I been making fun of my cousin all morning for going to work on her Birthday Today-lol I never go to work on my Birthday ever since graduating from college. That's my Day for me to do whatever I want to do with it and it's only ONCE a year. Why would I want to be at a job on my B-day. Do anyone else ever put in for a Vacation or personal on their Birthday?

I just usually ask for the day off, more or less. People know it's my birthday, and honestly, no one cares whether I work or not on my birthday.

i always end up working on my b-day
but since i work nights most of the time
its not so bad:wave:

I always ask for it off. I hate working on my birthday. Like you said Solomon, that's your day to whatever you want. I love taking time off around my bday. This year, I had had a four-day weekend. :)

Well I do not work, but when my birthday comes up, I sometimes get the day off from school! Sometimes it lands on Columbus day and when it doesn't, we're usually doing PSAT's around that time so for the last 2 years, I've gotten out early on my birthday, soo awesome!!!

I always worked on my birthday, but I know people who take their birthday off.

If my birthday was on a Tuesday, Wednesday or Thurday, I would certainly not take off unless there was something going on (like a daytime event or a concert the night before).

Why would I do that? If I am going to take a day off I'll make it a Friday or Monday to extend the weekend, regardless of the day of my birthday.

That makes much more sense.

I always work on my birthday. I don't think it is that big of a deal.

I always work on my birthday. I don't think it is that big of a deal.


Yeah but you are doing something for someone else on YOUR BIRTHDAY-lol

Yeah but you are doing something for someone else on YOUR BIRTHDAY-lol

True, but I just don't see the big deal with working. I don't need to make my birthday like a national holiday.

True, but I just don't see the big deal with working. I don't need to make my birthday like a national holiday.


I always did and will continue to do so-lol

For like three years in a row it was Report Card day on my Birthday. Last year It was a Snow Day and this year it will be a Saturday which is good since it will be my Senior Year. I will definitely take off work though. Saturday is one of the busiest days. If it was Sunday I don't think I would take off since we get an extra dollar an hour.

My birthday usually falls the week before April vacation, so I don't bother taking it off.

Well I don't have a Schdule or a time frame of when I have to go to work. I don't have to go into work if I don't want to. But this year my Birthday fell on a Sunday so it didn't matter.

True, but I just don't see the big deal with working. I don't need to make my birthday like a national holiday.
True. and besides when it is your birthday, people at work (depending) MAKE A BIG DEAL OUT OF IT. When I worked at this one law firm, I got treated royally that day. I picked whatever restaurant I wanted to go eat lunch at and so forth.

Last year I did, but that's more just because I didn't want to be here, and my b-day was a good excuse. For the past 7 years, by b-day has been depressing, so I don't actually care. This year it's on a Saturday, so I guess I won't be working.

No, I've worked on my birthday before. It's not a big deal to me because it's not like if I was off I'd be out partying and celebrating. I'd just be at home opening gifts from my family and blowing out birthday cake candles. I can do that when I get home from work!

If I'm not scheduled great, but I don't really care if I work or not.

I take a vacation week the week of my birthday. If it wasn't in August or in the summer, I would probably work it...especially if it was in the winter. Since it falls at the hottest time here, I just take the week.

No, but I refuse to work on Halloween. ;)

i didn't have to work on my birthday anyway, cuz it's a national holiday. :grr:

My b-day is a national Holiday.

if my bday falls on a Monday-Friday, i'm at work.

oh, I'll show up alright - but by noon they'll wish that I hadn't :grineyes:

I'm not old enough to work yet, but I have a summer birthday, so I don't have to go to school. :D

Nah. Not really.

I always work on my birthday, and than that night Partay like a Porn-Star lol.

This year my birthday was on a Sunday so I made it a three-day weekend by taking the Monday off.

No, but I refuse to work on Halloween. ;)

Here, Here!! I rather take Halloween off than my birthday. I've always treated my birthday like any other day, so it doesn't bother me to work.

I just started working this year but I would probably work on my birthday. I don't really treat my birthday like it's a big deal.

I just started working this year but I would probably work on my birthday. I don't really treat my birthday like it's a big deal.


But always remember Rachel that your Birthday is YOUR DAY to do whatever YOU WANT-lol Don't go to any job and WORK, not on your B-DAY

If I had a job I would work on my brithday, Hell, you might get some party or something.

