<v Speaker 1>Jerey Katy and Josh Max one hundred. So this one,

<v Speaker 1>by the way, I don't know if we really have

<v Speaker 1>a name because it just signed. I'm probably gonna end

<v Speaker 1>up as the cat lady, So there's that. But it says, hey, guys,

<v Speaker 1>love the show and I need your help with something.

<v Speaker 1>Since you work together and your friends, I feel like

<v Speaker 1>you can relate. I started a new job last year

<v Speaker 1>and I love it except one thing. Every time it's

<v Speaker 1>someone's birthday, you're expected to chip in twenty bucks for

<v Speaker 1>the cake, balloons and gift every single birthday? What the

<v Speaker 1>heck is up with that? That sounds a little crazy,

<v Speaker 1>doesn't it?

<v Speaker 2>Look says it.

<v Speaker 1>I mean, what do you think, like twenty twenty five

<v Speaker 1>people work at a business.

<v Speaker 2>That's a lot. It's a small business.

<v Speaker 1>She didn't, she didn't say. She said every birthday, but

<v Speaker 1>even then that's one hundred bucks. And she goes on

<v Speaker 1>to say, none of these people are actually my friends.

<v Speaker 2>I mean we get along. I like coming to work.

<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I did reminded me of Jeremy actually, But she said,

<v Speaker 1>but don't you think buying gifts and celebrations should be

<v Speaker 1>restricted to friends and family?

<v Speaker 2>She says, I'm not a complete party pooper.

<v Speaker 1>At my last job, the people, the person whose birthday

<v Speaker 1>it was, they brought in their favorite cake for everyone

<v Speaker 1>to share. And that's more reasonable to me. Right, the

<v Speaker 1>birthday person gets their favorite cake, nobody ever forgets, and

<v Speaker 1>there's not one person solely in charge of everybody's birthday.

<v Speaker 1>So she said, I tried to mention this to our

<v Speaker 1>HR lady and she looked like she was gonna cry.

<v Speaker 1>So if it didn't go over well with HR, she says,

<v Speaker 1>help JKJ. I'm not made of money. What suggestions do

<v Speaker 1>you and your listeners have? Am I in the right here?

<v Speaker 1>Or should I just suck it up and pitch in

<v Speaker 1>twenty bucks every time someone celebrates a trip around the sun?

<v Speaker 1>I listen every day. Thank you so much for making

<v Speaker 1>me laugh. Sign the cat lady.

<v Speaker 3>All right, if you guys want to sound off about this,

<v Speaker 3>three oh three six' nine one sixteen forty, nine phone

<v Speaker 3>lines are way.

<v Speaker 2>Open you, know she's gonna get.

<v Speaker 3>Hers her birthday's gonna roll, around and she's gonna get you,

<v Speaker 3>know some really nice gifts and.

<v Speaker 1>CARDS i get, That but, again LIKE I i like

<v Speaker 1>the idea of just bringing in a. CAKE i don't

<v Speaker 1>think you need to have the full celebration at. WORK

<v Speaker 1>i MEAN i think of just being in, here, RIGHT i,

<v Speaker 1>mean how many people would you buy gifts for here

<v Speaker 1>at our? Business at our.

<v Speaker 2>Work here's the.

<v Speaker 3>Problem it would be unexpected here in our work because

<v Speaker 3>it is. Large, YEAH i have a feeling that she's

<v Speaker 3>probably in a smaller. Office, okay say five to ten

<v Speaker 3>and IT'S i don't even know if it would be,

<v Speaker 3>ten because that's a that's a big. Ask if it's,

<v Speaker 3>TEN i bet you she's in a smaller little, again

<v Speaker 3>mom and pop.

<v Speaker 1>Shot how many people would you buy gifts for in this? Building,

<v Speaker 1>Well i've tried to put the kebash on.

<v Speaker 2>YouTube NO i wouldn't let. You so that's WHAT i,

<v Speaker 2>mean is, LIKE i don't want to do that.

<v Speaker 3>Anymore, yeah just because it's one less thing that it's

<v Speaker 3>filling up my, brain one less twenty dollars bill coming

<v Speaker 3>out of my Walle we don't.

