Help me deal with this touchy situation politely

Best of luck to you! I hope she gets the point, since she basically put you in an impossible position. When you are dealing with more than two people for scheduling a social event and have to schedule around work, spouses, marathon training, book clubs, home-based parties, pyramid scheme presentations,children, social obligations, imaginary friends, etc. it just doesn’t work to say “Will this date & time work?”

Because it won’t, not for everyone, not if they’re all adults with their own lives and schedules and whatnot. You just have to go three weeks out and say, “Bitches, if you wanna do this thing, X day, Y time is your f-g chance.”

Ask me how I know.

It’s cool, old Bean. :slight_smile: I was pretty sure we were friends.

I don’t mind telling more of the backstory but as I started to write it here I realized it’s a) pretty long and b) could easily be identified. I’ve been vague enough so far that they might not be sure, but if anyone wants the full story feel free to PM/e-mail me. elenia 25@ gmail.com.

But I wil l say, people don’t want to go to a party at her house, for various reasons.

Anaamika - You know, I’m probably like most people, in that I don’t want to spend my uncompensated time with my co-workers. They’re nice enough people, just not folks I socialize with (in other words, you have to pay me to be with them). Maybe she needs to realize that most folks have stuff they want to do on their off hours, and not enough time to do that, let alone hang out with people they see more than their loved ones.

StG