<p>There is a big difference between your paraphrased statement, lsst, because it suggests that some employees may be “overgrown children” (which is probably true of many employees at many, if not perhaps most companies) vs the initial statement made about the employees being overgrown children-- or to use your words " a blanket statement about the tens of thousands of employees at that company". </p>
<p>lstttt, I am not going to engage you anymore. Your agenda is obvious here:</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/1627986-outdated-advice.html#latest”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/1627986-outdated-advice.html#latest</a></p>
<p>…and elsewhere. You are a bitter and resentful person for someone so young. If you don’t want to be surrounded by people who are giving the “outdated” advice you so detest, there’s an easy solution: just walk away.</p>
<p>You are waaaay overstating and misinterpreting my response, lsttt, and I dont know why, nor do I care. Might be a good time for you to thank your mom and take her out for a nice mothers day. </p>
<p>Ok, Isttt, drop it.
We remember an unpleasant thread a few years ago where, no matter how we explained our relationships with our kids, the argument continued. Enough is enough. Parents on the P forum generally speak in their own time-honed shorthands, we don’t need to take each phrase literally. From knowing each other, we can glean humor or arc, even hyperbole. Someone comes in and plays ‘party-pooper’ - what response do you really expect? There are a few non-parents who add to our perspective- that’s never self-designated. Most of the adults here can name them, count the on one hand. </p>
<p>If you want to continue arguing,either take it elsewhere or we’ll call ■■■■■.</p>
<p>@jym626 The thread was awesome, a nice addition.</p>
<p>Since I’m pretty old (officially from the stone age) and I like the passion in @istttt 's posts even if I don’t appreciate this fun thread going way off topic I am going to recommend a book from EVEN BEFORE the stone age as a summer read… a book by Dale Carnegie “How to win friends and influence people.” consider reading it before you flame me.</p>
<p>Thank you, looking forward and singersdad, for the kind words and for trying to get this thread back on topic. Time to consider the ignore button for the trolls.</p>
<p>No passive aggressive. We are asking you to butt out. The topic is laundry. Not what Isttt wants to say and Isttt found a soapbox and, by gummy, once again, Isttt is going to put us in our places. Give it up, kiddo. it doesn’t add a thing here. In fact, it’s surprisingly aggressive in its persistence… </p>
<p>lsttt is being put through the wringer. </p>
<p>Sooooo, in another attempt to get back on topic, many colleges are no different than companies that offer perks to their “employees”/students. The biggest perk is typically grant or merit $, but what about other soft benefits like those listed here (LOL Davidson’s laundry is #1) <a href=“Colleges With The Best Perks | HuffPost Teen”>HuffPost - Breaking News, U.S. and World News | HuffPost; and the ones with fabulous dining halls with multiple choices and excellent food. Colleges are businesses too.</p>
<p>Climbing walls, smoothie bars, football teams whose games are aired on national television…</p>
<p>D1 may get a job at a place that has skateboards/scooters for traversing the office. Free lunch. Bikes for mid-day rides. </p>
<p>Too funny @lookingforward I’m pretty sure a skateboard in my office would not be considered a perk, it would be deemed a hazard… I am imagining myself on a skateboard and that vision is so scary !</p>
<p>Please put a cork in it. People asked me about my mom and what I did for her. I lost her many years ago. Please stop trying to derail the thread and let the rest of us have a conversation. Please stop trying to make this into something this isnt. If you have something to contribute to the conversation about college and corporate perks, then fine, but if not, how’s about you give the the rest of us that are moms on this thread a nice gift and stop it.</p>
<p>Niice, lookingforward. Happy employees are productive employees.</p>
<p>There is a company in my town that has a HUGE facility. They have bikes for employees to ride form one section to another.</p>
<p>She’s a hard worker, they’d get their money’s worth from her. </p>
<p>I had an office at a client whose building was so huge it took 15 minutes to walk to the lunchroom (an that was in the middle of the place.) You learned fast not to forget anything when you went to speak with someone on the other side.</p>
<p>But I’m telling you, you haven’t lived until someone irons your jeans, t-shirts and sheets/pillow cases on one of those professional presses. It all came out so crisp and smooth. I still have the bedding. </p>
