UPDATE: Employee refuses to organize boss’s 50th birthday party after he made 0 effort for their birthday: ‘I told him I’m not having anything to do with organizing anything for him’ – FAIL Blog

This crew of 6 hospitality workers were told by their boss, in no uncertain terms, that he wanted a 50th birthday party that was a big deal. 

This boss sounds like the kind of person who really wants a big birthday party — or even a surprise party — and they just will not stop talking about it. They want everyone around them to rearrange all their plans and only focus on what matters — the boss’s big 50th. 

When you’re a child, everyone cares about birthdays, because you’re growing so much every year. And it’s cute! But as an adult, we tend not to care about these things so much. I admit, a 50th birthday is a big deal. But you can’t just force your coworkers — or, more embarrassingly, your employees — to care about that. If you’re making a big deal about how your workers celebrate you, just don’t! Surely there are friends and family members who would rather celebrate 50 years of you instead. If anything, as the boss, you should be the one bringing in a package of mini cupcakes and ordering some pizzas. Asking your staff to do it is just tacky, but I get the feeling from the story below that this boss is totally oblivious to things like that. 

As you can read in this story below, there were a whole spate of “big” birthdays and events at this workplace, which could’ve made it easy to celebrate everyone equally. Some people were retiring, while others were celebrating their 30th and 60th birthdays. Usually, there’s an HR person to handle things like this so that everyone does get the same treatment, but with a crew of just 6, there might not even be an HR person in the first place. 

Although it doesn’t seem like this person left their job in the aftermath here, they end the story on a really surprising note! They allude to leaving some startling papers on the boss’s desk, which it seemed like he just… ignored. He could easily check the cameras and see who left the papers there. I hope we get another update from this hospitality worker about how things have gone since the whole birthday debacle, and if things have gotten better or worse.