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Is your office participating in Take Your Offspring to Work Day?

Mine is not, thankfully.  An upside to working someplace that's locked down tighter than Fort Knox.

Re: Is your office participating in Take Your Offspring to Work Day?

  • Sadly, no

    My son would love it if we did, he is always asking to come to my office

  • No one in my office has young children, we all have dogs! HA HA.
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  • Yes, I work in an office with 1200 people, and they have about 100 kids here between the ages of 8 and 16 participating in activities.  Then there are more kids that aren't old enough to participate just hanging around their parents' desks.  There was a 3-year old boy making a bunch of ruckus near me earlier, but he wasn't around after I got back from lunch.
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  • My work does this, though it is called "Take your children to work day" rather than "offspring" since there are several family?s that are blended.

  • YES!  Growing up I was always sad that my dad's company didn't do this.   We're now working together for our own company and I said to him today on our way to a meeting about how excited I was to go to work with him (even though it's my work too).  I know this sounds dumb but I used to get really upset about this when I was a kid so I was really happy today that I was the kid finally being taken to work :) 

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  • No.
    "Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy."
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  • Heavenly, our office uses "son or daughter" in place of offspring...I was being a bit facetious, since I don't really like children.

    MCC, my parents owned their own business that they ran out of our basement when I was growing up, so I was never allowed to go to "Take Your Child to Work" Day, since it would just mean staying home from school!  Plus, they said I could always help them out on days when I had off from school but they were still working...they were such hardasses!  Stick out tongue

  • Nooo, small kids and a medical practice don't mix very well. Even when they are the patients!! :)
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  • I'm sure they are, but DD is still too young.

    When I was pregnant with her, I announced my pregnancy via Facebook and said something like..even though yesterday was the official bring your kid to work day, I will be bringing my kid with me to work every day until some time in late October.  And then I made an ultrasound pic my profile pic.  That post got quite a few responses.  LOL.

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    Mine is not, thankfully.  An upside to working someplace that's locked down tighter than Fort Knox.

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  • No, that would never work here.  I love DS but the few times he's been in my office he's like a tornado.  I also have client meetings that it wouldn't be appropriate for him to be in.  Maybe when he's a little older.
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  • Nah, thankfully it's standardized testing this week.

    I like kids, too, just not while im working. I'm grouchy enough as it is when I'm in this place!

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  • Hmm, I haven't seen anything official, but bringing your kids by is something that happens quite a bit, especially on family Fridays or when there's something interesting going on. I'm not a huge fan of kids but usually they stick with their parents and we all have private offices (at least in my building) so nbd.

    I think that would be a little more challenging if I had to interact with them more.

     

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