Cake-gate at work

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I made some Easter cakes for work colleagues today, enough for everyone with a few to spare.
One woman ate eight! She cheerfully announced this in front of everyone at lunchtime. This meant not everyone had one.
WIBU next time to leave a note reminding her to share! Or hiding them from her? Or setting an alarm around them …

From the way she said it, I presume she had eaten 8, as she said she’d enjoyed them!
I definitely wouldn’t have admitted it!
Recipe for anyone else who has greedy colleagues: www.nestle-cereals.com/uk/cereal-recipes/kids/shredded-wheat-easter-nests?gclsrc=aw.ds&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=21760502310&gbraid=0AAAAADNAdarI3EFUPU7nhVgA2F7eH0GtG&gclid=Cj0KCQjw4a3OBhCHARIsAChaqJP0VTimriqW_qaBWrbnKIvx7KqVpl2Y-3MdvI5pEWBbImBV-C13lB0aAhVKEALw_wcB

I'd tell her to be honest ... are you aware that yiur greed deprived colleagues of just one cake

Im a large woman but i dont act like a pig.

Personally I wouldn’t eat eight but I could easily down three. You put them out for everyone, they’re fair game. You should have specified or handed them round if there was any kind of restrictions. I regularly make cakes for work and some people have a few (I don’t keep count) and others don’t have any because some have dietary issues or don’t like cake or are dieting.

Next time you make cakes, use laxative chocolate, they will definitely feel the effects if they are a glutton again.
When I was at school, someone brought in laxative chocolate, knowing that one boy would eat most of the sweets!

Ok, please don't do this, the idea is funny but possibly dangerous.

I think it’s funny! It doesn’t really matter who ate them but really she is hilarious to admit that! She sounds like Eleanor Oliphant.

The OP isn't there to feed her kids.

Greedy bugger!
Not even embarrassed about her selfishness.

You should have said I dont find it funny actually, I wanted everyone to have some.

Ah, they are made of shredded wheat, they are practically vegetables. They are healthy!

She did nothing wrong. She is probably on a health kick.

I'd just leave it. Everyone knows what happened. No need to make it a saga.

You don’t say!

Sorry, I thought you thought it was ok if she'd done that!

I worked with a greedy pig. She squirreled away snacks and had multiple "widdle" breaks to sit on the toilet to eat them. Never once shared. If anyone brought in homemade cakes/biscuits her hand was first in the tin. I found a box of Mr Kipling French fancies belonging to her and I put my finger through each one. I know fucking petty. But for weeks she had a face like thunder but said nothing because it would mean she'd need to own up about her stash. Cake gate was what we referred to the incident as too.

I worked with a greedy pig. She squirreled away snacks and had multiple "widdle" breaks to sit on the toilet to eat them. Never once shared. If anyone brought in homemade cakes/biscuits her hand was first in the tin. I found a box of Mr Kipling French fancies belonging to her and I put my finger through each one. I know fucking petty. But for weeks she had a face like thunder but said nothing because it would mean she'd need to own up about her stash. Cake gate was what we referred to the incident as too.

Were they her snacks or ones she’d taken from people offering cakes etc?

Yeah some and some from reps to be shared by everyone not a box of goodies each

I wonder what 'enough for everyone with some to spare' means?

What is a 'portion'? One? Two surely or three? They are small buns aren't they?

How did many you make OP? And for how many people?

Because if you brought in one for everyone, while its a nice gesture, its not worth the angst of worrying about whether everyone got one or not.

We have some similar people in my office, scavengers really. It has to be announced really clearly and loudly that the food is for everyone and to wait until everyone has had some before going back for more. Some people really have no manners.

Are you sure she did nothing wrong? She took so many that not everyone was able to have even one.

Id consider that doing something wrong. Its selfish.

This is amazing 🤣

i think things like this is its better to offer to everyone individually

We had a girl in our college group who was like this - it was maddening… every single time one of us baked, she’d pounce and scoff as many as possible.

One of the girls ground up some laxatives called Bile Beans and used them in half the mixture and tipped us off not to touch the blue iced ones.

Lets just say she thought she had developed an allergy and stayed away from the iced cakes in future.

This level of greedy is not uncommon. My DBrother used to nick all my baking as well! 🙄

This post reminds me of a work's night out, where the food (massive sharing plate) was gorgeous, but hardly anyone ate it! I was a size 8 so certainly not large, but I admit I was very tempted to have loads as no one else was having it. It could be this woman knows people in her office don't tend to take things, so she did to avoid waste. Is she usually cheeky, OP?

With someone like that in the group, I'd definitely go round and deliver/offer them by hand if I ever baked for the colleagues again. At least that way you can be sure everyone present has a fair chance at one. If possible, I'd wait and offer to her last, with only one left (having already given any extras to my favourite people or kept them to take back home).

Inadvertently eating too many is one thing, but counting as you go so you know you've scoffed 8 takes a certain kind of chutzpah.