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A Mumsnet user explained that her colleague asked her to pay for petrol after dropping her off at a work event
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The woman said she doesn’t understand why her colleague charges her so much for a one-way trip.
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“Her logic is that since we agreed that I would fill up with gas on the way back, I should pay, even though she didn’t take me home,” the woman wrote.
A woman became angry after her colleague asked her to cover the fuel costs to take her to a work event.
The woman explained on community forum Mumsnet that her co-worker asked for more gas money than she had planned for a one-way trip, after returning home by train at her own expense.
“I decided to leave early and paid for a £90 (about $121) train ticket home. When he took us to the work event, it ended up being a 6 hour journey,” he wrote. “When we arrived, I offered her £40 (about $54), which I thought would be more than enough for my share. She turned it down and said she’d just fill up on the way back. That’s fine, I thought.”
The woman said she later received a text message from her colleague, asking her “very bluntly” to pay £51.25 (about $69).
“I told her it would probably be half, since I only traveled with her one way,” the woman said. “Her logic is that since we agreed that I would fill up with gas on the way back, I should pay, even though she didn’t take me home.”
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The woman said she was “more than happy” to pay her colleague the amount he initially offered because she believes it “covered more than half of our trip”, before asking readers if she should pay the rest of the amount.
One person responded: “You just have to pay your share.”
Another reader commented: “She used the same amount of fuel if you were a passenger both ways, so you should pay the same as you had initially agreed. If you hadn’t agreed to ‘carpool’, she may have found someone else to share the costs with or chosen to use public transport instead.”
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Someone else suggested that the woman and her colleague claim travel expenses from their employer: “Why are you paying for the trip to a work event? Claim the money and tell him to do the same.”
Another reader said the woman should simply pay the money her colleague asked for.
“You offered her £40, she declined with a counter-offer to fill up on the way back, which you accepted. Pay £51.25. Unless you want to take some kind of stand on £11.25 and risk fighting with a co-worker over it,” the user wrote.
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