To be raging at shortbread instead of pastries?

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I am at a conference type event. As a teacher I rarely get to come on this type of thing. I've looked forward to the pastries on arrival throughout the two hour drive. I'm here and there are no pastries. It's biscuits of a shortbread type, which I don't like anyway and are not appropriate as a substitute for pastries. I haven't eaten so it's going to be a long morning until lunch, which I now have concerns about anyway.

Why is everything so relentlessly fucking shit now?

YABU.

I'd rather have shortbread than pastries any day of the week. 😋

Do this! Gather a few like minded souls, scribble a sign and get up there…

Validating my comment re sense of humour, wherever you keep it well hidden. If people are expected to give up weekends for nonsense, the least they can expect is a pastry!

Wasn’t the weekend tho?
I mean - ‘sense of humour’ is subjective so maybe I don’t find pastry rage that funny, prefer something a bit more complex, but each to their own.

Maybe just let the majority enjoy a laugh then, you’re taking it too seriously.

I thought that when the tea was out at lunch time! I still wanted a glacier fruit though.

Being a bit of a wet blanket aren't we..... 🙄

Thoughts and prayers...

It’s the “again” that makes this so funny 😂

Deans of Huntly do the best shortbread.😋
If you ever get the chance to try them I would do so.

I used to go on conferences which had sumptuous offerings, including free barita coffee all day & lovely buffets etc.

Since DC I'm working in the finance industry. I went to my first 'catered' PD day two weeks ago. The promised barista coffee turned up at 11:30am (was supposed to be a 10am coffee & morning tea start) as the organiser hasn't ordered it. She then proceeded to put out lollies and stale shortbread and some weird gherkin things she'd bought on her way there, from the supermarket, onto paper plates. Lunch was sandwiches I couldn't eat because they'd put the one salad item on every single one of them that I am allergic to. She brought a gluten free salad for another participant she knew, though.

Don't get me started on the useless content. Couldn't operate the tech, either.

It was a sh*t show, but a day away from the office, at least! I did leave wondering why these people get paid so much and concerned they are the money brains of our operation!!

I'm allergic to sesame, and always notify conference organisers in advance. At a conference I went to last year, there was only one vegetarian main course dish on offer, but it looked and smelt delicious. I was about to dig in when an organiser buttonholed me to warn me that it had sesame in and, um, there weren't any alternatives. I had a fascinating dinner of rice and lettuce leaves. I was NOT impressed.

I love Pain au chocolat. Microwave door 5-7 arcs cut up and dipped in milky coffee or hot chocolate.

Delish

As a fellow teacher who PAYS termly for shitty instant coffee, I feel your pain! A paid conference for a teacher is a thing of excitement due to any little luxuries we don’t pay for ourselves. The lack of pastries would have annoyed me too OP! My DH, on the other hand, who regularly has work provided pastries, freshly brewed coffee and other treats, wouldn’t have minded I’m sure. I, on the other hand, can feel your disappointment!

If it was proper decent buttery rich Scottish shortbread, I’d be delighted as it would be more filling and satisfying and keep me going much more than a couple of tiny pastries.

However, being a work conference, I’m sure it’s very basic cheap shortbread and that is Not Good.

👏👏👏

This thread is responsible for making me go to the bakery yesterday and getting some croissants, pain au chocolats and also cinnamon swirls which weren’t even mentioned 🤣 we are so lucky living in this age and this place where we can have anything. It’s the little things in life that make the days better!

That would fucking irritate me aswell. 🤣

If you go, and you're looking forward to something, then some twat changes it.

we've had bacon butty's for 30 fucking years, thank you very much. If you now want to now offer a vegan version alongside it, great. But don't dispose entirely of the original.

Twats. 🙄

I think I would cry. I feel hungry every 2 hours and need to be fed adequately and caffeinated regularly or I either wilt or go on the rampage depending on my mood. I hope you wrote a strongly worded letter as feedback!

Exactly, if they want people to engage with it, network, take info in then they need to provide proper refreshments. I do wonder who organises the shit ones, like the welsh cake to last all day.. who would think that’s okay

I’m allowed an opinion 😃

Ha. I’ve never been called that before. However, someone moaning to me about pastries I’d find ‘a bit of a wet blanket’ 😃

It used to be that our LA had a Teachers' Centre (a former primary) which was used for various training days.

If it was a morning or afternoon, you got a coffee and biscuits. If you were there for the day, you got a rather satisfying old-fashioned type school lunch. (Custard! Yum!)

Eventually, this was all cut back.

By the time I was a HoD/Faculty Head, the lunches were no more. Most training days were cut back to a training morning or afternoon.

We got word that there was a mandatory training day for secondary NQTs - half those in the LA one day; the other half the next.

On the first day, the NQTs discovered that there was no lunch available, but - for some reason - they'd not been informed.

The former school was in a coalmining town currently consisting of nothing but dormitory housing, barbers, nail salons and pubs. The pub across from the former school was open for lunches, so most of the NQTs toddled across the road for lunch.

The next day, the Education Officer in charge of the training day sent a strongly worded email round all secondary schools in the LA - half the NQTs hadn't returned for the afternoon session.

Thought I’d pop on here with a tale to tell. Conference today. Social workers. Full day event. I didn’t organise the catering. If I had, I’d happily be shot to pieces. Coffee ran out before everyone had one. NO biscuits or any food of any description on arrival. No water even. No one seemed bothered. Maybe they’ve got bigger worries 🤷‍♀️

Yes. I attend a regular meeting which is not catered at all. Not even a jug of water. Shocking.

I ask you: what has happened to the world? It’s the little things that make it all worthwhile, normally.