Employee takes 8 brownies from communal tray, coworker considers stopping baking for the office

It's never a good look to take more than your share.

When someone brings snacks to the office, there is an unspoken etiquette about how much you should take and when. It's always better to err on the side of caution in this scenario. You would hate to end up in a situation where you're the person in the office that everyone is talking about, but nobody respects. It's best to keep things on an even keel in the office; you would hate to ruffle any feathers and end up on the wrong side of office politics. But it's also best not to judge the habits of others where we can help it. We're all doing our best, and we would hate to be wrongfully accused of doing something that we didn't do. The man in this situation, though, was clearly in the wrong. When someone brings a tray of baked goods to the office, the rule is that you take one. If, at the end of the day, there is a bunch left, then you can take another one. This is the kind of stuff we learn in preschool. Sharing is caring, and we can't take everything for ourselves. If everyone acted that way, then society would collapse. We wouldn't want that, would we? So we probably shouldn't act in a way that jeopardizes everyone's happiness. That's exactly what this guy did, though, and it set his office in a tailspin.

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Would I be in the wrong if I stopped bringing homemade food to the office after one person keeps taking portions meant for the whole team?

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What to do with a coworker who just can't seem to move in the same direction as everyone else? Maybe they're always causing issues and commotion in the workplace, and you just can't seem to make it work with them. You can't see eye to eye, and you don't want to. You wonder what would have to change to make you work well together, and you just can't imagine it. That's the tough situation this employee was in when they sought some outside help from the internet. Keep scrolling to see what they said.
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