😂thats cruel

As a German I can confirm 😂

​@@ahmadzaki-xl7sh idk why it should be cruel. Everything else would be pretty weird.

@@ValentinoMPro as a german, i can confirm double😂 heheheha

​@@taijin.9473 Great, now hand in the document at a competent authority, so the confirmation can be confirmed

Aww thats a classic "reinfeiern" :D

😂😂😂😂

God damm right! Don't wish us Germans "Happy Birthday" before our Birthday and don't make a fuss out of it. BUT don't forget the birthday neither!! AND, bring your cake to work!!

The layers of Germanness baked into one birthday bash. #Levels 😂😂😂

But where in Europe are you from? In most countries here the same superstition exists about birthdays.

We're expected to bring home made cake/cookies/pastries to work in Sweden too. I've always thought that's very backwards, in every other situation YOU are the one getting gifts or are treated to something! It's pure exploitation😅

Willkommen in Amerika 🇺🇸 😁 You see, isn't the American way nice? 😁

At my old job we were expected to bring in treats for our birthdays. I hated it. It's a very Dutch area in the US and this sounds like where the practice comes from.. Not where I grew up!

In my country it’s at least for primary school students, we bring small giftbags (usually a some small packets of snacks and candies) for our classmates, favourite teachers and other friends who are not in the same homeroom class. The richer kids will bring their birthday cakes to cut it after lessons. I never did it though, cuz when i asked my mom why cant we prepare these gifts for them, she said ‘it’s your birthday, why should you be giving gifts when you should be receiving them?” 😂 I thought it was embarrassing not to do it as a kid, cuz everyone else was doing it, but now that i’m older… i totally agree with my mom. 😂

@@JanetSmith900During my childhood years in The Netherlands it started for me at kindergarten (toddler school it was called back then), I always had to take tangerines, other fruits or little boxes of raisins (no candy allowed) to school to distribute in class. And even now at work you take cake or cookies to put at the coffee corner for colleagues.

I really did xd

Me too, and I am not even German 🤣

So what's the custom for a group meal, does the birthday person pay for everyone or does everyone contribute to pay for the birthday person? Til today me and my mum can't agree on this and we're from the same household 😅

Everywhere I lived (Europe) usually the bitthday person pays for everyone else, I never heard other way around..

​@tmar8959 since in my friend group, everyone wanted to give group presents but noone organised them so I was always the Idiot who had to come up with something and then it was a hassle to collect the money, I just refused group presents at some point and said we should all just collectively pay the birthday person's dinner. But nobody really was for it... I think it's nice, if you go out with friends for your bday and get invited. I'd say the general rule is this: everyone pays for themselves but if we are out longer and have a few drinks, usually people will take a drink from the bday person on their bill at the end. And say "hey, I paid for a beer, just so you know". The only exception is if a friend throws a big party. Like, really booked a restaurant room and such. Then they will let you know on the invite like "hey, come to my party, beer and wine is on me, anything else is paid separately" or something. My last friend who did this (more like his mum) even paid for food but everyone was surprised because it was like a 60 ppl group... That's not the norm.

But then they have to bring it after the holiday 😅

Yes, that's all so true but didn't those coworkers collect money and bought you a nice gift? I worked many years in a bank in Germany. This is what happened to me. It was lovely. By the way, German here living in Wales, UK. 🙋‍♀️

