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To be raging at shortbread instead of pastries?

208 replies

pinotnow · 12/06/2025 09:40

I am at a conference type event. As a teacher I rarely get to come on this type of thing. I've looked forward to the pastries on arrival throughout the two hour drive. I'm here and there are no pastries. It's biscuits of a shortbread type, which I don't like anyway and are not appropriate as a substitute for pastries. I haven't eaten so it's going to be a long morning until lunch, which I now have concerns about anyway.

Why is everything so relentlessly fucking shit now?

OP posts:
Pinkyplat · 12/06/2025 09:45

Shortbread is not a breakfast item. (Also, shortbread is shit.)

YANBU

Everydayimhuffling · 12/06/2025 09:45

That's deeply wrong OP! I'm also a teacher and there absolutely should be tiny pastries at the start of a conference. Biscuits at the tea break.

pinotnow · 12/06/2025 09:44

Luckily I haven't paid and am actually being paid, otherwise storming the stage would definitely be on the cards.

I'm sure pastries on arrival were mentioned in the bumph and we definitely had them last year.

OP posts:
SillyMillie90 · 12/06/2025 09:43

MiddleAgedDread · 12/06/2025 09:42

I’d demand a refund

That’s not how work conferences work. Work pays not you.

SoScarletItWas · 12/06/2025 09:42

MiddleAgedDread · 12/06/2025 09:42

I’d demand a refund

I’d storm the stage

MiddleAgedDread · 12/06/2025 09:42

I’d demand a refund

SoScarletItWas · 12/06/2025 09:42

Well that breaks all the conference breakfast item rules!

Fingers crossed for pastries at the coffee break…

Perhapsanothertime · 12/06/2025 09:41

Was there a particular reason you assumed there would be pastries? Or any food at all for that matter? I can’t say it’s something I’ve ever expected….