I have missed work events to be at something that's important to my kids and I'll continue doing that. In 20 years the only ones who will remember late hours and time spent at the office are my children.

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Great idea Rick. Well done!!

Very wholesome post 😊 And really great idea!

Happy 12th birthday to your daughter 🎂🎉 That’s such a lovely and thoughtful gesture—so adorable! She’ll definitely remember that one.

I hope they are satire and/or LLM generated slop.

Wow. What a douchebag.

Probably no one there wants to be at your shitty meeting anyway. Go be with your daughter and don’t make the rest of those assholes act like they care about your bullshit. Fuck this guy.

That's one of the saddest things I've ever heard

I was at a local live show. The singer was talking about how she sacrificed so much to make the show, and tonight is her daughter's birthday which she is missing.

Without missing a beat, a highly intoxicated woman slur-shouted "YOU'RE A TERRIBLE MOTHER!!!"

It was like all the air was sucked out of the room and we were in the vacuum of space and could not hear a single vibration of sound. The rest of the show was super low energy.

What gives people feelings of power

Forcing your coworkers to sing happy birthday to your daughter, whose birthday your missing, during a meeting that already could've been an email.

Posting about it on LinkedIn

You decide!

I see this as they are so inefficient and bad at their job that they have to work all the time. Or they are so poorly respected that they aren't allowed the time to take off work.

They should be shamed and made fun of every time they say shit like this.

"Growing up, my dad was always there for me, he would record strangers singing me happy birthday and sometimes even come home to see me!"

I think the nanny coached the daughter's reaction.

Cut to 20 years later "Why does my daughter never visit doesn't she know how much I sacrificed?"

Looking forward to the posts in ten years on aitah "my daughter told me i was a horrible father and cut all contact"

Ah yes, supporting the people behind by forcing you to work on your child's birthday.

So many people are ragging on this guy, but they don't understand what it's like to have 131 middle managers sing you happy birthday before they go splurge their per diem on two mai tai's and try to get the waitress, who's actually your daughter's age, to drink one.

Not sure what is more depressing: missing your child’s birthday or posting about missing your child’s birthday.

I missed a major life event one time to travel for work. Top ten dumbest thing I ever did. I don't remember a damn thing about the trip, still remember missing the anniversary though.

It's apparent that his daughters birthday is important to her. If he or they supported or even slightly cared the people behind it he wouldn't be missing his daughters birthday.

Fuck this corporate white washing bullshit.

I am blessed to have my current job. It was my daughters birthday earlier this week and on the morning of her birthday she came to me (I WFH btw) a bit upset as the plans she had made for the day had fell through as both her friends cancelled.

I was able to book that PM off work with 90 minutes notice and have it approved. Daughter and I had a great day :)

My wife's and my 12th anniversary is this week... and she reminded me (again 🍆✊💦) that I usually miss our anniversaries because I'm out fucking mailboxes every night.

Not helped this year that there are still mailboxes in the world.

So I improvised instead of figuring out a solution.

This year, instead of making my wife sad, I wrote "I was at my own wedding" on every mailbox just before I fucked it.

If my wife isn't satisfied with this solution, that's her problem, not mine. I'm not here to compromise with things that aren't those fuckable mailboxes.

Moments like this remind me how lucky I am that the mailboxes I fuck can't move or talk while I tell them about my wife and then fuck them. It's like they're forced to be there.

We are all mailbox fuckers. For some people, shirking fatherhood is their mailbox fucking. For me, fucking a mailbox is my mailbox fucking ... cheers guys!

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So much for keeping her off the pole.

I'm a parent, just at the start of that journey really, certainly I have a lot to learn and I'm sure I'll make a lot of mistakes.

That said, it seems like quality time and shared interests is foundational. Like if you watch her ballet class every week (not playing on your phone) then I don't think she will care very much about a missed birthday and certainly not interested in a happy birthday from the team.

I doubt I'll have time to go to every ballet class but I'll sure as shit try.

Note to self, never work for or with rick

Gross.

A heartwarming tale or a dystopic nightmare?

I like how he closes his post by saying Übersetzung anzeigen. It adds dramatic effect

I was angry until I noticed what community this was posted to.

Super American and super gross.

A meeting? Seriously?

It's truly heartwarming that he painted a smiley face on the front of the baby crushing machine.

But will his daughter ever be able to recreate the SEGMENT MANAGER memories? Hmm?

What a waste of a human life.

Poor guy, at least he did what he could.

I am feeling second hand sadness hard

As an old medic and firefighter, I missed my share of family things. Holidays were for spending time with your closest coworkers in the ER. New Year's Eve, (my wedding anniversary), often meant spending quality time crawly inside a car wreak to get someone out alive. My one daughter's high school graduation I was paged out for some little old lady's heart attack in the middle of her party.

So, was I a bad father or am I the victim of a bunch of narcistic people that decided to have the worst day of their lives and dialing 911 to ruin my any and all 4 of my daughter's special occasions?

A tweet is more elegant

This is such a great reminder that leadership is also about being human. Small moments like this say a lot about a team’s culture.