@Rosebud2503 mist Germans list completely any sense of holidays. My husband (German) had a big round date last year. We invited people and organised some small table in the restaurant feeding guests and entertaining them. Let's say, my husband as a German was ignorant to his fate till thhr last moment, so, basically, I ran around along some prep so he can have memries, but closer to the party I noticed he actually wanted to have proper birthday. I guess smth is wron gwith this nation maybe because they don't want to spent money or they wait that somebody makes a surprise , but when it comes to other person's birthday they prefer to be served than to suprise that guy. So, back to my husband's birthday. His German best friends came to the even as if they worked form bar to bar or passed by just bevaus etheir house door was next to the venue. None! Absolutely nobody of that best friends had any present. They even didn't prep any nice wished or so. Even more, none of them brought anything in our wedding. Always as if they pass by to have bunch of beer for free. And that are directors, top managers etc. they have money, they have assistants, they have opportunities at least to make some small thing for their old good friend. My husband had several years with me by that moment, do, only that year he realised how bad German behaviour is. All the years before I had to train))) him to celebrate new year, make surprises and value family events. The first year our employers bought flowers and cake on my birthday and gave that to me as if my partner prepared that. Stories about Dutch are even worse. Actually, Bavarians are similar to Dutch in such a regard..eastern Germans still can have a bit of romantic behaviour.

​@@Timesobserver_XeniaGerman behavior is not bad and Dutch is not even worse. It is different than you are used to. Stop taking out your frustration with your husbands' friends on a whole country. We read these messages too, it's not nice. I loved bringing treats in primary school for the whole class when it was my birthday. 🎉

Jesus Christ 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I took a vacation day on my birthday too be we'll usually bring something afterwards either way, my coworkers prepare something (ask me what I wish for) + sweets and they sing once everyone is present (usually Fridays since that's really the only day where everybody is at work at the same time)

👏🏼

I do that, too. I want peace and quiet on my birthday

office-worker problems, mot in handwerk, und 2auf m bau". But intresting, that the angle saxoinians did nt know, not to wish happy birtday im voraus. strange people these island af...ecters.

The deal is really simple: If you bring cake, you get birthday wishes. If you don't, you don't. There's nothing wrong with bringing the cake to work the next time you're there if you're absent for the actual date (it's heavily encouraged); if you delay any more things get awkward and you should apologize (twice: once on the day where you were supposed to bring cake, and then again when you bring the delayed cake).

In Poland we also do it - bring our own birthday cake.

@@aniaz5972ironically in the uk too this is very common

Same in Sweden

И в России так же. И заранее не поздравляют.

​@aniaz5972 I always thought that bringing cake for other's birthday is more of a favour than a norm

Just do Home-Office😂

Out of curiosity how many days off per year do you get in germany? A fresh guy just starting to work?

@@danijel124 30 workdays

​@@danijel124 24 to 30.Its up to what they yoffer. I wouldn't take an offer for less than 30 though😅

In slovenia its arround 23 days for everyone starting to work loolz. Our country is scamming us...

Yea pretty much, lol. Its very bad luck, like they tell u now because you might not live to get the birthday. At least thats how i understood it. However partying prior (or most often into the actual birthday reinfeiern) is the norm, especially if other ppl can't make it on a target after the actual birthday due to work or other factors

Rotten little brats. My mother always said not to wish an early birthday to someone and I’ve never done it. Except where I live now, here no one cares. But for children to do that in school to a classmate is just nasty and evil. Now this little girl can do the same back to her class for the coming year. Hopefully that will give her some satisfaction. Don’t bother telling me two wrongs don’t make a right. Satisfaction is more important. Haha

ok but just because you met some weird kids it doesn't mean that all Germans would be devasted if somebody does so.

Stimmt, ist eine wichtige soziale Norm. ❤

That is a rule in Italy too; do not wish a happy birthday before the actual date

Dann musst du ihn aber am nächsten tag mitbringen!!

@@vierkantbonsai7450 Deshalb nehme ich mir rund um meinen Geburtstag immer 2 Wochen, damit da auch niemand mehr dran denkt. 😂

Nice life hack :-)

Ich bekomm von meiner Chefin n Geschenk😂😂😂 und weil ihr Sohn an dem Tag auch Geburtstag hat, muss ich keinen Kuchen mitbringen 😂😂😂 (manchmal mach ichs... wenn ich Lust auf Backen hab oder mein b-day am Wochenende vorher war und ich da gefeiert hab)

Or dont tell anyone when your birthday is and nobody will ever expect anything

I can relate so much xD.

