If you work here we promise to sing to you on your birthday

[SilverPen]

In a job advert, with a screen shot of a Teams meeting of everyone singing happy birthday.

It's a good job, a social organisation that aligns closely with my own values and for which I'm well qualified, the pays good too but AIBU to think it sounds like a horrendous place to work? Or do most people actually like this sort of thing?

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I hear you, @SilverPen. I would hate that too!

I would be taking annual leave on my birthday to avoid that at all costs!!

You'd still have to sing for everyone else.

YANBU, this would put me right off.

I would hate having to do that and being on the receiving end of it!!

So also we have forced jolliment? No thanks!

That would genuinely put me off applying

@RagzRebooted I literally just thought of that as I posted!!

Hard ducking no. As I'd tell them why.

How sure are you that this is a real ‘thing’? Could it be a misjudged attempt to look fun, whereas in real life nobody bothers? If you could get in touch with anyone who works there, I’d want to find out more. Or ask at interview - it’s two-way after all.

I struggle to believe there is an organisation out there where everyone agrees to go along with this. Outside children’s entertainment, at least.

My work gives everyone their birthday off as an extra holiday day. Works so much better than shit like this

I'd imagine that this forced jollity means they only get a certain kind of person working for them. If you're not that kind of person, run

I personally wouldn’t mind it (assuming it was a nice enough workplace) but it’s a pretty divisive way to advertise themselves!

“Only if I get to choose the repertoire. I’d like a full choral Bach Mass in B Minor, please. Otherwise, don’t bother.”

What's the big deal about having Happy birthday sung to you? Wouldn't sway me one way or another but I'd hardly describe it as enforced jolliment.

"Can I have an above inflation pay rise this year?"
.......
"Ummm, how about instead of that, we sing Happy Birthday to you on your birthday?"

There's not many birthday threads where I think "thank fuck my birthday is the 25th December", but this , most definitely, is one of them 😆

I would screen them very carefully at interview with questions like “how do you celebrate team achievement”. My current job had a stupid gimmicky recruitment website dreamed up by marketing but in reality when I got to speak to my to be line manager he was just as grumpy as me in that department and it definitely wasn’t ingrained in company culture beyond this awful website!

While I'm all for stopping companies doing 'table tennis and beer is a substitute for decent pay', I don't think we can assume 'we wish you a happy birthday' is meant to be the same kind of thing... everywhere I've ever worked we've been given a cake/everyone sings on your birthday! I'm quite surprised that's not normal...

I generally have a stick up my arse, but I would quite like to have Happy Birthday sung to me (on my birthday, obviously). I think it's bloody weird that they would put this in the advert though. Maybe they just have an overly enthusiastic marketing/HR department...?

Horrific! Would definitely put me off working there.

Do they now understand how off-putting the website is?

I would rather gnaw off my own feet.

It works though. I know I would hate working there so I wouldn't apply.

I wouldn't have an issue with this. I can't believe you would sack off a job that you'd like purely because of this.