Aibu to be peed off with this question ?

[SandraTheBee]

My 13 year old dad has invited a couple of new friends for a birthday sleep over next week. She invited them over 2 weeks ago.
I don’t know these girls and dd sent them my phone number so that the parents could speak to me before hand. I completely under that they would want to do this.

I haven’t heard from anyone.
Today dd comes back from school with the message that one parent wants to know what job I have.

Never in all my years of parenting ( I have 6 kids and dd is the 5th) has any parent asked me this.

I am wondering if it is in fact Katie Hopkins.

I’m pretty pissed off and don’t really want to have to deal with people who make judgements like that.

I have a perfectly ‘respectable ‘ and main stream job. I am a teacher currently working as a TA, but what the hell?

In what world do you invite children round for a sleep over and not be there to look after them?

Actually I've encountered this a few times. Once when it came out after the first invitation that the few friends were invited round because the Mum was going away for the night and the girl didn't want to be on her own and once when the Dad thought it would be ok to leave 8 14yos on their own because "that's what she asked for". I also had one occasion when one of my girls was at a sleepover and the Mum was at her mate's next door for most of the evening.

I always ask if a parent is going to be in the house supervising.

Wow, that’s crazy not being there. If the mother is anxious about that surely the question to my phone rather than through our daughters would be along of lines of ‘ will you be there the whole time ?’ Rather than the job I do.

I did read about employers asking about applicants' parents as an attempt to widen the diversity of their staff intake by making sure they reached as many people with different social backgrounds as possible. I've not come across it myself but maybe this is getting more common?

Not relevant to the OP I know but some of the other posts talked about job interviews....

Tell them you're Theresa May's chief brexit negotiator!

Tell her you are a drug dealer and can hook her up with some good shit if that's why she's asking

Likely to get treats by staying at a bakers house 😂😂😂😂

I work in finance. Does this mean I'm likely to hand out money?

And as a teacher I can make them do lines. Other jobs do seem more interesting though.