So… Whatever happened? I must know or I’ll just burst! 
DoperChic
If I recall correctly (vibrotronica is a buddy of mine), his b-day is April 6, so it’s not for a week and a half.
And until then, you’ll just have to wait…
One of the funniest things I have ever seen at work involved bible study. Someone put up a notice announcing bible study classes to be held in a spare room downstairs at lunch time. Within minutes there was a notice pinned up beside it announcing devil worship meetings in the same place at the same times. It memorably asked “Please bring your own fertility symbols.” The bible study notice soon disappeared never to return.
I always view people who care about their birthdays with suspicion. Do they still where underoos? Stuffed animals on the bed?
Taking a day off work for it? Holy crap, I’m glad I’m not an employer. The headaches must be endless.
Funny. I’ve been to a TON of these things over the years and they were all basically “let’s let our hair down and party so we can get to know each other as people and have more understanding for each other in the office” type things.
WAY fun. No stupid singalongs required. Though on several we did play numerous hands of “spoons”. (no, not the musical thingie, the card game).
Oh, and I am a christian (not the weirdo fundie type), and we never did all the weird stuff you were mentioning about camp either.
Sounds to me like you’re doing what my mom calls “borrowing trouble”. For all you know it could be a party in the making.
First off, you don’t even know what the meet will actually consist of.
Secondly, you already stated that (paraphrased) you’d go off on all the darn christians like a firestorm hitting a parched pine forest and that you didn’t care if you got fired for THAT.
Well, hell, seems to me that if you don’t really care if you get fired, and don’t care about the job too much, why not just do as every one else is saying and simply refuse to go in the FIRST place???
Going ahead and attending, and then going postal if it’s “too christian” seems kindof like cutting off your nose to spite your face.
Oh yeah, and happy bday in advance to a fellow April baby.
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I’m nearly 45, will turn so in April like the OP, and I’ve been working since I was 15. I can’t remember a company that I’ve worked for that didn’t do SOMETHING for its employees on their birthdays.
Usually it was a fairly nice cake and card. Some of the companies at least had card if nothing else.
several of the companies I worked for had a separate leave day slated for an employees birthday, usually under the heading of “personal day” but most took their b-days off.
It’s not unusual nor even childish. Sheesh, do you use a rock for a pillow? Eat gruel and stagnant water?
Even the OP has a mimosa for his bday.
I once worked for Three Initial Corp. My co-workers were talented, dedicated people, and we were desperately struggling to put out a release that was in deep trouble due to management screwups and lying. Management announced that we would all be taking a 3-day team-building retreat. Technical people do not do well with the kind of bullshit typical of team-building workshops. Many of us did not go back the 2nd day. We went back to work instead. However, we all knew that there was zero chance of anyone getting fired.
The best part: the day after the team-building workshop, management announced that we were behind schedule and that everyone would be going on mandatory overtime (a 54-hour week) until further notice.
I’m sorry that you will not be feeling well the day of your team-building workshop.
I’m surprised to see this thread ressurected. Here’s the latest.
I didn’t even have to go to the Boss and complain. Turns out the retreat was scheduled for the first day of Passover and the two Jewish workers beat me to it. So, saved by Seder dinner! (sp?) As of now the retreat is postponed indefinitely. I was not the only one who lacked enthusiasm for the activity.
And, for the record, I will be working on my birthday because there is actually a big deadline to be met on April 6 (which is another reason the retreat was postponed. If the whole office had gone out of town on those two days, the magazine wouldn’t have made it to the printers on time.) I’m taking off a couple of days the week before and heading out of town instead. As I stated before, I have no problem working on my birthday if there is a legitimate, pressing need for it. If it’s just going to be another typical day at work and I can schedule my tasks around it, I’m sipping mimosas on porch.
Ellis Dee:
Oh the headaches! An employee actually asking for a day off! When will they learn their place? If everybody used their vacation days which they have earned and which are promised to them as terms of their employment, the entire captialist system will melt down and we’ll all be driving around the blasted countryside in our Mad Max mobiles scavenging for precious gasoline. What’s the big whoop? As long as I follow proper proceedure, I can ask for a vacation day because it’s my birthday or because the moon is in Pisces. Ellis Dee, maybe you need to burn a vacation day every now and then.
And you’ll have my Spider Man Underoos when you pry them from my cold, dead crotch.
hehheh, glad it got rescheduled without you having to say anything. In re-reading my post, it sounds much harsher than it would have if I had said it in person. Much of it was tongue-in-cheek in intent.
I should start using the smileys again, but they look so lame since the new software upgrade.