Cake-gate at work

Isnt HR busy enough with the endless other things MN says to report? if someone came to me to report this they would be told if they can't handle it like a grown up there will be a ban on bringing sharing food in

That completely depends. The beer drinker hasn’t deprived anyone else of beer so that’s okay. But if the wine drinker is sitting there necking the bottle down while another 4 people with empty wine glasses are looking at them doing that when the bottle is meant to be shared, they cease to become ‘someone with a sweet tooth’ and become a total cunt with a hell of a brass neck.

And if she made/bought those cakes or that wine herself, all power to her.

Except she didn't; she effectively stole a treat from 7 other people. What if other people there have 'a sweet tooth' as well? Nobody is stopping her (or anybody) from enjoying the cake from OP and then going to buy themselves more cakes.

Tell your greedy colleague that you will make her a Spring Surprise cake. When she puts it in her mouth two steel bolts will spring out and pierce her cheeks, giving her a real surprise.

some people just have a sweet tooth, let her be. When someone drinks a whole bottle of wine or downs like 8 pints of beer or shots pretty fast, noone says they were greedy - noone bats an eye - in fact, mostly they celebrate 🥳

I think you should get HR to handle this one. She fucked up a perfectly lovely gesture of yours. If she had waited and discovered any left at the end of the day, she could have ASKED, but pigging out on 8 cakes is gross.

I'm sure something like that happened in an episode of Dave Gorman's Modern Life Is Goodish!

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!

I mean what a compliment 😅 and if I couldn't resist them that much, I sure wouldn't be announcing my gluttony.

One of the girls ground up some laxatives called Bile Beans and used them in half the mixture and tipped us off not to touch the blue iced ones.

Justice via apocalyptic shits is objectively hilarious...but you've essentially poisoned someone there. It's a good job she didn't find out, or have a serious reaction to the laxative.

My mum played this prank on my dad when they were young and he ended up extremely ill 😅

Ok. It's a cruel thing imo, possibly dangerous, but as you say, you were all young and foolish. I'm glad she came to no harm.

Have a look upthread at the recipe, they're very small and quite light. 8 is still a lot though.

Just like carrot cake!

How can someone possibly eat eight cakes in one day...?!?

You don't mean cupcakes, do you?

I think I'd leave a note next time saying enough for one each, please don't be greedy

That way she may limit herself to 4 😂

Hah! Next time say there is "enough for one each", then let everyone police themselves.

Also put a picture of some human eyes above the plate apparently people tend to behave better when they think they are being watched.

Yep, I’ll disagree with you on the grounds of it being youthful idiocy!
We were around 17 or
18 maybe, and did all sorts of daft things. I’m in my 60s now, no harm came to anyone.
The scoffer of the cakes was always doing dares for a laugh, so if she ever found out she’d laugh about it.

Perhaps it’ll stop her scoffing cakes and teach her to share in future? I can’t be doing with greed and wolfing 8 cakes that were made for sharing is greedy. There's no other word for it.

She is either very brass-faced or she is so spectacularly dim she has not made the connection that her greed means other people miss out. Did she not seem even the slightest bit embarrassed?

OP, make a ‘special batch’ just for her, with an all-natural laxative in. “I made these for you, seeing as you loved them so much….”

I imagine she didn’t walk over, pick eight up and take them over to her workstation. I would think she had them gradually. I would doubt that she actually had eight and was exaggerating. Although if someone brings in a tub of those mini millionaires shortbread I couldn’t tell you how many of those I'm responsible for eating, just pop one in every time I walk past. But as I previously said if the OP doesn’t add a note, send an email to the team or go round with them some people will always have another cake.

Well - it does matter - some people didn’t even get one, because the greedy colleague had eaten eight, @3luckystars.

Could you maybe tell your colleague that you’re glad she enjoyed them, because you were sure how cakes made with crushed dried locusts instead of flour would go down.

Unless they have severe learning disabilities, it's crazy that adults have to be told how to share food and not scoff the lot themselves - as though they were a 2yo child who can only centre themselves in their as-yet tiny world.

Do these same people also have to be reminded to wash their hands after using the toilet, or to say "Please" when they ask for something?

8-cakes Carol 🤣🤣🤣