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Food at Work
Wow. All I can say is that some of you work in some really messed up offices.
I work for a big corporation in Midtown, and I often bring in my own lunch or cookies for people in my department, and I've never had negative experiences like you're describing. People are always appreciative of my cookies or cake, and never take it for granted. I've never been mocked for bringing in my own lunch. On the contrary, coworkers have looked longingly at my food and said, "I wish I could cook like that."
Food at Work
meowises, it's simple...double the recipe. =)
Food at Work
At my former office, (I'm now a freelancing from home and nosh my way through the day...), a co-worker would bring me chocolate covered raisins from Sahadi's in Brooklyn. I called them "my medicine." Any office illness-- boredom, a deadline, a grouchy boss-- would require a fix.
Food at Work
there are 2 of us in my office who bake for "birthday Tuesday" once a month. everyone else is happy to eat the food but not contribute anything to it...so in the summer we have ice cream socials where everyone brings something in. inevtiably, some people did not bring in anything but expected to eat what everyone else brought in. this caused a lot of fighting.
whenever i bake something for the office, it is a problem at home. the hubby feels cheated that he doens't get any....so now i am going to buy something, that way the house won't smell like yummies....
Food at Work
We used to have cake once a month to celebrate birthdays in our group. An employee from another group got transfered to our group. He offered to go out of his way to get the expensive fancy torte cakes. Slowly he started inviting people from other groups to join in our cake days. It started to get too expensive to get bigger and bigger cakes. Some people started opting out. The the new cake guy felt snubbed and started getting cakes and only inviting a chosen few to join in. It turned into cake-gate at work and people took sides and now half the group doesn't get along with the other half. I guess you can't have your cake and eat it too!
Food at Work
Strangely enough, working in a kitchen isn't much different. While people may be up to their eyeballs in food, it's food that's meant for somebody else. I had a really dense brownie-like cake that I was responsible for at one time. It was to be cut vertically and then diagonally to create diamond shaped pieces for plating. Well, when you cut a big rectangle into little diamonds you end up with quite a few oddly shaped pieces. The staff really looked forward to those little bits of cake. They also like steamed artichoke leaves, broken poached salmon (if it doesn't hold togther it's not served to paying customers) and any little bits of leftover anything you may have. Maybe it is working with the food all the time, or the smells, or... heaven knows, but cooks are downright cut-throat when it comes to kitchen scraps.
Food at Work
I grew up in Burbank. I never got any of your cake either. *glare*
I used to bring in goodies to my office (previous life and career) and watched with delight as co-workers came swarming out of the cracks like roaches to devour the goods before skittering away again before the lights came back on. I loved doing it. Now, my office hosts only myself and one other person most of the time and I'm resigned to the yogurt, apples and occasional chicken breasts I bring from home. It's the company that makes the treats...special. A doughnut eaten by myself is just a sugary guilt-bomb. I miss working with roaches.
Food at Work
I recently made a gluten-free raspberry shortcake for my colleages, keeping in mind that one of them has celiac disease. Topped it with a chantilly-style low-fat ricotta. The other guys mocked the 'health food' at first. In the end, they wrestled each other for the last slices.
There's one particular girl who bullies via food e.g. perpetually singling one Indonesian girl out for eating plain lettuce with rice and soy sauce, and the Tibetian guy for putting butter in this tea. Otherwise, we're a very diverse, foodie-populated office.
Food at Work
The last time I brought in a cake a coworker said "You just love feeding us, don't you." So many people are on diets in my office that they don't appreciate free sweets-- although they do eat them.
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Wow. All I can say is that some of you work in some really messed up offices.
I work for a big corporation in Midtown, and I often bring in my own lunch or cookies for people in my department, and I've never had negative experiences like you're describing. People are always appreciative of my cookies or cake, and never take it for granted. I've never been mocked for bringing in my own lunch. On the contrary, coworkers have looked longingly at my food and said, "I wish I could cook like that."