Last day doughnuts ....

[Support Monkey]

I used to work at a place where at the weekly meeting, someone was nominated to buy a buffet style feast of cakes, sausage rolls, pork pies, etc. It wasn't optional either, and as a contractor trying to be on good footing you just had to go with it and buy good quality stuff.

After a while I noticed the meeting organiser never bought any of the food, and often team members who he didn't like had more than their fair share of turns at buying. I only bought it once the whole time I was there and put it on expenses , whereas some poor permie sod had to buy it about 4 times in the same period.

I worked for a local authority and when they had there monthly team meeting someone would bake a cake or a loaf of bread, they would challenge the monthly person to make something they had never baked before, we had some fantastic homemade cakes and Pastries

[BrilloPad]

I usually buy everyone chocolate cookies. Made with ex-lax chocolate.

[CheeseSlice]

Buy cakes while you are there, not on the way out. At least you won't get booted out for being tight fisted.

I used to work at a place where at the weekly meeting, someone was nominated to buy a buffet style feast of cakes, sausage rolls, pork pies, etc. It wasn't optional either, and as a contractor trying to be on good footing you just had to go with it and buy good quality stuff.

After a while I noticed the meeting organiser never bought any of the food, and often team members who he didn't like had more than their fair share of turns at buying. I only bought it once the whole time I was there and put it on expenses , whereas some poor permie sod had to buy it about 4 times in the same period.

[NervousRexx]

My final day on site is coming up and the 'tradition' is for the person leaving to bring in doughnuts & treats for everyone.

Does this happen in other places?

Do you guys subscribe to the feeding of the masses simply because your contracts finished?

Just wondering.

Depends on the people I'm working with (so very rarely buy treats - think I can remember once in 10 years)

[Zippy]

Buy cakes while you are there, not on the way out. At least you won't get booted out for being tight fisted.

[Support Monkey]

Nope.

Never have & never will.

I usually just disappear to everyone's great relief.

Me to i don't subscribe to the birthday cakes, leaving card, big speak thing, thats what permis do, i arrived i did my job and i left i did exactly what it said on the tin

[jmo21]

I usually do, nothing wrong with it in my opinion.

I don't want to be remembered as the ranker that didn't buy any cakes when he left. Any good work you have done will all be forgotten about

[gingerjedi]

I have to buy doughnuts just for walking away and leaving my desktop unlocked, some fecker always sends an email from my PC telling the entire team of my selfless generosity.

[EternalOptimist]

My final day on site is coming up and the 'tradition' is for the person leaving to bring in doughnuts & treats for everyone.

Does this happen in other places?

Do you guys subscribe to the feeding of the masses simply because your contracts finished?

Just wondering.

sod doughnuts. get pakoras, lamb tikksa and onion barghees

yum yum

[bless 'em all]

My final day on site is coming up and the 'tradition' is for the person leaving to bring in doughnuts & treats for everyone.

Does this happen in other places?

Do you guys subscribe to the feeding of the masses simply because your contracts finished?

Just wondering.