To think that bringing cakes into work is a bit try hard

[Cateyes113]

Fair enough if it's for an special event or something. It's a nice gesture, but I think bringing in cakes for everyone 'just because' is people trying to be liked and win people over. Maybe I'm just miserable.

@JemimaPiddleDick

Sometimes I get the feeling it’s because whoever brought them on wants a face full face cake at 3pm but knows everyone will talk about them if they do so they take in enough cakes for everyone so they end up as fat as she is

Wow, aren’t you a bundle of joy! Think maybe it’s just you who thinks that of other people 😳

I bake a lot for my work colleagues, we have a physical job and it helps keep energy and spirits up!

I don't do it to be liked, what a sad thought that a thoughtful gesture can be so misinterpreted

@Severntrent

I have allergies, i don't really like most cakes, i want to save calories for treats i actually like. My colleague bakes me special 'free from' cakes which i don't really like but i cant tell her that! So i have to eat them. So my heart does sink a bit - but i know she is really kind and i always express my gratitude! I should have got in early and said i dont like cake. I have only worked in one place where people bring in cake (or buy each other choc bars). I do find it odd but prob because i dont like cakes or baking! My former colleague used to make indian snacks for me - now that was amazing!

Bless you, I made some vegan, gluten free cup cakes as well as regular ones once. They said they were nice and ate them all but I thought the texture of the gluten free cup cake was disgusting.

Just say you’ll take one home for later.

Honestly who finds the negative in something as benign as bringing cake in for people? And do a thread on it?! It's cake, don't like it don't eat it.

Not try hard at all, it's a lovely gesture and I always appreciate it. If you don't like it, just don't participate

Not at all. We all doi it. Gets us through the day sometimes.

When I worked at a university, we had a Cake Club, and took it in turns to make cakes for everyone (who wanted to join the club, it wasn't compulsory) to have with morning coffee on Fridays. It was brilliant - different cakes every week, and something to look forward to :)

Aye you sound like a joyless old wagon

WTF?!? Don't stop people bringing in cakes! Life's hard enough! I appreciate you, cake people, even if the OP doesn't.

I would like them and it would win me over. So if anyone wants to be my new best friend bring me cake!

You're just being miserable

Thinking on it further, I enjoy baking & have taken trays of treats in for the staff. I had nothing to "try hard" for, as I was the boss. It was about showing appreciation & sharing something I enjoyed, nobody ever complained. They'd hint heavily for more though, if I hadn't had time to bake for a while 🤷‍♀️

People going into an office. More than once or twice a week, how last decade!

Yeah it's annoying. We don't need more cake. We need less cake. Let's all be slim and miserable. Who dare they.

I care little for ulterior motives when it comes to cake. Beyond being poisoned, of course.

How* dare they...

@TheMarmaladeYears

I care little for ulterior motives when it comes to cake. Beyond being poisoned, of course.

100% this!^^

Sone people are so cynical! Enjoy the cakes and you know, lighten up! Or she may drop yours abs then give it to you as revenge!

Yabu, I welcome anyone's cakes arriving in the office

@LabMix

there was a woman in my office who loved baking, found it really relaxing and enjoyable but lived alone so wouldn’t eat half of it. Do you think she should have thrown it in the bin or what?

What she should've done was find me abs give it to me!

A girl in my office made me a leaving cake, it was raspberry and white chocolate, the best cake I've ever tasted! Why she waited until I was leaving god only knows!

Yabvvvu although your cake misery leaves more for the rest of us.
I often bring in a cake to work, nothing gets people racing out of their classes during lunch than hearing there’s cake in the staffroom.
Our old head used to bring in treats for all of us on a Friday but he left.
Now we delegate one yeargroup at a time to bring treats in on a Friday instead.
One of my dds is a keen baker and finds baking positive a lovely useful mindfulness type of distracting Activity. As a family of 5, 4 of whom love cooking and baking, we will not get through the amount we often make at home so I will frequently appear at work with a cake tin on a random day. It makes people happy!
I do also give cake to our family who live nearby - it makes them happy to.
My god what a miserable life you must lead to be snarky at people being kind for kindness’s sake!

@TheChosenTwo

Yabvvvu although your cake misery leaves more for the rest of us. I often bring in a cake to work, nothing gets people racing out of their classes during lunch than hearing there’s cake in the staffroom. Our old head used to bring in treats for all of us on a Friday but he left. Now we delegate one yeargroup at a time to bring treats in on a Friday instead. One of my dds is a keen baker and finds baking positive a lovely useful mindfulness type of distracting Activity. As a family of 5, 4 of whom love cooking and baking, we will not get through the amount we often make at home so I will frequently appear at work with a cake tin on a random day. It makes people happy! I do also give cake to our family who live nearby - it makes them happy to. My god what a miserable life you must lead to be snarky at people being kind for kindness’s sake!

Where do you live? I need to live closer to you and befriend your family!

Surely trying to be liked and winning people over is a good thing at work, no? Do people don't want their colleagues to have a good tone with them?

@Cateyes113

Fair enough if it's for an special event or something. It's a nice gesture, but I think bringing in cakes for everyone 'just because' is people trying to be liked and win people over. Maybe I'm just miserable.

I bake, and pre-covid would take cakes, flapjacks etc in to work, and send some in with DH.

Nothing to do with trying hard, or winning people over, its just something I really enjoyed doing.

Maybe you need a bit more cake??

@HELLITHURT there’s a house just sold over the road, you were sadly too slow!
Although it was VERY PINK on the inside, including a fuschia pink shower curtain and matching blind! Actually you might have dodged a bullet there