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Post number 16631

o2b — Thu, 25 Apr 2002 08:13:47 -0800

Bring your daughters to work. A few daughters are in the office today. I'm going to show them stuff like Blogger, CNet, Loobylu and Habbo Hotel. What would you show them?

By: transient

transient — Thu, 25 Apr 2002 08:16:47 -0800

I don't have a daughter, but if I did, she'd learn a lot about reading Metafilter.

By: o2b

o2b — Thu, 25 Apr 2002 08:19:30 -0800

I think I'm going to avoid Metafilter... "No zero tolerance for ass hunting priests !!"

By: XiBe

XiBe — Thu, 25 Apr 2002 08:21:55 -0800

Try Fark, then =) (ok, I didn't say that) Try Banja.

By: pracowity

pracowity — Thu, 25 Apr 2002 08:22:46 -0800

This explains the little girls hanging off the back of the garbage truck this morning.

By: Danf

Danf — Thu, 25 Apr 2002 08:28:00 -0800

pracowity. . .you have given me my first real out loud laugh of the day. . .thank you.

By: adampsyche

adampsyche — Thu, 25 Apr 2002 08:36:03 -0800

I could have sworn everyone around here looked younger. And more productive.

By: amphigory

amphigory — Thu, 25 Apr 2002 08:42:57 -0800

Aside from showing my daughter how to do cool things with the copier, how to make a macrame vest out of paperclips and where all the free food in the company is hidden, i'd sit her down infront of flipflopflyin and himonkey with a snack and keep her out of my hair for the rest of the day.

By: MaddCutty

MaddCutty — Thu, 25 Apr 2002 08:52:00 -0800

I'm working at home and my daughter is here. Say "hi" honey. "Hi" Isn't she cute?

By: macadamiaranch

macadamiaranch — Thu, 25 Apr 2002 08:55:52 -0800

Show them Groovechamber. 100% Daughter-At-Work-Day safe!

By: Frasermoo

Frasermoo — Thu, 25 Apr 2002 08:56:28 -0800

I haven't got a daughter, but if I did, I would show her the shredder. Kids love to shred. Hell, I love to shred !

By: dagny

dagny — Thu, 25 Apr 2002 09:07:28 -0800

netbabyworld is quite entertaining

By: Marquis

Marquis — Thu, 25 Apr 2002 09:15:13 -0800

o2b - If you don't mind my asking, why in the world is CNet on your list? I mean - ad-heavy technews?

By: agaffin

agaffin — Thu, 25 Apr 2002 09:30:53 -0800

<anxiety>I'm working at home today, so where do I bring my daughter?</anxiety> I tried interesting her in Peanut Butter Jelly Time, but her response: "I want dancing hamsters." Boy, that was NOT a good scene when we found the Dancing Hamsters site has not only gone all commercial and stupid, it's apparently gotten rid of the original animation.

By: jazon

jazon — Thu, 25 Apr 2002 09:43:51 -0800

For me, today is "Catch a cold from your Daughter" day. *Cough Cough* *Sniffle*

By: KnitWit

KnitWit — Thu, 25 Apr 2002 09:52:49 -0800

goat what?

By: obfusciatrist

obfusciatrist — Thu, 25 Apr 2002 09:59:52 -0800

Usually I take this day off as I am not paid enough to spend a day around other people's children. I forgot this year though. So today I will be showing all the children the scowl that says "you DON'T want to come over here."

By: lostbyanecho

lostbyanecho — Thu, 25 Apr 2002 10:02:11 -0800

Let them read quality literature at: Sound the Sirens.

By: Grangousier

Grangousier — Thu, 25 Apr 2002 10:11:10 -0800

Male or female, if a child can't work out for themselves that they might need a job when they grow up, they'll probably require a bigger hint than this. I think it's wierd, frankly. Always have.

By: RJ Reynolds

RJ Reynolds — Thu, 25 Apr 2002 10:18:32 -0800

You should give them a tour of the extinct dooce archives. God I wish she'd come back for an evil "bring your daughter to work" post.

By: billder

billder — Thu, 25 Apr 2002 10:20:08 -0800

"Ok, the red seven goes on the black eight. Uh oh, here comes the boss. Press Alt+Tab. Quick! Ok, now this is Excel. With this I make spreadsheets to forecast the future profability of the company. Ok, he's gone. Press Alt+Tab. Ok, put that King in that empty place..."

By: wackybrit

wackybrit — Thu, 25 Apr 2002 10:28:58 -0800

Oh great, bore your colleagues' children to death by showing them the Internet. At least show them kitty.mpg, that 'scary' Chinese Flash animation, or Stile Project.

By: sbgrove

sbgrove — Thu, 25 Apr 2002 10:38:51 -0800

I'll show them the other side of my office door...

By: amphigory

amphigory — Thu, 25 Apr 2002 10:45:29 -0800

What about people who don't have daughters? Can they dress their son up in drag and bring him to work? (Junior you're old enough to put on your own mascara.) Or play dress-up with thier pets and haul them in to the office? (Fluffy, take smaller steps in those heels and you won't fall over so often.)

