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How to know you failed as a parent 101 is a better title.

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From the post: A renowned Canadian university has launched a bizarre 'Adulting 101' crash course for pampered students who can't perform the most basic life tasks like changing a tire, buying groceries or doing laundry. In an era dominated by digital innovation, Generation Z - or those born between 1997 and 2012 - are in desperate need of practical knowledge that older generations might otherwise consider 'common sense'. 'I don't know how to change a tire. I don't have a car at all,' Aldhen Garcia, a first-year student at Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU), told CBC's The Current. 'I don't know how to sew,' he added. 'I don't know how to do a lot of things, other than cooking.'

How to know you failed as a parent 101 is a better title. Archive: https://archive.today/QX9Qs From the post: A renowned Canadian university has launched a bizarre 'Adulting 101' crash course for pampered students who can't perform the most basic life tasks like changing a tire, buying groceries or doing laundry. In an era dominated by digital innovation, Generation Z - or those born between 1997 and 2012 - are in desperate need of practical knowledge that older generations might otherwise consider 'common sense'. 'I don't know how to change a tire. I don't have a car at all,' Aldhen Garcia, a first-year student at Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU), told CBC's The Current. 'I don't know how to sew,' he added. 'I don't know how to do a lot of things, other than cooking.'

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I shit you not, I (and everyone I know who hire people) has had since before COVID applicants show up to job interviews WITH THEIR PARENTS. Not just their first jobs at McDicks either, office jobs beyond entry level positions. It is grounds for instantly being labeled as unhirable, so the parents of these kids must be incredibly stupid.

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The only time my parent came with me to a "job interview" was for a paper route when I was like 12 since it was a legal requirement.

Also, I found that I fucking hated delivering news papers I already slept like shit and didn't need to be waking up every day at 5:00 AM after just getting to sleep at like 1:00 AM. That was a bad choice for a "first job".

If I am hiring and you show up with a parent you get black listed on the spot and everyone I know is getting your name as well. I would not even bother interviewing them, I would just tell them that they are not a fit and the interview is over.

WHEN the parent (basically always a overbearing mother) starts to freak out I will just look over at the other hiring manager/assistant and say "we have another one, call the police".

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Another thing we share from our last has been revealed. I didn't deliver newspapers, I did flyers. The lady came to my house to talk to me and my parents, and I got my parents to lie about my age because I was only 11 and you had to be at least 12.

It was totally a shit job, but I think every kid needs to do something like that so they learn what kind of job they DON'T want to have for the rest of their lives. The idea my wife and I bounce around is getting schools to require kids to work somewhere in order to get a high school diploma. They have to make their resume and they don't get paid, but the employer has to report how they do. If they don't "pass" they don't graduate. I know people will bitch at this and call it slave labor etc, but it is for a short term, the kids get experience they can use to get better jobs, the employer gets help which will save on labor costs, and most importantly, the kids get a taste of what a shitty job is all about, and will likely encourage them to figure out what they really want to do.