Parents of millennials have actually tried 2 accompany their children 2 post college job interviews?

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I could believe it. DH's HR department gets a lot of call-ins from the parents of current employees if they're sick. Imaging calling in sick on behalf your 18-20 year child.

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It is true. My husband works at a place with a lot of PhD's (some are usually fairly socially awkward). I was visiting with our young son and was talking to one of the staff members (who works in HR) and the subject of millennials came up. She was telling me about the parents who escorted their son to the interview. The parents waited in the lobby. The kicker? The company offered him a job and the parents apparently also helped negotiate employment terms!!!

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Anonymous wrote:I could believe it. DH's HR department gets a lot of call-ins from the parents of current employees if they're sick. Imaging calling in sick on behalf your 18-20 year child.

That's ridiculous; unless it's some extreme emergency, these parents need to back off

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Anonymous wrote:Gen X poster here. (I am 44 with two young kids.) Curious about this. What are the age of parents raising millennials? What generation?

Most millennial parents are boomers. That's why boomer complaining about millennials is so funny.

Particularly in DC and among professional parents. Since the parents waited to have kids until their career was firmly established, a 22 year old millennial usually has a 55 year old parent.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I could believe it. DH's HR department gets a lot of call-ins from the parents of current employees if they're sick. Imaging calling in sick on behalf your 18-20 year child.

That's ridiculous; unless it's some extreme emergency, these parents need to back off

I remember being a stupid 15 year old working my first job, I got the flu or something and asked my mom to call in for me. Thank god she read me the riot act, told me to suck it up buttercup, and call my boss my damned self.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Gen X poster here. (I am 44 with two young kids.) Curious about this. What are the age of parents raising millennials? What generation?

Most millennial parents are boomers. That's why boomer complaining about millennials is so funny.

Particularly in DC and among professional parents. Since the parents waited to have kids until their career was firmly established, a 22 year old millennial usually has a 55 year old parent.

If not a 62 year old one.

[Anonymous]

I'm a millennial and work with Millennials and I have never heard of this. None of my peers would dream of it, and even if we did most of us did not grow up around here and are parents aren't local. Not sure where you are finding these Millennials.

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I am a professor and have several parents call me to negotiate grades on behalf of their adult children. I would not at all be surprised if these parents also showed up for job interviews. The sad thing is that when I explained to the parents that I would not discuss grades with parents--only the student--they were quite upset.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm a millennial and work with Millennials and I have never heard of this. None of my peers would dream of it, and even if we did most of us did not grow up around here and are parents aren't local. Not sure where you are finding these Millennials.

It's a stereotype, and like all stereotypes, it's way overblown and exaggerated with 0.1% making the other 99.9% look bad. Also, I think it's more common in the younger millennials closer to 20-25 as opposed to the 30-35 group. Figure if the youngest millennials were born in 2000, their parents were born around 1965-1975, which is kind of a gray area between boomers and Gen Xers.

Also in defense of millennials, I have more family members older than me who text with 'u' and '2' and 'l8r' than younger.

[Anonymous]

Don't most college grads line up their first real job at the college's career fair? Or transfer their internship from the last career fair into the first job? My kid is doing three career fairs a year and trust me there are no parents in sight. As to the CS guy; the good jobs are only available through internal recommendations and without that opening there is no way to get an interview. Usually some other graduate from the the same school or an employee will do the recommendation but I don't think they actually show up for the interview. Almost all of the initial interviews are phone based and the kids are sitting at home in their underwear anyway.

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Anonymous wrote:Don't most college grads line up their first real job at the college's career fair? Or transfer their internship from the last career fair into the first job? My kid is doing three career fairs a year and trust me there are no parents in sight. As to the CS guy; the good jobs are only available through internal recommendations and without that opening there is no way to get an interview. Usually some other graduate from the the same school or an employee will do the recommendation but I don't think they actually show up for the interview. Almost all of the initial interviews are phone based and the kids are sitting at home in their underwear anyway.

You must be living under a rock.

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Anonymous wrote:Don't most college grads line up their first real job at the college's career fair? Or transfer their internship from the last career fair into the first job? My kid is doing three career fairs a year and trust me there are no parents in sight. As to the CS guy; the good jobs are only available through internal recommendations and without that opening there is no way to get an interview. Usually some other graduate from the the same school or an employee will do the recommendation but I don't think they actually show up for the interview. Almost all of the initial interviews are phone based and the kids are sitting at home in their underwear anyway.

The answer to your first two questions is no.

[Anonymous]

I've had parents call me to negotiate their child's salary and benefits!

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I work in federal HR and have had applicant try to get me talk to their parent about their background check.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I could believe it. DH's HR department gets a lot of call-ins from the parents of current employees if they're sick. Imaging calling in sick on behalf your 18-20 year child.