Reorg Birthday

We have a birthday and service anniversary card system at work.  It lets your team know (and your manager) that they might want to give you a virtual congratulations.  Generally, I don't care at all about the card.  It's more uplifting to hear it "in person" from coworkers via a Teams meeting or Slack (given I'm fully virtual).  Still, people sometimes put some time into the card to prove they know you well enough to know you beyond the bounds of your roles.  Pets, children, hobbies, et al.

But I have to say, after the recent reorg where they divvied up my team to other managers and did the Workday cutover two weeks before the actual reorganization...well, I think my birthday card is a bit of an anti-morale card this year.  To be clear, the ONE person that said Happy Birthday isn't even on my old team OR my new team.  She's a friend from the company.  At least she knows I like to bike.

I have an Outlook reminder set for every team member I've had for the last three years (and a few others I care about to boot) to track where Workday and the org are failing me.  I can look them up in the system much like Facebook's birthday queue, but a nice biweekly reminder of what's coming up works better and then I can get to their card in advance despite the lack of system memory.

I say this as a software delivery manager.  Software sucks.  Don't trust it.  In all cases it could be better.