Cake-gate at work

[EnfysDilys]

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 …

8 cakes however small they could be is a lot especially that the CF did not have the self awareness to know other people didn’t get one.

We have someone at work who is gluten-free. When we bring in cakes/treats for our birthdays, we always bring in a box of gluten-free alternatives. She takes this gesture as meant purely for her so will swipe the entire box and take them home. The really awful thing is that she's not the only gluten-free person so she's depriving them too.

How was your response not “WTF you greedy bitch??!”

thats the tricky part of it, for me if theres extras i try to ask the person that made x

It's a horrible thing to do, adding laxatives imo. I suspect everyone on here will disagree with me, though.

No one should need it specified not to eat 8. Also anyone with any sense of basic manners would know to take just one. My 6yo knows that without being reminded.

Jesus Christ, she should be ashamed! I wouldn’t have even bothered trying to hide the disgust from my face.

I sometimes buy a box of Mr. Kipling cakes when they are on offer, intending everyone to have one. If I am lucky, I remember to put the empty box into the recycling bin before anyone else gets home! The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.

That’s an exceedingly good intention!

Why aren't she asked to share?

She is incredibly brazen. Just snaffles them straight into her bag. She is challenged but just says, "I'll bring them back!" as she zooms out the door.

I would bring her 1 to snaffle. Game over. Or none tbh.

I'm 41 and people still shock me.

She ate 8 meaning others received none. Then she bragged about it with no shame. It's like they're from a different planet.

I'd take them out of the main packet and bag them up with people's names on in fuck off sized letters.

Just thought id help since colleagues a and b are also gluten free and its important everyone gets something, im sure you agree.

Yes I am that petty. Selfishness pisses me off a lot. 🤣

Has anyone pointed this out to her? Rather than seething silently in a very British fashion.

Nah, selfish greedy stealing cunts deserve all they get. Even if that is a pants full of shit.

Yep.

and add laxatives to hers. Joking! Maybe …

2 is enthusiastic, 3 is greedy but 8 is just grotesque. (And incredibly rude. Even my teenage DC with autism and other additional needs would stop and have a think before he got to 8 in a group sharing setting).

But OP didn't just make them for the sake of it and bring them in to get rid of them - she specifically brought them in for everybody to enjoy.

Some people (I'm guessing 8-Cakes Carol is one of them) will always have to spoil it and spin it so that, when somebody offers them something nice out of kindness, they'll say something like "Well, if you're needing to find a home for them" without the hint of a twinkle in their eye, as if they are doing them a favour.

8-cakes Carol 🤣🤣🤣

Unless they have severe learning disabilities, it's crazy that adults have to be told how to share food and not scoff the lot themselves - as though they were a 2yo child who can only centre themselves in their as-yet tiny world.

Do these same people also have to be reminded to wash their hands after using the toilet, or to say "Please" when they ask for something?

Could you maybe tell your colleague that you’re glad she enjoyed them, because you were sure how cakes made with crushed dried locusts instead of flour would go down.

Well - it does matter - some people didn’t even get one, because the greedy colleague had eaten eight, @3luckystars.

I imagine she didn’t walk over, pick eight up and take them over to her workstation. I would think she had them gradually. I would doubt that she actually had eight and was exaggerating. Although if someone brings in a tub of those mini millionaires shortbread I couldn’t tell you how many of those I'm responsible for eating, just pop one in every time I walk past. But as I previously said if the OP doesn’t add a note, send an email to the team or go round with them some people will always have another cake.

OP, make a ‘special batch’ just for her, with an all-natural laxative in. “I made these for you, seeing as you loved them so much….”