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  Nobody was looking forward to “unlimited overtime tonight since we had the office party earlier, remember to be a team player” I didn’t ask for the cake and I have meat thawing in the sink at home so I’m gone. I wanted my girlfriend to get me a cake, most normal people don’t care if the entire office acknowledges their birthday. We got the boss a cupcake once to suck up attempting to save our three person department, that’s it.
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  My favorite is the participation trophy criticism. As if kids wanted the crappie trophies not parent’s demand their kid get one. >
  
  I had a discussion with a client one day. He was complaining that "these millennials, they all want cake for birthday, so now we have a cake every month." There isn't a goddamned millennial in the world who went into a job interview saying, "I'm not taking this job unless there's cake." They want fair wages, and to be able to afford a house, the cake is appeasement.