<v Speaker 2>Need to do that between the three of, them and

<v Speaker 2>we do actually actually make. Friends makes, different it's different

<v Speaker 2>people on this. Show we stopped stop, Anymore, no we.

<v Speaker 2>Don't it's just lives and we're. DONE i just a

<v Speaker 2>twenty dollars bill and you can have me any that's.

<v Speaker 1>So, Impersonal like that's the thing is when it's actually.

<v Speaker 1>FRIENDS i think it's important because you're showing your friend

<v Speaker 1>that you thought about, Them, like oh my, goodness this

<v Speaker 1>gift made me think about, you AND i bought it

<v Speaker 1>AND i can't wait to give it to you and

<v Speaker 1>see the smile that it puts on your.

<v Speaker 2>Face like. Frustration i'm not even really a fan of

<v Speaker 2>like the birthday cake. Even i'm just kind of like

<v Speaker 2>just we don't need to acknowledge. It. CAKE i know

<v Speaker 2>you like, cake AND i.

<v Speaker 1>Like that the person whose birthday it is you bring

<v Speaker 1>in your favorite.

<v Speaker 2>Cake that's. GENIUS i do it's for employee morale and.

<v Speaker 3>Everything BUT i know a lot of people were, there,

<v Speaker 3>like why are you making me take time out of

<v Speaker 3>my day to do this and eat cake and? Celebrate

<v Speaker 3>CAN i just please do my. JOB i come here

<v Speaker 3>to do my, jobs don't come here to Part.

<v Speaker 1>YEAH i think that's kind of the lengths or the

<v Speaker 1>line that she's going here as, well is like she's

<v Speaker 1>not super friendly with everybody she works.

<v Speaker 3>WITH i see a lot of you texting right. Now

<v Speaker 3>we want your, comments we want to talk to. You

<v Speaker 3>i'm going to talk to some. People three oh three

<v Speaker 3>six nine one one mix three oh three six nine

<v Speaker 3>one sixteen forty. Nine should you be required to chip

<v Speaker 3>in for people at your office for their?

<v Speaker 2>Birthday? Yeah especially ones you don't even, KNOW i. Know

<v Speaker 2>should that be a?

<v Speaker 3>Requirement would you be looked down on if you were, like,

<v Speaker 3>Nah i'm going to.

<v Speaker 2>Pass Here's alex on the. Line, Hi.

<v Speaker 1>Alex, hello how.

<v Speaker 4>Are you guys?

<v Speaker 2>Sitting? Oh we're super. Dupes how are you?

<v Speaker 4>Doing?

<v Speaker 5>Pretty pretty?

<v Speaker 1>Decent all, Right, well what.

<v Speaker 2>Are your thoughts about this birthday situation at the?

<v Speaker 5>Office my my thought process is was it in the

<v Speaker 5>contract when it was signed when she got the job?

<v Speaker 4>Off or was it in the? Contract because, like if

<v Speaker 4>you're you have that, option you, know if you're reading

<v Speaker 4>a contract and you're, like, OH i have to chip

<v Speaker 4>in twenty bucks for of my own money for the.

<v Speaker 4>Birthday DO i really want to do? This DO i

<v Speaker 4>really want this?

<v Speaker 3>Job?

<v Speaker 4>Like that's because that's For i'm just like you. GUYS

<v Speaker 4>i just want to go, in do my, job go.

<v Speaker 4>Home i'm.

<v Speaker 2>Good, well you're like. Me katie wants to? Party, well,

<v Speaker 2>NO I.

<v Speaker 1>The funny thing IS i want to party with my,

<v Speaker 1>friends AND i do have some friends, here but like

<v Speaker 1>we have a unique, Job like we sit in the

<v Speaker 1>studio together for five plus hours a, day so we

<v Speaker 1>are friends because, yeah, Exactly.

<v Speaker 2>Like it's a forced.

<v Speaker 3>Friendship but that's a funny, Thought, alex that you, know

<v Speaker 3>you get your contract and you're going over your, salary

<v Speaker 3>your bonus, structure your, benefits and then the birthday structure

<v Speaker 3>with the company.

<v Speaker 2>Exactly, yeah and you're, LIKE i don't THINK i can sign.

