Office workers... CAKE CULTURE IS BAD! apparently....

[xjay1337]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38491414

BBC must be really struggling to get news headlines today.

And additionally, what's wrong with the occasional cake? I can't say it's more than once every couple of weeks at any company I've worked at in the past.

Cake is bad. Anything that makes office life more tolerable is bad.

We should all eat Tofu and work outside on bean-bags.

[sjg]

I've worked in plenty where it seems pretty frequent - birthdays, leaving, charity collections, excesses of GBBO-inspired baking (or partners' baking), etc. Or just used by bosses as a "thank you".

[DonkeyApple]

It encourages metrosexual behaviour among men, something the BBC is vehemently against.

It also promoted the extraordinary belief that it is acceptable for women to be fat in the work place. Another BBC bugbear.

In short, companies that permit the annoying type of workers who are so desperate for some form of affection or affirmation of existence to bring cakes into the office when they aren't on Facebook trying to collect imaginary friends are simply fostering a rampantly homosexual work place environment where the half who aren't buggering each other are getting stuck in door ways and needing specialist chairs to withstand the enormous weight abuse.

It's good to see the BBC continuing to work against gays, lardarses and the emotionally needy.

[hyphen]

sjg said:

I've worked in plenty where it seems pretty frequent...

That can be a problem for those who can't resist. Plus a lot of it tends to be cheap stuff full of crap rather than homemade/good quality.

All good and well saying "keep out of it", the only winners are the junk food companies- the NHS needs the masses to change their lifestyles.

Edited by hyphen on Tuesday 3rd January 11:46

[Digga]

DonkeyApple said:

It's good to see the BBC continuing to work against gays, lardarses and the emotionally needy.

I have, for a while, wondered how the media square their inexplicable obsession with cakes - Celebrity stcakebakeoff or whatever - with the elephant in the room that now we all know it's not fat, but sugar that's the cause of obesity.

[bitchstewie]

I can understand the dentists having a view.

Not sure why it would be considered news outside the dental industry let alone front pages news though I'm never sure if stuff makes its way from front page to "Top Articles" or the other way around i.e. slow day and 5000 dentists read it and it's promoted to front page?

[MitchT]

The problem isn't cake culture, the problem is feckless, weak willed people. I worked for the best part of two decades in a cake strewn office. I just ignored cake eating opportunities beyond sensible limits. Blaming poor health on cake is like blaming paedophilia on children.

"But it's not my fault because it's there, in my face, tempting me".

Get a grip!

[Brigand]

Given that dentists survive on fixing people's teeth, I'd have thought that at the least they'd stay silent on such matters and reap the rewards later down the line.

[Mothersruin]

I like cake, and I like running.

No probs.

[Yipper]

The problem is, staff end up quietly competing against each other to bring more or better cakes. People realise they can make friends and skip work by bringing cakes. If left unchecked, what starts off as a once-per-month / 10min exercise becomes a once-per-day / 30min gossip (outside breaktimes) for half the office. Tubbies get fatter, British teeth get even more British, while productivity takes a fair whack. And when a higherup regulates or stops it, staff get upset (despite not being paid to eat cake). Everyone loves cake, but the article is right, cake culture is a pain.

[rover 623gsi]

I know that PH loves any excuse to bash the BBC, but this story is covered is most media outlets today

E.g.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/01/03/office-...

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/dentists-urge-uk...

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/jan/03/le...

[xjay1337]

to be fair I only really look at the BBC because the website is the least-worst.

Yipper said:

The problem is, staff end up quietly competing against each other to bring more or better cakes. People realise they can make friends and skip work by bringing cakes. If left unchecked, what starts off as a once-per-month / 10min exercise becomes a once-per-day / 30min gossip (outside breaktimes) for half the office. Tubbies get fatter, British teeth get even more British, while productivity takes a fair whack. And when a higherup regulates or stops it, staff get upset (despite not being paid to eat cake). Everyone loves cake, but the article is right, cake culture is a pain.

I get that, but I honestly can't say at any of the 5 companies I've worked at people have brought in more than the usual crap you'd get (sainsburys mini muffins , etc).

I don't think with a normal moderate excersize routine and brushing your teeth you'd have any problem.

I enjoy fizzy pop , cakes, chocolate etc.
I brush twice a day with a manual toothtbrush and have done as such for as long as I can remeber
No fillings or other mouth-related problems.

[johnxjsc1985]

hyphen said:

:- the NHS needs the masses to change their lifestyles.

Edited by hyphen on Tuesday 3rd January 11:46

just an aside but have you seen the size of some of the people who work for the NHS and then go on TV about healthy choices.

[DonkeyApple]

MitchT said:

The problem isn't cake culture, the problem is feckless, weak willed people. I worked for the best part of two decades in a cake strewn office. I just ignored cake eating opportunities beyond sensible limits. Blaming poor health on cake is like blaming paedophilia on children.

"But it's not my fault because it's there, in my face, tempting me".

Get a grip!

It's a byproduct of workplace equality. No one had trays of cake in the office when womenfolk were kept at home.

[Esseesse]

Yipper said:

The problem is, staff end up quietly competing against each other to bring more or better cakes. People realise they can make friends and skip work by bringing cakes.

Not here, some people are cake bringers, some are not. There is no competition and no shame. The ones who bring cake in for their birthdays somehow manage to publicise the date of their birthday and receive a card organised by one of the other cake donors (I presume), signed by anyone whose desk it passes.

I basically never bring anything but today I have made an exception and brought some boxes of biscuits and chocolate because otherwise far more would end up eaten by me if they were left at home.

[Jimbeaux]

DonkeyApple said:

when they aren't on Facebook trying to collect imaginary friends are simply fostering a rampantly homosexual work place environment where the half who aren't buggering each other are getting stuck in door ways and needing specialist chairs to withstand the enormous weight abuse.

Classic piece of prose sir!

[Cold]

[anonymous-user]

The worst is that the idea of a "breakfast meeting" seems to involve any food type, except if it has vitamins in it. The number of times I have been to a breakfast meeting and there has only been croissants, biscuits, etc... is astonishing.

Of course, the fat, bald, middle aged belly men and women lap them up.

[carinaman]

I thought the more cakes you ate the more money the charities got.

If it was not for charity I wouldn't have eaten them all honest.

[Halb]

hyphen said:

That can be a problem for those who can't resist. Plus a lot of it tends to be cheap stuff full of crap rather than homemade/good quality.

All good and well saying "keep out of it", the only winners are the junk food companies- the NHS needs the masses to change their lifestyles.

Yip, always the cheap st from some supermarket.
The cake s and biscuit bds never stop.
Last time I was stuck in a small space with a few of them, one of them asked me why I didn't enjoy one of the 'treats', I said that nothing that people guzzle every day can be considered a treat, it just meaks it normal, and degrades treats, he agreed when he considered it.
Lovely homemade cakes made with real butter and love are a different matter...but not now in cutting season.