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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I went with my father as a teenager and it was pretty interesting. I think bringing the ages down is what killed it. No kid under 13 is getting anything out of seeing a workplace. It just becomes snacks and coloring day. It really ought to be about exposing teens to an adult workplace.[/quote]

This. A former coworker used to bring his elementary-aged daughter to work every year. She was the only child in the office, and he would pawn her off on female coworkers (“do you have any work she can do?”), take her to a fancy lunch, and then go home early.

His wife was a SAHM and he would make comments about needing to expose the daughter to professional women because she didn’t get that from her mom. [b]It was pretty gross.[[/b]/quote]

I don't see anything 'gross' about it.  He probably didn't trust any of the men!  But I actually think it is nice[/quote]

The derogatory comments about his wife were gross.

But why should his female colleagues have to babysit/“manage” an unqualified intern they didn’t ask for? Why couldn’t he assign some of his own tasks to his daughter? Why did he assume only his female colleagues’ job responsibilities could be adapted to something an 8 year old could handle?[/quote]

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