Page 9 | Cake-gate at work

EnfysDilys · 2026-03-31T17:43:13+00:00

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 …

Daygloboo · 01/04/2026 09:05

Minimili · 01/04/2026 05:48

People shouldn’t encourage OP to put laxatives in any future cakes (no matter how much someone deserves it!) because you can get into a lot of trouble for it - or make someone seriously ill.

I used to work nights as a support worker doing 12 hour shifts and spent a lot of money, time and effort cooking proper meals to take with me.
A few of the staff warned me they would gain weight on nights by eating pot noodles, junk food and take aways for convenience so I also made sure I had a few healthy snacks in case my break was very late or cut short.

One woman started doing the same shifts and I noticed my food was partly eaten (which is gross as it seemed to be eaten with a fork straight from the tub) or just taken completely. I could hide snacks but meals needed keeping in the fridge and she would still sometimes hunt out my snacks and eat them.

I approached her and said I knew it was her as it only happened after she started, she admitted it and said it didn’t seem fair that I had nice meals to eat when she didn’t! (She denied taking the snacks but it was definitely her).
I told her to just make her own and she said she didn’t have time because she had children unlike me.

I said that wasn’t my problem and that she was leaving me to go all night without any food because I couldn’t go out to get more and nowhere was open anyway.
She asked me if she gave me £5 a week if I would bring enough food for her too, I told her she was being ridiculous and couldn’t believe she hadn’t apologised when she’d basically been stealing from me.
She just moaned on about how it was easy for me to cook a few meals when I had more time and less responsibilities until I got angry and told her to fuck off and if she tried it again I’d put laxatives in it.

My boss called me into the office before my next shift and said that “Susan” had told him what had happened and he completely agreed with me but that Susan had said if I put laxatives in my food then she would call the police and have me arrested for spiking food I knew she might eat. He warned me I could potentially end up being accused of “administrating a noxious substance”.

Luckily he did give Susan a warning for theft as well and I’m not sure it was that or the threat of the laxatives but she stopped pinching my food and brought her own, she moaned constantly about how stressful it was to do and did everyone’s head in though.
She was also the person who took fistfuls from tins or boxes of sweets at Christmas, tried to take any home in her bag that someone had brought in for everyone and when the company gave us anything like an Easter egg, selection box or anything else edible we had to check she only took one and not them all.

Everyone was relieved when she left after a few months saying the staff all bullied her “like all her previous jobs” I’m guessing she was bullied at any future ones too…

I worked somewhere where at the end of a staff 'do' half a big cream cake was left....quite a bit bigger than a dinner plate sized cake. Someone got what looked like an old rusty tin off the side by the sink, sort of shovelled the 'too big' cake into the tin as if they were plastering a wall, and then buggered off home with it. I imagined them eating it with a trowel when they got home.

AntiqueBabyLoanSmurf · 01/04/2026 10:00

RampantIvy · 01/04/2026 08:22

Next time you make cakes, use laxative chocolate, they will definitely feel the effects if they are a glutton again.

No need if they were made with shredded wheat. I expect she will be regretting it today.

Yes, this is pertinent: there are straight-up laxative products that you can buy from the chemist and there are also normal foods that can have a nasty laxative effect if you eat far too much in one go. Lots of sugar-free sweets are fine if you have one or two, but they warn you clearly on the packet not to chow down into them like there's no tomorrow (maybe not using those actual words!) unless you want to be howling and groaning on the bog all evening.

Just like if you ate a catering-size tin of baked beans on your own at one meal, you'd be parping and honking away like a Canada goose, and you may well end up regretting it; but you can't actually blame the beans for you grossly overeating them.

AntiqueBabyLoanSmurf · 01/04/2026 10:12

Namechangefordaughterevasion · 01/04/2026 04:14

TBF not everybody would want one. I don't much like cake & sometimes have to force some down for politeness. I'd be very grateful if someone ate what had been designated 'my' share. Unless it was a chocolate sprinkle Krispy Kreme. That would not be good!

But even then, just supposing there are 12 people in the office and 14 cakes, and only 10 people want them... surely it's infinitely fairer if those 10 people get 1 each (once they know for a fact that the others don't want any), then maybe a few get a second cake (or half of one if they share with another person), rather than one greedy bugger swiping 8 of them and then 3 people who wanted a cake can't have one at all?

Some people are experts at finding 'leftovers' which aren't leftovers at all. I don't know if they're too thick to realise that, if they take other people's shares as a bonus, those other people are left with none at all; or if they are simply too selfish to care.

Paganpentacle · 01/04/2026 10:14

EnfysDilys · 31/03/2026 18:53

They were Easter nest cakes 🐣 when she announced she’d had eight, a fair few people said they’d not had one cos they’d all gone, she just said she’d enjoyed them! 🤣

Were you there when she said it?
I'm sorry- I would have said something to her face- greedy cow.

ldnmusic87 · 01/04/2026 10:17

That is awful, do you have a teams chat- I wouldn't be able to stop posting a passive aggressive comment.

AntiqueBabyLoanSmurf · 01/04/2026 10:21

RodeoClown · 31/03/2026 20:39

Eight Easter nests! 😵What was going through her mind!

I once worked in an office that had glass fronted fridge of drinks in and a woman started work and on her first day she took a load, like twenty cans, of drinks out and put them in her bag. She said that because they were free she couldn’t see what the problem was.

She's the kind of blissfully unaware person who spoils things for everybody. Can she really not see that, whilst the company may be willing to provide enough for every employee to take one or two free, if every person starts taking 20, they'll just see the massively increased costs and swiftly put an end to it and nobody will get anything any more?

