This is good for my recent college graduate. I have no idea how she got her job, just happy she has one! Maybe her boss had to deal with helicopter parents and so they hired my kid. People need to get a life!
I see helicopter parents in my workplace all the time. Most of them are in their 50s and 60s, and are getting ready to retire soon. One such coworker has a son who was driving behind a dump truck with a defective door so that the son got his windshield, headlights, and bumper all busted up by rocks. I heard his father, who works a couple of cubicles away from mine, calling up the son’s insurance company and the cops a couple of times a day for weeks arguing over it. It’s one thing to offer some fatherly advice, it’s quite another to just fight their battles for them outright. The guy’s son is 28 years old, married, and gainfully employed. That is just ridiculous.
Another hallmark of where I work: a good percentage of the 50+ workforce have a slacker 25 year old that they can’t get out of their house. What a joke that is. Daddy needs to get some stones and mommy needs to quit trying to mother them to their grave. A slacker 16 year old is tough to deal with, but if you’re having this problem with somebody over 18, the problem is you!
I love my parents, but they have no business sense and have given me some of the worst business advice I’ve ever received. But, to my knowledge, they have never called an employer or potential employer about my career.