Useful

**Filbert Fox** · 29-11-2011, 21:33

Maybe you should have paid your mess bill each month and not let it get to £146, then you could have strolled in on your last day before terminal leave and left with £180.

A fellow WO1 who was the presiding member of our mess stood up in a mess meeting and talked about those that didnt pay their mess bills and told us all that 'mess debtors were sucking off the other mess members who paid their bills each month', I didnt know whether to be relieved that theyd missed me out or gutted that Id been left out!

**Dunenufftime** · 29-11-2011, 21:37

I stopped paying mess bills in september as I SHOULD have been in credit but have not been about to check until I got a shitty phonecall full of threats today.
I have never drank in the mess or racked up a debt deliberately.

**Dunenufftime** · 29-11-2011, 21:40

I guess I will have to try ringing RSM in morning as still on a course miles away from camp and its physically impossible to "Get it payed by 10am or else" as the "Request" was. lol.

**slipperman** · 29-11-2011, 21:46

Originally Posted by Dunenufftime

I guess I will have to try ringing RSM in morning as still on a course miles away from camp and its physically impossible to "Get it payed by 10am or else" as the "Request" was. lol.

Mate, I was almost with you until you finished off your post with "lol". I thought you said you were a SNCO?

**Dunenufftime** · 29-11-2011, 22:30

So I'm a young 39 and down with the kids. Not all SNCO's are stuffy old barstewerds.

**revmodes** · 29-11-2011, 22:35

Originally Posted by Dunenufftime

So I'm a young 39 and down with the kids. Not all SNCO's are stuffy old barstewerds.

It used to be a requirement though,innit!!! lol..lol..lol...lol...

former W.O..........LOL.

Good luck with civvy strasse mate,

**Filbert Fox** · 29-11-2011, 23:40

Originally Posted by Dunenufftime

I stopped paying mess bills in september as I SHOULD have been in credit but have not been about to check until I got a shitty phonecall full of threats today.

now, I see the problem here, you should have continued to pay your mess bills until you leave the mess. At what point did you inform the mess that you wouldnt be attending the christmas function? usually you tell them that youre not going and they dont charge you for it. £180 is very expensive for a mess function!

**PrinceAlbert** · 03-12-2011, 14:45

Is this your nemesis?

Mess Debtor Leaving the Service - Options for Ensuring Payment

**Horridlittleman** · 03-12-2011, 15:47

Originally Posted by PrinceAlbert

Is this your nemesis?

Mess Debtor Leaving the Service - Options for Ensuring Payment

Don't worry, Paton216tech says he'll pay it for you as it's only a few quid and he clearly doesn't mind paying for mess debtors.

Originally Posted by Paton216tech

Whats a few quid ?

**chocolate_frog** · 03-12-2011, 18:10

Originally Posted by Filbert Fox

now, I see the problem here, you should have continued to pay your mess bills until you leave the mess. At what point did you inform the mess that you wouldnt be attending the christmas function? usually you tell them that youre not going and they dont charge you for it. £180 is very expensive for a mess function!

Most messes charge a tenner a month or so for the Christmas bash, reimbursing if you don't go. I mssed one but the money wasn't paid back in cash, just credited against my bill for a few months.

£180 squid is steep, but it depends what it covers. Usually one guest and the draw is covered as well. Or maybe it will be a free bar. Some messes charge extra and then reimburse the difference AFTER the bop.

Depends what is the conventin/agreed on the mess meeting in January I suppose!!!