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M GO BLUE!!!
07-09-2009, 10:48 PM
I get to my part-time job a couple Saturdays ago and saw there were cupcakes that said "Happy Birthday" on them. I asked "whose b'day?" It was a woman who just had left who seemed to have been trying to get me to ask her out (which finally subsided.) I threw a "By the way, happy b'day" out there this past week, and she attempts to lay a guilt trip on me... telling me that what I get her this week will let her know how sorry I am for missing her birthday. WTF?

She's a really nice woman, but should I really have to get her anything? I don't even know what to get my mother for her 60th b'day this coming Tuesday! I'm recovering from hernia surgery. I don't have time to do anything for someone just because she sends out interoffice emails to announce her birthday & does things like giving out candy gift packets with her picture on M&M's for her birthday.

Hell, I don't even tell people when it's my birthday. One year, at an old job, this woman asked when my birthday was when it was my actual b'day. I asked why... "We're putting together a birthday list of all employees." Rather than go through the crap that would obviously come up if I said "today," I told her Feb. 29. If she wanted it that bad, my real b'day is in my file. On 3/1 I get a card signed by all the staff... including the ones who I went drinking with for my real b'day. Idiots...

So would it be bad to give her a pack of microwave popcorn with "Happy Late B'day" written on it with a sharpie? :D

JonInMiddleGA
07-09-2009, 11:01 PM
That guilt trip sounds more like flirting to me.

M GO BLUE!!!
07-09-2009, 11:19 PM
That guilt trip sounds more like flirting to me.

It's never the one you might want to flirt with you.

Pumpy Tudors
07-09-2009, 11:20 PM
That guilt trip sounds more like flirting to me.
+1

stevew
07-09-2009, 11:29 PM
Don't give out microwave popcorn. She'll just burn it in the microwave and stink up the office for hours.

Galaxy
07-09-2009, 11:33 PM
Didn't we have just a thread on this not too long ago?

k0ruptr
07-09-2009, 11:35 PM
buy her a thong that says free rides.

Galaxy
07-09-2009, 11:38 PM
Pics please....

JediKooter
07-10-2009, 01:24 AM
The rare times this happens, you must take action. Get her a butt plug. Bet you she never asks you again for a birthday present.

On the other hand, sounds like she's flirting with you.

RendeR
07-10-2009, 01:26 AM
Ignore her. Always worked for me.....

Radii
07-10-2009, 01:35 AM
The rare times this happens, you must take action. Get her a butt plug. Bet you she never asks you again for a birthday present.

On the other hand, sounds like she's flirting with you.

Which makes your gift suggestion even better IMO.

clemsonfan
07-10-2009, 05:26 AM
Ignore her. Always worked for me.....
+1