To roll my eyes over cake drama

[VeterinaryCareAssistant]

I took some cakes into work today because I had some good news to share (new granddaughter).

They were individual cakes and there weren't enough for every single employee, so I was hoping anyone who took one would enjoy it.

Anyway, a colleague picked one up and took a bite, then immediately declared it was "too rich and filling", asked for a knife and cut it in half so thar someone else could have it.

She then watched other people eat the cakes whilst asking with faux shock "how can you manage a whole one?"

My eyes were rolled so far back I was looking behind me!

Looks amazing, OP. I'm with you here, there's nothing as tedious as someone who has to inform you about the birdlike incapacity of their appetite and then offers comments about how amazing they find it that others are not similarly afflicted and can eat a whole one. You don't have to comment on other people. You can just shut up. The option is always there.

Competitive under eater. Attention seeking twat.

Dull as fuck and always from people who have no real personality, so being "thin" in their highest achievement.

I thought my DM was retirer, but it seems she is in fact working with the OP.

43 years of this is exhausting. Going to a restaurant and asking for green salad instead of mash in with sausage and mash then saying 400 times, Why on EARTH would ANYONE POSSIBLY want to eat MASH AND sausage?! I can't BELIEVE it's not always served with salad! (While some poor soul like my DSIL, who luckily gives zero fucks, just orders sausage and mash like a normal person.)

Do you work with my mother in law op?
She is exactly like this. Once told me I was greedy because I ate a whole tin of soup (normal sized tin) apparently half is plenty.. who knew!

I had someone comment on my salad today. It was chopped sweet gem lettuce, with cucumbers and tomatoes and feta, protein on the side and she commented about how I could eat a whole lettuce 🙄

I don’t mind when people say my lunch looks nice but size comments are unnecessary, especially when she protects her own ego so well that no one dares say anything to her.

It's just showing off isn't it? They know no one's going to want half a cupcake that's been left over and who knows whose hands have been on it?

If you don't want the whole cake, take one, eat what you want and save the rest for later (for yourself) or chuck the rest away. No need to make that information public knowledge.

I saw someone do this at a breakfast buffet 😱 In quite a naice hotel 😮

Some people are just needy or attention seeking. Like the ones who won't just take one of the biscuits or cakes brought in by another colleague, they have to plate them up and take them around the office offering them to everyone.

Bit overly dramatic just get the knife and chop it without the statment

Why didn't she take her other half the next time?! Batshit!

Whilst I agree that OP’s colleague is a twat of the highest order, I would happily eat half a cupcake cut in half by a colleague.

However, I wouldn’t want to eat it after her gob had been near it.

It depends on your workplace and colleagues I suppose. I’d happily eat half a cupcake cut by pretty much all of my teammates 🤷🏻‍♀️ All these declarations that “no one will eat it” are pretty self centred, not everyone in the world thinks like you do.

Speaking as an overweight person who also doesn’t have a sweet tooth. I got fat from eating crackers and cheese, pastry products (sausage rolls, quiche, pasties), crisps, bread, pasta, butter and/or cream in cooking. All the saturated fats! I’d still turn my nose up at cake, though I do like a bit of chocolate.

Francisseaton is very easily confused.

How is not wanting half a cupcake someone's taken a bite out of self centred?

If you want to share a cupcake with a colleague surely that's something you agree in advance if you honestly can't muster the energy to eat the whole cake and feel you simply can't miss out You don't just bite off half and leave the other half of the cake it's so rude.

Glad my office is not like this. There'd be a mad dash for the cakes where I work.

YANBU to roll your eyes.

But YABU to take in cakes that only a few could enjoy (the busier you are the less likely you are to get one which doesn’t seem fair.

If I was you I would have cut those cakes into 2 or 3 pieces and so everyone could have a small piece each.

It looks amazing BTW!

It’s self centred to presume that just because you would be unwilling to share a cake with your colleagues, that no one else could have a different opinion.

I know quite a few people who are overweight and don’t like cake and chocolate and things.

I think most of the time they’re eating healthy food but just too much of it and just consuming more calories than they’re burning.
Then you have extra issues on top like medical, metabolism, genetics, gut biome etc.

She's a mumsnetter..... have you had a convo about chicken? 🐔

Well most people wouldn't want to share it's hardly a huge bit of cake but surely those who did want to would do so by agreement cutting it in half and eating it at the same time not by just eating half and then leaving it thinking meh someone else will eat what is essentially my half eaten left overs???

Although I'm not sure I'd want to eat anything any of my colleagues had taken a bite out of to be honest.

Please be my friend...... I'd eat that, I promise!

Want.

I used to work with someone who would bring in a 4 finger kitkat and have 1 finger, every Friday with a cuppa.
it was her “treat” apparently.
I on the other hand, would’ve inhaled that in 5 seconds flat 😂