Bring Your Child to Work Day
Thursday was “Bring Your Child to Work Day”. This is the first year that I’ve been able to participate father-wise. The past years, I’ve participated on behalf of the company with our laptop teardowns. This year, they didn’t plan anything truly special which, I think, is kind of sad. Overall, the kids though that was the best thing, taking apart laptops. Something mom and dad would be fearful of them doing to their own equipment. Alas, there was nothing special planned. I brought Jacob with me in the morning and he spent the entire day, helping me out and asking questions about what I do all day.
The day was good. Jake thought it was cool that he got his own visitor badge at the security desk when we came in. We went up to my cubicle and he was introduced to my coworkers. After taking part of my morning ritual of hot cocoa and daily origami, we set out via the gerbil tubes into the campus to work on a ticket. Jake did seem interested in what I was doing when I talked with our customers and I explained to him how we could fix the problem at hand. Afterwards, we went up to the hardware team’s area and my ex-team lead gave him a personal laptop teardown session. I had forgotten the camera at my desk or else I would have a picture of that. Well, tarter sauce.
We went back to my desk for a bit before lunch. For lunch we went down to our cafeteria where Jake was amazed at all of the different kinds of food we could choose from. He settled on some pepperoni pizza & breadsticks. Yum! It was a pretty big piece but he ate it all. After eating, I took him on a quick tour of the main campus buildings and the main courtyard, dodging goose pooh as we walked.
In the afternoon, we went back out to the other end of campus to clean up some virus from someone’s PC. By that time, the cafeteria was giving out some free soft-serve ice cream sundaes to the kids so we headed there for a treat. Most excellent. Back at my desk, Jacob told me that he didn’t have anything to hang off of his new lanyard that one of my coworkers gave him. Mine has my ID badge on it so I figured I would make him one of his own from a Post-It, markers, and a quick picture. I think it came out pretty good. Jacob loved it and it was a great addition to his report he was writing about his special day. He was sure to bring it to school today when he told his class about his day. His report was pretty complete with the badges and pictures. Overall, it was a good day and I hope he learned something. I can’t wait to do it again next year.
