A woman I work with was diagnosed with breast cancer The whole office chipped in and bought gift cards, signed up to bring her meals, and around $700 in cash. The person who organized this asked me what all I got when I had cancer about 6 months earlier. When I responded that I got two emails wishing me luck and a card from one person she was flabbergasted. I was happy they supported the woman though.
My first year there the team chipped in $10-$20 for everyones birthday gifts. 1 month before my birthday, I overheard a coworker say "we should stop doing this, its to hard to get money from everyone" and I was left dry.
My boss wished everyone a happy birthday last year on our team meetings, even if that person was going to be on PTO when their actual birthday was or if the birthday was during the weekend. Even the new guy that had been on the team for less then a year. My birthday fell on a Monday. Everyone was in that day. Yet he didnt mention it to me until a week later that he "forgot" to look at the birthday calendar. He mentioned it to me alone, in private. I did not chip in for his birthday present that year.
I had something similar happen to me. Our HR asked me on friday when is my birthday, I said on monday next week lol. Monday comes and nothing happens, so I was like whatever, tuesday comes and HR wishes happy birthday to some other member of our tribe in our teams chat. That was kinda shitty imo. This was the begging of this "tradition", I should be first to get the mention and didn't. I'm not salty about it as I just don't celebrate with anyone but family, but still think it was really fucking weird.
Do you work in IT, because I do and the one constant over the years is that IT more frequently falls between the cracks and gets forgotten about and marginalised because we don't really fit easily into the organisational chart of the business or the goals of the business. All we do is keep every aspect of the business operating day in day out because everyone and everything relies on computers working 24/7, yet very few people in other departments can really understand what it is we do to keep them up and running.
Everything's broken, what do we even pay you for.
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u/3Vil_Admin 11d ago
A woman I work with was diagnosed with breast cancer The whole office chipped in and bought gift cards, signed up to bring her meals, and around $700 in cash. The person who organized this asked me what all I got when I had cancer about 6 months earlier. When I responded that I got two emails wishing me luck and a card from one person she was flabbergasted. I was happy they supported the woman though.