Bringing baked goods into work

[Bibblybumblebee]

I really enjoy baking - I’m quite good - only thing I’m really any good at!
I like baking traditional cakes like Victoria sponge, lemon drizzle, carrot.

I normally bake on the weekend and sometimes bake a tray bake cake and take it to work.
I work in a team of about 10 people. So there’s plenty for everyone to help themselves- it’s normally demolished by Wednesday.

2 woman I work with are always on a diet or talking about fitness - both in there late 50s.
One of them asked to have a word with me today and said her and this other woman both agree it’s not appropriate to bring in homemade cakes to work because it’s unhealthy and not fair when people are trying to be ‘good’.
She also said that if I could be reported to HR as I haven’t had a hygiene rating certificate at home. She said she’s worried if someone got sick from my homemade food I could get in trouble.

AIBU to feel a bit upset about this. My home is spotless my kitchen is clean.

I think these woman have just got food issues but I am worried they could report me.

I don’t bake cakes every week. Maybe once every 6 weeks.

Whats your opinion on people being in baked goods from home into work?

Put it to the vote, they'll lose. Tell them they were outvoted. Where I worked every Friday was cake day. They need to work on their will power. Cakes are everywhere, they can't avoid them.

"She also said that if I could be reported to HR as I haven’t had a hygiene rating certificate at home"

Fuck off. People cannot seriously be that sad 😂

😂

I love a homemade cake! It gets a bit ridiculous at Christmas and when the kitchen is constantly filled with junk but a once every 6 weeks cake is not that often at all.

There's barely a week that goes by that there isnt cake or something where I work.

I just do this radical thing, if I'm trying to be "good," I just dont eat it.

I agree with you about wishing unhealthy food wasn’t so prevalent and I think those points about willpower are excellent but it has to be a balance between the needs of people who are overweight and the positives of everyone else getting to eat lovely cake, so it really comes down to how often. Cake every week- unreasonable. Cake every six weeks- seems fair enough.
What would be really annoying would be if every other aspect of the obesogenic society was allowed to continue unhindered but the home bakers were stopped, so people would still be eating UPFs full of palm oil and additives but miss out on delicious baking made with high quality fresh ingredients.

You sound lovely. Ignore them - they're probably just jealous.

I'm HR. If I got that query I'd forward it to their manager and ask if they needed some extra work

May I have some please?🤩

I used to work in a team with loads of young women who loved to bake but hated to eat and I had no willpower. My own problem. I do wish they'd been kept somewhere a bit harder to get to rather than somewhere I walked past 10 times a day - and therefore ate from 10 times a day. My problem anyway. I'd raise it in a team meeting, there's a reason she did it quietly not in front of the rest of the team.

Miserable cows.

they’re not concerned about you having a hygiene certificate or someone being ill, they just don’t want you to bring cakes in.

I would send an email to everyone in your team along the lines of….”(name her) has mentioned to me today that she’s worried someone may fall ill as a result of eating my homemade cakes. It hadn’t crossed my mind as this has never happened before. I’m happy to continue to bring in my homemade cakes if you’re happy to continue to eat them. If collectively you’d rather I stopped just let me know”

I can’t stand people like this.

Sadly it won't open for me. I expect that you need to be a BMJ member. I love a spoof scientific article written up in the correct style with abstracts, statistical analysis and references etc.

That article looks like it could be my favourite one cited on here since the one reporting on a 'Longitudinal cohort study of the displacement of teaspoons in an Australian research institute' or, in layman's terms, 'where the fuck do all the teaspoons from the office tea room go'.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/7396985_The_case_of_the_disappearing_teaspoons_Longitudinal_cohort_study_of_the_displacement_of_teaspoons_in_an_Australian_research_institute

You absolutely don't need a food certificate or anything like that unless you're selling for profit (even raising money for charity you don't have to). It may blow their minds to know plenty of workplaces do this and are even encouraged to do it as part of social/charity pledges.

I worked in a place with the opposite - women who thought it was okay to bring in scales weekly and all weigh themselves. Now that was toxic.

Great outcome OP.
Sounds like you have a lovely supportive boss 😁

Pair of miserable bitches end of

I’d be livid if I was you. Bring in allocated cupcakes next time and don’t give them one. You don’t want to stop them being ‘good’ or endanger their health after all! The cheeky fuckers will be fuming watching you all tuck in.

I love your manager and your HR

Screw the miseries.

I do hope they take it to HR and get an appropriate response.

Not a chance I would eat something a colleague made. You have no idea of their hygiene standard or if ingredients is even in date

Yes, death by cake! Out of date sugar and flour can be lethal.

Anyone else checking back to see how bakewell gate went today? Or just me.....🙈
In my defence I'm not very well and bored with a high fever.

WTF? What entitled miseries
it’s a lovely thing to bring in baked goods to share.
You don’t need a food hygiene cert and I can’t imagine that HR would be interested

Your HR guy sounds like my sort of person!

I'm cheering for OP here. I'm sick of people with restrictive eating disorder who are terrified of getting fat banging on about how evil cake is.

ETA.None of them have the guts to say "cake makes you fat, fat is bad, fat people are bad" to my face (fat woman with lipoedema). I'd think more of them if they admitted their prejudices.

Me too. I’ve had food poisoning so many times after enjoying homemade delights from people I know 🤗
Out of date cake sprinkles can be particularly dangerous

How rude of you to force feed your colleagues cake against their will! What's that you say, you're not forcing anyone to eat what you bake? I would say that in this case the majority rule. If all but 2 of your colleagues enjoy your baking then carry on doing it. I live my life on a diet (rubbish metabolism from years of steroids for asthmatic lungs) but if someone is offering around cakes, biscuits or sweets I am more than capable of saying nice of you to offer but no thank you.