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Bring your kids to work day

Was really getting annoying, until I walked into an ice cream sundae bar in the lunch room.  Holy crap.
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Re: Bring your kids to work day

  • I want to go to there. But yeah, kids should never be at work.
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  • Is that today?  I've only heard a couple kids, but my coworker brings her kids into work every now and then for some unexplained reason so I didn't think anything of it.  I want a sundae bar.
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  • I think my office limited it to kids in grade 4 and up.
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  • Last year we had a jelly bean tasting contest (where you had to guess the flavor, and it included gross ones).  One of the kids got booger wrong and he protested by saying "that's not what boogers taste like!"

    I haven't sen any today, which is odd because we normally have a lot.


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  • I'm glad my company doesn't participate, although I'd like some ice cream.
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  • There are some kids wandering around here. No sundae bar but there was a decorate your own cupcake stand in the cafeteria and fun kid food (sliders, mini grilled cheese sandwiches, curly fries, etc). I don't mind the day bc all the kids seem pretty well behaved. 
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  • I've never worked somewhere this was a possibility due to citizenship/access requirements. 

    However, a few weeks back apparently one of my coworkers had her like 6 year old at work all day long (sick? I don't know). I realized this mostly through the day and then immediately became concerned about cursing or conversations I'd had that day since her cube was opposite mine. You should at least let people know when you're adding your kid to their typical adult environment.  

  • I don't know if there's anything happening here. It's not in my office. That'd be weird, since my boss' kids are all my age.
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  • This is one of those days where I'm glad someone has to be 18+ just to enter the facility (and be a US person under ITAR regulations.)
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  • Whatever Christin.  You brought your kid to work today.

     

    This explains why I've seen so many children in my office today.  I wish we had ice cream.  I want some real bad.
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  • I would be really annoyed if I worked in an office where people had their kids there. The sundae bar might distract me though.
  • Not our office, but I would welcome the distraction.
  • My firm allows kids to come in (I think they have to be 6 or older).  However, they make them all hang out in the training room and do activities all day.  Doesn't that sort of defeat the purpose?  Aren't kids supposed to actually see what their parents do all day?

    Since I am on a different floor than the training room, I have only seen one kid today - a pre-teen that they put to work delivering mail.

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  • When they first started Take Your Daughter to Work day, I went to work with my mom. I mostly just hung around her except for some little assembly thing they had. At the end end of the day my mom asked what I learned and I said "That I don't want to work here." But the only other time we were allowed to go to work with either of my parents was Christmas Eve.
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  • Someone brought a freaken 4 yr old in this year. 
  • My old boss used to bring her 6 year-old to work on the regular. I hated that kid with a passion. She would wander up and sit on my lap and ask to look at Nickelodeon websites or whatever and my boss didn't say a word.
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  • imageIrishgrl417:
    When they first started Take Your Daughter to Work day, I went to work with my mom. I mostly just hung around her except for some little assembly thing they had. At the end end of the day my mom asked what I learned and I said "That I don't want to work here." But the only other time we were allowed to go to work with either of my parents was Christmas Eve.

    I went with my dad once as a young teen I think and I thought it was awesome.  He worked in the field though and his partner was my uncle, so it was really no imposition on anyone else.  I feel like there should be some sort of advance discussion if people are randomly bringing kids into the office though. 

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