Halloween, kids and co-workers

Do milennials also love their compulsive inanity?

 

What if you are have no kids and your birthday falls on Halloween. Who gets the day, the employee with kids or the employee with the birthday?

 

Yeah, that, I'll never understand.

My younger co-workers were devastated that I didn't throw some giant bash for my 40th.

I said, "I'm 40. I'm happily married. I have little kids, and I don't drink. Why the fuck would you want to party with me?"

 

Just think if Ted Mosby's co-worker had kids. No slutty pumpkin. His whole life and the search for the mother would have been meaningless.

 

It's her and another pharmacist in their store on a rotating schedule. They can request personal days, but only one per week. She took one Monday for a DR appointment, but her and her partner cover for each other when things come up. She came in and covered for him so he could meet friends out the night before he left for vacation, covered the day after a Patriots game, stuff like that.
I'm annoyed because she'll cover for him regardless of the situation. He covers when it's convenient for him.
It's over and done with and my fun starts in an hour when I have to bring the dynamic duo to my mother in law's to get makeup (for the 3 y/o dressing like a butterfly), drive them up to my wife, then head back down to meet the rest of the fam for ToT. I miss college when I would just dress like an idiot, get hammered and see how many slutty pirates I could hit on.

 

I think they love their birthdays. I subscribe to the Dave Barry theory that once you turn 11, you shouldn't care about your birthday anymore.

My last real birthday party was when I turned 18, unless you count five people dragging me out to the bars on my 21st a party.

 

Hmm.
Depends on a few things:
1) What birthday
2) How old are the kids
3) Work schedule

I'd still give the edge to Halloween, because there's no trick or treating past 8 with young kids. I've never started a birthday party before 9 pm, unless you count covering the state swim championships every year, which all but ended my ability to celebrate my birthday.

 

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Sounds like your issue may be with something other than an uncooperative co-worker.

 

This does seem pretty simple. Yes, it can take year-in-advance planning, but when putting in vacation requests and the like for the following year, try to figure out what days you absolutely want to have off. There's an event every year held on the last Saturday of October that my wife loves, so I always make sure that day is on the vacation list I typically submit in November of the previous year. It doesn't guarantee I'll get it, but I'm 3-for-3 so far.

So many people in my shop STILL don't seem to get this. December rolls around, and everybody seems to have a bunch of unused vacation days that haven't been scheduled. Guess what? You're gonna lose 'em because you didn't plan ahead.

 

Did Halloween sneak up on your wife?

 

I'm dressing as Wolverine.
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I guess the doctor was only in session this week, which forced the need to use that personal day. I am sure there was no possible way to foresee and reschedule that.