Originally Posted by polarbear
while in the meantime, the rest of the once-skinny and now-portly staff folks politely declined what had taken me hours to create...

LOL, Polar. This is perfect.

I have never brought baked goods either. My feeling is: this is a professional environment. I don't bring doughnuts to meetings at work; I shouldn't need to do that at school either, where everyone is a professional.

I do thank everyone and shake everyone's hand, I name explicitly a good thing they've done whenever possible, and I try to keep it all cordial even when the going is hard. I think that's sufficient.... usually.

DeeDee

ETA: Polar, I also PMed you about something unrelated...

Last edited by DeeDee; 09/11/13 12:02 PM.