things NOT to ask/say to a baker! - Page 78

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Originally Posted by Hannahscakes 

Carmijok that is a brilliant response!! Too bad I already responded a couple weeks ago.. Basically just told her that I could offer her a 25% discount but that when cakes are picked up they need to be eithe held by someone or laying flat and supervised otherwise they won't make it there. She then said " I don't want you to do anything to "fix" the cake. Just wanted you to know for future customers.". Which made me even more livid because she still completely ignored that it wasn't my fault and all hers!

Why would you offer a discount for something that wasn't your responsibility? Now you just feel more ticked off. The only thing I would have offered was that next time she pay for professional delivery. 

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Originally Posted by ellavanilla 

 

Why would you offer a discount for something that wasn't your responsibility? Now you just feel more ticked off. The only thing I would have offered was that next time she pay for professional delivery. 

People don't want to accept responsibility for what they do-they want someone else to blame. During the day I run a cash register at Walmart; at night I am learning to decorate cakes...they do this to cashiers too..."THAT CASHIER WAS RUDE TO ME-SHE WOULDN'T GIVE ME THIS FOR $1.00!" (even though the sign said $10.00)

Me personally-they need to learn to READ and THINK FOR THEMSELVES.

Okay, I've got a good one for y'all, I had forgotten about this!!!  A couple of years ago I was having lunch with a very good friend, a wedding planner.  Just after we placed our order my phone rings and an unfamiliar number pops up.  I excuse myself and take the call, thinking it's a potential client.  

It's a man asking if I can do a cake for his parents 50th anniversary.  He gives me the date and such and we start to discuss his ideas.  He's telling me they are kinda "old Hippies" and he would love to do something along those lines.  He begins to explain that they smoke medicinal marijuana....and what could we do with that????  

Then he just has the most brillant idea!!!!  He could bring me some and I could bake it into the cake for them!!!!!    He's talking about how he works in the same town I'm in and could easily drop it off to me.....I WAS FREAKING OUT!!!!!!   Then he asks me something about my lunch companion....I was reeling.....and I was like, "What?"....I look up and she's DYING LAUGHING!!!! 

 OMG!  Thank God for pranks!!!!  I just KNEW the DEA was hovering nearby to get me or something!!!! LOL!!!! 

CakeWrecks used to be my daily smile. Now, reading this thread is right up there on the entertainment scale.

I was being sarcastic guys but I would take the half iced cake for my hubby cos he doesn't much like the icing and scrapes half of it off.. Actually once I made a birthday cake for a lady in my parchment group and I was playing with sugarveil for only the second time and managed to wreck half of it.  I didn't have enough to cover the whole cake so it was only on the front.  She didn't care, said she was only looking at the font anyway and loved the roses and lace.