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Yep. I'm a high school teacher and we had a college grad come in and interview for a coaching position. He shows up with his father who expected to go into the interview with his son.
And you know that the father in this story probably didn't take his own dad with him to his job interviews, so I'm not sure why people suddenly think that this is a sensible expectation.
i am a baby boomer and i dislike my peers immensely.
an old coach wrote:
I have the same problem as a coach. I got b*tched out by a mom because I made her kid run 3 miles the first day of practice last year. When I told her that the race distance was 3 miles, she suggested that I contact local XC officials to shorten the distance of the races because it was too hard on her child. He quit about a week later.
Did you actually keep a straight face at this point? I could not have helped but laugh in the woman's face.
I worked for a professional soccer team as an assistant coach. One day our head coach gets a call from the father of a first round draft pick, asking why his son has not been playing much, only substituting late in the game or injury time for guys who had started for years. Our head coach hung up the phone, walked into the locker room, and told the player to pack up all his gear and get the f*** out of his building.
I don't know if the father called on his own, or at the behest of the player. Either way, they learned the hard way that some people don't put up with that kind of crap.
If the father called on his own, I feel really really sorry for the player. If my father were like that I would hate it, but you can't control what another adult is going to do, and then to be punished for him being an asshole...
You know, I read the title of this thread and thought there's no way that it's true. Then I saw some of the comments and thought maybe there's something to it. Then I Googled it and found a bunch of blogs, magazine and newspaper articles from the last few years talking about people bringing their parents to job interviews or having their parents arrange their interviews for them. So, I guess we've got a society full of babies now.
My best guess is that it comes from parents having to be their kids' "agent" to get him/her into college - making sure they get their grades, check off their extracurricular checkboxes, etc etc - and then it's just the natural next step.
My daddy wasn't nice to me, will you come over tonight nude and comfort me ?
I hope these employees who got fired 3-6 months after a parent called in were fired for a separate reason... How can somebody be responsible for their parents? Maybe it's the parents who can't let go. Maybe the employee didn't even know his or her mom or dad called in.
That said...I felt super silly and awkward showing my parents around my job after 4 months of employment. I can't imagine how pathetic I'd feel interviewing with a parent sitting next to me...
I've heard similar things from parents. The grass loop we do our mile repeats on is too uneven--they might roll an ankle. The dirt trails we do our long runs on is too rutted--they might trip.
Even better: We discovered that a professional runner--28:low guy--we were helping out a little bit was double dipping on expenses with a couple other sponsors. When we called him on it, his mother called to bitch us out.
Little League coach wrote:
How about the Colorado football coach flipping last year because parents were calling and complaining about practicing too much?, "Its the Big 10" as Coach Hawkins said.
Actually it's the Big 12,not the Big 10. We had to let the Huskers and the Sooners play too.
It all relates to this "extended adolescence" shit. Which I used to be the king of, incidentally. Although never in a million years would I have allowed my mom to come to a job interview with me.
Satin sheets to cry on wrote:
My daddy wasn't nice to me, will you come over tonight nude and comfort me ?
Ohhhh no. I'm not falling for that one again!
I read about this a year or so ago. In fact the article noted that a parent called the HR person to negotiate for his/her son/daughter and to ask about the benefits and such.
Now I can see in your first job asking mom/dad what to ask or to have them assist in going over the benefits, but to have one call?
Too many helicopter parents.
terps wrote:
I worked for a professional soccer team as an assistant coach. One day our head coach gets a call from the father of a first round draft pick, asking why his son has not been playing much, only substituting late in the game or injury time for guys who had started for years. Our head coach hung up the phone, walked into the locker room, and told the player to pack up all his gear and get the f*** out of his building.
I don't know if the father called on his own, or at the behest of the player. Either way, they learned the hard way that some people don't put up with that kind of crap.
Was the father the player's agent? Seriously there are cases like this Mike Conley is his kid's agent (along with being Greg Oden's agent).
Satin sheets to cry on wrote:
My daddy wasn't nice to me, will you come over tonight nude and comfort me ?
I´m 58 years old. Still interested?
yeatanotherchick wrote:
Satin sheets to cry on wrote:My daddy wasn't nice to me, will you come over tonight nude and comfort me ?
I´m 58 years old. Still interested?
metro gnome wrote:
yeatanotherchick wrote:I´m 58 years old. Still interested?
I would enjoy the company of a younger woman if you are not busy tonight.
metro gnome wrote:
yeatanotherchick wrote:I´m 58 years old. Still interested?
never mind
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