<v Speaker 2>THIS i don't know IF i could sign this because

<v Speaker 2>of the birthday. STRUCTURE i don't like this balloon. Budget

<v Speaker 2>that's a funny.

<v Speaker 3>Point really really appreciate you calling, It. Alex we got

<v Speaker 3>full phone. MINDS i want to get to a few

<v Speaker 3>more people while we have. Time I'm Here's, Kendra Hi,

<v Speaker 3>Kindra welcome to the. Show, hi good, Morning good morning to.

<v Speaker 3>You so what are your thoughts about this birthday situation at.

<v Speaker 6>WORK i just think it's a little, Ridiculous LIKE i

<v Speaker 6>think a cake is more than. Enough having balloons and,

<v Speaker 6>CASES i, mean they're not important people in your life

<v Speaker 6>at the end of the.

<v Speaker 2>Day, yeah well they're. Not, Like, snap you didn't pick

<v Speaker 2>to hang out with these. People you were put. There

<v Speaker 2>i've always said they're. Coworkers not, again it's unique. Here

<v Speaker 2>they're not your. Coworkers they are not friends.

<v Speaker 6>Exactly but if you end up having, friends you go

<v Speaker 6>and celebrate outside of the.

<v Speaker 4>Office from, there that's.

<v Speaker 3>True in the.

<v Speaker 2>Office, now what are your?

<v Speaker 3>Thoughts we don't, know BUT i feel like this is

<v Speaker 3>a small office. Setting so say there's roughly five to

<v Speaker 3>ten people within this small office setting and you're the

<v Speaker 3>only one who's not participating and not shipping, in then

<v Speaker 3>what do you?

<v Speaker 2>Do you are you? Guys we're gonna you live your

<v Speaker 2>life BECAUSE i feel like that would get. Awkward and,

<v Speaker 2>truly you're blowing twenty.

<v Speaker 3>Bucks on A netflix subscription or coffee for. YOURSELF i,

<v Speaker 3>mean why not blow it for Your, corekkis we're.

<v Speaker 6>Assault why do we care if we did not chip

<v Speaker 6>in twenty bucks for a? Birthday we're not teenagers.

<v Speaker 7>Anymore we're.

<v Speaker 3>Adults, Yeah, Kendra i'm just trying to play devil's advocate

<v Speaker 3>BECAUSE i am so on your. Side oh you're a rock, Star.

<v Speaker 3>Kendra thank you for, calling and have a very good.

<v Speaker 2>Day she's very, Wise. Katie there's a.

<v Speaker 1>Lot of good points here.

<v Speaker 2>Already Points Hi, Anika, hi, guys good.

<v Speaker 3>Morning oh we're being. Silly what are your thoughts on

<v Speaker 3>this birthday?

<v Speaker 8>SITUATION i completely agree with everybody. ELSE i think it's honestly.

<v Speaker 8>Ridiculous and, again she might be in a smaller. OFFICE

<v Speaker 8>i don't know how many people she works, with BUT

<v Speaker 8>i feel like twenty dollars is kind of a lot

<v Speaker 8>when you think about everybody contributing twenty, Dollars like how

<v Speaker 8>much a cake, Is like you can get a cake

<v Speaker 8>for five bucks At king Cooper is if you need, To, like,

<v Speaker 8>right you.

<v Speaker 2>Find those clearance cakes on those clearance, racks that's what

<v Speaker 2>you need to. Buy, yeah what kind of balloons are

<v Speaker 2>they get like?

<v Speaker 7>THAT i don't. Know it seems a little extensive for

<v Speaker 7>everybody to need to pitch in twenty. Dollars BUT i

<v Speaker 7>agree with like, everybody like we're, adults they're your. COWORKERS

<v Speaker 7>I i don't see the need to go all out

<v Speaker 7>for every single person's birthday, because, YEAH i it's ten.

<v Speaker 2>People it's two hundred bucks of pop every time for.

<v Speaker 2>Everybody that's a, lot but it's only.

<v Speaker 3>Twenty coming from, you and it's you, know it's twenty

<v Speaker 3>dollars to make somebody feel?

<v Speaker 1>Special hr lady keeping a cut of, This like what that?