We have a calendar with everyone's birthday on it in the office kitchen🥴😂

Isn't that the best part about your birthday, inviting your friends and sharing a good time celebrating, eating and drinking?

​@@alfa_kenny_body Yeah... I'd feel so bad if someone organized it for me and THEN I should still expect gifts? That's completely unneeded financial pressure for someone else! I do exchange birthday gifts with my boss and sometimes I bring a few muffins for everyone (but since our staff is a bit different every day of the week, I feel strange only bringing for one day and not the next... also a son of my boss has the same birthday as me, so they have cake that day anyway😅)

If you don't want unwelcome surprises just do it yourself. I mean what if you come to the office and then no one made a cake or there are too many cakes. Do people plan who makes a cake at someone's birthday? Absolute madness.

but he from UK I think it's different 😅

That's what I always considered wearied since my training on the job. Since I studied afterwards I'm glad, I never heard this again

German here as well, I cant say that celebrating it prior is uncommon here, it all depends on the work schedules of your friends etc und reinfeiern happens even more often. Theres a few of either case every year for me.

​@@m4xw499Reinfeiern isn't really celebrating early. People still won't wish you a happy birthday until it's midnight.

@@xkathygee Just wanted to write the same. I mean the term "Reinfeiern" -> Celebrating into it already shows what it is about. Maybe it depends a bit on where you are from but I do not know a single person that would consider celebrating early. Not really because of "bad luck", thats more an old peoples thing but simply because its rude. Gives the vibe that you see yourself as so important that your birthday can not wait a bit.

@@ArxInvicta It is certainly odd.

@@xkathygee sure, but partying a week prior isn't uncommon

It's common sense to bring your own, why'd you expect for others to buy one for you

It's a special present for the ones that love You...singing ..clappiing ..whising the best for you ..cause you are so special in their lives...❤

@Cormano980 That is a joke...Right?

@salmagtz7110 nope, the birthday guy buys the cake, drinks or whatever to work, at his home or at a restaurant to give to his friends I don't know how americans do it, but in Europe only kids are bought cakes and things Presents are another thing, people are supposed to bring something to the guy

As an American, I still find German accents terrifying so I’d bring a cake every day just in case, so as not to make them angry. In fact, all Americans should send Germany cake.

that's the point

you dont even do this as a joke. Its like telling someone that you want him dead.

@@neutronenstern. That's literally crazy.

We do in England

We do it all the time here in south America. Dumb superstitions

SAME

exactly

Oh my gosh I want to be Mexican 😂❤

​@EmmaT27 same. I grew up in predominantly Mexican neighborhoods and any reason to celebrate is a reason to have a massive party. My conservative Irish catholic raised butt is just grumpy thinking "that's all so wasteful... it's a 1 year old birthday.. they won't even remember this 500 person party..."

I wanna be Mexican now

Thanks for sharing. I had no idea!

My husband's from Mexico and they barely acknowledge anyone's birthday. Your Mexican family sounds more fun than my husband's 😞 My family's American and birthday's are a BIG, HUGE deal!

Erinnert mich an Biden

I never noticed 😂 thanks 👍

There is a baby 😂?

@@gunitsharma6997 it gets even funnier day by day! yes, the bundle of blankets "she" is holding is a baby. you can hear it cry!

Off-topic just a bit. I remember cracking everyone up when it was my last day at work and a few people brought in some snacks to celebrate my last day. 🎉One girl told me where I can put them, so everyone can have some.🥳 I told her, "Hey, I'm not sharing. These are all my favorite snacks!" 😋

You buy your own cake? 😭

On the plus side, there’s never that awkward sadness when no one remembers or bothers to make you a cake.