By: tsarfan

tsarfan — Thu, 25 Apr 2002 10:47:57 -0800

i second RJ's suggestion, and I might add that Jezebel's Mirror is pretty terrific too. creative, PG, amateur digital photography

By: patrickje

patrickje — Thu, 25 Apr 2002 10:59:22 -0800

Since I only have a son, I won't celebrate this sexist holiday. That's OK, I'll retaliate by not hiring women this year.

By: Settle

Settle — Thu, 25 Apr 2002 11:07:02 -0800

Today is bring your daughter to work day, or as Aaron Spelling calls it, Thursday.

By: treywhit

treywhit — Thu, 25 Apr 2002 11:13:00 -0800

I presented "How to Build Web Pages" sessions to four groups of visiting teenagers and shared my favorite webpages like Dancing Paul. And it's been changed to "Bring Your Child To Work Day" to avoid offending anyone.

By: iconomy

iconomy — Thu, 25 Apr 2002 11:26:10 -0800

I would show my daughter (or my son, btw) some great sites designed and run by women. Like netdiver and breathewords and thorny rabbit and mirror project and future farmers and you grow girl and goldtop and milky elephant and elephant cloud and photomontage and ndroid and ot-to critter corporation and avocado lite and soap box girls. And a few estrogen-powered weblogs, while I was at it. I would show her MetaFilter, but she's seen the blue screen of death over my shoulder almost every day for over 2 years now. Take Your Sons To Work Day is coming, by the way. At least I think it is. The "official" website is sort of unofficial and doesn't seem to have been updated since last year. There should just be a damn "Take Your Kids to Work Day". *upon preview I see that there is! Thanks treywhit* o2b, is one of the daughters your own? If not, how did they all end up at your desk? Answer carefully, now ;)

By: kablam

kablam — Thu, 25 Apr 2002 11:29:59 -0800

All this makes me think of a James Bond villain bringing his daughter to work: "Uh, dear, the reason the ladies who work here all wear black leather is, uh..." "No, honey, that's the self-destruct switch. Please don't touch that!" "...Now the reason the laser-cannon is pointed at the White House is so that daddy can afford to take you and mommy on vacation to Disney World this summer." "Remember, sweetie, if one of daddy's henchmen offends you, you have to kill him right away, otherwise it will make your daddy look weak, and we don't want that." "Dear, please stop hunching Mr Bond's leg like that" (18+ only.)

By: epersonae

epersonae — Thu, 25 Apr 2002 11:32:16 -0800

Male or female, if a child can't work out for themselves that they might need a job when they grow up, they'll probably require a bigger hint than this. I don't have kids, but I think this is a cool idea for both boys and girls - not that kids can't figure out that they'll need a job, but as a kid, it's hard to imagine the world of work, except maybe for firefighters and ballerinas. :) in the modern world, so much work is essentially invisible, or at least indistinguishable.... then again, from the other comments in this thread, it sounds like most kids are going be learning that work sucks.

By: groundhog

groundhog — Thu, 25 Apr 2002 11:35:49 -0800

I picked up my son from pre-school at lunchtime, ordered a pizza and brought him over to the office. I now have a nice new picture on my wall, of a monkey in a bed of hot lava, eating two bananas. Signed by the artist! Here's an exercise in communication for you - explain to a 4 year old the concepts of computer programming and health insurance.

By: rich

rich — Thu, 25 Apr 2002 11:57:03 -0800

I do have a problem with it being only daughters.. although many companies have shifted to having sons and daughters.. I mean, I understand women are underrepresented in many fields, and the idea os to give them goals other than traditional 'female' jobs, but I think if the dad pays any attention to his kids, he'd be more influential in directing career opporutnity than a silly day. That being said, I once had my wife give me a class lesson plan program she had adapted and developed for school (she's a teacher) for Hershey bars.. and tracking the ingredients, where they came from in the world, mapping them, and how they got into the Hershey Bar. Great geography lesson. Now I may try and teach them the life of a securites trade in in someplace like Singapore being executed between New York and Frankfurt counterparties, with separate F/X funding in HKD and corresponding borrow and lending with collateral movements through DTC or CREST. Know why? Because I can. And it's still a good geography lesson.

By: Sal Amander

Sal Amander — Thu, 25 Apr 2002 12:54:29 -0800

I can't wait for Bring Your Son to Lunch day!

By: catatonic

catatonic — Thu, 25 Apr 2002 15:24:29 -0800

One word - Goatse.

By: babychet

babychet — Thu, 25 Apr 2002 22:38:37 -0800

wow. loobylu is awesome.

By: quonsar

quonsar — Fri, 26 Apr 2002 06:55:03 -0800

W O R K
Because it's safer than
taking her to Mass.

By: quonsar

quonsar — Fri, 26 Apr 2002 07:01:01 -0800

...a monkey in a bed of hot lava, eating two bananas.
...explain to a 4 year old the concepts of computer programming and health insurance.
ok, what did he miss?

By: groundhog

groundhog — Fri, 26 Apr 2002 07:42:56 -0800

I knew the kid was smart, but damn! He was drawing my freakin' job description! quonsar - thanks for your coffee-through-the-nostrils inducing comment!