Exine

I live in a country where, when it”s someone’s birthday, it’s tradition for them for buy the round at the bar or to bring in some cake for their colleagues etc.

So the other day, I remembered a colleagues birthday and, though I don’t really like this man because of his rude behaviour and constant tantrums and dishonesty, I decided to be kind and wish him a happy birthday.

He promptly responded by telling me to “shut the fuck up. I don’t want anyone knowing so I don’t have to buy anything for them”.

Later, I saw him simpering “thanks yous” with male members of management who, being in charge of his records etc, knew it was his birthday already. For that day and several days after, he would go out of his way to glare at me and be even ruder than usual to me because he was too dim to work out that they knew his birthday from employment records, not because I told them.

He behaved like this for the same reason he’s usually shitty towards me; because he thinks as a woman I won’t speak up about it and that I wouldn’t be taken seriously even if I did. He treats our female colleagues in the same manner while he simpers and panders to our male colleagues.