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Helicopter parents invades your workplace
« on: February 09, 2012, 07:19:35 pm »
http://www.npr.org/2012/02/06/146464665/helicopter-parents-hover-in-the-workplace?sc=fb&cc=fp

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So-called helicopter parents first made headlines on college campuses a few years ago, when they began trying to direct everything from their children's course schedules to which roommate they were assigned.

With millennial children now in their 20s, more helicopter parents are showing up in the workplace, sometimes even phoning human resources managers to advocate on their child's behalf.

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Michigan State University surveyed more than 700 employers seeking to hire recent college graduates. Nearly one-third said parents had submitted resumes on their child's behalf, some without even informing the child. One-quarter reported hearing from parents urging the employer to hire their son or daughter for a position. Four percent of respondents reported that a parent actually showed up for the candidate's job interview.

Those types of interventions can backfire, says Feister. "It definitely does not show great leadership or decision-making skills," she says.

So It's one thing to help out your child as much as possible and give them the tools to progress in life. It's another to not let them grow up and work things out for themselves. Helicopter parents seems to be bordering the latter.
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Re: Helicopter parents invades your workplace
« Reply #1 on: February 09, 2012, 07:24:06 pm »
If I was in HR, I'd be very hesitant to hire someone whose parents were calling me.
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Re: Helicopter parents invades your workplace
« Reply #2 on: February 09, 2012, 07:36:36 pm »
Hehehe, we're looking at this article in my classes this semester as part of a specially themed research course on generational differences.  We're focusing on the millennial generation and we're using a book called Generation Me by Jean Twenge.  It's great reading!  Helicopter parents aren't the norm for the millennials, but the ones who do show up, whoowhee!  They come into the office occasionally to complain about their child's grade or to try to somehow jockey for better position for their child in some way.  ANNOYING.  They rarely get what they want, because contrary to what they might think, they don't know as much as they think they do about the way things work.  They do a huge disservice to their kids.  They aren't allowing them any personal responsibility moments, and that makes it that much harder for them to deal with reality.  Pet peeve, sorry, lol.

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Re: Helicopter parents invades your workplace
« Reply #3 on: February 09, 2012, 07:42:25 pm »
I have a hard time seeing how these parents could possibly think any of those are good ideas.

If I was in HR, I'd be very hesitant to hire someone whose parents were calling me.
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Re: Helicopter parents invades your workplace
« Reply #4 on: February 09, 2012, 07:53:37 pm »
Can you imagine having a parent coming in to argue that their child needs a raise?   LOL

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Re: Helicopter parents invades your workplace
« Reply #5 on: February 09, 2012, 08:10:39 pm »
Are these parents that blind. This is obviously not a good idea.

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Re: Helicopter parents invades your workplace
« Reply #6 on: February 09, 2012, 08:39:53 pm »
My dad would never do this in a million years. He wants me to sink or swim on my own in the job searching area.

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Re: Helicopter parents invades your workplace
« Reply #7 on: February 09, 2012, 10:07:14 pm »
Is it bad that I thought this literally meant parents following their children in helicopters?

Because I honestly thought it literally meant parents following their children in helicopters.

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Re: Helicopter parents invades your workplace
« Reply #8 on: February 09, 2012, 10:12:53 pm »
Is it bad that I thought this literally meant parents following their children in helicopters?

Because I honestly thought it literally meant parents following their children in helicopters.

Nope.  Hell...I kinda like that definition a bit better, at least its funny.
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Re: Helicopter parents invades your workplace
« Reply #9 on: February 09, 2012, 10:26:43 pm »
LOL Miles.  It's the perfect metaphor, though, isn't it?  Ready to provide air strike support in a moment's notice!

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Re: Helicopter parents invades your workplace
« Reply #10 on: February 09, 2012, 11:29:06 pm »
Is it bad that I thought this literally meant parents following their children in helicopters?

Because I honestly thought it literally meant parents following their children in helicopters.

Lol, can't blame you.  But no, they're called "helicopter parents" because they're constantly hovering over their kids.
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Re: Helicopter parents invades your workplace
« Reply #11 on: February 10, 2012, 12:46:50 am »
The most my parents do is proof my resume.
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Re: Helicopter parents invades your workplace
« Reply #12 on: February 10, 2012, 01:58:38 am »
Is it bad that I thought this literally meant parents following their children in helicopters?

Because I honestly thought it literally meant parents following their children in helicopters.

Lol, can't blame you.  But no, they're called "helicopter parents" because they're constantly hovering over their kids.

Well, I guess that makes sense too but honestly I also thought it meant parents who have a helicopter. Invading someones workplace. With the helicopter. Because how else am I suppose to interpret "Helicopter parents invades your workplace."
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Re: Helicopter parents invades your workplace
« Reply #13 on: February 10, 2012, 03:15:46 am »
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"Dear Doctor Mann, where do babies come from?" —Naive in New York

Well, you see, Naive, when a mommy and daddy love each other very much, they're kidnapped by black helicopters and transported to Site 84, where they're rendered down into their contituent tissues. Their reproductive organs are harvested and used to create a zygote inside of a test-tube. It's grown in a vat of nutrients until it's ready (four to nine months, depending on the necessity of organ integrity), at which point it's used for whatever experiment requires babies.

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Re: Helicopter parents invades your workplace
« Reply #14 on: February 10, 2012, 04:13:21 am »
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