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TeenagedTwit · 2023-12-06T04:30:17+00:00

16yo Wants a job. Apparently. Weirdly, a job hasn't fluttered into his bedroom and landed on his lap so he is most perplexed. Picked up an application form for him from a local supermarket. Encourage him to get a pen (no easy feat) and sit down to complete application. 20 seconds later... "What's my name?" And that was just the beginning. I swear a 4yo would make a better employee. I fear for our future. ***Note from MNHQ - we've edited the title as we had a few reports about one of the terms used there. We're sure there was no intention to offend but it was clearly upsetting a few people and we didn't want the issue to derail the thread***

ConsistentlyElectrifiedElves · 06/12/2023 17:50

Alltheyearround · 06/12/2023 14:28

I have to confess, as a teen when watching TV, an on screen recommendation was made to ask bill payer before phoning the expensive number for whatever it was.

Who is Bill Payer? I said.

Bill Payer became a legend in our household.

Whenever I see my nephews playing a war game, or watching a war film where they say "fire at will", I always say "Poor Will. Why is everyone always firing at him?"

Time will tell whether they realise I'm joking, or whether they grow up thinking everyone being shot at was called Will!

swimsong · 06/12/2023 17:51

Catza · 06/12/2023 08:34

I once worked with someone who told their daughter off for not helping with cleaning. The daughter (16) got upset and rang her friend. Friend helpfully suggested she rings an ambulance and says mum is crazy. Ambulance came out and as the woman was in some shock and distress over the situation, they “processed her” as having MH crisis and took her to the hospital. Psychiatry liaison assessed her and the moron put in her records “doesn’t have insight into her condition”, discharged her home with home crisis team support. Visiting nurses at the very first visit could clearly see she had no MH condition but the service psychiatrist wouldn’t discharge her because of the “no insight” comment. It took a week to reason with him that she couldn’t possibly have an insight into a condition she doesn’t have.

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This is scary.

Ticklemeharder · 06/12/2023 17:52

My 17 year old brother won three pheasants at the local village raffle. Complete with heads and feathers. He was very drunk and completely forgot about them until a week later when my mum discovered them hung up in his wardrobe after going mad trying to work out what the smell was. To say she was not happy is an understatement

Tooshytoshine · 06/12/2023 17:56

Invisimamma · 06/12/2023 16:10

I am well aware of the dangers of vaping, I actually work in public health policy, specifically smoking cessation and tobacco control so I am more aware than most. The irony is not lost on me. I absolutely support a ban of flavoured and disposable vapes.

I don't condone or encourage vaping at all, but he's a 13yr old who takes risks and makes mistakes. We've talked it through but I can't keep him locked up and control his every move, he needs to make his own decisions and face the consequences.

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I am a teacher and vaping is out of control. It is simply not regulated and kids can just buy them. Just like Prime or other items that are promoted by YouTubers, it is highly attractive to teens.

Blaming parents is reductive. We obviously don't want our kids to vape but if it is not a complete controlled substance under licensing what can parents do?

MrTruckle · 06/12/2023 17:57

TarantinoIsAMisogynist · 06/12/2023 13:29

The OP, who was the one who referred to a paper application form, posted in the present tense.

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Local supermarkets might use a paper form.

VeronicaSawyer89 · 06/12/2023 18:03

Alltheyearround · 06/12/2023 14:31

@SingingSands Pastures New is where Bill Payer is thinking of moving to.

OMG 😂

ButterBastardBeans · 06/12/2023 18:04

Last year I had an eighteen year old student from a local agricultural college seeing practice (veterinary). I asked him what course he was on and he didn't know, his Mum had arranged it.

He literally did not know what he was studying or what qualification he would get at the end of it!

I asked him if he wanted to be a vet or a vet tech and he said he had zero interest in being either but didn't know what he did want to do.

Bizarrely he was dressed like a 1930's James Herriott with a flat cap, a brown warehouse coat and a pair of rustic looking cord trousers.

DerekFaker · 06/12/2023 18:10

Fannyfiggs · 06/12/2023 11:03

This thread is hilarious!!

I had my own flat,with my then fiance, and had to call my mum to ask her how to boil potatoes... I was 26.

My flatmate at University asked me how to tell when her pan of water was boiling. She did a science subject!

Seriously79 · 06/12/2023 18:10

DS14 has been full of cold for weeks now, just can't shift it. Too many late nights, eating rubbish overdoing or at the gym.

He came home one day last week absolutely soaked to the skin and I told him to jump in the shower to warm up.

So he did. When he got out he was 'too hot' so put his boxers on and went outside for half an hour to cool down 🤯

The logic of a 14 year old boy!

Alltheyearround · 06/12/2023 18:13

OK another 'doh' moment from my own youthful days as a teen.

Was about 14 or 15, had started to learn to cook, in a fashion, as mum was working some evenings and told me and Dsister we had to step up and cook on a Thursday.

I made a great salad, and for pudding meringues - lovingly made with malt vinegar....

mmmm mmmm delicious.

(Should have been spirit vinegar obs. but I didn't know then there was more than 1 kind of vinegar).

