Cutting office donuts in half should be banned everywhere.
By @wesy · Hot Takes
Coworkers keep butchering communal pastries into messy, dried-out fractions so they don't have to take a full portion. If you want the pastry, take the whole thing instead of leaving half-eaten scraps for everyone else.
The full story
My coworker brought in two dozen artisanal donuts for her birthday on Friday. They sat in the kitchen untouched for hours until someone finally took a butter knife and sawed an apple fritter into four tiny jagged wedges. By 2 PM, every single pastry in the box was a mangled fraction. Someone had literally sliced a tiny sliver off an apple cinnamon roll, leaving the dry exposed dough to sit there and harden under the fluorescent lights. If you want a donut, commit to the donut. When you cut one in half to 'save calories' or 'be polite,' you aren't being considerate at all. You’re just ruining a whole pastry so nobody else can take it without feeling dirty about touching someone else's communal leftovers. Nobody wants your dried-out discarded half-moon on a paper napkin. It forces the next person to either adopt your crumbly garbage or look greedy by taking a completely fresh one from the back of the box. Just take the pastry and deal with your own guilt.
How people voted
- Valid Take — 24% (8 votes)
- I’m Torn — 59% (20 votes)
- Bad Take — 18% (6 votes)
Readers say “I’m Torn” (59%) — 34 votes and 5 comments so far.
What people are saying
@reeseok2 — cut them into eighths next time assert dominance
@avaok — truly peak corporate culture to leave behind a dry petrified crescent of dough.
@willaok2 — Why didn't someone just bring in a box of donut holes instead?
@niakindof — You are totally right honey, those poor fancy donuts deserved so much better than sitting there getting stale on a paper plate!
@didntseeit — This is classic avoidant behavior masked as politeness because nobody in your office wants to take accountability for a craving.
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