primitives wonder about parents who apply for jobs for their kids

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Oh my.

TwixVoy  Donating Member  (238 posts) Thu Jul-31-08 12:09 AM
Original message

Parents who apply for jobs for their kids
   
What is going on with parents who seem to want to apply for jobs for their kids?

I have had parents come in and ask me when and if we are going to interview their kids who put in applications. (some of them with an attitude) I don't know if they realize that by doing that they are seriously NOT encouraging us to want to hire their kids. Yet they act like there is nothing unusual about it.... and when I say "kid" sometimes it's a 20+ year old.

Much more frequently, however, it is a parent coming in to get an application for their kid.

Makes me wonder when exactly they are going to let them grow up.

Well, while one can't condone this habit, one does wish the maternal ancestress of the subway cat would do some hoofing around, picking up job applications for the subway cat.

Kutjara  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Thu Jul-31-08 12:11 AM
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1. They're probably at their wits' end...
   
...trying to get the feckless freeloaders to get a job and get out of the house.

TwixVoy  Donating Member  (238 posts) Thu Jul-31-08 12:12 AM
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2. Possible
   
But don't they realize if they have to go and try to do all the work of applying for the job for them, what makes them think they are going to actually work and hold down the job should they actually get it?

Kutjara  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Thu Jul-31-08 12:15 AM
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5. Desperation is often irrational.
   
They're probably one step from leaving home and not telling their kids where they went.

JoeIsOneOfUs  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Thu Jul-31-08 12:12 AM
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3. I got out of college teaching in part so I didn't have to deal with parents!

Truth Hurts A Lot  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Thu Jul-31-08 12:15 AM
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6. Wow! Your COLLEGE students would get their parents involved?
   
Hmm... I didn't realize that was possible... But even if I knew, I would have preferred an F over that route. LOL

JoeIsOneOfUs  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Thu Jul-31-08 12:17 AM
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7. email from them. I have heard worse stories than that from other faculty (I was only part-time).

Edit to add - it wasn't a huge number. But between that, students cheating, text-messaging during class, expecting to pass with zero work... I think I might have been happy to teach college a generation ago, but not now.

Lydia Leftcoast  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Thu Jul-31-08 01:05 AM
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21. Oh yes, even 15 years ago I had parents running interference for their college-age kids usually when the kid had really screwed up. The worse the kid screwed up, the more likely s/he was to have parents who tried to persuade me to let it slide.

This gave me a clue about where the student had acquired his/her attitude problem.

The worst case was a young man who was just plain disrespectful, but always right below the level that I could call him on. (It was usually facial expressions or tone of voice.) Moms' Weekend came along, and his mom arrived early and attended my class on Friday. The two of them sat in the back of the classroom carrying on a conversation throughout the entire class. When I asked them to be quiet, the mother gave me a smirk and a toss of the head and just kept talking.

raccoon  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Thu Jul-31-08 09:21 AM
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32. Wish you'd called security. What a witch.
   
I can see why you got out of it. I don't see how public school teachers deal with it. Not just the kids, but the PARENTS who think their little darlings can do no wrong.

TwoSparkles  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Thu Jul-31-08 12:25 AM
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9. Seriously?
   
My parents didn't even know the names of my professors. So, now--parents are so enmeshed with their
children's lives that they harass their professors?

Parents aren't supposed to know their kids' professors, in my opinion.

These "kids" are adults!

I can only imagine what you've endured. There is a really bizarre, over-the-top sense of entitlement out there these days.

It's really weird. If people don't get what they think they deserve, NOW--people hear about it.

So many people get ticked off if they have to wait in line at the grocery store, or at a stop light--or if you're looking at something in a store, and they want to look at the same thing. There are many good people out there, but I've noticed that there is a crop of "I want what I want when I want it!" people who really seem oblivious to their self-centeredness.

There's a lot more, but one stops at this wonderment at the self-centeredness of the masters of projection, the primitives.

[DumbAss Tanker]

A surprisingly rational set of views from Loserville, I suppose when faults of institutionalized Liberalism impinge on their own little ivory towers, even they can begin to see the rot. 

[JohnnyReb]

....and they're clueless to the fact that it's 40 years of liberalism that has caused all the problems with parents/kids.