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[quote=Anonymous]I can’t tell what is required when it comes to celebrating birthdays for work colleagues.

For some context:

I’m a Gen X woman in a white collar profession in a big DC office where people physically come in once or twice a week. I don’t have access to know when anyones birthday is, so I suppose I would need to ask. I supervise a team of men and women. I don’t broadcast when my birthday is, and I don’t expect anyone to acknowledge my birthday at work. If I hear that someone is celebrating a birthday, I wish them a happy birthday. This typically comes up like this: “I’m taking off on Friday to celebrate my birthday in Nashville” (or whatever). And that’s my prompt to say, “That sounds like fun! I hope you have a happy birthday!”

But some staff seem to schedule special lunch dates at restaurants or bring in a cake.

Am I supposed to do this for my dozen+ direct reports?

FTR, we don’t even hold regular staff meetings as a team in person and people are on different sub-teams, so there’s no easy way to assemble.

What’s the expectation?[/quote]

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