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[quote=Anonymous]Probably not grounds on its own for a lawsuit.

It does reflect a bad workplace culture. It's either blatant favoritism (if management is who decides who to celebrate and who to ignore) or lax management where they are letting a clique of women run office celebrations. Either way, someone is dropping the ball and it will lead to resentment for sure.

How are the celebrations paid for? If out of an office fund, I'd probably play a little game to highlight how stupid that is. Like suggest having an office party for one of the non "in group" women and if people say no or won't allocate money for it, just ask point blank how much of that fund is spent on birthday celebrations for this select group of people and who decides how the money is allocated. You just ask innocently but I'd also make sure that the office director or manager or whomever was cc'd on the request, to highlight how dumb it is.

If the parties are paid for via everyone throwing in money, I'd just decline to contribute next time and schedule a dentist appointment or similar during the party so I couldn't go. If it's not compulsory to participate and they are being cliquish about it, I'd just skip the whole thing altogether.[/quote]

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