What's with the cakes ??

System
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edited June 18 in AAT student discussion
Has anyone else suffered the strange phenomenon which requires one to bring cakes in for the whole office to celebrate ones exam success ??<BR><BR>(here was me hoping they'd give me the afternoon off and take me down the pub.................)<BR><BR>Not that I'm a wino or anything<BR><BR>But a glass would have been nice<BR><BR>Or 3<BR><BR>Or 30..........

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  • System
    System Posts: 100,534 🤖 Admin 🤖
    What's with the cakes ??

    Yep i suffered the same fate as you for passing my exams im expected to provide the office with cakes and chocolate. Somehow I think they have it backwards!<BR><BR>Pol
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    System Posts: 100,534 🤖 Admin 🤖
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    Are u from the South by any chance Polly ? I'm originally from Sheffield and they don't do things like that up there. Its only when I moved to Herts that I suddenly discovered I needed shares in Sainsbury's cakes department in order to get any kind of office job.........<BR><BR>
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    System Posts: 100,534 🤖 Admin 🤖
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    <BR>Well my work have kindly got it the other way round!!!<BR><BR>Im very stressed today as i decided to wait until 12am, have done no work & keep snapping at people so one of my collegues went out and bought some cake!!! Very kind (but still keep snapping!! Oops! Cant help it!!)<BR><BR>Lou<BR>x<BR>
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    System Posts: 100,534 🤖 Admin 🤖
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    yeh my boss asked me when I was taking them all out for drinks to celebrate my passing exams.
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    System Posts: 100,534 🤖 Admin 🤖
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    Yes, I'm in Cambridge and I got the same reaction! No question of taking me for a drink to celebrate.
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    System Posts: 100,534 🤖 Admin 🤖
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    Here in Somerset we have to buy cakes for the whole office (30 in total). When admitting you've passed you can guarantee the question 'where are the cakes then?' Passed PCR and PEV so am well chuffed, just the work experience to be signed off and I'm finished PHEW
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    System Posts: 100,534 🤖 Admin 🤖
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    Yes it seems like a ritual down in the south. I have 150 members of staff to by doughnut for so watch out Sainsbury.<BR>To be perfectly honest I really donâ??t mind Iâ??m just over the moon that I have completed AAT<BR>
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    System Posts: 100,534 🤖 Admin 🤖
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    Now I think about it, the local Sainsburys has a VERY large alcohol section too and its on the way to the cake department..........<BR><BR>Well a girl needs a treat for passing 3 exams does she not ??? ;-)
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    System Posts: 100,534 🤖 Admin 🤖
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    Same here, I'm Barnsley bord-and-bred and since moving to Staffordshire I've been through more cakes than anyone, and people wonder why Tesco's make so much profit!!!<BR><BR>Still at least they do some good deals. I managed to get 24 cakes for about £7.00
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    System Posts: 100,534 🤖 Admin 🤖
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    I got taken out for beer!<BR>Only problem is that I've had to come back.... bit sleepy now!!!
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    System Posts: 100,534 🤖 Admin 🤖
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    I've been nobbled for "Passing cakes" too. But becuase we have a birthday in the office today I will delay my passing cakes until tomorrow.<BR><BR>I'd never heard of it until I came to my current job - they tried it on with the Dec exam results but I said no chance was I buying cakes for everyone every six months. They could have cakes at the end of AAT and then at the end of ACCA.<BR><BR>
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    System Posts: 100,534 🤖 Admin 🤖
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    Nicky..... I live in the South but originally from Scotland so you can imagine being a tight Scot having to pay for cakes is tough! Actually my office are going to help me celebrate at the pub tomorrow they'll do anything for a cake!
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    System Posts: 100,534 🤖 Admin 🤖
    What's with the cakes ??

    we do the cakes thing too. If it's your birthday, you go and buy cakes for the office.<BR>As my boss still hasn't found time to come and say well done, or anything else for that matter apart from giving me work. I've felt a bit deflated and haven't even told anyone else i passed.<BR>

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