Are you the kind of person who announces their birthday to any and all?

Always seemed immature and needy to demand people to wish you a happy birthday.

I was at the grocery store one day and the girl checking me out had an 'it's my bday" banner that encouraged people to pin dollar bills on it. I thought "fuck that shit".

Mine is this Friday. Do you still have plenty of time to go get me an expensive present. Dammit!

Well, Happy Bday R3. Mine is tomorrow which is why I made this thread. Just feeling out other peoples opinions on bdays.

Well, mine is today. They send an e-mail around at the office so you get a lot of attention. The worst is on milestone birthdays (40, 50...) they bring in a cake and have a get together. Now that is something I don't want people to know.

No, not at all. But I do try to be good to myself on my birthday- a bit of private self indulgence.

Looks like several Pisces are here today. Happy Bday R5. Yeah, I hate the fucking work announcements. There's always some cube frau in charge of keeping track of bdays and bringing attention, wanted or not.

I also self-indulge a bit R6. I usually take the day off of work if I can but this year was not possible.

I take off from work on my birthday. At first it seemed silly and unnecessary but I have the time banked so what's one day? This year my birthday falls on a Saturday so I'm taking Friday and Monday off to make it a long weekend.

I hate the trend of millennials and Gen Z to have birthday weeks or months not just days. And each celebratory moment, card, tweet is posted on their SM to ask the world to pay even more attention to them.

Hell, no. I don't even want to remember it.

I largely try to forget!

Thomas Andrews is so sweet. We share a bday. The problem with the cards is sends is that they are always wet. I wasn't expecting anybody to remember my bday this year. I was surprised at how many people did. I don't advertise it. I would like to resume my tradition of spending my bday in London NW3 at least one more time.

Who the fuck is Thomas Andrews R12 and why are you bringing this person up?

I share OP's birthday and, it appears, his preference to not making a big deal of the occasion.

There are a handful of people who know my birthday and that's enough. I don't keep my birthday (or birth year) a secret, though I don't announce it via alerts on social media, office calendars, etc. It's odd that even people otherwise not inclined to draw attention to themselves can make a big fucking deal of their birthday (or indeed their "birthday month." It was nothing momentous growing up and never has been for me. I'm happy to celebrate a birthday with friends (mine or theirs), but I don't see it as an annual obligation. Having a meal together to celebrate a family member's birthday or a friend's is quite nice, but it's not a big event.

Working in an office with nearly 40 employees on the same open-plan floor, the silliness of office birthday celebrations became too evident too fast. It was always someone's fucking birthday, or two people's, or three. It reached a point where everyone cooled to the idea of the circulating birthday card to sign, someone bringing in a cake or pastries, or the awkward luncheon out. The partners just gave everyone their birthday off and the result was less office fuss about nothing.

R9 I know a 44 year old woman who does that. The reason I know she's 44 is that it was her birthday last week and her multiple parties, lunches, and dinners were meticulously documented on Instagram.

I've ways had a sneaking suspicion that the cube fraus who get involved in planning these things really just want sweets.

I don't announce it but I do try to take it off. I've worked on my birthday once in the last 16 years. My birthday is the week before 4th of July so taking that day off and then planning to take off that week is difficult some times.

Happy Birthday to those celebrating (or not) today!

My birthday is next Monday. From a very young age, I’ve never made a big deal of my birthday. I was born on my Dad’s birthday, and he was a negative asshole every year. Most of my friends have no idea when my birthday is.

Never! It is tacky and needy. If you are kind to people and they appreciate you, you don't have to prompt them. Who cares anyway?

the worst is going to a restaurant and having the wait staff sing you Happy Birthday

Well, I’m a Jehovah’s Witness, so fuck off, OP! Just fuck off all of you, noble sufferers. Maybe people care. Maybe people want to care or need to care. Best to dump on that.

Retired now but when I was working one woman was walking around with a calendar asking people when their birthday was, she intended to hit everyone up for money to buy a cake to bring in for Birthdays. I told her I didn't want my birthday celebrated which I thought she would respect, then I found out she was telling people that she was going to search it out on the internet. After a few choice words of me telling her to mind her own fucking business and to respect my wishes, the whole thing pretty much fell apart, of course I was to blame.

R21, if you are being serious, seek help.

I thought Jehovah's Witnesses didn't do bdays

My narcissistic sister is like that. Despite having plenty of family and friends wishing her happy birthday privately, she’ll made a big ta-da about it on multiple social media platforms. Last year, she put up pictures of the bouquets she had received (one from our mother, one from her husband and one from me) but took the picture from such an angle that it looked like her table was overflowing with blooms. Of course, she captioned the post “Overwhelmed by the number of birthday flowers! #blessed” That was followed by a post of her kids “wishing” her a happy birthday. One of her kids is at the pure mimicking stage, and the other is speech delayed. I rolled my eyes so hard, I had a headache for days.

R21 you aren't a very good Jehovah Witness then.

[quote] Jehovah’s Witnesses do not celebrate birthdays because we believe that such celebrations displease God.

^^^ that is a quote from the JW.org site that DL in their wisdom won't allow me to link.