Boss's birthday

ky29 · September 2012

Does your company usually do anything (gift wise) for your boss on their birthday? Some people are starting to ask me if we are pitching in for a gift. But I talked about it with some and they decided against it. We always do cake & a little get together on everyone's birthday.. and that's usually it. I'm usually in charge of that type of thing, and I want to make sure I'm not making the wrong decision in not collecting and getting a gift from the group?

scamberlous3000 · September 2012

We always just did cakes and cards for our bosses unless it was a big birthday like 50 or 60. Then we would just decorate their office while they were on their lunch break, but not all go in together for a gift.

Nattie24 · September 2012

We just do cake and a card for everyone. I wonder what you would get your boss.

BluValkyrie · September 2012

my experience with birthdays in the work place is, generally, nothing is done. Then again, I have mainly worked retail, so that might be why. Usually, a person takes they're birthday off, but even if they work that day, the extend of the acknowledgement of the birthday is just by saying "Happy birthday".

athlete010688 · September 2012

We usually just go out for lunch for birthdays (company buys). Other than that, we don't do too much. Corporate will send us a birthday card in the mail. I"m in HR at our distribution center, so it's just me and one other person in our building. The other HR team (which is located in Seattle) sends us a card in the mail.

Scarlet Starlet 31 · September 2012

Whenever it's someone's birthday here at work, everyone just brings in a treat to share with the team, but we don't collect for gifts. I don't see any need to collect money just because it's for the boss. I think you're fine.

erollis · September 2012

In retail I've never seen or heard of a birthday being celebrated or acknolaged.

Where H works everyone signs a card for the whoever is having the birthday. For those who are always there in the office ( h works with instructors who travel and have strange sceduals). They will occasionally do cake. But the cake is only brought in if someone thinks of it. Last year someone got H a cake and this year H got their new boss a cake.

They all go out to eat as a group about once a month just because. It used to be once a week until the merger happened.

olywillis · September 2012

I work for State government - it has been different in different agencies, but so far we just take people to lunch in our unit and such. We will split the birthday person's lunch and pay for our own. Other units will have someone bring a cake and we set it out for all to partake. Just depends on the groups themselves. If it's my direct coworkers I will either bring in an individual treat for the person or treat them to something if my boss will not let me help pay for their lunch. We happened to have a Sundae Bar fundraiser on one of my coworker's birthdays so I treated her to that this year. The other one I bought a cake slice from the bakery and brought it in.

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