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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Tell us your funniest helicopter parent of an applicantor employee story.[/quote]

In the last few years we have begun getting parental involvement. It pops up unexpectedly. There was a woman who had to submit a writing sample and we found out later that her older sister wrote it for her at their parents' insistence. To me though, the best was the outtake photo series. A young man came for his first day, and just like kindergarten, his mother wanted to stay with him for a little while until she decided he was comfortable enough for him to leave. We have a two-day training schedule for new employees that's very tight - in some places it's broken down into 15-minute increments. One of the first things we do is to get new employees their work ID, complete with photo. We work with a professional photographer.

So I told the new employee that he could not bring anyone who was NOT an employee or client past a certain set of doors until he was past his probationary period, and that we really needed to stick to the schedule so it didn't get backed up. That he was expected on the 26th floor for his photo ID. We talked a bit more (I basically ignored the mother) and then I pointed him towards the elevators. When I next saw him the mother was gone.

Later that afternoon I got an email from the photographer that had the subject line "Outtakes!" Picture of new employee with his mom licking her fingers, pic of NE with mom smoothing down his hair, pic of NE with mom taking a pic of him HAVING HIS PIC TAKEN. Here is why I'm a bitch: I have this printed out and tacked up on my bulletin board in my office at home. Cracks me up every time.[/quote]

This is awesome![/quote]

+1.  It cracks me up just reading about it.

That said, I want to love you guys, I do, but sometimes it's tough. Why is it when I email HR about something important (to me at least), like getting my FSA forms in on time, it takes weeks to get a response? Even when I start emailing every two days. If there's a good excuse, like maybe systems issues, or my particular case is so bizarre they don't know what to do, can't they just send a temporary response? Maybe something along the lines of "thanks for your patience, we're still working out systems issues, but we'll let you know as soon as possible!"  That would avoid the feeling that my emails are lost in a black hole.

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