Real life MMD: Should I pay for his day off?

donkem

You don't owe him a days pay you owe him a day off. Offer to spend your next day off doing something he'd like to do on his day off, like humping your housemate for example, and the matter should then be fairly and amicably resolved.

Kate Reed.

Enterprise_1701C

I think I would tell other that it would not have happened had she done me the courtesy of telling me that she had someone staying and, no, I would not pay for something that was entirely not my fault.

Cimscate

telsco wrote: »

You were lucky that your friend hadn't left her bedroom window wide open, as you obviously couldn't be bothered to do a basic security check before you left for work.

You should pay up just for that idiotic decision alone, as instead of her boyfriend, you could have got home that night to an empty ransacked house.

Umm, in a shared flat surely the friend would be expected to check her own bedroom window, what a silly response! And no, I don't think you should pay either, get shot of the pair of them would be my advice.

richardvc

Whatever he earns is nothing to do with it anyway but as far as I am concerned you shouldn't pay him.

Whilst it is not his fault he was locked in it certainly wasn't your either.

Don't pay !

Ps If his GF feels so strongly she should pay him or have gone back to let him out and if no-one else has mentioned it he will be getting paid for his leave day anyway !

gaily

Something similar happened to me while I was at Uni. I lent my keys to as friend (as my bike lock keys were on the keyring and she borrowed the bike lock). She forgot to return my keys on reentering the house, so my keys were at the bottom of her bag. She left for Uni the next day as normal. I was the last to try to leave, as i had a 10am lecture, and had to phone college with the rather lame excuse that i couldn't leave the building!!!

We lived in a student area - 1st floor flat, and as such left the deadlock on all the time we were not actually using the door to exit or enter.

It's funny to look back on, but wasn't at the time. Needless to say friend got an earful when she got back, but nothing anyone can do, i had TV, a toilet and food, what more did I need??

GF should have given BF a key if she'd wanted him to lock up. The fact that she didn't, and forgot to tell you - even a note on the fridge would have done, is her responsibility not yours....

lilykim

Definetely don't play. It was not your responsibility and I agree with luxor4t: bet he's not paying towards electric etc when he stays over!

golddustmedia

Her visitor = her problem.

Where I work we'd be in big trouble for not escorting a visitor from the premises before leaving ourselves!

sashadesade

Heck no, the housemate should be ashamed for asking for money. Are you expected to check the house before you go out incase someone's there and hasn't bothered to tell you? Totally their fault. It was up to the boyfriend to find out when you were leaving so he could get out before you go.

suesnaggle

Of course you should not pay. If the housemate was so stupid as to leave her boyfriend after she had left and not tell you he was there, how are you supposed to know?
She and her boyfriend are trying it on, there are wasys of getting out through windows etc. Maybe he should have used his gumption to find a way of getting out and getting to work.
Tell them where to go. If you did pay up, you would never have a peaceful time leaving the house in the future, you would have to search it every time you were the last to leave.
Its your and your housemates house, no outsider should be left there on his or her own anyway.

Sulevia

She should have got him up and out when she went out. Her responsibility. His laziness for staying in bed on a work day. Not your problem.