Today is my birthday. I am most definitely at work.

My wife takes her birthday off, however.

I never have but many of my employees have requested the day off. They have vacation days and they can choose to use them how they see fit. A scheduled day off is way better than a sick day.

I did it for the first time last year in my 35 year working career. Mrs DF made me do it.

Interestingly when I was a teacher I did not take my birthday off. Sometimes it would fall on spring break which was nice.

Now that I am self employed I have tried to schedule something for myself around my birthday. It doesn't always work but it helps me mark another passing year in an enjoyable way.

I also work with my staff who request time off for their birthdays. They don't need a reason to request their time off, they've earned it.

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Originally posted by stkfox:

Get over it dude.

What exactly do I have to get over? Please explain . Did I hurt your feelings?

No. I always work my birthdays.

My unit did it in the Army. Day pass on your birthday (unless we were in the field) in which case you got it when we returned, or your choice of Friday or Monday if your birthday fell on the weekend.

I have always advocated for it as one of the cheapest and best benefits a company can offer it's employees. Unless you are in a profession or business that bills by the hour, it's very unlikely that any one day for one employee will have any measurable effect on annual revenue, and I think the company gets much more back in goodwill from the employee. I suggest it to my clients as a positive benefit to be offered.

If the employee takes a vacation day, then there's really no issue in it at all.

I was never "given" my birthday off by any of my bosses, and I don't recall ever taking a vacation day for that reason. However, my birthday is very close to Christmas, so may have gotten involved in an extended holiday at times--I did occasionally travel to visit my folks around the time of my birthday, so would have been "on vacation" then. However, since my final retirement in Dec 2006, I've had every one of my birthdays "off work". . . .

flashguy

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Originally posted by Milliron:
Today is my birthday. I am most definitely at work.

My wife takes her birthday off, however.

Milliron, just to let you know, I took off for your birthday, so you didnt have to.

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Originally posted by MNSIG:
I've occasionally extended a weekend if my birthday lined up, but never in the middle of the week.

This goes for me, as well.

If you want to use PTO to take that day off, I could get a fuck why.

But we aren't giving you the day off for free.

Our employees get their birthday off with pay.

I’ve never done it, but have absolutely no problem with folks choosing to do so. Having pretty much always worked in environments where there is *always* more work than time, I was reluctant to take any time off for a long time. I finally learned that one really is more effective if they get away and take a break once in a while. For me, I’d rather take longer chunks of time, rather than a day here, a day there. Not everyone is wired the same though, and I’m all for folks doing what works *for them*.

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Originally posted by bcereuss:
No, and no.

Just another symptom of the “LAME”* generation.

* (Look At Me Everybody)

in this case I don’t think that’s necessarily true. Our company has given you your birthday off for more than 50 years.

What's it matter? If employees have unused vacation days and decide to use 1 for their B-day, big whoop. If they want to take a day to go fishing or fart around home all day long and they have unused vacation days, so what.

To all of those responding saying it's ridiculous, I guess you never took a vacation day? Did you provide an essay to justify when you took a day off? I don't think so.

YES and NO over the years....But since my birthday 26th November ever so often it falls on top of THANKSGIVING (turkey day)......... drill sgt.

I took four hours PTO on my bday last week to go on one of my favorite rides in the area, about 50 miles. I had to climb into the local foothills but was rewarded with about a mile of winding 30MPH curves and loops. It was awesome.

My bday is on Veteran's Day, so while my employer doesn't give us the holiday off, I sometimes take it off because my kids are off of school etc.

I generally take a benefit day (vacation, accumulated time, or bonus day) on my birthday. No real reason other than that I have to take those days some time and why not on my birthday? In fact I usually schedule one of my blocks of bid vacation for that week. It's generally a good time of year to take a motorcycle trip.

I do sometimes. Just because my job is not on a set schedule so I do it for two reasons. 1) if I have to make dinner plans and don't want to be late 2) I can have some pretty shitty days at my job, and I don't want to have a shitty day on my Birthday.

If I worked a 9-5 job then I would not take off on my birthday, since I work until last job is done this is only way I can control when I get off.

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Originally posted by Milliron:
Today is my birthday. I am most definitely at work.

My wife takes her birthday off, however.

Happy birthday.