Woman Refuses to Keep Baking for Her Coworkers After They Give Her a Nickname She Doesn’t Like

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• A woman was happy making baked goods for her office until she called herself ‘mum’

• When he told his colleagues they could call him by his first name, one of them said he ‘overreacted’

• Woman defends her decision to stop bringing baked goods to the office

A 34-year-old woman stopped serving baked goods after her co-workers disapproved of the nickname she gave her.

In a post redditThe woman shared that she regularly brings homemade cookies or banana bread to those in her office.

“People seemed to appreciate it until recently,” the woman shared. “Last week, a co-worker joked that I was the ‘office mom.’ Everyone laughed, but I felt weird about it. Then another guy said, ‘You should bring snacks more often, Mom.'”

The woman said to them, “You can call me (my name) and not mother.” They laughed at him and someone told him not to be so “uptight”.

The comment was the straw that broke the camel’s back, so she “stopped cooking. It’s that simple.”

“The following Monday, one of them asked, ‘Where are the Brownies? And I said, ‘I didn’t like being a mom in the office this week,'” she recalled. “Things calmed down after that.”

“Now I’m being told I ‘made things awkward’ and ‘overreacted’. I didn’t yell or anything. I just stopped giving free labor that came with a nickname I didn’t like. Am I overreacting because I’m holding back?”

People in the comments supported the woman setting boundaries with her co-workers.

“No. Good for you. You didn’t overreact,” one person commented. “You politely asked for the nickname to be removed, and they decided to ignore you and ignore your feelings. Baked goods are a privilege, not a right, and certainly not for anyone who conveys your feelings and tells you something you say you don’t like.”

Another person wrote of her experience: “It means a lot to me. But I’ve also been the one bringing baked goods. I’ve seen people interpret their inconsiderate behavior as ‘oh, come on. You’re overreacting. Don’t be so uptight.’ Instead of ‘I’m sorry for being so rude’, he will persuade the person he insulted to continue being generous towards him. They had their chance. No banana bread for them.”

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