{"id":3639,"date":"2012-04-19T11:56:16","date_gmt":"2012-04-19T15:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gallerycollection.com\/blog\/?p=3639"},"modified":"2025-11-20T12:27:30","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T17:27:30","slug":"surprise-employee-birthday-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gallerycollection.com\/blog\/business-birthday-cards\/surprise-employee-birthday-cards\/","title":{"rendered":"Surprise Employee Birthday Cards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was Monday (not the best day of the week) and it had been particularly difficult to get out of bed that morning.&nbsp; I should have been in a good mood but I wasn\u2019t.&nbsp;&nbsp; I didn\u2019t want to be turning another year older.&nbsp; I was the new person at work and lived thousands of miles from my family and didn\u2019t really know that many people in the area.&nbsp; I managed to get myself ready and out the door on time (a triumph on any given day of the week) and didn\u2019t hit any traffic on the way to work.&nbsp; Hey, I guess things were starting to look up!&nbsp; I made it through the lobby of the building, into our company office and to my desk without any major incidents (I am a klutz!)&nbsp; I was about to log in to my computer when I noticed a number of envelopes in my in-box.&nbsp; I didn\u2019t think much of it even though mail at 8:00 am on a Monday morning wasn\u2019t usually typical.&nbsp;&nbsp; On closer inspection, I saw they were all greeting cards including two <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gallerycollection.com\/birthday-cards\/employee-birthday-cards\/\">employee birthday cards<\/a><\/strong> personally signed by the executives and managers I reported to.&nbsp; There were also a number of cards from my fellow staff members.&nbsp;&nbsp; I couldn\u2019t believe it!&nbsp; I know human resources knows my birth date as it is all over my paperwork but I didn\u2019t expect such an outpouring of well wishes from people I had only worked with a short time.<\/p>\n<p>The day continued to improve.&nbsp; My manager had brought in donuts and my cubicle mate had made a yellow cake with chocolate frosting, my favorite.&nbsp; I guess her digging to find out what I had ordered for dessert a few weeks back at a new restaurant was really a dig for information for my likes and dislikes not info on the restaurant itself.&nbsp; Later that evening when I spoke to family and friends back home, I couldn\u2019t stop talking about how nice everyone was and what it meant to have someone acknowledge my birthday and all the beautiful cards I received.&nbsp; It certainly made me want to pay it forward and I was hoping I hadn\u2019t unknowingly missed one of my colleague\u2019s birthdays.<\/p>\n<p>I quickly when online to find a company that sold corporate birthday cards in bulk.&nbsp; I work with a number of people and cards can be very costly.&nbsp; I found several companies that sold business birthday cards but none were nearly as striking as those offered by one company in particular.&nbsp; I set about ordering 50 cards to have on hand.&nbsp; I couldn\u2019t believe the specials they were having and I could even personalize them with my name.&nbsp;&nbsp; A short week and a half later, I had the cards in hand and quickly went about gathering everyone\u2019s birth dates and trying to find out their favorite treat as well!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was Monday (not the best day of the week) and it had been particularly difficult to get&hellip;","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1297,31,1292],"tags":[912,129],"class_list":["post-3639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-birthday-inspiration","category-business-birthday-cards","category-occasions-and-celebrations","tag-business-birthday-cards","tag-employee-birthday-cards","cs-entry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.1 (Yoast SEO v28.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Surprise Employee Birthday Cards - Business Greeting Card Blogs &amp; 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