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Seeing as how my birthday this year was basically borked on account of being endlessly sick throughout the entire month of April, I didn\u2019t really celebrate at all.\u00a0 I actually still have some gifts that I haven\u2019t even opened, yet, because I\u2019ve been in such a dour plcae over the last few weeks, I want to make sure that I\u2019m in a positive headspace before opening anything that\u2019s meant to be a pick-me-up, and I really don\u2019t think I\u2019ve gotten to that point just yet.<\/span><\/p>\n Either way, this is something that I\u2019ve wanted to write about but just didn\u2019t get a chance to and it kept getting pushed back in the queue of things that pique my interest or inspire words to formulate, but I noticed something in the soulless, mostly obligated birthday card that I received from my colleagues at work.<\/span><\/p>\n Among the generic and canned-corn hand written messages from my colleagues, I noticed that one person signed via a rubber stamp that simply said \u201cHappy Birthday -Michael<\/em>\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n My brow furrowed, and numerous emotions went through my head at seeing such.\u00a0 The fact that Michael had a rubber stamp created with the most generic of greetings, was such a sign of dismissal, a lack of genuine care, and an acknowledgment that office colleague birthday cards really are tedious, forced and things that we as people really don\u2019t care about, but feel obligated to participate, for optics.<\/span><\/p>\n However, at the same time, I found it to be absolutely hilarious that Michael here had the wherewithal to understand that office colleague cards really are tedious, forced and things we don\u2019t care about, that he created a solution that absolved him of even the littlest of thought necessary to hand write a generic greeting.<\/span><\/p>\n Responses from people in my circles whom I shared this with were varied, from wooooowww, to laughing, and if anything at all like me, kind of in admiration for Michael for having such a brilliant idea to have a dismissive and informal stamp to just slap on a soulless Happy Birthday greeting, which includes his name on it, so that everyone who sees it, can see, that Michael feels all of the above.<\/span><\/p>\n All the same, regardless of how anyone feels about it, it elicited enough of a reaction from me to where I felt inspired to write about it.\u00a0 And frankly, that in itself is a gift that\u2019s invaluable, at least to me, and Michael has no idea he accomplished such.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n I kind of want my own generic greeting rubber stamp now.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Seeing as how my birthday this year was basically borked on account of being endlessly sick throughout the entire month of April, I didn\u2019t really celebrate at all.\u00a0 I actually still have some gifts that I haven\u2019t even opened, yet, because I\u2019ve been in such a dour plcae over the last few weeks, I want … Continue reading So dismissive, kind of callous, I can\u2019t help but respect it<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[67,83,52,49],"class_list":["post-51215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-birthday","tag-observations","tag-owned","tag-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51217,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51215\/revisions\/51217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}