I go to work on my birthday. As I get older, my birthday becomes less and less of a big deal. It's kind of nice, though, because everyone in my department gets an e-mail letting them know when it's your birthday, so I get a lot of "happy birthday" e-mails and cards. A co-worker even gave me a $15 gift certificate to Hastings.

Not only did I work this year on my birthday, but I also went to the doctor. Not exactly a festive place.

Well my birthday is Monday, and I wont be going to work all week. Not that I really do anything special for my birthday, but its usually to damn hot to be at work, and I usually go to the Brickyard 400 that weekend.

I go to work on my birthday. As I get older, my birthday becomes less and less of a big deal. It's kind of nice, though, because everyone in my department gets an e-mail letting them know when it's your birthday, so I get a lot of "happy birthday" e-mails and cards. A co-worker even gave me a $15 gift certificate to Hastings.

Not only did I work this year on my birthday, but I also went to the doctor. Not exactly a festive place.



I would never schedule a doctor's appt on my birthday

I would never schedule a doctor's appt on my birthday

I have to go to the doctor at least once a week, anyway. That week, I'd gone in twice. I needed to go in and be taught how to inject a drug (I already knew from previous experience with another drug, but if I didn't go in and "learn," my insurance wouldn't cover the medication). They said "why don't you come in on Friday," and I agreed, not remembering at the time that Friday happened to be my birthday.

But it was really no big deal.

I like working on my bday because I like the attention I get for it.

If your boss said you had to work, would anyone actually "refuse"?

I don't think anyone's quitting their job over having to work on their birthday.

If you do, you certainly don't have a real job, or any sense in you at all.

If your boss said you had to work, would anyone actually "refuse"?

I don't think anyone's quitting their job over having to work on their birthday.

If you do, you certainly don't have a real job, or any sense in you at all.


No, I think we are talking about taking your birthday off in advance. Refusing meaning you wish not to work on your birthday so you take it as a personal day in advance and you do so every year. I don't think anyone was talking about quitting if you don't get your birthday off.

No, I think we are talking about taking your birthday off in advance. Refusing meaning you wish not to work on your birthday so you take it as a personal day in advance and you do so every year. I don't think anyone was talking about quitting if you don't get your birthday off.

I know in general that is what we are talking about, and I already answered.
(if I did take off, it would be on a Friday or Monday of the birthday week)

But sometimes Solomon talks in absolutes- like he'd rather be homeless than work for someone who disrespected him.

I'm not so sure Solomon wouldn't put up a big ass stink with his boss if it came down to him having to work on his birthday.

I know in general that is what we are talking about, and I already answered.
(if I did take off, it would be on a Friday or Monday of the birthday week)

But sometimes Solomon talks in absolutes- like he'd rather be homeless than work for someone who disrespected him.

I'm not so sure Solomon wouldn't put up a big ass stink with his boss if it came down to him having to work on his birthday.



I'm obviously talking about PUTTING in for my B-Day in advance. Also, when I put in for the day in advance i don't say-"I need this day off because it' my B-day" like someone dumb women did 5 years ago-lol

I'm obviously talking about PUTTING in for my B-Day in advance. Also, when I put in for the day in advance i don't say-"I need this day off because it' my B-day" like someone dumb women did 5 years ago-lol

Why? Did she not get the day off because she said she wanted it because it was her birthday?

Where I work, we get two weeks of paid vacation, six days of personal holiday time and, if you so choose to purchase them, five "flex days" per year. We can ask for days off for any reason we so choose, even if it's "I don't feel like going to work that day." It just has to be requested within a reasonable amount of time before the day, and we have to be staffed enough that day for it to be approved.

Why? Did she not get the day off because she said she wanted it because it was her birthday?

Where I work, we get two weeks of paid vacation, six days of personal holiday time and, if you so choose to purchase them, five "flex days" per year. We can ask for days off for any reason we so choose, even if it's "I don't feel like going to work that day." It just has to be requested within a reasonable amount of time before the day, and we have to be staffed enough that day for it to be approved.


What happened was she said it around the boss wehich made him react in this way-"Her Birthday? The Boss was Stunned-lol I don't think she realized that she didn't have to give a reason when requesting time off