Anonymous
Post 03/25/2026 19:03     Subject: Is Gen Z really bringing parents to job interviews?
Never heard of this happening. If you showed up at my job with an extra person, the receptionist would call the interviewer; they'd come down with a visitor badge for the interviewee and escort them onto the elevator to the meeting room. The other person wouldn't even make it onto the elevator; they'd have to wait in the lobby.

I haven't been a part of a zoom interview, but I imagine we'd probably say something like: For fairness and consistency, we conduct all interviews individually. Could we please continue with just you on the call.
Anonymous
Post 03/25/2026 18:50     Subject: Is Gen Z really bringing parents to job interviews?
Anonymous wrote:I’m Gen X and have not seen this in real life at work or in conversation with my children’s friends.
+1
Anonymous
Post 03/25/2026 13:25     Subject: Is Gen Z really bringing parents to job interviews?
I’m Gen X and have not seen this in real life at work or in conversation with my children’s friends.
Anonymous
Post 03/25/2026 13:23     Subject: Is Gen Z really bringing parents to job interviews?
Anonymous wrote:They said the same about millennials. Parents calling to talk to their kids employers. It’s been happening for 20 years.


Allegedly. You're right, they said it, but I never saw or heard it actually happen. I've spent 20 plus years working HR/hiring.
Anonymous
Post 03/25/2026 13:11     Subject: Is Gen Z really bringing parents to job interviews?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Depends what kind of job. If you are hired as a management consultant or lawyer you better not confess you don't understand your benefit package. You can't bring a sibling or parent to client meetings.


Ha. i read the previous post and was about to respond in agreement, because as a fairly senior partner in biglaw, I just forward all my benefits docs to my financial planner and let him tell me whether i should sign up. I don't understand any of those programs. I mostly opt out because eligibility, contributions, how to access programs after you enroll etc is so confusing that i often lose out of benefits i've paid for, and i don't have the time or inclination to figure it out. I've often railed against the utter stupidity of the US benefits situation. I mean, just let us pay taxes and the government provide a single program for everyone - health care, education, retirement savings. Instead of my current work which easily has 25 different "middle man" benefits, like "Carrot" and "hinge" and a million other things where some private company thinks they can make money from it, so they pitched it to our law firm.


What field of law do you practice in?
Anonymous
Post 03/25/2026 12:37     Subject: Is Gen Z really bringing parents to job interviews?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:This sounds so insane I thought it was a joke.

Is Gen Z really bringing their parents to job interviews?

Has anyone here done that? If so, why? And how did it go?

https://www.foxbusiness.com/media/kevin-oleary-warns-gen-z-bring-your-parents-interview-resume-goes-right-garbage.amp


Is Fox new railing against thing that aren't happening, and providing advice that people don't need a thing? Yes it is. Why? Because if they created honest news content then people looking to be outraged would be outraged about things like infants being imprisoned without access to clean water, and blind people being left out in the cold to die. So, they need to create smoke and mirrors.Amelia?





This is the answer. Thank you.
Anonymous
Post 03/25/2026 12:21     Subject: Is Gen Z really bringing parents to job interviews?
It's not true.

Fox is not news, OP. It's poisoning more than half the country, sadly.

Anonymous
Post 03/25/2026 12:20     Subject: Is Gen Z really bringing parents to job interviews?
Anonymous wrote:Fox does love its phantom menaces.
eg War on Christmas