Could all that stands between you and that promotion be a few brownies and a chocolate sponge? Colette Sexton, News Correspondent with The Sunday Business Post and columnist for Image.ie, thinks that if you’re the office baker, you need to put down the oven gloves. She joined Richard Curran on The Business to explain her recipe to career success.
It all boils down to this, Colette says, baking is all well and good. But not in an office setting.
“The office is not somewhere to play house…Do you want to be remembered as the person who hits all their targets? Or do you want to be the person who makes the delicious chocolate brownie?“
That brownie may symbolise more than a sugar rush. Colette believes bringing in home-made treats every now and again is a slippery slope.
“One batch of brownies too many and you might become ‘The Office Mammy’…The brownies are a gateway drug.“
A gateway drug to what, though? Colette laid out some of the horrors awaiting those who are too fond of the fondant.
“You end up being tasked with organising the leaving party or buying or making cakes. Or cleaning the communal fridge, which no-one wants to do…Those kinds of things should not fall down to one person’s shoulders.”
Listen back to the whole discussion on The Business here.