Went to my mom’s job in middle school, it was so boring. I basically played solitaire on her PC all day until we went home. Left with no idea with what she did.
My current jobs makes a huge production of it so kids can do stuff.
There’s no way my dad would have ever let me (or either of my siblings) celebrate that in either of the jobs he had when I was growing up. Even though he doesn’t work directly with the machinery, a foundry is the opposite of a safe place for kids to be. Same with military weekend drills.
And if I ever have kids, I personally probably wouldn’t celebrate it with them because I think it’s just kinda dumb.
I made my mom’s work day even more stressful and I wish someone had fucking asked me first before creating me
Just had my oldest come into the office two weeks ago. He didn’t seem particularly excited about shadowing me at first since I have a desk job as a programmer. In the morning a user of our API was wanting a copy of our example Rest calls to use as references for their implementation. Unfortunately the ones I had were only used for personal testing and weren’t really usable due to junk data/comments in the files. I showed him how Git works and had him add the files. I had him make a branch and then told him how to clean up the files. After that he zipped up the files and we sent them to the client. He was very happy he could actually do something productive.
In the afternoon I asked him what computer problem he has had in the past that he wanted to solve. Him and I paired together and we solved the problem. He was pretty happy about that too. Overall he seemed impressed with what his old man does everyday which is saying something as he usually is only interested in motorbikes cars and sports.
Overall I would definitely recommend doing it as it is very good exposure into working life that they don’t normally see.
I’m kind of old now I guess. But when I was a kid, there would always be some kind of busy work. Things like filing or stuffing envelopes were great kid tasks.
Not really sure what kind of office work a kid could do anymore. Don’t think IT would really appreciate letting a kid on their computers.
My mom took me into her work at a software company when I was a kid. All I remember was they had a couple of arcade cabinets in the break room, and I played some soccer game a lot while I was there.
Did they use tokens and prize tickets too?
I don’t think so, I think it was free, or just took quarters.
He got into a fight with one of the other kids working at Waffle House but he also got valuable lessons into work life balance.
I would like to, but four-year-olds aren’t exactly sanitary and there isn’t much I could put her to work on that doesn’t involve contact with fresh produce, so I’ll probably never have the chance.
Kind of. I wrote about it here a few months ago:
