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Cake-gate at work

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EnfysDilys · 31/03/2026 18:43

I made some Easter cakes for work colleagues today, enough for everyone with a few to spare.
One woman ate eight! She cheerfully announced this in front of everyone at lunchtime. This meant not everyone had one.
WIBU next time to leave a note reminding her to share! Or hiding them from her? Or setting an alarm around them …

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Judecb · 01/04/2026 20:12

Next time you do this, put a sign on the plate "ONE each (her name)" ! 😅

pimplebum · 01/04/2026 20:12

MyLimeGuide · 31/03/2026 18:47

Lol! Is she a large lady?

Fuck off with your fat shaming - its not a joke

do better

Winderwall · 01/04/2026 20:11

I LOVE cake but I would take one and then spend the rest of the day trying to ignore the voice in my head telling me to eat another.

Daftypants · 01/04/2026 20:08

Greedy !! hope she has chipped a tooth on one of the mini eggs 😉

3luckystars · 01/04/2026 20:06

It doesn’t matter who ate them, you made them for other people to make them
happy. There is no need to be angry, you have no control over them once you give them away.

She is really greedy but once you gave them away, you gave them away.

MoonWoman69 · 01/04/2026 19:59

MyLimeGuide · 31/03/2026 18:47

Lol! Is she a large lady?

And the difference this makes is?! Smaller people do actually eat like pigs!

Nickynackynoooo · 01/04/2026 19:51

I once made chocolate cupcakes for a colleagues birthday in cute little cardboard cases, with a big swirl of chocolate butter cream and a milk tray chocolate plonked on each one.
I sneaked in the multi-occupancy office the night before after everyone had left for the day and set them up on her desk in a large cupcake stand to create an impressive surprise.
The next day, she took them all home with her.
True story, she's left now, but we still talk about it now.

JulietteHasAGun · 01/04/2026 19:49

Did you make them will All Bran? Maybe she thinks it’s just like a large bowl of cereal? 😄

RaraRachael · 01/04/2026 19:22

AntiqueBabyLoanSmurf · 01/04/2026 19:01

And would I be right in thinking that, when it came to her turn to bring in cakes, she would either 'forget' or bring in a tiny pack of the cheapest ones for everybody - or bring in a goodly amount, take a photo to share with everybody and then instantly swipe 90% of them straight back again?

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For a staff of 30,over 3 breaktimes, she probably brought enough for 10 people.

Hellohelga · 01/04/2026 19:13

Greedy and revolting.

Lainie · 01/04/2026 19:12

could you send an e mail asking who didnt get one as you are doing a new batch, then bring them in in small cellophane bags and hand them to those that went without and dont let her near them, greedy pig :(

Skyelils · 01/04/2026 19:05

She’s just a 🐷 and selfish not thinking of others

Beastieboys · 01/04/2026 19:04

It's not always the larger people !
Where I worked it was sneaky people who waited til the coffee room was empty and sneak in. They never bring anything in but are happy to stuff cakes and chocolates into themselves two at a time 😶

BambinaCucina · 01/04/2026 19:03

If there's one thing above all others that I can't abide, it's greed. And gloating when they've truffled half the amount and others had missed out. .

AntiqueBabyLoanSmurf · 01/04/2026 19:01

RaraRachael · 01/04/2026 13:36

In our school we took turns to take in cakes on a Friday. We'd leave them in the staffroom first thing. It came to our notice that the teacher in the room opposite was nipping in and helping herself to many cakes.
I started keeping mine in my classroom and my PSA would take them through just before breaktime.

Some people are just greedy pigs.

And would I be right in thinking that, when it came to her turn to bring in cakes, she would either 'forget' or bring in a tiny pack of the cheapest ones for everybody - or bring in a goodly amount, take a photo to share with everybody and then instantly swipe 90% of them straight back again?

jdb9803 · 01/04/2026 19:00

I would send a message apologising to anyone that didn't get a cake - there was enough to go round but XX took 8.
If you bake again for colleagues, keep them with you, send a message for people to come get one - if XX has the nerve to come, tell her she has already had her share

tommyhoundmum · 01/04/2026 19:00

EnfysDilys · 31/03/2026 18:43

I made some Easter cakes for work colleagues today, enough for everyone with a few to spare.
One woman ate eight! She cheerfully announced this in front of everyone at lunchtime. This meant not everyone had one.
WIBU next time to leave a note reminding her to share! Or hiding them from her? Or setting an alarm around them …

I would have been furious

TheVeloursImgonnaChangeNsoul · 01/04/2026 18:33

UnimatrixZeroOne · 01/04/2026 17:54

It really isn't. I'd never eat anything made by a colleague.

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I would just not eight of them!

UnimatrixZeroOne · 01/04/2026 17:54

Egit · 31/03/2026 19:33

This is just an MN thing

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It really isn't. I'd never eat anything made by a colleague.

AppleDumplingWithCustard · 01/04/2026 15:59

YerMotherWasAHamster · 01/04/2026 14:04

@AppleDumplingWithCustard bloody good for you!
What did she have to say for herself?

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No shame whatsoever! I took the basket off her and she just walked off.

Catwalking · 01/04/2026 15:05

next time she doesn’t get any at all. 😉

YerMotherWasAHamster · 01/04/2026 14:04

AppleDumplingWithCustard · 01/04/2026 00:56

Not food related but some people are so greedy. I took a big basket of spare cosmetics/make-up into work. All brand new but items I’d got as gifts/freebies that I wouldn’t use. People were taking one or two bits and all was fine. At the end of the day I saw a staff member waltzing off with the entire basket that was still half full. When I asked her what she was doing she brazenly announced that she was taking them as her brother could sell them to make some money. Said brother was a druggy, out of work scrounger. Needless to say I relieved her of the basket and told her what I thought of that idea. What a fucking nerve!

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@AppleDumplingWithCustard bloody good for you!
What did she have to say for herself?

MyOliveStork · 01/04/2026 13:41

rwalker · 31/03/2026 19:05

I’m a twat
so I’d make some more with a note on for those of you who missed out due to one person eating 8

Definitely this, makes point to her that she was greedy and others went without because of her. Hopefully she’ll realise how inappropriately she behaved!
Also, you are seen as super lovely and nice as you made more for those who didn’t have one.

RaraRachael · 01/04/2026 13:36

In our school we took turns to take in cakes on a Friday. We'd leave them in the staffroom first thing. It came to our notice that the teacher in the room opposite was nipping in and helping herself to many cakes.
I started keeping mine in my classroom and my PSA would take them through just before breaktime.

Some people are just greedy pigs.

TrickyD · 01/04/2026 13:27

Apologies if I have missed this, but has no one mentioned the greedy cow being neurodivergent (undiagnosed)?
The usual MN answer to any example of any anti-social behaviour.