Não é um absurdo "ter que comprar um bolo" A ideia é você estar feliz e chamar todo mundo para compartilhar a sua felicidade

@@anafrischen24 acho que o absurdo é vc ter que comprar, como se fosse uma obrigação kk. Se fosse algo que você escolhe fazer ou não, sem nenhuma consequência, aí também não acharia nada demais.

Russian here, all the same.

@@juliadaimio7445 Indeed, it is the job of the birthday person to treat others

​@juliadaimio7445 and also, you bomb children hospitals

Bleh

@@juliadaimio7445yup , I was looking for this comment.

"Man hat seine Pflicht getan" klingt nach einigen Arbeitskollegen von mir 😅

​@@psyckwhoever4197 Willkommen in Deutschland.

Genau so!

oder man hat zufällig eine woche woche urlaub, in die der geburtstag fällt... dann braucht einem niemand auf den sack gehen !

@@Vanillevirus Natürlich nicht.

Deutsche Effizienz!

​@@ExFragMaster definitiv,auch wenn wir derzeit echt ineffizient sind 🤣🤣🤣

That's what I thought! There's so many stories out there of good bakers becoming stuck with the cost and work for everyone's birthday! That's just unfair. This way nobody gets forgotten and it's equal work. At my office everyone else decorated the birthday guy's table and pitched in to buy a small present.

Good Arguments 😅

Thats german

Desejamos sim

​@@KS-yn5zwNa minha família e todos que conheço não. Sempre achamos que dá azar.

@@elainer8288 eu nunca ouvi falar disso, sou do rs

​​@@KS-yn5zw Eu sou de SP. 😅 Aqui só pode desejar no dia e depois. Nunca antes. 😅 Pelo menos as pessoas que eu conheço. Esses vídeos ajudam quem estuda alemão. Muito bons! 😂

@@elainer8288 sim, por isso falei do estado. Pode variar de regiao para regiao

This is reminding me so much of that one "The office" Episode 😂 Where Michael decides to merge all birthdays into one big party to avoid his employees from the party planning committee to spend too much time on organizing parties for everyone 😂

And then it end ups with some secretary buying the cheapest cake around :)

@@dmitripogosian5084 if you have a secretary, probably there is enough money for the bakery. If a cake is more expensive, they invest in more decoration. Nobody needs that. Wedding cake is especially expensive but not especially tasty.

Well man Italian friend from the South, us Germans and you Italians were united at the height of the Holy Roman Empire. Perhaps our modern similarities are coming from our united past

same in Eastern Europe. own cake and no celebrations and wishes before the birthday. it would be considered as the wish to live your life faster and die earlier.

Same as russian

Io l'ho scoperto quando ho viaggiato negli USA, non me lo aspettavo, ma abbiamo più cose in comune con i tedeschi che con gli amerricani

​@user-eg1kz9og7s we dont wish anyone happy birthday before their birthday in England, don't know what this guy is on about

Jo,stimmt 😢

Which would be?

Here in the Netherlands we do

no doubt only those in office i guess

Depends on the work environment. In most cases, you don't get a cake for or from work. There's also a stigma around openly celebrating your birthday because it's often done by attention seekers but you just gotta keep it low key

Here in NL you bring everything yourself

Welll, your birthday isn't everyone else's burden to carry. And people who need longer to celebrate and need to tell every single damn soul around them annoy the frick out of me.

dennoch würde eigentlich überall erwartet werden, dass nachträglich ein Kuchen mitgebracht wird 😅

Bad coworker

I have never invited the people from my office to lunch on my birthday, never heard of that either🤔😆

I did that as a german once too (okay I was young) Then imidetly came a story with an accident, because someone wishes happy birthday before the birthday... Said really fast "okay, I take it back" Idk •-•"

Its your birthday but they gain something 😂 backwards

And after the Song they mobbing me again !!😂

@@helgafrahmann4201 *bullying, but ill take it.

Just do not tell them your birthday and problem solved.

Lol what, if I know a colleague had his birthday on the weekend I still expect him to bring cake afterwards.

