Office culture, bringing cake into work on your birthday

This topic was created in the Miscellaneous forum by atearth on Wednesday, May 17, 2017 and has 5 replies.

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@atearth
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I live in the UK and there seems to be an office culture where individuals bring cake in on their birthday

What is up with that? Just seems so odd to me. It's like having a birthday meal with a large group of people and the birthday person pays the bill for the whole party.

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Posted by atearth
I live in the UK and there seems to be an office culture where individuals bring cake in on their birthday

What is up with that? Just seems so odd to me. It's like having a birthday meal with a large group of people and the birthday person pays the bill for the whole party.

seems bass ackwards if you ask me but then again I don't tell people at work when my birthday is cause I don't like all the hype

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Posted by juliettee
well one cake is really not that expensive. it's the same where i work. i sent a cake when i had my kid too.

You say that but some people are so poorly paid that money/time to buy or make cake for the office is a low priority.