Free cake in Tupperware “breach”

[Orangy]

I work in an office and like any office, people bring in cakes for any old reason.

Most people eat their cake there and then at their desk, with a brew. However, one colleague takes a cake, puts it in a Tupperware container, and takes it home to eat at the weekend.

She does this because she’s very much into her her health and fitness (and looks great for it) and Saturday is her “cheat day”.

For some reason, some of our colleagues are utterly incensed about this practice of removing the cake in Tupperware. I can’t see the fuss myself, don’t care whether she eats it on the day or at the weekend, but some are acting like she’s breached some unwritten cardinal rule of office etiquette.

Surely my Tupperware colleague isn't being unreasonable?

PS - It’s not me. I eat on the day.

It’s me. I should get the chocolate face. Every single time 😜

We don’t have this problem as all our cake days are for charity. So you can take as much cake as you like and eat it wherever you like - as long as you’ve paid for it! 😀

Crazy that anyone cares about this! Of course it’s reasonable she does this, assuming it’s just her share and not all the leftovers.

Funny, I was just telling someone that because I've learned to avoid sugar in the morning, if I'm offered something sugary at work, I take it and just save it until later. I wonder if your colleague is aware of the indignation. I would just have folded it up into a napkin.
Have you asked your colleagues why they're so worked up?

Weird, why should that make a difference? Just because she’s eating it later doesn’t mean she should get the scraps.

I must be buying the wrong knockoff Colin, mine never has a chocolate face, it’s icing sugar and we always bin that bit. It used to be the bum that was the best bit but they’ve changed it again so it’s no longer the case. Is it only the real Colin that has the chocolate face?

Yes, real Colin has a large solid white chocolate face and it is glorious, like God himself baked it (and then stuck the face on).

😂sounds better but I don’t like white chocolate😭

That’s weird of your colleagues. It really doesn’t matter. My colleagues would have been thrilled that the cake was taken. They were all cake pushers and it didn’t matter if you wanted one or not, you got one along with a napkin.

Aaagh, there's a difference, Colin cake yum I'm in, home made no hygiene provenance cake, not so much. So if its premium Colin and she takes it and someone goes without cf, if she snaffles a slice that Sandra's grandkids have sneezed on knock yourself out wgaf.

Tupperware colleague is unreasonable. And weird. The whole point of bringing cakes into the office is to foster a nice team spirit by sharing food and eating a treat together, not supplying some tightwad with a snack for the weekend 🤷‍♀️

I’m going to take a guess that the people outraged by it are women, over 40 and fat.

Bloody hell, there must be very little going on at your workplace! Who cares when she eats her bit of cake?

I wouldn't be too happy at the poster taking two bits of cake home for her kids though, especially if someone is missing out.

I'm always a bit iffy about home made cake personally just in case.

I can see a logic for the complainers; cake in the office is partly about the act of eating and sharing together, to take a bite and compliment the baker etc. It's not just functional. But I think that's outweighed by the reasonable adjustment logic of she has her treats at the weekend. Choosing that as a treat is a compliment. I'd make a similar argument for someone fasting during Ramadan. And I've certainly taken cake, put it on a plate and then eaten it later that afternoon.

whomever brought in the cake should always gets first dibs @Orangy

Who are these folks who'd deprive the purchaser of such a tasty morsel?

Heathens!!

Presumably your colleagues think that the cake is some sort of bonding experience and the fitnesses colleague is entering into the spirit, which is fair enough. But I don’t think that they should have any problem with what you described.

It's interesting that she brings in a tupperware for the purpose of taking home a cake. Surely a cake should be 'how lovely' 'what a nice thought'. Perhaps the tupperware signals some kind of entitlement or expectation to your colleagues. A degree of pre-planning that detracts from what is intended to be a 'ta-da!' gesture.

Also, squirreling it away to eat out of sight suggests she is 'no better than she ought to be' as my granny would say (In this case, you are all fat pigs but I am not like you).

Interesting that some would have Colin but avoid homemade.

I'm a bit like Colleague, in that I'm careful not to eat too much junk and in a world where there's cake in the staff room nearly everyday, I have learned to be selective, I don't want cake everyday. I'd swerve Colin, but have a piece of something homemade if it looked good. I wouldn't take it home though.

It could be worse, I once worked with someone who would stash bits of cake put out in the office into old crisp packets that I assume she had rinsed out and take them home that way. Never saw her eating any of it in the office.

I have food allergies so none of the office treat behaviour ever affect me personally, as I can’t eat it anyway. But I’d think you were a bit of a dick taking two slices for people who aren’t even there. It’s totally different to OP’s colleague who is taking one piece, the same as everyone else, and just eating it at a different time.

I actually think this would annoy me! But I know that's unreasonable ... and im not sure why? It just seems against the 'spirit' of the cake being brought in. Which is ridiculous. I AM being unreasonable. But I remain annoyed 😆

I think your colleagues are being weird.

Yes and it's not as if she is taking 8 portions of baked treat away with her.

I just cant get over the fact that people pay attention to stuff like this. I work in an office. There's always cake, cookies, donuts etc getting brought in by somebody. I honestly couldn't tell you who eats it, who dosen't, who takes some home. It is stuck on the table in the communal area, sometimes it goes fast other times it is there a couple days. Some people must have sad lives if they can pay any attention to this.

I wouldn’t be outraged or particularly bothered about her taking her cake home but I do think it’s a bit odd , if I didn’t want to eat the cake at the time I just wouldn’t have one .