# It's Bring Your Child to Work Day (Everyone say Hi to Nate) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 24, 2003, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-bring-your-child-to-work-day-everyone-say-hi-to-nate/170867 "2003-04-24T15:20:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![UrbanChic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9dc877/32.png) [@UrbanChic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UrbanChic)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2003, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-bring-your-child-to-work-day-everyone-say-hi-to-nate/170867/1 "2003-04-24T15:20:32Z")
Nate’s with me today. He’s doing actual _work_! He’s stocking the paper in the copier rooms with the guy from the mailroom. It’s very funny. He was so excited about this day. He couldn’t go last year because he had school. He’s out this week for Easter vacation so he was able to come to work with me today. I’ll take a pic of him and his new friend (one of the secretary’s sons) and post it later today. So pop in and say hi to Nate and I’ll direct him to this thread. ---
**Author:** ![Soup\_du\_jour](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@Soup\_du\_jour](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soup_du_jour)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2003, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-bring-your-child-to-work-day-everyone-say-hi-to-nate/170867/2 "2003-04-24T15:23:23Z")
Yo, Nate! Congrats on doing actual work today, while I’m stuck here filling out boring forms. ☹ Have fun today! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![kung\_fu\_lola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f4b2a3/32.png) [@kung\_fu\_lola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kung_fu_lola)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2003, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-bring-your-child-to-work-day-everyone-say-hi-to-nate/170867/3 "2003-04-24T15:23:55Z")
Hi, Nate! _waving frantically_ Next year, convince your mom to take you to work even when you have school. It’s a learning experience, right? I mean, you gotta learn about the real working world _someday_. Preferably before you have to actually go into it on your own. 😛 Have a great day! ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2003, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-bring-your-child-to-work-day-everyone-say-hi-to-nate/170867/4 "2003-04-24T15:24:43Z")
Hi Nate! I would have loved to bring Aaron to work with me today, but we couldn’t. Mostly, this would be an object lesson in the Importance of Finishing College So You Don’t Have to Do This. Robin ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2003, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-bring-your-child-to-work-day-everyone-say-hi-to-nate/170867/5 "2003-04-24T15:33:38Z")
I am **NOT** there! And available evidence has always indicated that I’m the only one with my name in the entire world (professional athletes excepted). ---
**Author:** ![XJETGIRLX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/9fc29f/32.png) [@XJETGIRLX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XJETGIRLX)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2003, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-bring-your-child-to-work-day-everyone-say-hi-to-nate/170867/6 "2003-04-24T15:36:21Z")
Hi Nate! Hope you have fun today, but remember: Do as much goofing off as you can while you’re young! Once you get big enough, they take away all your fun priveledges and make you eat liver and cod oil for lunch. Live it up while you can! Play with your legos! Make a mess in the mud! Ride down steep hills on your bike! Put frogs down people’s shirts! Make crazy noises when you’re bored! Listen to your music loud! Eat pizza for every meal! Do it for all the repressed kids in adult bodies! Vive la youth! Oh, and _always_ listen to your mother. It’s because she’s right. ---
**Author:** ![garius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e19b73/32.png) [@garius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garius)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2003, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-bring-your-child-to-work-day-everyone-say-hi-to-nate/170867/7 "2003-04-24T15:49:01Z")
[QUOTE] \*Originally posted by XJETGIRLX \* Live it up while you can! Play with your legos! Make a mess in the mud! Ride down steep hills on your bike! Put frogs down people’s shirts! Make crazy noises when you’re bored! Listen to your music loud! Eat pizza for every meal! [QUOTE] or come work for me in my web development team and carry on doing all that stuff _all day long_ 🆒 Oh and Nate, mate. Don’t forget to kiss as many girls as possible. Thats very important. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2003, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-bring-your-child-to-work-day-everyone-say-hi-to-nate/170867/8 "2003-04-24T15:49:54Z")
Hi Nate – we need some paper brought down from the third floor for our copier – can you do that when you’re done there? Thanks. (Have fun! and don’t tell my boss I’m posting here instead of working on the assignments for Group 8…) ---
**Author:** ![DeVena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dec6dc/32.png) [@DeVena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeVena)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2003, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-bring-your-child-to-work-day-everyone-say-hi-to-nate/170867/9 "2003-04-24T16:35:42Z")
Hiya Nate!! ---
