Yes

Sure did. My pops worked in midtown Manhattan, I remember going to his office in April of 2001. His office had an automatic coffee machine that would also make hot chocolate, I thought that was the coolest thing. He took a long lunch with me so he could take me on a trip downtown. We ended up going to the World Trade Center and visiting the observation deck at One World Trade. That added a real crazy dimension to September 11th for me, I had just been there not even five months ago. My father was able to get on one of the last trains out of the city before they were shut down that day. He talked about how scary and confusing it was, watching fighter jets streaking across the sky above 5th avenue, not knowing what else was going to happen. Still, he was one of the lucky ones.

Just had my oldest come into the office two weeks ago. He didn’t seem particularly excited about shadowing me at first since I have a desk job as a programmer. In the morning a user of our API was wanting a copy of our example Rest calls to use as references for their implementation. Unfortunately the ones I had were only used for personal testing and weren’t really usable due to junk data/comments in the files. I showed him how Git works and had him add the files. I had him make a branch and then told him how to clean up the files. After that he zipped up the files and we sent them to the client. He was very happy he could actually do something productive.

In the afternoon I asked him what computer problem he has had in the past that he wanted to solve. Him and I paired together and we solved the problem. He was pretty happy about that too. Overall he seemed impressed with what his old man does everyday which is saying something as he usually is only interested in motorbikes cars and sports.

Overall I would definitely recommend doing it as it is very good exposure into working life that they don’t normally see.

I made my mom’s work day even more stressful and I wish someone had fucking asked me first before creating me

Kind of a reverse thing, we had a day in school where we talked about our parents jobs. I told my class about how my mom, at the time, worked for a company that made medical equipment primarily for elderly rehabilitation. Think exercise games and whatnot. My teacher thought this was cool, so after some back and forth my class took a field trip to my mom’s workplace. I got some of those electrical node things hooked up to my arm and they made my fingers dance, I was the cool kid for the day since I got us out of class