• supercriticalcheese@lemmy.world
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        8 days ago

        I asked because it sounded like a very common thing to do. Where I live the person celebrating is supposed to bring cake, snacks or something. He/she has plenty of time off, just not typical taken during one own birthday

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          8 days ago

          Id definitely read that as “coming in on his birthday, which he’d priorly arranged to have off”.

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            7 days ago

            I’d say it looks kinda sad even if it was not eir day off, it shouldn’t necessarily look like that but this picture does

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        8 days ago

        Yes certainly.

        We prefer taking days off around weekends or an entire week for holidays (valid for the part of Europe I been). But talking your birthday off is not particularly common practice although nothing is stopping you if you want to.

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          7 days ago

          I know people who just take an extra day off on the weekend closest to their birthday. People do different stuff.