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Sorry, didn't mean to stick my nose in a discussion that does not involve me.
Sorry, didn't mean to stick my nose in a discussion that does not involve me.
I don't think that was directed at you!
Edited to add: or maybe I missed something. either way, this place is getting more schizophrenic than usual lately, and I'm referrring to a different thread.
Here's something not to say to a baker, which someone said to me today as I was setting up a cake with blown sugar on it and he had his pudgy mitt aimed right toward the bubbles: "what are these made of?"
I realize that it wasn't(but thanks for making sure that I knew that:) ) but I also realize that it was pertaining to something else that didn't involve me. Check out the thread in the pits
Yeah, I can't even keep track of that one. Hyperactive fingers that hit the post button too much on that one.
AYeah, I don't know what happened over there (in 'the pits') I hate it when a family member asks for a cake, then when you give them the price - with a family discount - they say "oh, maybe I'll just make the cake myself."
Yeah, I don't know what happened over there (in 'the pits')
I hate it when a family member asks for a cake, then when you give them the price - with a family discount - they say "oh, maybe I'll just make the cake myself."
Then they call you while they're making it and tell you that they need you to come over and "help them" i.e. do it for them because they're screwing it up.
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Sorry, didn't mean to stick my nose in a discussion that does not involve me.
Hey, check out the "recent images in this thread" thing on the right. It has my little dancing trollface on it, haha! He's cutting a rug!
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I'm so confused, but honestly this was not directed at you. It was Directed at people who like to stir the pot just for the sake o stirring.
I know it wasn't directed at me. Most of my nosey comments happened over at "in the pits." I think I accidently intermingled two threads and made it all confusing and what not. Just ignore my previous posts! :)
AHa ha ha as long as I'm not unwittingly offending anyone, I'm good
Or the back handed compliment from my sister who can pay for anything she wants,
"Who did the cake?" (Mum's 80th cake that I had mailed across Australia so was fairly plain)
"Carol, who else would do it" (Other sister)
"Oh, I didn't know she could make cakes that good"
And they all reckon they don't like fruit cake but Mum said when she went to take it home there was virtually none left.
poeple always say i have a fabulous cake for you to do for me. its always some fondant covered cake with gumpaste or some other time consuming detail work. id say the cheapest custom cake starts at JMD$5000 which is about US$53. the'd be like "so much money for cake!" and im thinking to myself that maybe they want it made from mud
Am I just a big meanie?!? I have a tendency to be overly nice to people and go out of my way a bit too much and it is a tendency I'm trying to overcome a little as it sometimes means getting taken for a ride... but sometimes I just can't figure out if I'm ending up being mean because I'm trying to curb myself from being too nice!!
I've been decorating cakes for a couple of years, purely self taught, and have made several cakes for people in the office where I work full-time. I'm hoping to transition to more time caking, less time in the office at some point in the next year. One of the younger women at work has just started making cakes too and is always stopping me in the kitchen and asking for tips and hints and I have no problem telling her how I would do a certain thing or whatever. Recently she's asked where I buy my boxes and cakeboards, if she can buy cake boards and boxes off me as she doesn't want to buy them in bulk as she's just doing a cake every now and then, and what the best places are for buying products.
For some reason this rankles.... I've spent a lot of time researching the best places to buy from in our city (in Aus) and I have ended up buying online from the other side of the country as I can't find what I want in WA. So I get myself organised, buy what I need for various orders from interstate and have the stuff delivered. I suppose I could just charge her a bit more than what the boxes and boards cost me but then I would have to lug it into work with me for her and then order more stuff for myself. There's a bit of me that's thinking I'm just mean to not do it. There's a more dominant bit of me thinking she should just get off her bum and order stuff herself and why should I be spending time sending her (a potential new competitor) websites and info and lugging boxes and boards into work for her when I've had to do all this research myself. She has a very forceful personality, doesn't have a lot of work on at the moment so has plenty of time for research/online shopping and likes things to be easy.
What do you think? Am I just being a bit mean?? Or am I just not being a doormat??
Signed Miss McMeanie
meme, it sounds like you aren't being mean since you give her everything she wants, based on your post. If you are going so far out of your way for someone that you aren't that fond of, then you are being a doormat. It is one thing to give a few ideas or suggestions, or even more if that is what you want to do. It sounds like you have helped her out a lot already. But it sounds like she has crossed the line and it is fine to cut her off. You don't even have to have a good reason, it sounds like she is a pest and bothering you at work with all kinds of non-work questions. You maybe can just start saying you don't have time to talk cake at work and leave it at that, after a few times hopefully she will get the message. And it would be one thing if she asked to place an order with you and split the shipping cost, but you certainly don't have to sell the items you ordered for yourself and end up shorting yourself.
Meme I don't think you're being mean, really you're doing her a favor because it sounds like she's used to doing things the lazy way, and has never had to lift a finger because others always do it for her. One day she'll be in for a shock when she has to actually use her own brain, might as well give her a head start!
In a separate incident at work, I was asked by someone else if I would bake some cupcakes for her to enter into a competition and we would then split the prize!! Hmmm, don't think so!! Flattered she thinks I would be good enough to win but if I'm doing the hard work and win then I'm keeping the loot!
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In a separate incident at work, I was asked by someone else if I would bake some cupcakes for her to enter into a competition and we would then split the prize!! Hmmm, don't think so!! Flattered she thinks I would be good enough to win but if I'm doing the hard work and win then I'm keeping the loot!
:D
Wow... really?
ALo[quote name="me_me1" url="/t/751860/things-not-to-ask-say-to-a-baker/540#post_7371537"]In a separate incident at work, I was asked by someone else if I would bake some cupcakes for her to enter into a competition and we would then split the prize!! Hmmm, don't think so!! Flattered she thinks I would be good enough to win but if I'm doing the hard work and win then I'm keeping the loot!
:D Loooool some people are crazy! In what way has she contributed? speechless
The cupcake thing is hilarious, that gave me a good laugh!
What I'd do with the cake box moocher is tell her sure, she can buy boards from you, here's the price list. Then double the price that you paid for the boards, since you're now acting as her wholesaler, and that's what wholesalers do. Make sure to take your shipping costs into account and add those in too! And if she wants you to lug the boxes in to work then that will be an extra delivery charge. Just hand her a price list and tell her that's what it will be,and if she'd like to place an order you'll need at least a couple of weeks advance notice ini case you have to order more from your supplier.
i've sold boards and boxes to people in my area, but they were polite about it so I didn't give them the wholesale treatment. Rude people get the special surcharge.
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