**Author:** ![Bookkeeper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bookkeeper/32/281_2.png) [@Bookkeeper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bookkeeper)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2003, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-bring-your-child-to-work-day-everyone-say-hi-to-nate/170867/10 "2003-04-24T17:24:59Z")
Hi, Nate! Greetings from the Great White North! (Really - it snowed all day yesterday.) ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2003, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-bring-your-child-to-work-day-everyone-say-hi-to-nate/170867/11 "2003-04-24T18:59:00Z")
Hi Nate! My sons come to work with me every day. The baby is here with his nanny, and the three year old comes before and after school. He likes my computer a lot. He looks at shark pictures and plays games. I could sure use a helper, are you sure your mom won’t let you come over here? Just kidding Nate, I’m glad you’re having fun today. ---
**Author:** ![UrbanChic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9dc877/32.png) [@UrbanChic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UrbanChic)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2003, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-bring-your-child-to-work-day-everyone-say-hi-to-nate/170867/12 "2003-04-24T19:10:10Z")
Thanks, guys! 🙂 After we eat ice cream, we’ll read this thread together. One of the attorneys treated the kids to pizza for lunch today. Nate’s been working his skinny little tail off and really needed it. It’s priceless. [sub]I think the SmartMedia card I have is dying, if not dead. Ritz can’t seem to pull images off the card![/sub] ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2003, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-bring-your-child-to-work-day-everyone-say-hi-to-nate/170867/13 "2003-04-24T19:13:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by garius \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by XJETGIRLX \* > > Live it up while you can! Play with your legos! Make a mess in the mud! Ride down steep hills on your bike! Put frogs down people’s shirts! Make crazy noises when you’re bored! Listen to your music loud! Eat pizza for every meal! > > or come work for me in my web development team and carry on doing all that stuff _all day long_ 🆒 > > Oh and Nate, mate. Don’t forget to kiss as many girls as possible. Thats very important. 😃 \*\* You wouldn’t be hiring, by any chance? Robin ---
**Author:** ![Elza\_B](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Elza\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elza_B)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2003, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-bring-your-child-to-work-day-everyone-say-hi-to-nate/170867/14 "2003-04-24T20:05:42Z")
Hope you’re having fun, Nate! Just remember…the copy machine + a staple puller = a rousing game of “Who broke this? I mean it, who did this? Someone get over here and fix this stupid thing! I’m going to kill whoever did this.” 😃 Ava ---
**Author:** ![scout1222](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2003, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-bring-your-child-to-work-day-everyone-say-hi-to-nate/170867/15 "2003-04-24T20:33:30Z")
Hi, Nate! See how mom comes to work to do her “job” all day and really spends her time surfing the Dope? Look forward to it, kid! 😛 Just joshin’, of course. I actually DO work. Yes, I do, smartasses! ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2003, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-bring-your-child-to-work-day-everyone-say-hi-to-nate/170867/16 "2003-04-24T20:38:35Z")
Hi, Nate! Hope you’re having fun with the copier. Office machines are lots of fun to play with. Did you know you can make copies of body parts? Get your mom to show you how to do this! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![stolatt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@stolatt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stolatt)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2003, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-bring-your-child-to-work-day-everyone-say-hi-to-nate/170867/17 "2003-04-24T22:32:32Z")
Hi Nate! My son threw up at take your kids to work day today. Bet they won’t forget him though. Next time they give you copier duty, do like the grownups do at my work. Find the closest person to the copier and whine to them that it’s all out of paper. ---
**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2003, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-bring-your-child-to-work-day-everyone-say-hi-to-nate/170867/18 "2003-04-24T23:06:55Z")
Hi, Nate, I hope you enjoyed your day. I can’t say I enjoyed my day…not all kids are quiet/well-behaved enough that they should be brought into the workplace. And they sure as heck weren’t doing real work, like you were. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2003, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-bring-your-child-to-work-day-everyone-say-hi-to-nate/170867/19 "2003-04-24T23:27:15Z")
G’day Nate. Now that you know how copiers work, can you teach me? I always get confused and press the wrong buttons and my pages come out upside down and half missing. Thanks…and have a grouse day. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![burundi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3ec8ea/32.png) [@burundi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burundi)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2003, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-bring-your-child-to-work-day-everyone-say-hi-to-nate/170867/20 "2003-04-24T23:31:00Z")
> [@](#): > > _originally posted by XJETGIRLX_ > Live it up while you can! Play with your legos! Make a mess in the mud! Ride down steep hills on your bike! Put frogs down people’s shirts! Make crazy noises when you’re bored! Listen to your music loud! Eat pizza for every meal! As far as I’m concerned, the best thing about being a grown-up is that I _can_ do all this stuff, with no parents to intervene. 😉 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-bring-your-child-to-work-day-everyone-say-hi-to-nate/170867.md?page=2)