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Is he or she flying first class? One of DS’s suitemates in college has the financial resources to do this.</p>
<p>At the end of the school year, there are two groups of students: one group of students choose to pay the fine because they do not clean the dorm rooms, and the other group choose to clean the room. It becomes an icky issue as regard to whether to clean the common area in the suite.</p>
<p>I heard of a story like this: At the beginning of the school year, all the suitemates get together in a “meeting” to divide up the work to keep their living area in a “livable” condition. A girl honestly said to all the other suitemates: You know, I really do not do this kind of stuff that is (supposedly) done by maid. I have never done this at home. And I will not do this here.</p>
<p>The rat infection is a serious problem in some rooms every year. DS’s suite had lots of flies and the suitemates stopped using the common area because of this. This gave DS a lot of stress as his single room is closet to the common area and it is more likely the flies may get into his room. The end result is that he would rather clean the common area for those who were irresponsible, rather than lived in such a horrible living environment.</p>
<p>Diversity may not work. Starting from the sophomore year, by and large, the rich live with the rich, and the “not so rich” (i do not want to call them poor as they are nt) live with the “not so rich”. Because of this experience, there is a reason why DS really hesitated to date with any girl who is not financially compatible with him. (Not sure whether he might end up doing exactly what he thought he wanted to avoid though. His life, his choice. There is nothing we can or should do anything about it.)</p>
<p>Your mother must be so proud.</p>
<p>When my son moved off campus in grad school, he was renting from a woman who owned the 3-story house. She asked them to continue using her cleaning person. The boys agreed, and I was relieved. None of them are rich, but practical. Cleaning bathrooms was a low priority for them. They also have a stackable washer/dryer in apartment, which beats walking a few blocks in the winter to a laundromat. His old apartment was a nightmare. He thought it had bedbugs, but just fleas. He was covered with bites within a week of moving in. </p>
<p>What a great decision. I sent a gift certificate for a cleaning service to come out one time as a birthday present. I think that poor person had her hands full.</p>
<p>I briefly browsed the seemingly heated argument about Google (only a bit though.) Not sure whether I should get anywhere near the “fire/fight” as I may get caught in the cross fire" accidentally. LOL.</p>
<p>My whole life has been in the so-called hi-tech area. Maybe it is because I have never been particularly “successful” by any metric, I basically has some negative opinion about this field by and large (maybe except when I was in my 20s.)</p>
<p>the so-called “good” companies to work for come and go naturally in any industry. But the cycle in this industry tends to be shorter. Indeed, Google may be like HP 3 or 4 decades ago. It may be a good company to ride with for some time, for now - if you have what they want from you (believe me, what they want is not what a society generally wants from a young man: to stop being an “outgrown child” in mid-20s - the company like that is much smarter and greedier than that. They know what they want from you - definitely not your cooking skill or parenting skills - they may pretend to a certain degree that they value what their employees value though.)</p>
<p>If you want to have a peek at what is considered as a good company to work for, look at what the Koreans perceive as the good company for a salary man (btw, a '“salary woman” is generally not very well received there, still.) I really wish the hierarchy of desirable companies to work for in our future (e.g., our grandchildren’s generation) will never be like that: like the top 1% and the rest being the 99% which are much undesriable in the eyes of most people in the society, generally speacking.)</p>
<p>Btw, have you heard of a “rumor” that, when Microsoft was red hot, some claimed that they generally prefer unmarried young people as their “model” employees so they can use them 120% of their lives?</p>
<p>Disclaimer: I do not know much about Google. By accident, just because where my company is located, I happened to see (and almost being run over by one of their bike at one time) a lot of Google employees very frequently - e.g., Google’s “bicycles” and “buses” all the time. I have seen and played with the now famous or infamous Google Glass also - I personally will never want to own one as I am too old for that. Actually, even the characters on smartphone are too small for my aged eyes! But the target customers or employees of these hi-tech companies likely do not include me so they could care less about me.</p>