Taking cakes to job interview

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My lovely friend had a job interview last week. Very large organisation, likely to be a strongly structured interview. I asked her how it went and she said well, and that she had baked a cake and taken it along to the interview.

AIBU to think that this has more likely hindered rather than helped her application?

Is this ever a done thing?

It's the first I've heard of this. Maybe she was trying to curry favour - it looks a bit desperate and that never works imho.

Completely depends on the organisation. I worked for a small very family like agency and an interviewee brought in brownies baked by his wife. It made him memorable and he did get the job (but based on his suitability!)

What did the note say and what type of decorations, cmon enquiring minds need to know..

Did it say

Eat this and die with a pic of a dead person?
Pick me and a pic of some flowers?
I can't bake for shit and pic of a sad face?

Oh God, I've got a competency based interview this week. Wonder if I should stop revising my answers and make a pavlova instead?

It's kind of mumsy. At least only my mother would think that could possibly be a good idea.

But then she also thinks people dress up in suits for congresses in my field.

Weird and cringeworthy.

Totally and utterly inapropriate in every conceivable way.

Did she get the job?

A note? . What did it say!??

You must report back when your friend gets a response. PLEASE.

BREAKING!

"It was a Victoria sponge...

Taken in Tupperware yes with a note and decorations.

I don't know if it was eaten."

omg a note!

I was going to ask whether she is from somewhere other than the UK? Some other countries have a very strong and different gift giving culture and will routinely bring carefully packaged chocolates etc to professional engagements. But having seen that it was a Victoria sponge in tupperware I am thinking maybe not?

Haha that's the best thing I've heard all day. Taking a cake to an interview...deary deary me. That's perked me right up, that has.

My guess is there was a poem on the note.

Hello guys, my name is Kate
In my spare time I love to bake
I made this beauty just for you
So gissa job, I'm begging you!

I can't reveal the full note, it will hugely out me.

Think decorated a bit like a fancy present.

Bless her she sounds desperate and gives the impression she has to 'buy' her way in as the skills and experience are on the weak side

Not a job with the WI then??

I'm pretty sure your friend is already out. No-one else in the world has ever taken a cake to an interview.

I can't reveal the full note, it will hugely out me

Whereas telling us your friend took a cake to an interview is in no way identifiable information

Not a job with the WI then?? - Classic .

I've gone from being amused by the blatant act of bribery to actually feeling quite sorry for this woman. I wish someone had warned her beforehand. Having said that, we wouldn't have got this thread!

I think you're probably already out OP.

The fact that the cake included a note has taken it to a whole new level of weirdness.

Reminds me of when trumps wife rocked up to the White House with a present for Michelle Obama - er right, thanks, erm I'll just put that erm, er, um

To be fair to Melania, Michelle also brought a present for Laura Bush. The Obamas' WTF demeanour when the Trumps arrived was because Donald completely ignored his wife and left her on her own

www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/donald-trump-barack-obamas-white-9688745

"Think decorated a bit like a fancy present."

You have to give me more than that. You have to.

Come on...