groups of more than four people at a time. I've been known to make an early exit just so that I could settle my portion of the bill without any headaches.
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