You can just go chong a dong you lil charmer you (Lunch Dramas)

[Amelia2000]

Previous thread here:

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3714806-AIBU-over-non-paying-colleague-Lunch-dramas

As yet, still waiting for B to pay the remaining £11.

CF - I'll pay you at the end of the month as usual"

A - "well last month you paid my 2 weeks late so this month you can pay me 2 weeks in advance including up to the end of the month"

which she won't of course but if by some miracle she did, then you can accidently not order her lunch for several weeks and rather than pay her back "carry it over till next month"

@MadameButterface

If you dislike the OP’s use of her time and what she posts so much, why are you following her around the Internet?
Do you literally have nothing else to do?

I would encourage people to be kind to her,

There’s always one. 🙄

Another shamelessly place marking. I am absolutely gobsmacked that she has only paid for last months. @Amelia2000 please send her a message saying thanks you for the £24 owed from last month. If you wish to order again on Friday, and every Friday after that, please bring the outstanding £11 plus money for the lunch you wish to order. No more lunches will be ordered without monies () paid in advance. I do not offer credit.

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OMG, b is mad, what a nob! Seriously if there is any problem hr may change from "suggesting" to "telling" you to stop the arrangement, I would let all including b that this issue has been passed with hr who have made this suggestion so you are providing the offer with this arrangement and if anyone does not wish to operate in this manner then they will not be able to order via you.

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Can't wait for Friday.

I am finally getting my new sofa.
And we'll get the next installment in classic CF drama.

Woohoo.

I am so in love with this new phrase!! You can go just go chong a dong,you li'l charmer you.....Have no idea what it means but it rolls off the tongue nicely!

Shameless place marking !

I'm yet again astonished at how cheeky some people can be!

Did you write to her telling her she still owed the £11?

@LovePoppy no I haven't said anything to her as yet, she's off today. I am going to text her in a bit I think.

OP, would you still qualify for free delivery if you excluded her from the order going forward?

@coconutpie Yes, min order is £20, sometimes one or two of us are off on a Friday and the rest of us still can get it.

Seriously @Amelia2000 even if she coughs up for this month's lunches that she's already had from you, would you invite her to join in lunch club again?

@myolivetree Trouble is, it's going to be REALLY hard to say no to her if she does pay me the money up front? It will cause a horrid atmosphere, and I do have to spend 40 hours a week sitting across from her, working with her in a small department. I'm not going to just exclude her (as I think I could probably open myself right up to a bullying claim!) as I am happy to continue as long as she sorts herself out and pays up front.

I am going to send a text to her in a minute. Along the lines of "Hi B, hope all is OK today, we didn't know you were off? Thanks for sending over last months £24 for lunch, but as I mentioned on Friday, all lunches will need to be paid upfront from now on. So please can you bring in/transfer the remaining £11 and then make sure you bring some ££ for this Fridays order if you still wish to participate! Thanks x"

I'm excited for tomorrow! She's made a MASSIVE mistake paying you online for last month because now you can just say "you can pay me in advance using the same method you used on Monday".

Well, at least she paid £24 and not £34.99.

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Someone suggested still letting her pay monthly - don't do this - she needs to pay in advance or she doesn't get a cheaper lunch.

I run a lottery syndicate and, when we all worked together, I let people pay me in cash, let them be late if they forgot etc.
That was until one of the blokes ended up owing me 4 months worth of subs. I then changed it so that everyone had to pay by direct debit so that I could never be out of pocket.

I never did get the money back - it turned out he'd borrowed nearly a grand off one of the other guys in the team, he'd been slinking out of work early and, most unforgivable, had told one person that his wife had terminal breast cancer - we're pretty sure that wasn't true as he didn't tell anyone who actually knew his wife. Scumbag....

This is a similar situation - she's ruined it for everyone now so get everyone to pay before you order - either online banking or cash but no money, no lunchy !!

@Amelia2000 sending the text in that format is a mistake - you are being far too nice and there's too much waffle in it. Short sharp sentences and to the point, nothing else.

That's a perfect message. If she responds saying she doesn't owe you til the end of the month make sure you text straight back and tell her she has eaten the food so she bloody well owes you now. And if she doesn't pay the £11 by Friday please do not order for her, even if she pays cash for it on Friday. Until you get that £11 she's out of lunch club!

random poster attacking you on your thread on Mumsnet about being on Mumsnet Brilliant! Some people are soooo dense.

Well, at least she paid £24 and not £34.99 MN has kept me chuckling today!

what does the chong a dong thing mean? I think I missed it on the other thread (over invested)

@crochetmonkey74 I have no idea, I think the person that posted it tried to use it as an insult another poster on the old thread but I have commandeered it as my new phrase. I think it's quite versatile, can be used in pretty much all situations, so I've taken it on into my vocabulary.

There was another thread last week (coincidentally also over £35 owed) where the person who owed it kept offering to pay insultingly different lower amounts, and the OP kept repeating “you owe £35”, and eventually the CF got their partner to pay £34.99 into OP’s bank (also because they ‘couldnt’ bank transfer).

Interestingly similar - kind of hope your B owes all sorts of £35 debts at various stages of payment needed

Yay you're back, I'm watching 👀

Oh I can't believe the audacity of this! CF-ery at its best!
-no, I'm not placemarking to keep up with the drama, no....-

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she clearly wants to make a point isn’t she?

The text is way too nice.
'Hi cheeky cat. I saw that you'd transferred me £24, but as I made clear on Friday, all lunches will need to be paid upfront from now on or I won't keep the lunch arrangement going. Please can you transfer the remaining £11. And of course you'll need your money for this Friday too if you still wish to participate! Thanks.'