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I went to schedule a meeting this week and the site supervisor said she was unavailable because it was her birthday. I can't remember ever having off on my birthday if it is a weekday. My boss usually takes a week of vacation around his birthday and goes to cali.

I prefer taking time off around thanksgiving and christmas, when it's about family. Am I weird to baiscally just consider it another day?
 
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I took my birthday off once to go with my wife to a work conference. It was either stay home alone with a 3 yo for about a week or buy plane tix for me and my daughter to go to Bermuda with my wife in the dead of winter.

Otherwise, just another day.
 
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crazyqx83 said:
I went to schedule a meeting this week and the site supervisor said she was unavailable because it was her birthday. I can't remember ever having off on my birthday if it is a weekday. My boss usually takes a week of vacation around his birthday and goes to cali.

I prefer taking time off around thanksgiving and christmas, when it's about family. Am I weird to baiscally just consider it another day?
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Females have a completely different mindset about birthdays than males. For us, it's maybe a day to see our families or possibly an excuse to get drunk. For them, it's a week-long celebration of self-worth and Diva Time.
 
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13, 16, 18, 21. Those are the only birthdays that matter and maybe 55 or 60 if you have a job with a pension.

I refuse to feel bad about forgetting your birthday if it isn't one of those (mom and SO's excluded).
 
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JHB4UK said:
touch no I'm a touching adult, what do I need the day for my mommy to take me to the bouncy house & then feed me an ice cream cake?
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I'd love some ice cream cake on my birthday!

I don't do anything for my birthday on the actual day most of the time. If it falls Friday-Sunday I'll go back home and my parents will take me to dinner but that's about it.

If I took it off, Monday-Thursday, it would to avoid hearing people at work tell me Happy Birthday left and right. **** that ****.
 
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Double Tay said:
When I turned 12 was about the time I stopped expecting the world to stop for my birthday
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Sometimes. A lot of the time MLKjr or Mother Nature take care of it for me.
 
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Mines already a holiday, so I usually tack on another day of PTO and make a mini-vacation of it.

If I had one day of PTO left, it's going to the first Thursday or Friday of the tournament not my birthday anyways..
 
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Mine falls close to Memorial Day, so depending on how it falls, I'll take it off but I don't announce that it's my birthday. People just think I'm taking a long weekend. Besides, I get unlimited vacation, so it doesn't really matter.
 
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crazyqx83 said:
I went to schedule a meeting this week and the site supervisor said she was unavailable because it was her birthday. I can't remember ever having off on my birthday if it is a weekday. My boss usually takes a week of vacation around his birthday and goes to cali.

I prefer taking time off around thanksgiving and christmas, when it's about family. Am I weird to baiscally just consider it another day?
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Not a fan of "special" or "my" days. Agree on Christmas, Thanksgiving. Nothing makes me want to celebrate someone's birthday any less than their wanting to make their birthday special.
 
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ram1955 said:
Not a fan of "special" or "my" days. Agree on Christmas, Thanksgiving. Nothing makes me want to celebrate someone's birthday any less than their wanting to make their birthday special.
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I agree.

I've had employees who take a week off to celebrate their birthday.
 
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CUJO_1970 said:
Since you have unlimited vacation, have you ever been tempted to take all 365 days off?
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Very but it would be noticed pretty quickly. I do truly believe we have some people who have not shown up in forever between saying they are working from home and vacation.
 
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Nah, not much to do in February. Would rather work and make some money rather than take off and cost me money.
 
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Yes, but it's a holiday so I always have it off. I would work though. Birthdays aren't that big of deal for me.
 
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Used to when birthdays were about getting ripped and/or laid.

As an adult, I work. I get the same gift from my wife (by choice) every year (Madden __ ) and it's just another day.

My company uses birthdays as a floating holiday that can be taken anytime within the next 90 days. I have a fall birthday and usually burn it on a Friday to setup a three-day, especially the years I go with dad to watch the football Cats (lose) in Knoxville or (sometimes but not very often win) in Nashville.
 
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