<v Speaker 3>Work what if you do get cake balloons and then

<v Speaker 3>they get you really, nice nice gift card to go.

<v Speaker 2>Pa maybe that's. It but, again you're making somebody feel.

<v Speaker 1>Special but you're almost paying for your own gift card

<v Speaker 1>because you're contributing twenty dollars every, Time so it's like

<v Speaker 1>you're your own gift card and so it cancels out

<v Speaker 1>and so, yeah it's.

<v Speaker 2>But can you put a price on making somebody feel?

<v Speaker 2>Special twenty dollars? Bucks is what? Is? Annika thank you

<v Speaker 2>for your, Vote thank you for calling in this.

<v Speaker 7>Morning, yep thanks, Guys bye.

<v Speaker 3>Bye, Mercedes, Hi, Mercedes, hi good. Morning so would you

<v Speaker 3>would you be chicking chipping in the twenty?

<v Speaker 4>BUCKS i feel.

<v Speaker 5>Like you should kind of be able to like sign

<v Speaker 5>up for, It LIKE i would like to be, celebrated

<v Speaker 5>So i'll pitch in the Twenty but if you don't want,

<v Speaker 5>to then you don't have to.

<v Speaker 1>THAT i love, It, okay so, Smart, yes you can

<v Speaker 1>have a group of people that want to.

<v Speaker 3>Celebrate but what all nine of your coworkers do it

<v Speaker 3>and you're the only one that.

<v Speaker 4>Doesn't, well then you're the only one.

<v Speaker 6>That doesn't the.

<v Speaker 3>Back you are shunned and they don't like you in

<v Speaker 3>a small, office and that's going to get off with.

<v Speaker 5>Me i'm not used to celebrating my birthday and other

<v Speaker 5>places because it's two days Before, christmas SO i never

<v Speaker 5>like celebrated it in, school at, work, Nothing SO i

<v Speaker 5>wouldn't personally, Me i'd be, like, No i'm, GOOD i

<v Speaker 5>DON'T i don't need.

<v Speaker 1>To so that's a.

<v Speaker 2>Good, YEAH i don't.

<v Speaker 3>Care and, really isn't it like when you get to

<v Speaker 3>a certain age, too you're, like please don't acknowledge my.

<v Speaker 2>Birthday, yeah you don't need to bring attention to. This nobody.

<v Speaker 2>CARES i don't. Care let's move.

<v Speaker 1>On ten people singing at. You that's enough to make anything. Right,

<v Speaker 1>like that's the most awkward.

<v Speaker 3>Situation thank You mercedes for calling. In appreciate your thoughts, That,

<v Speaker 3>yeah that's one of my. Things there's no more of

<v Speaker 3>an awkward moment than when you're sitting there at the

<v Speaker 3>table in front of a cake and you got twenty

<v Speaker 3>people around you.

<v Speaker 2>Singing make a, wish.

<v Speaker 3>Let's sing to, you and then you spit on the

<v Speaker 3>cave and what do you look?

<v Speaker 1>At do you look at one person, singing do you

<v Speaker 1>move your.

<v Speaker 3>Eye Care, GENERALLY i just look down and be, like Oh,

<v Speaker 3>god take me. Out this would be a great time

<v Speaker 3>for me to. Die please take me, now make then stop.

<v Speaker 3>Singing for the love Of, god my wishes THAT i

<v Speaker 3>die right.

<v Speaker 2>Now Hi, Andrea, Hi, Hi. Hi well on that, note

<v Speaker 2>what are your?

<v Speaker 4>Thoughts, yeah, WELL i think with everybody, ELSE i also

<v Speaker 4>agree that it's kind of. PERSONALLY i could care less

<v Speaker 4>about a cake or. Balloons it's a waste of. Money as,

<v Speaker 4>adults it's like we don't really get excited about those

<v Speaker 4>kind of things. ANYMORE i say we pull the money

<v Speaker 4>and save it up for one big party and do

<v Speaker 4>it outside of, work and maybe if we have a

<v Speaker 4>little drinks, involved maybe everybody would become better. FRIENDS i

<v Speaker 4>want to.

<v Speaker 3>Hang out for.

<v Speaker 2>It so you've got a drinking. PROBLEM i like that

<v Speaker 2>a big community birthday, party everybody gets. Smashed you're hooking

<v Speaker 2>up with your.

