I'm thinking that everyone should be able to have their birthday off (and get paid!). Who's with me?

I'm thinking that everyone should be able to have their birthday off (and get paid!). Who's with me?
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I don’t mean to be the party pooper hehehe, but birthdays are not special, statistically speaking. You came out of a woman one day out of a possible 366. These are really really high odds, especially when you multiply it by North America’s working population, 1 in 365.25 people wouldn’t be going to work. That’s tens of thousands here in Canada. This is why we have vacation days and the ability to book work off or switch shifts. Plan ahead and book your birthday off so that you don’t work on your birthday. That’s what I did back when I worked shift work. If you don’t have this option or if it was denied to you, then yes you do have my sympathy… but you won’t next year :)
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