Is it normal that i didn't tell anyone at work about my birthday?

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Today is my birthday (July 14th) and I told at my job no one about my birthday. Honestly, I wanted it to be like just another day at work. Also, I am not close to even one coworker at my job, so I felt like it was pointless to tell anyone. Whoever I told could probably care less about my birthday by the end of the day. No one at work is actually mean to me or anything like that, but they would probably be uninterested because they don't know me personally.

It was better this way though. I would rather have worked through my birthday without anyone knowing anything than to have told people about it and had them congratulate me, only for it to be like nothing ever really happened in the end.

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  • JustAHuman
    2 years ago

    You wouldn't get away with it at my work. Obviously, you have to give your information to your employer when you are hired, so they have your birthday. At my job, the publish everyone's birthday, and put Happy Birthday signs at our desks on our birthdays.

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  • RoseIsabella
    2 years ago

    I dunno, I'm just trying to get me some of that office party birthday cake! Priorities, cake is always at the top of my list!

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  • Somenormie
    2 years ago

    Birthdays are overrated.

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  • darefu
    2 years ago

    I try not to say much about it.

    I've worked a couple places where others had the same birthdate and they would know it was mine. It was easy to tell because the company put out a happy birthday message on the internal web site or displays. Otherwise I wouldn't say a thing about it.

    For those of us that care, they were at least polite and just showed month and day.

    I finally got to a point I would take the day off if I could.

    Completely normal to not bring work into that personal world.

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  • Boojum
    2 years ago

    As far as I can recall, I stopped thinking much about my birthday at some point in my late teens, and for a very long time I've much preferred if they pass unnoticed by everyone.

    Once you pass the legally mandated milestones of eighteen and twenty-one, it's just another year under your belt.

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  • PurpleHoneycomb
    2 years ago

    If you're not close to any of them, then it's absolutely normal. The only people that really need to know are friends and family. Even then that's only if you're the type to celebrate.

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  • SwickDinging
    2 years ago

    I have always preferred people at work to not know about my birthday.

    I share my special day with friends and family. I'm not interested in sharing it with colleagues, not because I am a miserable bitch (although I am a bit cold) but because I find it embarrassing and awkward. People tend to do things like buy you a cake and sing to you. I dislike most kinds of cake but feel compelled to eat some of the gross cake in order to be polite. I have to smile and say thank you when everyone sings. I get people pushing me to go for drinks after work, and getting offended when I refuse. I always have something much better to do on my birthday after work than go for a drink with colleagues.

    I keep my home life and my professional life completely separate. My birthday is part of my home life.

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  • olderdude-xx
    2 years ago

    I never told anyone at work since my 1st job out of college when my birthday was.

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  • hauntedbysandwiches
    2 years ago

    I'm the same way

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  • 1WeirdGuy
    2 years ago

    I never tell anyone

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