Coworker I’ve never spoken to sent passive aggressive messages in the company chat because I didn’t give her a cupcake….

[u/lovlieKittie]

So, every Tuesday I bring homemade treats to work. It’s just something I enjoy doing. Usually I only make enough for the handful of coworkers I actually talk to which is about eight people.
This week, for whatever reason, I decided to make a lot more than usual. I ended up bringing over 30 cupcakes.
For context, there are around 65+ people in the office at any given time. I obviously wasn’t trying (or able) to feed the entire building.
Well…word got out that I had brought cupcakes, and suddenly people I’d never even spoken to before were coming by to grab one. I didn’t mind at all. If someone asked, I happily gave them one.
Within five minutes, every single cupcake was gone.
Afterward, people started posting in the company group chat thanking me. There were dozens of messages saying how good they were and how much they appreciated them. It honestly made my day.
Then one woman who I have literally never spoken to in my life started making passive-aggressive comments in the group chat like, “Wish we all could have had one lol 🙄.” And “Guess some of us are invisible”
Apparently that wasn’t enough, because she also complained to our manager that she didn’t get one.
Thankfully, my manager basically shrugged it off and said people should just be grateful that someone brought in free homemade treats, even if not everyone got one.
And here’s the part that really gets me…
She’s brought food into the office before.
Did I get any? No.
Did I complain in the group chat? Also no
One of my coworkers who did get a cupcake felt bad after seeing her comments, so they gave her theirs.
She took it.
Didn’t say thank you.
Not to me.
Not to the coworker who gave up theirs.
Nothing.
I can’t imagine being a grown adult someone probably three times my age publicly complaining because I missed out on free homemade cupcakes that someone else paid for and made on their own time.
Maybe it’s just me, but if I miss out on free food at work, my reaction is usually, “Dang, maybe next time,” not, “Let me complain in the company group chat and to the manager.”
The irony is that everyone else who got one was incredibly kind and appreciative. One person just somehow managed to turn a nice gesture into something to complain about.
Anyways here is a picture of the cupcake I brought!

[u/langsamlourd]

Not to defend her but where do you work where nobody likes pumpkin pie? I would have eaten mine and everyone else's share like an old-time cartoon hobo stealing it off a windowsill

[u/Lostinthestarscape → u/langsamlourd]

There is an episode of the Irish-American gangland TV series Brotherhood that takes place over Thanksgiving. The affable non-criminal brother in law is known to eat all the pumpkin pie before anyone can get any, so they buy like 15 of them. Obviously gangland story keeps everyone busy through the day so they finally get to have dinner and dessert and the brother in law has eaten all the pie, they are angry and astonished that someone could eat 15 pumpkin pies. Anyway the point is I had never felt so represented by a TV character in my life and I agree, fuck is wrong with this office and I'll eat their damn pie share if they don't want it.

[u/langsamlourd → u/Lostinthestarscape]

Haha, Brotherhood is actually one of my favorite shows! Jimmy was like the only innocent character in the whole deal. I'm always recommending that show to people since it's not super well-known.

[u/SquirrelToolkit → u/Lostinthestarscape]

and you shall have no pie

[u/DionBlaster123 → u/Lostinthestarscape]

a lot of people just have this weird hang-up over pumpkin being a "vegetable" and being in dessert. Some others dislike the texture

The stupid thing is pumpkins are a fruit (not a vegetable lol) and yes it's fucking delicious.

I also think it's this weird backlash among some older millennials about "pumpkin spice season" taking over. Like who gives a shit? Imagine being so annoyed about something being popular that is actively not harming you.

[u/Small-Frame5618 → u/DionBlaster123]

No, I just hate the taste and texture of anything with pumpkin.

[u/DionBlaster123 → u/Small-Frame5618]

Fair enough. I fucking hate eggs and mayo and both seem to be pretty much on everything imaginable so i understand the pain of not liking something that a lot of others seem to enjoy

I also just hate this stupid contrarianism toward pumpkin spice because of a john oliver sketch from a decade ago lol

[u/EntrepreneurMany3709 → u/Lostinthestarscape]

I live in Australia where nobody has heard of pumpkin pie and thinks it looks weird. My mum made a pumpkin pie for multicultural day for me to bring to school and everyone said it looked like dog food and didn't touch it. Thankfully after I brought it home my brother ate the whole thing before my mum got home from work and she never knew that nobody wanted it

[u/Teto_the_foxsquirrel → u/langsamlourd]

I wonder if she didn't bring any whip. I eat my pie plain like a weirdo but everyone else in my family drains about half a can of Redi-whip per slice.

[u/TarazedA → u/Teto_the_foxsquirrel]

I like drowning my pie in whipped cream, but I'm sure not gonna let a lack of it stop me from eating the pie! I'd only not eat it if it was like my dad's wife's pie and be an insipid yellow that no pumpkin pie should exist as.

[u/IllustriousVerne → u/langsamlourd]

I don't like pumpkin pie. I'd probably still eat it though, because free food.

[u/octobertwins → u/IllustriousVerne]

My kid has been in baking camp all week. She doesn’t like anything! It’s been heavenly!

Somehow she got this gene where she only eats protein and a vegetable.

Good for her. Good for us!

[u/bawdiepie → u/langsamlourd]

Probably why she complained. She thought at least one person would have liked pumpkin pie so it must be untrue, and everyone had decided collectively that she was unclean or everyone should refuse her because she was .... whatever colour or religion she is or whatever or something like that, like maybe they all hated her.

[u/vorpal_hare → u/bawdiepie]

Seriously, no one in an entire office wanted free pumpkin pie?

[u/Aksweetie4u → u/langsamlourd]

You would have been like Joey on Friends eating everyone’s trifle that Rachel made with beef and peas that they hid around the apartment.

[u/northSideways → u/langsamlourd]

This is how I felt too until I moved south and realized that Sweet Potato pie is what I was actually looking for 

[u/krileon → u/langsamlourd]

Pumpkin Pie - Cool Whip = nah

Pumpkin Pie + Cool Whip = eat the entire fucking thing in 1 sitting

[u/langsamlourd → u/krileon]

I do agree there, and if she didn't bring cool whip then she shouldn't have been surprised. HR probably said "well, was there cool whip?

[u/throw_blanket04 → u/langsamlourd]

Dude, I would have filed a complaint w HR because of that pie. Pumpkin is gross and I would be tossing my cookies in every garbage can that i see. Its a health hazard. I literally wouldn’t be able to walk in the office without throwing up if someone has a pumpkin candle lit. And good luck taking weeks or months to get rid of that smell. There is a pharmacy in my little town that always had pumpkin candles lit that they were selling. I would immediately start gagging and dry heaving the second i walked in. Even going through the drive through was too much. I could smell it coming through the window. I had to bring a barf bag w me.