All days are eventful by that logic. There are multiple historical events that have happened on every single day of the year.

Founder

I was born. Then the day become eventful. Then MSD won us multiple WCs. And he made the day eventful.

Business Analyst

Hardware Engineer

Product Manager

Not birthday but marriage day in August 15. 
 Interesting thing is all in my relatives about 6 couples  got married on the same day as mine.  
  
 However we are the only couple still going strong after 10 years.

Project Manager

My friends Parent's anniversary is on Valentines Day. 
 And his birthday on Children's day

Software Developer

I was born the day Hritik Roshan robs a diamond in Dhoom 2 :P

Born on the biggest event of them all (Independence Day + Janmashtami)

Strategy & Operations

My uncle is born on 2nd Oct, a friend who has birthday on Pakistani independence day, Justin Trudeau is a Christmas boy etc etc .. you get the gist

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Any one got birthday on eventful days?

Consultant

Any one got birthday on eventful days?- Grapevine

As it’s a quadrennial thing, how do you celebrate it? What plans do you make? 

Also, what happens to the extra leave lost for
Birthday off on non-leap years? I am curious about that as well.

Folks having their birthday on 29th Feb, how do you celebrate?

Remember as a child how excited I would be, and how patriotic it would feel. Now it's just a holiday. A long weekend. I don't know why my feelings/patriotism went to die.

I'm curious but, what does it mean to you?

In 1 line, what's the first thing you think of when you hear 'Independence Day' 🇮🇳

Now everyone in office is joking ki Happy womens day oh sorry happy birthday hihihi

Bkl chup hoja nahi funny lag rha

My birthday and women's day happens on the same day

What's the best birthday gift YOU have given YOURSELF?

Not celebrating birthday with friends.  
 This is for saving my money. 
 I am broke 🥲

Software Engineer

It's my birthday tomorrow. But for the first time ever there's no excitement, no looking forward to it, in fact I am planning to work and maybe even go to the office. For the first time, it feels like there's nothing special about birthdays and its just a normal day. 
Is staying away from home and family taking away the inner child, enjoyment and excitement from us?

Is this with everyone?

Finance Consultant

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Corporate Birthday/Anniversary wishes are the most blatant wishes I've ever received 🙄
They are so bland, it is almost disrespecting 😌

PS: It's my birthday.

FYI Corporate Behaviour

Fellow Grapeviners, can you please knock some sense into me?
For context, I've got a good-ish job that I think pays me easy money. i started working 5 months ago. lately, I'm feeling worthless and really thinking about quitting my job and do something impactful or crazy or financially irresponsible.

Help

Turned 21 today, feeling really, really old

Account Manager

I have my birthday next month

Many brands offer freebies on birthdays
What's the best you have availed/come across?

I'll try them (maybe others can benefit too)

P.S. I'm chindi and proud of it 😎

Birthday freebies ideas

I’m mostly alone on my birthday, I don’t have any plans as such and I don’t really know what to do. I stay with my parents and I have my dog so there that but any creative ideas to make the day memorable? 

P.S last three years of my birrhday have been really shitty so really want to make this count

Turning 27 soon, ideas to celebrate birthday?

Product Designer

Brother's birthday tomorrow, help with last minute gift/surprise ideas 🥺

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Corporate Slave cluesless on how to have fun on Labour's Day Holiday

Who all have holiday today for raksha bandan?

Holiday on raksha bandan

You must celebrate this one!

Or do you sincerely believe in having off-days on birthdays? Do employers judge us for having our day to ourselves?

It's my birthday soon! Do you guys work on your birthdays?

Account Strategist

Yesterday, booked an auto (Namma Yatri) from Koramangala to Marathalli. Auto driver maybe in his Mid 30’s a Telugite settled in Bangalore.

I was trying to give instructions in Mix of English/Hindi/Telugu on where I am and he understood I am a Telugu speaking guy he switched to Telugu. Once I boarded the auto, he started a casual conversation in Telugu asking me about my whereabouts, what I do and from how long I have been in Bangalore. For which, I replied it’s nearly a year. Then he was quick to respond “Samvastaram avthundi vachi Kannada nerchukoled” (It’s been year and You haven’t learnt Kannada). I said, you are right I should have learnt Kannada and I will learn (at least learn basic words we use in our day to day life).

Then we moved from discussing Kannada to Andhra politics why Chandrababu Naidu was arrested, Pawan Kalyan and who will win the elections, he was praising late Rajashekar reddy and criticising his son Jagan .

While we were discussing, I opened my phone and started watching IndvsPak match on my phone and he observed this and started talking about how mobiles are impacting lives for good and bad. He told me about his college and school days, how the new years were celebrated, gifting the greeting card with the favourite actors/actress photos on them, how the gang used to go for a movie, celebrate by cutting cake at midnight. As I write this, I am remembering all those birthday parties, those cake and thumps up near year celebrations in my school days. Now , this has changed to sending a happy new year sticker on WhatsApp.

Came the destination I got off the auto and picked up my phone, saw a status about my friends birthday. I opened WhatsApp to text him wishes, instead I called him and we spoke for half an hour.

An auto ride conversation.

Director Finance

For context: Weekends are off. So just fri WFH. This is a Series B startup. I am not even asking for a leave but WFH for just 1 day. I joined recently. The only thing I did wrong was possibly informing a little too late.

Want to get opinion if I am overthinking or this classifies as toxic culture in startups where you are expected to push limits above and beyond regularly and sometimes weekends.

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Is this toxic work culture or I am overthinking

Not a great culture, also you don’t have to give the actual reason, instead say due to some unavoidable work or family health reason you will need to wfh. Its a good way of seeing what kind of employer one is, when they also treat urgencies like that. Indians feel they need to give a detailed explanation as to why they deserve wfh or leave, whereas in international companies, you just have to inform the manager.

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