To want to do more than raise an arch eyebrow at colleague?

[Iklboo]

Today I brought in a largish tin of biccies for our section (you know, the Family Favourites use-the-empty-tub-as-a-MP's-second-home size). There are currently 6 of us in the section.

I made a brew and took 2 biccies.

Colleague (moany one who was difficult when we were trying to book Xmas meal out) says in a pointed voice 'those biscuits are for everyone you know'

I gave her the Paddington Iklboo hard stare for a minute and said in a nice measured voice 'yes I know, there's plenty for everyone'

She says 'Well, I'm just saying'

Other colleague: 'Iklboo did bring them in'

Moany colleague: 'I know, but we should share them'

FFS - 2 biccies out of about 100???

AIBU to be a bit irked?

i've just thought: seeign as the emoticon only came on today, and this thread has just started, can i shout "Troll"?

or is that not allowed anymore?

100 biscuits, 6 of you = 16.66 biscuits each. Get your remaining entitlement of biscuits out NOW (make damn sure you get that .66) and make a biscuit tower on top of your PC. Just so she can see it really clearly.

Can you make a wallchart with your names on it and boxes that you all have to tick every time any of you take a biscuit. When people ask you why, you can say that [petty woman] suggested that we monitor our biscuit use to make sure we are splitting them fairly. Say it in a lowered voice, making it clear that you're worried for the state of [petty woman's] mind and that it's best if you all just go along with it.

Oh, please divvy up the biscuits to the fraction! Use a ruler and a stanley knife.

Holy shit Spicemonster!! Great minds and all that!

I have a horrible feeling that this is going to become a Discussion of the Day, and once again we MNetters will be shown to be the biscuit obsessed lightweights we so obviously are.......

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Oh please lick all the s one by one whilst looking at her,like Chicken said, that would be amazing.

Cheeky mare

fairycake. God we're evil bitches

nickelbang - I only wish I were trolling about this!
PLEASE don't make this discussion of the day. There are better threads out there than my ishoos with a colleague we're all getting fed up with

(we have a team building day tomorrow making chocolates. We're beginning to worry.....)

Loving this thread! Any excuse for a !!

I'd be a little concerned about the 6.66 in that "fair share". Does the Moany Colleague have horns, a pointy tail and a faint whiff of brimstone about her?

Ooh, good point Gunpowder. How is she around crosses?

She has a whiff of summat - not sure it's brimstone

But surely this is an important debate that requires the attention of the media dn the PM????

fairycake & spicemonster - HAHAHAHAHA. Genius idea.
Some sort of Exel spreadsheet?
OP just be careful to guard the biccies over lunchtime... you never know what might happen if you trun your back.

sockmonkey - tripwires. It's the only way. Biscuits are serious business.

Hmmm - perhaps a reward scheme.
Complete 1 work task = bourbon biscuit
2 work tasks = jammy dodger
3 = chocolate biscuit?

YANBU. i had a very similar situation the other day. started a new job recently, and I bought a big box of mini cakes in, then when I took a second one at my lunch break someone made similar comments, and I kept quiet but was pretty taken aback by the obsessive monitoring of what people were eating, especially as I'd brought them in in the first place

maybe all work places need a biscuit sharing policy.....

whooshspicemonster's reply is just fab. Do it, do it!

Seriously, though, if it'd been me, I'd have told her that when she buys the biscuits, then can she tell me how many I can take. When I buy the biscuits, I have as many as I please.

?? How is taking two not sharing anyway? I don't even understand. Did anyone stop her approaching the tin? Is she mad? I don't get it.

Have decided she's not having a turn on the section advent calendar now

Who died and made her biscuit monitor?

I'd just announce very loudly 'And yes, I'm having another ' whenever you head to the tin.

Think she may have been implying I'm a greedy fat cow (which, to be fair, I am)

Crikey, nutty woman.

In my old work place (have now left for maternity leave, woo!), we had to get 'em while we could... there was an absolutely adorable woman who would eat packets a day if given half a chance... and she was skinny as a rake, hehe. It sort of became a running joke if anyone brought any food in, bless her. She was absolutely lovely, I miss her a bit

Cough on them