@@UL1999 I work in a little company, they know. :D

@@Kuliwa That's your problem than.^^

@@tschaytschay4555 Mein Beileid.

Ich hatte nie genug Geld um meiner Klasse was mitzubringen mir war das total unangenehm und vielen geht es vielleicht so

😢

@@anatomia.3966 Its not a sad thing :) we just make a hard difference between family and friends (they have to know your birthday date! 😅) and colleagues, which do not have to know, when your special day is. But we definetely make them notice it..with cake!

If it's your special day why would you be expected to give everyone else cake? 😂

@@Hirotoro4692 Exactly because it is your day (speaking not as a German, but as a Russian) Your party, your treat. You invite people to celebrate with you and you treat them. You do not have to, you can keep it unmentioned ( then some friend will come - hey isn't it your birthday today, where is the party ? but you'll brush him off :) Same with house parties. If you are invited, you expect to be treated. If you closely know people, you will ask what to bring. They may say something non-commital, like dessert will be fine, but more probably the answer will be nothing is needed. Then you will bring alcohol. You have to be really close to be requested something substantial. If you are not close to people that have invited you, you bring alcohol. And flowers for lady of the house. It is considered iffy to bring food, because it kind of hints that the host food is not too good or plentiful and then it can destroy the menu, host may be in awkward situation to fit your food into the plans. Something small and fancy, like box of chocolates is fine.

Then you can celebrate it when you are back in the office. Everyone expect it 😂

@@Pirrata123 Noooooooo!!!! I will Just have to change jobs every year. 😂🤣

Moraš da ih počastiš. Nemci to ne rade.

Ja, das machen wir auch so, z.B. zur Hochzeit, Geburt etc. 👍

Happy Kadaver. The hollyday every German dad loves to joke about

@@IISheireenII And for the English d(e)ad, too.

not in this case :) it's actually pretty common in other countries too

Here in Canada at my work place there is no expectation that something will happen on your birthday one way or another. But if you bring a cake, people will appreciate. If not, nobody will be upset.

But where is the logic?🤔😅

​@@annamichniewski2120 do you really Question The German Logic? Better dont

@@annamichniewski2120 if you want to celebrate with the others you have to start the party

@@Barrne_ thats a fact.

@@NinjaCat1490 hmm its the same idea in my country. I allways had to get the sweets asking how come since i need to be getting gifts😅

Which is not true. The thing about humor😂

It’s not only in work, I’m living in Germany and I have to bring my own cake to school when I have birthday and then the whole class sings “happy birthday” but the bad thing is that they don’t give me presents

Vielen Dank! :D

Nachträglich kein Problem!😂

Why is it strange ? It is the most normal thing to do !

In Peru is the same + birthday lunch 😊

how do they know when ur birthday is?

@@ivvan497 they ask?

Right? Because they are celebrating you, not the other way around. But to each his own.

zat*

Your english is so bad as mine!!😢

​@@ArkaniproMAthat

And scary as hell.

Never say happy birthday, be4 birthday !! Bring bad luck !!!😅😅 you must bring cake and drinks for the whole Team on work !! 😊

Please! Don't take this too seriously! He really focusses on the worst side of people🫣😂

ich muss zugeben, ich mach das tatsächlich 🙈 aber auch nur weil meine beste freundin grade mal 5 tage vor mir auf die welt gekommen ist und wir haben vor jahren eine tradition angefangen, unsere geburtstage gemeinsam zu feiern und zwar immer an dem wochenende, was normalerweise dazwischen liegt. und da hab ich halt die arschkarte gezogen, dass ich die jüngere von uns beiden bin und muss somit meinen geburtstag leider vorfeiern während sie nachfeiern darf 😆

@@airenyah7243 Hihi...verstehe ich gut 🙂 Aber geht gar nicht!!! 🤬😜

​@@airenyah7243na und?? Ist doch okay!