So I found out after this incident that office birthday celebrations had been canceled the year or so prior so this celebration was an anomaly. After canceling birthdays B2 decided that she could pick and choose whose birthdays would be celebrated by the office.
E’s birthday was right before Christmas and we were getting read to send out gifts and cards to some clients. That day B2 was meant to hand deliver presents and had called in help. D arrived at 10 am to help. B2 wasn’t ‘in’ the office until 11 and then had lots to do before being able to leave. E and I were working on a project that we got a ‘surprise’ last minute deadline on. We didn’t leave for lunch until 2 pm. I told B2 we were off to lunch and she said it was time for cake. I said maybe at 3 pm as E had already left for his lunch. B2 was not impressed but agreed. Just before 3 pm, D who had been waiting since 10 am, went to go and get food as he was starving. E and I returned but it turns out that we were not allowed to do cake without D.
I do not know if I can adequately relay the firestorm of anger that followed in text. B2 then got angry, irrationally angry and told me that if her staff couldn’t take lunch at a reasonable time they shouldn’t even get a lunch, announced that B1 would drive her around, and to do cake without her as she couldn’t plan her whole day around cake. When she returned, she was not speaking to E as he ruined his birthday celebrations by taking his lunch too late, returning when D was gone for lunch, and forced B2 to structure her whole day around his cake. She did not speak to E for the next 2 days! She was also not speaking to D as after waiting 5 hours without a break and without her being able to give a time as to when they would leave, he went to get food.
Best part: E never wanted to celebrate his birthday!
**UPDATE! I just found out that there will be another cake day this week!
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