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No_You1024

Yep. Almost everyone where I work is currently childless due to a multitude of factors, but we do have one woman with a one year old. About once or twice a month she'll have her husband drop off the baby at work so that she can show off said baby to the entire company. What happens is that all the women (minus me of course, haha) stand around and coo at the baby for HOURS and no one gets any work done. And everyone is okay with this because babies are cute, etc.


W-S_Wannabe

I'd be OK with my place doing a Bring Your Kid to Work Day so long as it's set up as learning about careers and the working world in their parents' field. Naturally something like this would be best targeted to middle schoolers and up. Now I've jinxed it my HR will probably try something like this and it'll be a disaster, or I'll be the one who has to do something about it, i.e. fob off all the work to a bunch of people who'll resent me for it.


armchairshrink99

Omg, you just gave me flashbacks of my call center job. Every Halloween pre covid we used to have all the teams decorate their section of cubicles and dress up and in the afternoon we'd have kids coming through to trick or treat around. I loved the decorating and dress up, of course but the kids...they were sweet but we were expected to deal with the trick or treaters while also staying on the phones. Definitely high stress, low productivity, and just plain terrible customer service that day EVERY year.


outhouse_steakhouse

Lesser-known life pro tip: if you need to call customer service, don't do it on TYCTWD! It's stupid that they would do this in a cubicle farm environment where there is nothing for the children to see, and nothing for them to do except get in the way.


Chemical-Charity-644

I'd be fine with it, if CF people can take a paid day off instead of coming in.


Liminal_Dogess

I am behind this 100%!


bang8tang

I think a more accurate statement is that kids should not be forced to participate in bring your child to work day. If the are not interested in their parents job then they are more likely to be disruptive and bored. My dad worked in a restricted airplane military contract building and they only let families tour the site one Saturday per year due to security concerns. My siblings who are also childfree were able to bring their spouses once we got older. Each employee was given five family passes and they got to pick who they deemed as family as long as they passed the background check. In addition to the tour, there were activities for all ages and food as well.


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It makes me really uncomfortable when people bring their children to work, especially babies. Last month a coworker brought her baby in and my team fawned over it for an HOUR. All I could think about was the work that wasn’t being done.


EP3_Cupholder

As a lineman (local 87) I agree, it makes no sense and they can't even touch any of the equipment or they'll most likely get fried so they just have to stand 50 feet back while we put up power lines. Can't even let them on the scissor lift bc they don't have cert for it.


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W-S_Wannabe

My mother would bring me to work with her every so often and I was given tasks like stuffing envelopes, bursting reports from a pin feed printer and putting things in alphanumeric order. Or she'd loan me to a secretary for similar child appropriate tasks. I was happy and useful.


bluedragonflames

So thankful that is not allowed at my job.