<v Speaker 4>Coworkers, okay, well, YEAH i.

<v Speaker 3>Love your idea of sleeping with all your. Coworkers you

<v Speaker 3>gotta make it.

<v Speaker 5>Weird well.

<v Speaker 6>Done nobody said that totally said the.

<v Speaker 4>PARTY i think of the party you could throw if

<v Speaker 4>you pulled up twenty dollars from everybody for every. Birthday,

<v Speaker 4>yes that's what you, said.

<v Speaker 2>AND i love.

<v Speaker 3>It make your whole company at all of.

<v Speaker 2>Soup and, breadsteaks all.

<v Speaker 1>Nice the ideas of party are so.

<v Speaker 2>Different thank you so. Much all, right we got time

<v Speaker 2>for one. More It's Leah Hei. Leah, Hello, hello.

<v Speaker 4>Listen There's i'm gonna preface this with. EVERYBODY i learned

<v Speaker 4>this and training years. Ago everybody likes to be acknowledged

<v Speaker 4>differently in the, workplace, Right so some people might love

<v Speaker 4>the attention that you get and seeing that everybody thinks

<v Speaker 4>you're special on your, birthday and some people would like

<v Speaker 4>to like You jeremy calling a hole and die and

<v Speaker 4>not ever come.

<v Speaker 3>Out.

<v Speaker 4>Yeah so we at a previous employer of, mine they

<v Speaker 4>would just they would just do once a, month like

<v Speaker 4>in the middle of the, month this is the firsday,

<v Speaker 4>lunch and they would order pizza and order get A

<v Speaker 4>costco cake and everybody would do it and high. Five

<v Speaker 4>it's everybody's. Birthday have a good. Time BUT i will

<v Speaker 4>say that if this little hr lady at this job

<v Speaker 4>is the one that looked like you kicked her puppy

<v Speaker 4>when you told her you didn't want to do it,

<v Speaker 4>anymore then maybe the company should be the ones forking

<v Speaker 4>over the money to pay for all these things instead

<v Speaker 4>of expecting their employees to do.

<v Speaker 2>It, yeah it's a solid. Point start budgeting for this birthday.

<v Speaker 4>Balloons, yeah, like don't make everybody pitch, In like what

<v Speaker 4>if somebody financially can't afford to do it and now

<v Speaker 4>they feel guilty because of the pressure of doing it

<v Speaker 4>every single? Time like you, said there could be ten,

<v Speaker 4>people there could be fifty. People But i'm a birthday.

<v Speaker 4>BRAT i do my birthday all month. Long it's, like you,

<v Speaker 4>know you, know.

<v Speaker 2>Like you're one of those. Areas do you start my

<v Speaker 2>birth my thirtieth?

<v Speaker 4>Broy is it?

<v Speaker 3>So?

<v Speaker 4>Yeah so, ANYWAY i just. CRY i think it's fun

<v Speaker 4>to do things and acknowledge the people that want to be,

<v Speaker 4>acknowledged but maybe give the person whose birthday it is

<v Speaker 4>the opportunity of saying whether they want to or.

<v Speaker 2>Not, yeah that's.

<v Speaker 3>Good ray wise, Words, leah thank you so. Much we're

<v Speaker 3>excited about your birthday month coming. Up remind me to

<v Speaker 3>get you, Something, OKAY i love you mean it by Geez.

<v Speaker 3>WELL i think the consensus basically was that you don't

<v Speaker 3>need to chip. In be an adult was mentioned many. Times,

<v Speaker 3>yeah an, adult don't worry about, it just say no

<v Speaker 3>and don't be scared about.

<v Speaker 2>It, yeah that's.

<v Speaker 1>Right you can go buy your own cake and pretend

<v Speaker 1>it's your birthday every day of the. Week there are

<v Speaker 1>no rules about, That LIKE i could go get a

<v Speaker 1>cake now and eat it all to.

<v Speaker 2>Myself that is also one of the great things about

<v Speaker 2>being an. Adult you can have cake for. Breakfast if

<v Speaker 2>you want, it you can have. Cake go get. It

<v Speaker 2>get that. Cake