Biscuit police -AIBU?

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There is no rule on buying biscuits, if the team are gifted any we put them out in the staff room and all enjoy them.

One woman at work had taken it upon herself to monitor and ration the biscuits/sweets as she sees fit.

Yesterday we were given a box of chocolates. I was looking forward to having one but they were not in the staffroom. I was told X had put them away because we already had some biscuits out (they were the dregs of a Christmas box that no-one wanted to eat.)

She will often appear at random times with a new box of sweets/chocolates that were donated and she was keeping 'safe.'

I also noticed that at the end of our break last week she took the whole box of biscuits with her to stop anyone eating them when it wasn't our collective break time (we don't all have breaks together everyday so feel this is unfair as when we are in the staffroom there is often nothing to eat at all.) she has not bought any of these herself so has no more 'claim' on them than anyone else.

Aibu to think it should not be up to her what we eat and when?

Ah, biscuit barrels at dawn. Look forward to bunfight updates!

Sorry, I'll get my and go

I really want a biscuit now!

Someone is obviously eating all the chocolates ones !

I would say loudly around the other staff, "hey Doris, Where have you hidden the chockies ?" if she replies there are plenty of biscuits open in the tin,
Just say, "No one has asked you to Police the biscuits, I really feel like a chocolate (before they go grey ), so go get 'em"

She sounds like our office manager who seems to make it her life's work to fill her days with as many pointless tasks as possible, and never do any actual real work.

She does have a team of several people, but they generally manage their own workload and don't really directly need managing.

To the outside observer, OMs job would appear to be:

Tuck shop controller (shopping for crisps and mars bars etc, making elaborate price lists and counting the money). Sending snotty emails if the money tray 'was found to be 5 pence short this week and contained a foreign coin'.

Cleaning the kitchen and monitoring the content of the fridge as if it was one of her key duties to ensure that there is never an out of date yogurt in the building. We do have cleaners but I swear she is at the sink for at least an hour a day washing and wiping up.

Organising collections for leavers, significant birthdays, new babies etc

Organising social events, like the Christmas lunch, outside work time (we all go together but it's not paid for by work or officially sanctioned etc).

Keeping the key to the stationery cupboard and assessing begging emails detailed requests made by anyone who dares to ask for a new notebook.

Examining the recycling bins for rogue items that Do Not Fit the Waste Specification, moving them to the correct bin and sending snotty reminder emails.

Geeky has reminded me that I forgot counting the cutlery and crockery and searching the building for missing items.

East. That's fucking NUTS! That's a woman who needs serious help!

OP. Call her on it when there are a few people around. Mad bat.

Just to exactly what Mix56 suggested, word for word, that is not normal behaviour but I bet nobody has said it to her so do it in a light hearted but firm way, otherwise this will mount and get a bigger issue in your head until you lose it and go bananas a la cookie monster style and attack for the good biscuits

I worked with someone like this. If we got a box of Krispy Kremes (quite common) she would cut them into tiny slivers and tell people off for taking more than one. I think it was safe to say she had issues around food and control.

She tried to impose a chocolate curfew where you weren't allowed to eat it before 4pm . It didn't work. We'd buy chocolate and eat it noisily and messily in front of her whether we fancied it or not.

Well you can't have one hairspray. The rations for the day haven't been issued

I'd get everyone on board with shouting her from the kitchen, "Mum, wheres the biscuits? Mum, Mum," If she complains at being called Mum by people her age, tell her to stop acting like she is Mum. You can leave her lists, of things to get while she's out, or ask her about clean socks, and where are my shoes.

I bet she has some kind of issue with her weight and constantly monitors her eating habits so thinks she has the right to control everyone's biscuit intake. Someone on my shift does this too, she will put the communal snacks away whenever she leaves the room. She is overweight and is either dieting or eating all the biscuits!
It's a running joke amount the rest of us, we just get them out again or jokingly accuse her of hiding them so she'll tell us where they are

geeky - spoon amnesty, what happens if none owns up to nicking / losing the said spoon ? i'm quite concerned now for you and your colleague, heads are gonna roll folks

Barbara I think I used to work with your OM :) Or maybe it's a common affliction.

She obviously wants to show her worth as a manager. Howard Davies was ridiculed when he took over at the CBI when he said he would cut costs by cutting biscuits at meetings!

Ooh is this a modern day sushi gate? 🍣

gate?

Maybe she is going about it the wrong way and nobody died and made her queen of biscuit distribution but I can sort of see it from her point of view, actually. Having 3 boxes of biscuits open at once seems like a bit of an opportunity for them to go stale, rather than opening a box at a time and eating them fresh.

Do you work in Local Government Barbara?

Oh I thought this was going to be about giving out on MN - this is much more interesting

Dammin BOOP I thought I was safe here!

I made 60 ginger nuts last week and they are all gone. I didn't get any. Can she come and police biscuit consumption in my house, please?

She has also made a laminated poster with a picture of a Forever Friends hedgehog on it which she's put in the ladies loo with a reminder to change the toilet roll on the holder if you finish the last piece.

am weeping.

I guess in her head she thinks she's being fair so everyone gets some. To everyone else they think she's way over invested in confectionary and can't understand why she gives a shit.

We used to have a biscuit controller. She would whip up the gift biscuits and keep them in her drawer, distributing as she sees fit.

I WISH I had put in a compliant about it. She was a cunt in every way (controlling, bullying, racist) and should've been stopped. She was such a nasty peice of woek

That's absolutely bonkers. What the fuck is it to her if people are eating the biscuits? If you're not fast, you're last.

We have running jokes here because one person eats all of the Malteser Celebrations if you don't get in before her, and one pregnant woman who is taking "eating for two" literally but nobody has considered locking away the food!

Bertrand What recipe for you gingernuts do you use? I have never had home made ones before!

• apologies for the hijack...