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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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Some future employer in 5 years from now interviewing one of these kids: HR- "So I see you have gotten your Masters in Adulting" Kids parents - "Yes he did, and he can take care of himself".

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Hah yeah, that's a good one. Sadly.. Might not be that far from the truth.

"Yes sir, I can also write in cursive and know how to write a check and balance a checkbook should there be a need to".

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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".