What a daggone shame! 22 people....3 weeks..and they've only mustered up $8! In 3 weeks! 
I used to work with some very cheap and trifling coworkers like that - I could tell you stories for days. You know...don't want to contribute but the first ones in line AND taking home plates.
Either -
1. This poor lady is not very liked
2. Your cheap folks beat out my old coworkers
3. The chick organzing this is doing something seriously wrong. Does she know she has to hit "send" when she sends an email? 
And they want $5-$10? So they should have, at a minimum, $110 and can only come up with $8 in 3 weeks. Wow.
Please tell me the pregnany lady doesn't know about this awful planning?
I am just starting out and I know that this is crazy!!!! What is wrong with people? When people want me to bake a cake for work they always tell me "You need to practice any way - right?" Yeah so?! 
I use to buy my cakes from a local bakery and let me tell you, I appreciate them a lot more now, because now I understand the hard work and the time that is put into it.
I really don't think these people are telling the truth about the $8. They just want you to do the cake for free. They can't buy a cake anywhere for that price. Whenever they get it together and actually have the shower, please take a picture of the actual "cake" and post it.
I asked the gal collecting the money how much she actually had...she said 15.00, so the 8.00 was probley true at the time, since the lady who asked me about the cake in my office said she gave more on top of the 8.00.
We have a dr. leaving on friday and I really love her, she is such a sweetie so I decided to make her a 2in cake for herself to take home and not share. So I am sure I will hear about that. Oh well, I am sure that the pregant lady doesn't know about whats happening, I am sure if she did she would feel oh so loved.
Patricia
Well, the Doctor loved her cake, so did everybunny else. Most of the staff came into my office and checked it out before I took it to the breakroom. Staff that didn't see it in the office came by afterwards to say how cute, good job whatever.
The gal that is having the baby came by after she saw it and said, "i hold my cake looks that good." She laughed when she said it. I told her "I hope it does too, but I made that one, I am not sure where yours was coming from." And she just looked at me.
Man, this is killing me.
Patricia
Sounds like your cake got quite the reception! I'm sure it was awful having to say that to the pregnant girl, but at least you're sticking to your guns! Maybe you could do another little cake just for her- like a smash cake for a 1 year old, so that she could have good cake while everyone else had to eat wal-mart cake, plus then she doesn't feel like you don't love her...Just an idea...Maybe you could say that the little cake was just for the baby. Or you could say you were worried about a pregnant woman eating cake made out of pesticide and lard (which, really, we all think those grocery store cakes taste like). Keep us posted!
When this sort of thing happens I think "Do I go to work to subsidise my colleagues? Do I earn so much more than them that I can absorb the costs myself?" I'll donate to charity but not to my co-workers.
oops.. edited to add: i do of course give money for presents etc, etc, I just wouldn't work my doo-dah off putting my all into cake for which co-workers wouldn't even cough up enough to cover the ingredients...let alone anything else.
I would make a little 4 - 6in cake JUST FOR THE MOM-TO-BE, and make sure she takes it home! Those other tight-wads don't deserve your delectables IMO!
That's all that happened was from my last report. Now Mom to be is starting to question things around here.
I learned about 6 months ago, to just do my own little gift and not "donate" to the cause. I have no troub;e giving a cake to the mom to be, but it kills me that they want to help pay for it then change their minds only cuz not everybunny wants to go in on an item. Several of us have not donated money in awhile just for this reason. We don't have control over what is bought nor any input. So I bow aside and get my own gift.
I will do a little cake for her probley closer to the due date or take it to the shower this weekend.
Patricia
Yesterday in the car I was telling my DH about this story. Men have a total different way of looking at things.
He asked why don't she just make the cake for the shower and call that her gift or contibution. It's more for the Mom-to-be to help make her day nice.
Well, that's what I have been doing for about a year. For everybunny in the building, bdays, retirement, holiday parties just because cake and practice cakes. There was even drama behind those cakes, so I decided I would not do it anymore unless requested one. That's where the story begins, that's where I was told they would pay me something and then....... In a perfect world it would probley work.
Patricia
...He asked why don't she just make the cake for the shower and call that her gift or contibution. It's more for the Mom-to-be to help make her day nice.
because soon it begins to be "expected" that you will make it ... with no regard for your expenses, your time, or your schedule. At that point, it stops being a gift and turns into an obligation.
As I learned from my father-in-law ".....do someone a favor and they don't appreciate it....they EXPECT it from that point forward."
Thumperbunny
I would give her the small cake after the baby is born, then you can decorate to the sex of the baby.
drama is everywhere. Next time asked to do a cake, I would say "sorry but I have two paid cakes do at that time so I will be busy" this way they know others pay you. Weather you have cakes or not they will get the message (I hope)
Also, if the mom to be asks why you did not make the cake for the office. Do not go and bring up all the drama, just come up with I could not do it at the time or something simple. It will be in the long run.
..... Next time asked to do a cake, I would say "sorry but I have two paid cakes do at that time so I will be busy" this way they know others pay you. Weather you have cakes or not they will get the message (I hope)
I started telling people "My oven time is now at a premium. If you want on the schedule, you have to pay for the time."
Well, I brougth M&M cookies for the pot luck!!!! (Nobody really cares about those and I have proof, not one person has looked at the container.)
Yesterday I left early, we had a death in the family so I left to take care of some issues. Anyway, before I left my supervisior and I were talking about alot of things and I said something about the cake I made for the mom to be, and her eyes got huge. She said she made a cake too, I said, well me cake was 2in, not big at all, just a smaller version of what she wanted. She said, well, "it's not a foo foo cake at all, not a foo foo cake at all, but it will be good." I told her I was sure it would be fine and Mom to be would love it. Then the girl who first ask me to make the cake caught me in the hall and asked me since they didn't have the money to buy a cake, would I bake a not so "over the top" cake, I told her "Karen" had already made a cake for the pot luck, so said "ohh" and walked away.
I made a 2in baby carriage for Mom to be and it's sitting in my office. Everybunny that walked in this morning tried to "peek" at it, I said go ahead and open it. Even the men stopped and stared and asked questions. One theripst said that I do such a good job. I thanked her and she said, she didn't think it was big enough for everybody, I said "I am sure it's not" and didn't go any further.
I am interested in seeing what they bought.....
Patricia
ohhh, I can't wait until the party is over so you can tell us what happens!! make sure you tell the mom to be that it is her cake to take home!!!!
melody
Well, I went to the pot luck, she has my 2 in carriage, and 1/4 with can icing and an edible art baby block pic and another one that hasn't made it yet.
Retired ladies came back for the party and they raved over the carriage, "Betty" said, "you do sure a wonderful job", "dan" said, " I bet you're crafty aint you>" I just agreed and went on. Not one person said anything about the image cake. So finally I asked where they got the image, and all I got in response was...."Kelly" made it.
Finally the saga ends. 
Patricia
Good for you for holding your ground! It sounds like your message may have finally sunk in with these thick-heads in the end. Please tell me they at least rounded up enough cash for a decent gift for the poor Mom2B??
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