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Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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So, the question on the floor Fellow Dopers is…

Was I being set up by a mentally ill parent, was I being played with by a probably also somewhat disturbed teenager, or was I just letting my imagination run away with the situation?

Situation:

My secretary just yesterday gave me notice. I run a department of over 165 people, bus drivers, monitors, staff and mechanics. She’s been here for the past 3 directors and is something akin to the Official Mother Hen. So this is pretty big news around here, and All the Topics of Discussion.

One of my drivers, a very annoying, gossippy busybody of a woman, let’s call her AGBB, has a daughter. We’ll call her daughter. Daughter is, for the record (and somewhat relevant, you’ll see, this is not just a gratuitous mention) is what would in polite company, and amongst her peers be called “a looker”. Ok, that’s my peers, her peers probably would slobber and drool at her.

I was just sitting here a few minutes ago, harmlessly crunching some numbers at the request of the boss, when AGBB and daughter stop by my door. Daughter is dressed just in from tennis practice (HS Junior), in shorts and a little hoodie sweatshirt. I look up, and AGBB announces “Hey, MBG, daughter is here to apply for that secretary’s job that’s opened up, she’ll work cheap!”

This apparently being her idea of a grand joke, because she then laughs and walks away. Daughter follows down the hall outside of my office, but then not 2-3 seconds later, comes back to the front of my doorway - swishes her little butt at me, sticks her head in my office and says (sit down this is the good part) “When should I come down for my interview?” Accent on the word “interview”

And winks.

Now here’s the part where I wonder about the set up.

From the time they left my doorway to when daughter came back was only a couple seconds. I hear everything that goes on in the driver’s room, which is about 10 feet down the hall from my office - including, no ESPECIALLY AGBB’s voice - she’s loud that way.

During the time from when they walked away, while daughter put her show on for me and then ran to catch up to her mom it was SILENT. Only about 3-5 seconds after daughter left did I begin to hear voices again.

For the record, there was no encouragement on my face while this happened, it was more a look of disbelief and bewilderment - my usual grimace I’d imagine.

:eek:

The paranoid geek in me says that mom saw and/or encouraged the little show daughter out on for me, in hopes that I’d either encourage the display, or hell - I dunno, invite the little thing in and toss her across the desk and have at her.

Note: When this happened, I had the good fortune to be on the phone. With the district’s HR Director. I 'splained my temporary silence, and she did manage to even hear** AGBB**'s initial comment through the phone, so to that extent, I’m covered. Still - the whole thing makes me wonder…

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Perhaps they really do think the chickie has a chance at the job, but don’t know how to follow the channels? Chickie hasn’t learned the appropriate way to act and only knows how to be flirtateous? Mom is inappropriate and chickie follows her role model?

Yikes. Creepy all the way around.

3

Yeah, under gigi’s theory, you might take the “when’s the interview?” line as her expecting that she has a lock on the job because of her inside connection, so that the interview would just be perfunctory.

4

The trouble I have with the “chickie has a shot” theory is that chickie is still in high school, not even a diploma, and this is a full time, 12 month position.

And she’s all of 16 or so.

I’ll say this, it must be either a lousy job market, or a pretty attractive job. It’s been posted on the district’s web site only since 9 this morning, and I have 11 applications for it.

5

I assume that you work for a school district, which has some kind of HR department, which you need to go through when filling vacant positions. So you could refer daughter semi-seriously to the hops that have to be gone through: “Well, we’ll be advertising the job next week, so watch out for the ad. And don’t forget that we need an experienced secretary, so get some references from places where you’ve worked.”

6

In that case, I vote for bad joke from flirty teenage girl.

7

Pretty squicky. That whole setup would leave me feeling damned uncomfortable.

8

I’ve noticed the world isn’t running short of stupid bimbos, so maybe they’re just creepy like that.

9

I think I might have responded with a sarcastic “Yeah, I’ll get back to you on that” and then resume my phone call. I don’t take a lot of this kind of provocation seriously.

10

My vote goes for “dumb joke from dumb Mom” and “dumb joke from stupid flirty teenager”. They couldn’t possibly–either of them–seriously think that a junior in high school could be handed a full-time secretarial job of the caliber of filling Mother Hen’s formidable shoes, thus I would assume that they were joking about it amongst themselves, and Mom thought it was a Good One and she’d share it with you, and so did the Idiot Teen Who Hasn’t Learned Yet That Some Guys Don’t Get That It’s Just A Joke When You Shake Your Booty At Them.

And actually, as jokes go, the first one wasn’t that bad, and a fairly typical comment. I can picture myself walking into an office environment and joking with someone that my 16-year-old unemployed daughter trailing behind me was here to apply for the vacant Most Senior Secretary’s job.

Except that she wouldn’t have followed up with a tacky come-on…

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If they seriously pursue the job later, you’ld be an idiot to hire her.

I’ve seen an irrate employee file false charges before on sexual harrasment, so if she does show up again, keep a woman employee with you the whole time the daughter is there.

12

Are you actually thinking of following up on that!!! :eek:

13

Well, in any case, she’s illegal, so… No! Bad Mr Bus Guy :smiley: Haha, actually I have no idea what you’re like as a person. You probably would never think about doing something like that.

The whole story gave me the creeps. I get the feeling her family is a bunch of socially inept boobs. In terms of come-on or bad joke, I give it a 50-50. Are you an attractive or powerful guy? That plays a large part.

14

Well we all need a hobby, but maybe you should reconsider this one. :wink:
I have my doubts the Mom has a clue about her daughter. It sounds like the daughter is just use to flirting with all males. She does sound like trouble, but mild trouble.

Jim

15

Ok.

NO, I was never considering for a moment either considering daughter for the job, or anything else.

Jim - knowing the psycho mom as I do, I tend to think she’s a lot less clueless about her daughter than the Good Side of us might want to assume. Mom and I are, at times, contentious and the darker side of me thinks mom might have put her daughter (not completely innocent herself) up to some part of the hijinks.

Me?

Keeping.

My.

Distance.

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If her mom didn’t know about the innuendo, that’s still just really inappropriate of her. If her mom did know about the innuendo… :eek:

Creepygrossickyuckewwww. Stay far away.

17

Schedule her interview for the day she turns 18. Proceed at your discretion.

In my opinion.

18

Even when hottie daughter turns 18, having her around can only be trouble, especially if her mom’s around too. I’d be tempted to look for a legitimate reason to shitcan the mom, even.

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And, God willing, never will.
:smiley:

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She’s just learning to use the power that she has over men. 16 is the perfect age. Christ on a cracker, you’d think no one on the Dope was ever 16.

Now where the creepiness comes in is the mom. Because when I started doing shit like this you can bet my mom was there to slap me back down and teach me how to behave like a lady. This woman seems to be encouraging this behavior.

Off-topic, MBG, I am tempted to apply. Except I’d have to move to Chicago. But I’ve got about 8 or so years of experience behind me, and you sound like a good boss, and I really need a job with more money… :slight_smile: