Christmas Party Rip off

2lazytogetup

Its the Christmas party and the food is paid for in advance. I am not drinking the Chauteux Neuf, Proseco, or pints. Content with the solitary soft drink. However the bill gets split and you find you have to throw in an extra tenner to subsidise the drinkers.

Anyone any solutions to this apart from the obvious dont go?

BraziliaNZ

2lazytogetup wrote: »

Its the Christmas party and the food is paid for in advance. I am not drinking the Chauteux Neuf, Proseco, or pints. Content with the solitary soft drink. However the bill gets split and you find you have to throw in an extra tenner to subsidise the drinkers.

Anyone any solutions to this apart from the obvious dont go?

Don't go, or say nothing. Otherwise you'll just come across as a spoil sport and tight git. That's the harsh reality.

whomitconcerns

if your having a solitary soft drink..it would be fair mean colleagues that would make you contribute at all to a bar tab...if even only for the one you had!

username123

Theyd hardly ask a non drinker to subsidise the drinking bill?

You wont come across as a tight git, no one would think that!

SHANAbert

Just ask for the meal and alcohol to be billed separately?

biko

Get your own drink at the bar and pay for it there instead.

whomitconcerns

biko wrote: »

Get your own drink at the bar and pay for it there instead.

i would have no issue with a non drinker not paying a full % of a bill...in fact I would be reluctant to accept if they offered to.

IN SAYING THAT..I have a friend, non drinker, and he always insists on putting a full % in to the pot....Go figure

Scortho

Start doing what the younger generation do. Instead of splitting the bill six ways say, each of the six pay for what they've eaten and drank.

username123

I think people are missing the point. The meal is PREPAID.

So the OP is not talking about splitting a bill that includes food (where you get some people had dessert, some had tea/coffee etc....).

Its a drinks bill ONLY.

FloatingVoter

Tell the truth - you don't drink and are damned paying the prices they charge nowadays. Even the office alkie will agree with you on that one. Go solo. Some other people will have three pints of Guinness, the next girl murder a vodka and lime. Fair play in an ideal world. One or two will decide that Black Russians and Vodka/Redbull are the new water and up the bill to mid three figures. Leave the one or two to their own devices. Point is, if you raise the issue of severing the drinks bill now - you'll have more support than just the teetotalers.

Carpet diem

Even easier when food paid in advance. I'd drink water but if drinking minerals they don't come free so you might end up subsidizing the drinkers

kevohmsford

I would just pay for my own soft drinks. No way would I be paying for other peoples alcoholic drinks.

scotchy

As A drinker I would have no problem with a non drinker opting out of the drink bill.

It would be a bit harsh if your co workers tried to make you pay a full share of the drinks bill IMO.

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