Does your office throw parties or cakes for birthdays and such?

[Looney]

This is a small company, less than 30, but it's like that Seinfeld episode where Elain's office throws a party every day... we've been having like 2 every week for either somebody's birthday, or somebody leaving, or something.

I'm not complaining, free cake is great, just surprised how often this company does this.

 

[elektrolokomotive]

We throw cakes. Gets kinda messy when there's more than one birthday.




FOOD FIGHT!!!!!

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

I don't know. I haven't seen a birthday yet. Holidays are no.

 

[volrath]

I'll tell my coworkers its my birthday in 2 weeks. Maybe they will. Doubtful, just 4 programmers and me.

 

[FlyLice]

I got a party for leaving after working there for 4 months.

 

[DT4K]

Yes, people occasionally bring cakes for someone's birthday, but not that often.

 

[FoBoT]

we have a monthly cake hour to celebrate everyones birthday for each month

 

[ggavinmoss]

We have a monthly birthday lunch.

-geoff

 

[nageov3t]

someone from HR gets a gift certificate for the person with the birthday, but beyond that, we don't do anything. too busy working.

I don't even know when most of my coworkers' birthdays are.

 

[TheNinja]

We have cake for our department once a month. It is for birthdays and employed anniverseries (5yr, 10yr, etc). And we go out for lunch (company pays) when someone leaves the department. Probably 30 of us in the departments included.

 

Whenever it's someone's birthday, someone brings a cake and everyone signs a card. It's weird, people think of police officers as attracted to donuts, but man, you should see them swarm around a sheet cake!

 

[Ranger X]

We get nada so I don't even tell anyone. I don't want to get badgered about how old I am anyway.

 

[CRXican]

I get emails monthly asking me if I would like to pitch in for this persons gift/cake and that persons gift/cake. My company is relatively small, at least in our location and I've been here a while so I know most eveyone here. That means I'm eligible to donate for their birthday.

I try not to be stingy however because I received $70 cash for my last birthday here. I'll be 21 in March, that should be a GOOD one.

 

[akodi]

i got a bagel from my boss for my birthday

 

[ttown]

Originally posted by: Hardcore
This is a small company, less than 30, but it's like that Seinfeld episode where Elain's office throws a party every day... we've been having like 2 every week for either somebody's birthday, or somebody leaving, or something.

I'm not complaining, free cake is great, just surprised how often this company does this.

[milton] The people to cake ratio is too large [/milton]

 

[imported_Tomato]

Yup. Every time somebody leaves, or if there's a holiday, or if there's a birthday...

Generally, some very enthusiastic employees (not management) set it up (i.e. our Halloween potluck) and it's okay-ed by those above.

Free food and mingling = good.

 

[Ryan]

Yes - everytime someone at my work has a birthday, we get cake, ice cream, etc

 

[MacBaine]

GET WELL GET WELL SOON WE WANT YOU TO GET WELL!

 

[xSauronx]

we used to do it...except everyone had to pitch in to pay for it, as opposed to the boss buying a cake. everyone got tired of it coming up every 3 or 4 weeks and having to shell out for it and the boss is too cheap to shell out a few bucks for it, so we aren't doing it this year.

 

[Geekbabe]

I got a gorgous,yummy home baked orange cake and two boxes of devil dogs for my b/day at work

 

[ThePresence]

Originally posted by: ttown

Originally posted by: Hardcore
This is a small company, less than 30, but it's like that Seinfeld episode where Elain's office throws a party every day... we've been having like 2 every week for either somebody's birthday, or somebody leaving, or something.

I'm not complaining, free cake is great, just surprised how often this company does this.

[milton] The people to cake ratio is too large [/milton]

I was gonna say that! :|

 

[DurocShark]

We do one cake every month to cover whoever has a birthday in that month.

 

[Adica]

Never ever. After nine + years, I have never seen a cake or a celebration.

 

[OutHouse]

yes but its held the last day of every month. they bring in 3 huge sheet cakes and dish them out in bowls and people come when they can and eat it. No singing thank god.

 

[Yossarian]

we used to have them all the time, it was getting out of hand. they were even sending flowers out for anniversaries and stuff. finally one of the VPs sends out an email saying something like "we will no longer have cake, and we will send flowers out only for funerals." I replied all "can I get a cake instead when I die?" the guy has an awesome sense of humor and replies "we will have to get approval on that "