Where Would You Draw The Line On Take Your Kid To Work Day?
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I think the kids should be able to go with a parent to any job however, you have to use some common sense as to what part of the job they should observe or where. if dad or mom is a cop or firefighter its great for the kid to go to the station and see whats going on but not to go on a ride along to a call. we dont need to be policed if people would just try using some common sense. im sure that kid was not actually "directing" the air traffic, but simply reading or receiting a line or two that the actual air traffic controllers mapped out. come on people. oh i think the drug dealers should definately stop bringing their kids to work with them.
ReplyDeleteI can't take my kids to work, it is against insurance regulations.
ReplyDeleteWhen it concerns public safety and confidentiality. I work in the medical field and have never been a to bring my granddaughter to work on "bring your daughter to work day"
ReplyDeleteI have taken my daughter to work with me on several occasions. She is 13 and I have only taken her on a day that she did not have school, or had an appointment, and I still had to work. While she is there she works. She does filing, has answered the phones, and other small jobs. I am lucky enough to work in an office by myself, and have an understanding boss on the days I must bring her with me. And he has paid her because she does a wonderful job. Even though she enjoys spending the money she earns, and I appreciate the help in the office, I would not consider bringing her every day of her summer vacation.
ReplyDelete9:53..totally agree.Kids have no place in a public safety arena. Seconds matter.That air traffic controller and his supervisor should be fired.
ReplyDeleteWhy? They need to be in school
ReplyDeleteI think all children should go to work with Sheriff Lewis and hopefully one day we will have an entire police force like him. Man just think every officer like Mike.
ReplyDeleteDepends on the child and the parent. We were allowed to go to work with my father on our "special" day. One child at a time. We were required to be very repectful to all the employees and not interupt the flow of work. (My father was a postal supervisor) It was a BIG deal when we could go. We always felt important and could see that my father was respected.
ReplyDeleteMy kids came to my office everyday after school. They did their homework and loved the people I worked with like family. (Same rules applied - must be repectful and never allowed to misbehave)
I think that all kids should have to go tour a jail facility on a field trip. Mike Lewis would be an outstanding roll model and person to direct this field trip. There should also be prisoners who would be selected to talk to the kids about why they were in jail, what it's like to be in jail and why they should stay in school. I'm not talking about child molesters either. These kids need to know what it's like. So instead of take your kids to work day, make it a take your kids to jail tour day and have the crap scared out of them. Maybe then they would think twice.
ReplyDeleteBeen there done that.
ReplyDeleteChildren do not belong in the workplace. If you do not have a sitter "stay home". And even though you think your little darlings are wonderful the rest of us probably don't. I can see bringing one of them in on a "take your child to work day" but any other time should be unacceptable. That being said, I think the air traffic control situation has been blown way out of proportion.
ReplyDeleteWork is for work , not for baby sitting. You bring your kid to my place of business , you both go back home. Pretty soon we will have a bring your pet to work or your mother-in-law or whatever.
ReplyDelete12:31, there already is a bring your pet to work day.
ReplyDeleteWhen my girls were small, I purposely worked in a child friendly environment.
ReplyDeleteThey would come with me in the summer if grandma could not take them for the day. While they were there, they would sit at the picnic table out back of my office and read, color, play games and write stories. I chose a place that had the flexibility to do much of my work at home so only my core job requirements needed to be done in my office. It was a win win situation. I left a job where I made more money to gain the flexibility for my family and the organization got a bigger bang for their buck.
I do believe that role modeling is very important BUT there is a time and place for it and it should be the business owner's option due to the liability issue.
On the same note, when there is lack of flexibility, you shut yourself down as to potentially smarter, trustworthy, and loyal go getter workers.
When I was growing up, I went to work at times with both my father AND my mother. My father was a surveyor and my mother worked in a factory. I couldn't do much to help out my father with his work but I got to see what he did all day. I did help my mother and it convinced me that I wanted to do better for myself so that I wouldn't have to work in that type of environment EVER!
ReplyDeleteThere ARE good sides to "take your daughter/son to work days"!
If a child never experiences the "workplace", especially with their parents, how can you expect them to know what they want to do when they grow up?
Maybe that's why we now have college graduates who STILL don't know what they want to do with their lives!?
12:01 The FAA disagrees with you...ground incursions are a serious problem in commercial flying.An air control tower is no place for distractions like a child.
ReplyDeleteA father who works as a gyno doc and has an 12 year old son.
ReplyDeleteI would not bring my child to work if I did any of the following jobs: hooker, clean-up guy at a glory hole palace, guy who greased the pole at the strip club, fluffer at at porn shoot, or Republican Congressman.
ReplyDelete4:06 LMBO.
ReplyDeleteHowever in all seriousness. As a young child at night I was often with my father on power outages and watched from the truck as he climbed poles in severe weather and I respected that man more than any other in this world for what he provided to our family and community. I learned that no matter what the job has got to be done or people go cold and hungry. He gave his entire work career to Choptank and LOVED it to his dying day. I also was a regular at my mother's place of employment. I learned to have a reverence for her I otherwise didn't have in my small world. But most of all I learned about "work" and was taught it was an important thing to do no matter how small or big the task. After school at the Storer Cable office stuffing envelopes with channel line ups I felt very important. I had "work" to do and was loved by my mom's co-workers. I've met many of those people "again" later in life and their kind words about my mother warms me even now as I write this. Dad and Mom's gone now but those memories are with me forever. It's so much a part of who I am. It's a sad thing that our children are kept out for the most part of a large place in a parent's life and we wonder why our children feel so seperated from community. Just makes sense take your child to work occasionally and a child will respect work and the ideology of it.
There is nothing wrong with what the parent let the child do in the air traffic control.
ReplyDeleteI am sure that the parent was right with the child, besides what do you think the pilot was going to crash because he was talking to a child.
Get real america, what a bunch of dumba-------------
considering english is the official language of the skies and every pilot or air traffic controller from anywhere has to know wnglish, this child actually spoke better english than some of the pilots I've heard!
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