Recent Graduates Bringing A Parent To A Job Interview

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I can't believe I just read this. I was doing some work at a place today on Broadway Ext. I was working in the waiting area and woman who worked there escorted a guy into an office for an obvious interview and I thought it was odd because it looked like his mom was walking in behind him. I thought to myself, "WTH kind of interview is this??"
I'm going back there in a few days. I'm definitely going to follow up to see if my thoughts were correct. I'm 47 and never thought I'd ever live long enough to see anything like this, but clearly I was wrong. We obviously live in very entertaining times, folks!!
 

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I know I did a lot of things wrong as a parent, but at least both my boys are productive members of society and are excelling in their careers on their own. My daughter is at least as independent as her brothers if not more so.
My wife has a teacher friend whose son is going to TX A&M, and she has to drive down there to take him stuff and do things for him at least every other week. He’s a good kid but is an only child that’s never had a job or had to do anything on his own. He started out as an engineering major and after one semester has changed to something easier. His mama may not go to his first interview, but I’d bet money she helps his get dressed for it.🤣
 

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she has to drive down there to take him stuff and do things for him at least every other week.
And that right there points out the problem really well. Mama doesn’t “have” to go down and deliver Jr this and that….she chooses to. These selfish parents who didn’t allow their children to feel disappointment and failure have now placed a burden on us all in dealing with their 30 year old “toddlers”. They have trained into them a learned helplessness that they’ll carry with them their entire lives. Only thing likely to help is a big dose of reality but that just won’t happen as long as mom and dad play rescuer. Don’t know if it makes me a little sad or just plain disgusted.
 

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