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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yeah pretty sure it was "take your kid to work" day back when I was a kid in the 1990s.  In the past decade at my workplace it's always been "take your kid to work".[/quote]

It was Take your Daughter to Work Day from 1992 to 2002. It became Take our Children to Work day officially in 2003. However, a lot of companies started letting boys come in the 1990s.

We had it Daughters only the first few years at Stock Exchange.

I find it a great loss. My daughter went in 2010 at age of 8 and by then it was a bunch of screaming 7-10 year olds in room with boys not particularly suited to sit still in a chair all day and girls of that age not much better. She turned down going the next year as it was for babies.

As opposed to 1995 when we literally had a professional event with the women (not little girls) in business outfits. The teenagers attending a professional run event. Kick off meeting CEO, formal Breakfast, formal Agenda for day, meeting all department heads, tours. And a full day. And parents not even there except lunch. They took the Daughters at start of day. They met the  CEO of Stock Exchange that day, toured the trading floor, went to command center, toured Data Centers. Each area HR, Audit, Market Operations, IT, Finance all did sessions on what it is like working in their area and what a career in their area was like. At lunch break you could take your Daughters out to Lunch and then expense it and walk them around. A lot took Daughter to Harry's for lunch where the power brokers eat lunch. Even more fun at 8am program started and all the daughters got to put on trading jackets and do mock trading on floor of NYSE and get their picture on podium pretending to ring opening bell.

Last time any company I worked at did it was 2015. Been ten years since I have even seen it done.     The watering down to allow boys to attend and make the ages younger ruined it.         [/quote]

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