If you want work experience in a highly sought after position, don't get mummy to phone up for you.
When I asked mummydearest why precious spawn hadn't phoned us or dropped off a cv herself, I got the reply "she's too busy, it's the summer holidays and she's riding her horse...you promised us that she could do one day a week work experience with you over a year ago and we've never heard back". I tried explaining to her that yes we DO keep cv's on file for work experience students, but if the current ones are good then we like to keep them until they go off to uni and even then they usually come back during the holidays, so there's limited space. Plus there's H&S and the fact that they can't really do much if they're under 18 and not enrolled as a student.

Not good enough mummydearest. She begins a rant about how many places she's phoned in the area, how they've all said the same and sneers at the suggestion that precious spawn may stand a better chance if she telephoned/visited or even posted a copy of her cv to the places she wants for work experience herself.

"I have enough trouble getting her out of bed before teatime as it is, if you think she's going to call you then you've got another thing coming" Click.
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Mon 14 Sep 2009, 21:51, 6 replies)

AOL to that
Every year I take applications for voluntary work - normally from young people finishing off their D of E Gold Awards. I have one unfailing rule for dealing with enquiries: if the parents make the contact, we have no places available.

If the prospective volunteer can't even be arsed to write an email or make a phone call I don't want them anywhere near the responsible jobs I've got going.

This rule deals with more than half the enquiries I receive.
(ubergeekian, Mon 14 Sep 2009, 22:08, closed)

I wouldn't have minded so much, only she was just flat out ranting at me.
Apparently it was all my fault - despite only working there for a short while - because I had taken her work experience spot. Err no...I get paid for the work I do, I'm enrolled in college, go there once a week and I did several years of work experience, in order to get the job, which I organised all by myself.
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Mon 14 Sep 2009, 22:16, closed)

Looks in the mirror...
Sounds like me. 8(

OW! Out of bed before tea time. I can relate to that.

I got Sleeping Beauty an apprenticeship in a very successful bar in our home town. Guess who pays her salary?? Guess who did all the leg work?? Guess who had to run up a tab the size of a small city budget to get this position??

But... She does not know. She thinks that 'Little Miss Successful' got the job by her own sweet self. But after a whole summer of tripping over her and her friends bodies in the living room, AFTER I had finished a whole days work I had to do something.

She goes shopping every weekend now. Guess who gloats about her great job and rubs all her new clothes in her friends faces?

I win?? 8(
(Festus, Tue 15 Sep 2009, 0:29, closed)

Say NO
next time
( The Scrunt Wants a Dozen Pints, Tue 15 Sep 2009, 20:46, closed)

It astonishes me
that any parent, no matter how hovering and protective, no matter how 'nothing-is-too-good-for-my-baby' etc, could fail to see the irony inherent in her statement:
"I have enough trouble getting her out of bed before teatime as it is, if you think she's going to call you then you've got another thing coming"
if the brat is too slackarsed lazy to haul her overspoilt carcass from bed then do you honestly think she is going to commit to volunteering? Ditto for the statement 'she's too busy' - you should have said 'well if she's too fucking busy to call or give us a copy of her CV then she's too fucking busy to do the work we'd require of her. we're not interested, sorry, bye.'

/rant over. (sorry, but this kind of thing genuinely brings me to the brink of rage induced coronary...)
(berk, Tue 15 Sep 2009, 10:35, closed)

I would have, only I am the model of professionalism at work
It's after we hang up the phone that we call people fucktardly cunts of the highest order, not during...that would be rude.
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Tue 15 Sep 2009, 19:04, closed)