Hey Parents, Leave Those Kids Alone

A disturbing trend is appearing in workplaces. Job applicants are appearing at interviews with their parents. This is a result of the smothering of Gen Y. These children have been scheduled and protected within an inch of their life, and now they have to face the real world.

Parents seem to think they're doing their kids a favor by coming to the interview. They're protecting them. No. The message this sends to an employer is that this is someone who can't make a decision without mommy and daddy and therefore has no place in business. If mommy thinks she needs to interfere in her child's work life, she is sadly mistaken. (The same applies to fathers but the trends show it's mostly the mother who is guilty of this behavior.)


When a person enters the workplace, it's time to grow up. Mommy and daddy are just going to weigh them down on the way up the corporate ladder. No one is going to respect a worker who needs mommy to fight their battles for them.

So parents, get over yourselves. They're not your babies anymore and they need to be treated like (and act like) adults.