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[quote=Anonymous]As a manager I faced the challenge of some people not wanting to divulge their birthday or have it celebrated, while other people wanted to be celebrated and were happy to say what their birthday was. What I ended up doing was for anyone who said what their birthday was, I took all those "known" birthdays and assigned them to people who had not or would not share their birthday. So if Employee X said their birthday was, say, October 9th but Employee Y said "Oh, I'm fine, no need to celebrate my birthday" then I assigned October 9th to Employee Y and we celebrated their birthday on that date, whether they liked it or not, lol. Then we'd celebrate Employee X's birthday, remotely and virtually, on the next weekend -- virtual as in no in-person celebration but sending a supportive email with "exploding" confetti and happy-birthday message. These virtual celebrations sent a message to the celebrate-me! people that they needed to Slow Their Roll if they wanted to fit in.  If they had family pictures their desk, we'd turn them face down for that day. More importantly, by celebrating the assigned birthdays of the people who declined, they got a very clear message: You matter. [/quote]

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