Bake off | Employee threatened with HR after refusing to bake cake

An employee has threatened to go to HR after a colleague refused to bake them a birthday cake for free – Metro reports.

The colleague was baffled at the audacity of her co-worker who asked her to make an impressive birthday cake – a lavish design which would have been deserving of star-baker prize from the Bake Off’s duo Prue and Paul. What was even more confusing was that the pair barely knew one another so it was quite cheeky of the employee to ask in the first place.

The anonymous Reddit user shared a screenshot of the conversation which read: “Hey I heard from… that you baked a cake for your team on his birthday. It’s my birthday next week, can you bake me a cake and bring it into the office? It’s free right?”

The surprised colleague responded explaining that she had volunteered to make a birthday cake in the past because the team contributed money towards the ingredients. She went on to explain that it would probably be awkward for her to make the cake for this distant colleague considering she didn’t know anyone in the team, and the pair didn’t really know each other.