Bring Your Child To Work

[Kidaver]

Re: Bring Your Child To Work

I won't say it's not stressful on days but then I'm used to working under pressure. As for the firm I work for yeah I love the company. It's very close knit. When my son's mother left when he was two my son was shy around women. Few trips to work with me for the ladies to dote on cured him of that.

[Lagonda]

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Had to stop the guys doing that when a customer complained that a techs son was using the PC attached to their server to play games on. The son got bored while dad was servicing the printer that was next to the server.

[fixthecopier]

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Had to stop the guys doing that when a customer complained that a techs son was using the PC attached to their server to play games on. The son got bored while dad was servicing the printer that was next to the server.

At least he wasn't looking at porn.

[exCSER]

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When my son was around 9 yrs old I was working on high speed Xerox machines (120 per minute) as an independent, and I taught him the names of some large parts and taught him how to do certain tasks, so I would ask him to cam back the developer housing, remove the photoreceptor locking hubs, install the extension shafts and pull out the photoreceptor, just to watch the look on the customers faces when this little person would say 'ok Dad', and proceed to do exactly what I had asked. It was great!! Now he's in his 30's and still comes to work with me sometimes. It's still great!!

[tonerhead]

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Never took my kids to work. I would occasionally bring assemblies home to work on during the evenings. My kids were never interested in helping. Now the oldest son just got out of grad school and is working. When faced with a $35 oil change he told me that he wishes he would have done more repair with me when I offered on cars, copiers, and computers. He is now having to hire out a lot more than he wants.

My brother-in-law owned a small motor repair. His sons ( and now grandson) worked in his shop. I can remember one nephew being given a lawnmower engine and being told to strip it down for parts at about age 6. I assume it was more for busy work at the time to keep him occupied while Dad was busy. Anyway that nephew is now an electrical engineer for the past 25 years. Another nephew is still driving the same 1972 Ford truck as a daily ride that he picked up 30 years ago and is a college baseball coach. All those years of having the truck, it has never seen the inside of a Mechanics shop. I think it is around a half million miles now and on 3rd or 4th engine rebuild.

Too bad America is so law suit happy. This is the real way to learn about work and interests at a young age.

[theengel]

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My oldest son ran his first solo call for me this week.

[Lagonda]

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My sons now 45, I don't think he'd appreciate being dragged away from his nice clean management job to spend the day with me getting coated with toner.

[rspicer]

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I have brought both my son and my daughter to work on rare occasions. I made sure they were old enough to know how to act in a business environment, and independent enough to sit in the car for calls to customers that would not welcome them. I had to be aware of the liability of them breaking something that the customer has paid money to have serviced professionally. Also, at the time, I was driving a company car, and I was reminded that the company insurance did not cover family members if something were to happen.
Mostly, it was a good experience. We got some bonding time, they learned about how things work, and they got good at handing me tools.

[Lagonda]

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Besides I have no need to bring a child to work as our IT department is mostly staffed by 12 year old kiddies anyway.