*Snork*

[patgund]

http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/The_Big_Red_Button.aspx

"Take-Your-Child-To-Work Day never made much sense to me. Unless you're someone cool like Tony Hawk or Batman, showing kids the reality of the workplace just seems outright cruel. Cubicles, meetings, TPS reports -- I mean really, while you're at it, why not just crush all of their hopes and dreams and tell them that Santa Claus died in a mid-air collision with the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny was run over while trying to save the world's last candy factory, and that there would never be any birthday parties ever again. It's practically the same thing."

Comments

[jeran.livejournal.com]

And someone apparently never got told the story of the Molly-guard. :)

[selenesue.livejournal.com]

To me, every day is take your child to work day. I haven't left in nearly 20 years. Every time I think Mom has finally begun to take me for an Adult, she comes up with something you would say only to a teenager.

Sigh.

[anansi133.livejournal.com]

It goes both ways, doesn't it? I usually thing of this as a way to make the workplace more human, but I suppose if you were a coal miner, or a boiler room drone, the whole idea is laughably upper-class.

I think, though, to do any real damage, the kid would have to attend several days in a short time, not once a year. I can't imagine a whole week of it being any fun at all, for anybody.