'Stop baking me stuff': Entitled guy demands coworker bake him cookies, returns dirty tupperware

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Dec 20, 2022 8:00 AM EST

Who doesn't know the tupperware rule? Apparently, this guy didn't. The unspoken rule is that when someone bakes you cookies and lends you their tupperware, you should at least give it a rinse before handing it back all dirty and gross. But apparently, if you're an entitled dude who demanded that his coworker bake him a specific type of cookie in the first place, you might not be the kind of guy to pick up on this rule.

 

This thread, which was posted to Reddit's r/AmITheA**hole subreddit, goes to show that when your coworker lacks even an ounce of self-awareness, don't reward their behavior with cookies. Then, you might be able to avoid this kind of wildly entitled behavior. That being said, this is totally the other guy's fault, and hopefully reading the savage comments below gave him the kind of wake-up call he needed. For more stories like this, check out this one about a cheating coworker.

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    Food - "AITA for telling my coworker to stop baking me stuff?"
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    Font - AITA for telling my coworker to stop baking me stuff? Throwaway because my friends definitely know my main. I (35M) have a coworker (28F) who likes to bake stuff and sometimes brings her baking in to work. A few months ago, I told her about some new cookies I had discovered that I was nuts about and she agreed to make me some.
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    Font - When she gave me the cookies, she told me to give back the Tupperware after because it was "good Tupperware." I ate the cookies in my office over the next couple of days. When I finished the last cookie, I noticed she was still in her office and hadn't left for the evening. So I knocked, went in, complimented her and told her thank you for the cookies, handed her the Tupperware back as she asked, and left for the day.
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    Font - The next day, she seemed kinda pissed and made a comment to me about "You could've done the courteous thing." I didn't really get what she was on about. I confronted her about her comment, and she said that it was rude not to clean or wash the Tupperware before giving it back, and that when someone lends you their dishes it's common sense to clean it before returning it. She also said that from now on, when she bakes me stuff she's only giving me it on paper plates.
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    Font - She never mentioned every time she baked me stuff after that, she kept giving it to me wrapped on paper plates, which made it hard to store the stuff in my office and felt pretty passive- aggressive. Eventually, I told her enough was enough and to just stop baking me stuff if she was going to keep shaming and singling me out for ONE mistake. She seemed kinda offended but said okay and did stop baking me stuff. it again, but
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    Font - We get along okay still but we're not as close and chatty as we used to be. I wish I'd done something different in the beginning, but I didn't know about the Tupperware rule! She didn't say to clean it, just to give it back which I did. I feel like she was unnecessarily passive- aggressive and aggravated the situation. She didn't need to rub it in and give me stuff only on paper plates, and now everyone else gets baked goods besides me and it kind of sucks. However, I recently told my fri
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    Font - PhePheLaFrou 19 hr. ago Yep, YTA. You know what the easiest solution would have been, aside from apologizing for your ignorance re washing the Tupperware? Bring your own container for your office and when this coworker generously gifts you with delicious baked goods on a paper plate, you graciously accept and put it in your own container. 2.5k Reply Share
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    Font - ParsimoniousSalad. 19 hr. ago You win! Elegant solution 253 Reply Share PleaseCoffee Me 18 hr. ago Except he's cut off the cookie train. 142 Reply Share
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    Font - Darcnys 19 hr. ago YTA. Not returning dirty dishes isn't a rule, it's basic common courtesy... If you loaned someone an article of clothing, would you like it if they returned it without washing it? SMDH. 667 Reply Share
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    Font - Cookiekeks74 YTA - you are 35 and someone has to tell You to clean the dishes before returning? 20 hr. ago Waeponized incompetence? 417 Reply Share
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    Font - angelaheidt 19 hr. ago Colo-rectal Surgeon [31] YTA "Thank you for taking the time to make something thoughtful for me, here is your dirty container back so now you can go do some dishes too..." 316 Reply Share
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    Font - Se 3 Remi_niscence3301. 20 hr. ago YTA It is an unspoken rule that you should clean someone's dishes before returning them(sometimes it's even better if you make them something to put in the tupperware when you return it!). I don't think she was being passive-aggressive by giving you paper plates- if it was too much of a hassle for you to take the tupperware home to wash it, paper plates would be easier. Plus, she continued to bake stuff for you regardless, yet you chose to make it an iss
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    Font - Neither-Copy785 - 16 hr. ago YTA. NOT for giving back dirty Tupperware (that's a mistake I can forgive) but for not apologizing profusely when you found out why she was upset. "Oh gosh, Mary! I am so sorry about that. To be honest I've never had anyone give me food before so I wasn't sure about the protocol! Next time I'll definitely wash them. I'm so grateful for the delicious stuff you so generously give me! Sorry again" Why on earth were you a about it??? So entitled! 148 Reply Share
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    Font - wincazga 19 hr. ago YTA and your title is wrong. Your title should be: AITA for not returning Uncleaned Tupperware to my coworker.
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    Font - Whatever-and-breathe. 18 hr. ago YTA. I mean apart from the fact that it is the basic thing to clean a dish before giving it back, she still baked for you and you had the audacity of complain because it was not in a nice tupperware. Have you ever actually done something nice to her in return or just treated her with disrespect?
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    Font - 3pnw3 15 hr. ago Coworker: Here's some cookies! OP: thanks! Here's a gooey Tupperware back. Coworker: That's pretty rude OP: Well you wash it then! I'm a man, so I can't enter a kitchen. OP: I'm sad she won't make me any more free baked goods. Better have my girlfriend bake some because, again, I'm a dude and can't enter the kitchen myself.
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