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I liked this article on how to handle those awkward moments you run into like responding to nosy questions and splitting a bill after a meal. See if any of these situations ring a bell.
http://www.realsimple.com/work-life/money/etiquette/11-money-etiquette-issues-solved-10000001660067/index.html
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Those are all great tips purplerain, thanks for linking it. This one always kills me~
Collecting for Group Gifts
Problem: Friends or coworkers who need to reimburse you for a group gift keep saying, "Yeah, I'll get that to you," and never do. What should you do?
On occasion I go out to lunch with a number of ladies in the office and I end up being the only guy in the group. When the bill arrives I give the server my credit card and tell them that they can repay me at the office whenever it convenient with them. The reason that I do it this way is that they will all (maybe 10 of them!) begin to calculate what part of the bill is theirs plus 15% gratuity, plus 8.5% tax etc. At the end you have 10 people saying "here's my $8.16" and "I only had soup here's $4.25".
Usually, back at the office, one of them presents me with a handful of cash saying that she collected it from everyone except Mary. I say "thanks", stuff it in my pocket, and never count it.
Who is supposed to add it all up and make sure that there is enough to cover the bill? It drove me crazy and usually avoided joining the gang. I noticed that other guys in the office had the same feeling as I do. Maybe it's " a ladies thing."
I would stop handing over my credit card and just take cash that day if I got stiffed. When I go out with friends, we always figure out what we each owe, throw it in the middle of the table plus whatever tip we want to leave then we just hand the money to the waitress. They'll soon come back to the table and let you know if it's short. We do it while we're having coffee at the end to make sure everything's fine.
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I think it could be a ladies thing like you said, micharch because me and my friends do it the same way as cheapncheerful. If we all have roughly the same priced meal we divide the total between however many of us there are but if there's a few who have much cheaper meals, we work it out individually because it wouldn't be fair on them. We round up rather than counting it to the penny like your co-workers do.
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We just split a bill between however many of ud there are because life's too short. Unless we know one of us is really struggling and needs the bills to be done individually, we don't bother since we all usually spend about the same.
Those are all great tips purplerain, thanks for linking it. This one always kills me~
Collecting for Group Gifts
Problem: Friends or coworkers who need to reimburse you for a group gift keep saying, "Yeah, I'll get that to you," and never do. What should you do?
On occasion I go out to lunch with a number of ladies in the office and I end up being the only guy in the group. When the bill arrives I give the server my credit card and tell them that they can repay me at the office whenever it convenient with them. The reason that I do it this way is that they will all (maybe 10 of them!) begin to calculate what part of the bill is theirs plus 15% gratuity, plus 8.5% tax etc. At the end you have 10 people saying "here's my $8.16" and "I only had soup here's $4.25".
Usually, back at the office, one of them presents me with a handful of cash saying that she collected it from everyone except Mary. I say "thanks", stuff it in my pocket, and never count it.
Who is supposed to add it all up and make sure that there is enough to cover the bill? It drove me crazy and usually avoided joining the gang. I noticed that other guys in the office had the same feeling as I do. Maybe it's " a ladies thing."