DugnuttEyeBoogies · 01/04/2026 10:27

Francestein · 01/04/2026 01:33

I think you should get HR to handle this one. She fucked up a perfectly lovely gesture of yours. If she had waited and discovered any left at the end of the day, she could have ASKED, but pigging out on 8 cakes is gross.

HR won’t give a flying fuck.

craycray431 · 01/04/2026 10:29

Daygloboo · 01/04/2026 09:05

I worked somewhere where at the end of a staff 'do' half a big cream cake was left....quite a bit bigger than a dinner plate sized cake. Someone got what looked like an old rusty tin off the side by the sink, sort of shovelled the 'too big' cake into the tin as if they were plastering a wall, and then buggered off home with it. I imagined them eating it with a trowel when they got home.

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What the hell?! did anyone try to stop them or were you all too gobsmacked?

Gonnagetgoingreturnsagain · 01/04/2026 10:54

Greedy cow!

TheVeloursImgonnaChangeNsoul · 01/04/2026 11:01

Don't do the laxitives,you could end up in a world of shit so to speak.

Whosthetabbynow · 01/04/2026 11:01

Embarrassing. Greedy cunt. Some people are pigs.

Daygloboo · 01/04/2026 11:01

craycray431 · 01/04/2026 10:29

What the hell?! did anyone try to stop them or were you all too gobsmacked?

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There werent many people left hanging around and there wasnt really anywhere to store it, but even so ......im sure it was very tasty though😂

FocusOnMyFord · 01/04/2026 11:52

Kimura · 01/04/2026 00:44

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.

Justice via apocalyptic shits is objectively hilarious...but you've essentially poisoned someone there. It's a good job she didn't find out, or have a serious reaction to the laxative.

My mum played this prank on my dad when they were young and he ended up extremely ill 😅

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I wasn’t the one who made the cakes or put bile beans in the cakes!
I was part of the wider group, but was aware of it on the day the cakes were brought to college.

FocusOnMyFord · 01/04/2026 11:55

FocusOnMyFord · 01/04/2026 11:52

I wasn’t the one who made the cakes or put bile beans in the cakes!
I was part of the wider group, but was aware of it on the day the cakes were brought to college.

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Further to this, the girl in question was always the dare devil of the group and once necked a whisky and coke in one go that she’d brought in from home! We were not yet 18! And at college! As I said before, if she knew about the cake issue, she would’ve laughed.

Lansonmaid · 01/04/2026 12:00

Next time make chocolate cakes and make sure she gets the ones decorated with Ex-lax chocolate?

3luckystars · 01/04/2026 12:00

GardeningMummy · 31/03/2026 23:37

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….”

I read that quickly as ‘special bitch’ and thought you were suggesting putting that on the next cake.

I LOVE that idea!!!

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 01/04/2026 12:09

cinnamonda · 01/04/2026 02:22

some people just have a sweet tooth, let her be. When someone drinks a whole bottle of wine or downs like 8 pints of beer or shots pretty fast, noone says they were greedy - noone bats an eye - in fact, mostly they celebrate 🥳

It matters when other people lose out because of one person’s greed, @cinnamonda.

3luckystars · 01/04/2026 12:10

The reason I said ‘it doesn’t matter who ate them’ is that you gained valuable information from making your cakes. You all found what she is like. Totally worth it!

Some people have no manners.

FlapperFlamingo · 01/04/2026 12:58

8?! wow, I'm no under-eater by any stretch of the imagination but how on earth did she get through that many? Plus, it's just plain rude, of course you should have 1 and leave the rest for others. So strange that someone can be so unaware of how to share.

TrickyD · 01/04/2026 13:27

Apologies if I have missed this, but has no one mentioned the greedy cow being neurodivergent (undiagnosed)?
The usual MN answer to any example of any anti-social behaviour.

RaraRachael · 01/04/2026 13:36

In our school we took turns to take in cakes on a Friday. We'd leave them in the staffroom first thing. It came to our notice that the teacher in the room opposite was nipping in and helping herself to many cakes.
I started keeping mine in my classroom and my PSA would take them through just before breaktime.

Some people are just greedy pigs.

MyOliveStork · 01/04/2026 13:41

rwalker · 31/03/2026 19:05

I’m a twat
so I’d make some more with a note on for those of you who missed out due to one person eating 8

Definitely this, makes point to her that she was greedy and others went without because of her. Hopefully she’ll realise how inappropriately she behaved!
Also, you are seen as super lovely and nice as you made more for those who didn’t have one.

YerMotherWasAHamster · 01/04/2026 14:04

AppleDumplingWithCustard · 01/04/2026 00:56

Not food related but some people are so greedy. I took a big basket of spare cosmetics/make-up into work. All brand new but items I’d got as gifts/freebies that I wouldn’t use. People were taking one or two bits and all was fine. At the end of the day I saw a staff member waltzing off with the entire basket that was still half full. When I asked her what she was doing she brazenly announced that she was taking them as her brother could sell them to make some money. Said brother was a druggy, out of work scrounger. Needless to say I relieved her of the basket and told her what I thought of that idea. What a fucking nerve!

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@AppleDumplingWithCustard bloody good for you!
What did she have to say for herself?

Catwalking · 01/04/2026 15:05

next time she doesn’t get any at all. 😉

AppleDumplingWithCustard · 01/04/2026 15:59

YerMotherWasAHamster · 01/04/2026 14:04

@AppleDumplingWithCustard bloody good for you!
What did she have to say for herself?

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No shame whatsoever! I took the basket off her and she just walked off.