It's bring your daughter to work day!

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Has anyone done this at your workplace? Is there a worrying large number of young female people around???

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 14:10 (twenty-two years ago)

the ones here all look very, very bored!

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 14:11 (twenty-two years ago)

one of my favourite episodes of Arrested Development

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 14:14 (twenty-two years ago)

apparently my boss's 2 teenage daughters liked putting letters through the franking machine most of all. Funny that - fast forward 6 or 7 years and they'll be doing it as temps while at uni and they'll hate it!

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 14:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Why daughters only, not sons?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 14:54 (twenty-two years ago)

I think there's another day for that?

I thought this was a few weeks ago...I tried to get some girl-child to do my faxing for me, but no dice.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 14:56 (twenty-two years ago)

"Bring Your Hangover to Work Day" is the most common of all.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 14:57 (twenty-two years ago)

it's today in the uk. I did work with somebody who seemed to think it was Bring Your Daughter To Work Day *every* day. Apparently she didn't get on with a particular teacher at school. He used to sit her at his desk and get her to do his work for him!

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 14:59 (twenty-two years ago)

"yay! collating is FUN!"

― Kingfish Disraeli (Kingfish), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 15:42 (twenty-two years ago)

yes: my mum. she did this about ten years ago. i'm still here working my phat arse off. hah.

― jesus nathalie (nathalie), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 15:48 (twenty-two years ago)

five months pass...

Children in the office: Dud or DUD?

It may not be "Bring Your Daughter to Work" day, but one of the word processors brought in her toddlers. In a matter of seconds while I had my head turned (trying to keep one of the boys from scanning his fingerprints), the other commandeered my mouse and shut down the computer I was working on. I'm still trying to figure out if I lost any of the edits to the document I'm working on.

It's one of those situations where I long to say "I ordinarily would never discipline another person's child, but in this case I just might make an exception."

― j.lu (j.lu), Friday, 29 October 2004 22:49 (twenty-one years ago)

you should have told them that Santa isn't real.

they fuck with your shit, you fuck with theirs.

― Hari Ashurst (Toaster), Saturday, 30 October 2004 09:32 (twenty-one years ago)

a colleague once described how she'd been totally freaked out when a child walked past her desk when she wasn' expecting it. I remember the exact way she told us about it, too, coz it was pretty funny - she said "You know how children sort of grow into their heads...." to introduce the concept of little kids having a large head:body ratio cf adults, going on to say that she had almost screamed in terror when this HUGE head went by at desk height.

― MarkH (MarkH), Saturday, 30 October 2004 11:06 (twenty-one years ago)

my boss is on paternity leave at the mo, his missus having just given birth, so I suspect it'll be Bring Your *Very Small* Daughter To Work Day v. soon.

They now have one of each incidentally...I only just resisted the temptation to write "That's OK you can stop now" in the card.

― MarkH (MarkH), Saturday, 30 October 2004 11:17 (twenty-one years ago)

...the quicker witted ilxor will note I've changed bosses since I started this thread.

― MarkH (MarkH), Saturday, 30 October 2004 11:21 (twenty-one years ago)

"Where's your DAUGHTER, idiot? Haha, SOMEone didn't get the memo!"

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Saturday, 30 October 2004 11:51 (twenty-one years ago)

*snatches random baby from passing pram*

HERE!

― MarkH (MarkH), Saturday, 30 October 2004 11:57 (twenty-one years ago)

pram?

― JaXoN (JasonD), Saturday, 30 October 2004 17:41 (twenty-one years ago)

pushchair then?

― MarkH (MarkH), Sunday, 31 October 2004 10:37 (twenty-one years ago)

do people even push prams anymore?

― dog latin (dog latin), Sunday, 31 October 2004 10:56 (twenty-one years ago)

no they just leave them on street corners and the poor sprogs starve to death.

― MarkH (MarkH), Sunday, 31 October 2004 11:01 (twenty-one years ago)

if I have kids I'm totally pushing them around in one of those scary victorian prams.

― sgs (sgs), Sunday, 31 October 2004 11:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I just thought that it would be quite fun to buy a scary victorian pram and push a piglet around in it, just to see ppl's reactions when they looked into the pram to oooh and aaah at the baby.

― MarkH (MarkH), Sunday, 31 October 2004 11:06 (twenty-one years ago)

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