Back in the day I attended my share of Doper events, and still count several (mostly former) Dopers among my good friends. Not a one of them is someone who would intentionally skip out or short someone on a check. In fact, it’s a group that tends to overpay, if anything. That’s been my general experience in the world, really. So to me, it’s absurd to caution against *Dopers in particular *being check-skippers, and it’s an absurd notion that everyone who underpaid did so with malicious intent. I tend to think that it was a sloppily managed check-divvying, and were I you, would either seek repayment if I felt strongly enough about it, or I would suggest to the organizer that next time the check be handled differently. What I would not do is attempt to publically shame people at the barest opportunity for nearly a decade.
You needed one email. One. The organizer of the event, who could then pass the info along to the rest of the group. Was that you, Eva Luna? I can’t recall. Because it was nearly a decade ago. Or, even posting to whatever thread there was on here inviting people to the event after it happened might have been effective – that is, if your goal was being made whole, and not shaming everyone who was short and glorying in your moral certitude.
Wow, maybe it should be made into a public service announcement sticky that gaffa was done wrong, but nobly righted an injustice, asking nothing in return but for all to heed his dire warnings that ChiDopers cannot be trusted! Alas, Cassandra!
Yes. Yes, that’s exactly what I’m saying, that everyone should be monitored by video to avoid these situations in the future – absolutely do that.
Oh wait, no. What I think adults should do is check in before leaving that they’re leaving enough. So yes, the people that left early and without paying enough were absolutely in the wrong for not having done that and that totally sucks. SHAME ON THEM. I also think that adults who were left to pick up the tab should have enough backbone to ask for their damn money back, rather than play the martyr and piss and moan about it nearly a decade later in any thread where “Chicago” and “dopefest” appear. If you hadn’t, by god, someone might not KNOW about what you did! And we can’t have that.
I guess you win then! Very well, by all means continue delighting in your self-righteousness. I wish I could recall meeting you…I’m sure you’re a peach…but it was almost a decade ago.