Employee spends $500 of his own money to throw coworker's going-away party, cancels the event because no one paid him back in time

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  • A coworker opens a gift during a going-away party thrown at the office.
  • [Am I wrong] for canceling the catering order for my coworker's going-away party after nobody reimbursed me for three weeks?

    so our department was throwing a going away thing for someone who has been here for like six years. really well liked, the whole floor wanted to do something
  • nice. someone suggested we pool together and get catering from this place she loves instead of just doing a sad grocery store spread.
  • An employee gives a toast in front of coworkers during an office party.
  • I said I could put it on my card since I had a work card with a high limit and everyone could just send me their share. around thirty five dollars each. fourteen
  • people said they were in. I placed the order, paid the deposit, locked in the date. that was three weeks ago.
  • I sent a breakdown in the group chat the same day. everyone saw it. a few people said nice one and moved on. nobody sent anything.
  • week two I brought it up again. got a lot of yeah sorry III do it tonight. one person asked me to resend my venmo which I did. still nothing.
  • week three I messaged people individually. most of them responded. a couple left me on read. one guy told me he thought someone else was handling
  • Coworkers celebrate during an office party as confetti falls.
  • reimbursements which. no. I said that in the original message. I am handling it. please send me thirty five dollars.
  • the party was four days out at this point and I had collected maybe a hundred dollars out of almost five hundred.
  • I sent one message to the whole group. said I need everyone paid up by end of day tomorrow or I have to cancel the order because I cant front this myself.
  • three more people paid. the rest either didnt respond or said they were good for it.
  • I canceled the order. lost the deposit which was sixty dollars, I just ate that myself.
  • then I told the organizer what happened so she could make other arrangements and she was upset, not at me, but the whole situation. the party ended up being store bought stuff which was fine but definitely not what everyone said they wanted.
  • Pale_Arm_5341 "they were going to pay eventually" ok so why didnt they pay when you asked three times
  • lucyfussbudget1 What garbage. Those are people without integrity. They are not good people. Even the ones who finally forked over when you Threatened to cancel it. They deserve grocery store garbage. You deserve prime rib tho.
  • Logical-Shame58... Some company maybe that's why that co worker is finally leaving after all that time NTJ

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