8 messages written for friends specifically, across 3 tones. Every one is ready to copy as it stands, or to adapt.
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“Happy birthday. You are the reason a fairly ordinary job is good company most days, and that is not a small thing to be. Drinks are on me and I will not be argued with.”
“Happy birthday. You left this company two years ago and I still send this every year, which I think makes it a friendship rather than a work thing. Have a great one.”
“Happy birthday. We started here in the same week knowing nothing, and the fact that both of us are still standing is largely each other. Have a properly good day.”
“Happy birthday. Somewhere in the last few years you stopped being a colleague and became one of the two or three people I would ring about anything at all, which is not a thing I expected a job to produce. Have a very good day, and let me know when you are free.”
“Happy birthday. This is the version I can write where the office cannot read it, so: you are getting old and I intend to be insufferable about it later, privately.”
“Happy birthday. I have been given clear instructions not to mention the number, so consider it unmentioned and heavily implied. Have an excellent day.”
“Happy birthday. Lunch is on me and you do not get a say in where.”
“Happy birthday. Everything else I want to say is going in a text where HR cannot see it.”
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