SOBplus · 06/12/2023 18:15

Alltheyearround · 06/12/2023 18:13

OK another 'doh' moment from my own youthful days as a teen.

Was about 14 or 15, had started to learn to cook, in a fashion, as mum was working some evenings and told me and Dsister we had to step up and cook on a Thursday.

I made a great salad, and for pudding meringues - lovingly made with malt vinegar....

mmmm mmmm delicious.

(Should have been spirit vinegar obs. but I didn't know then there was more than 1 kind of vinegar).

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I can relate. Late teen making a meal for girlfriend and didn't know what a clove of garlic was, assumed it was the whole bulb - it asked for 4! You can imagine the smell (but she ate it so must have been love right?).😊

FiftyandUnfit · 06/12/2023 18:19

I left home for university at 18 and before then had always been around to feed my dad while my Mum worked a Saturday. He never ever fed himself. I got a phone call one Saturday asking 'can I put crumpets in the toaster? And another day asking how to open the oven door - he was trying to pull the door down and it was side opening. So it's not just teenagers😂

PostItInABook · 06/12/2023 18:21

When I was a teen I helpfully said I’d make everyone bacon sandwiches. Nearly set the kitchen on fire ‘waiting for the oil to boil’.

In my first year at uni, I was really chuffed with myself after buying my T.V. License. Until my dad dealt the crushing blow that it was a yearly thing, not a lifetime thing. Gutted.

ButterCupPie · 06/12/2023 18:27

Ticklemeharder · 06/12/2023 17:52

My 17 year old brother won three pheasants at the local village raffle. Complete with heads and feathers. He was very drunk and completely forgot about them until a week later when my mum discovered them hung up in his wardrobe after going mad trying to work out what the smell was. To say she was not happy is an understatement

They might have been just right... isn't game supposed to be hung until it is 'high'? If they had been in a fridge until the raffle they might have been beautifully ready to cook & eat.

Nosleepforthismum · 06/12/2023 18:27

My DH’s 18 year old employee rang DH in a right tizz after getting his first payslip demanding to know why he’d been paid way less than he should have been. After checking everything DH called employee back to say he couldn’t see what the problem was. Took a while to realise he was talking about the income tax and was horrified when DH told him everyone had to pay tax and national insurance and that it would be deducted from his pay every month. Employee huffily states “Well, I’ll just go and work somewhere else then”

Alltheyearround · 06/12/2023 18:29

SOBplus · 06/12/2023 18:15

I can relate. Late teen making a meal for girlfriend and didn't know what a clove of garlic was, assumed it was the whole bulb - it asked for 4! You can imagine the smell (but she ate it so must have been love right?).😊

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😂No danger from vampires for you two!

Mistakes are how we learn in life.

When to worry is if the kids are too scared to make mistakes.

Otherwise, it's all good. Apart from fingers in live toasters.

Looking at you DS.

ChimneyPotter · 06/12/2023 18:41

Had a teenage work experience kid at work. He was as posh as hell and continually putting his foot in with unworldliness about the world (why would you live so far out in London?) He was monumentally useless so after about 3 days I sent him to make us some tea as we just needed a break and, well, isn't that what work experience boys are for? He was gone for about half an hour which was a relief but we were getting a bit worried.

He eventually turned up with three mugs that were barely hot and the liquid was watery white. He said 'don't worry, it's because it's green tea'. So, he'd added milk to the green tea. And a colleague told me later he'd found him in the kitchen trying to heat the water in the microwave rather than the kettle. Bless him.

Halfacnut · 06/12/2023 18:46

I realised when checking a form for a holiday job application for DD that she has routinely been putting the city first, with the house number and road on the next line.

She is 19 and I have spent approximately half a million pounds on her education.

NotFastButFurious · 06/12/2023 18:55

When I lived in college accommodation at uni (Russell group so you’d like to think there were a few brain cells around but seemingly not much comment sense) we had numerous pleas from the bursar asking us not to boil eggs / pasta / any substance that wasn’t water in the communal kitchen kettles!

Pertinentowl · 06/12/2023 18:57

Mine have been at university for two years. They make a big deal about how they sent old fashioned birthday cards to their granny. Endless phone calls asking their granny’s name and being flummoxed at the idea that her name isn’t legally Gran. No cards ever arrived.
they didn’t know what stamps were.

Theblacksheepandme · 06/12/2023 18:58

Nosleepforthismum · 06/12/2023 18:27

My DH’s 18 year old employee rang DH in a right tizz after getting his first payslip demanding to know why he’d been paid way less than he should have been. After checking everything DH called employee back to say he couldn’t see what the problem was. Took a while to realise he was talking about the income tax and was horrified when DH told him everyone had to pay tax and national insurance and that it would be deducted from his pay every month. Employee huffily states “Well, I’ll just go and work somewhere else then”

I think I was a bit miffed about that when I received my first pay.

AppleCrispMacchiato · 06/12/2023 19:03

Wiccan · 06/12/2023 17:20

This thread is about moronic behaviour from teenagers and I think that posters are more than aware how stupid their teens actions were / are .Why are some posters trying to parent shame others or state they don't believe the poster. It's like some just want a spat .

Because promoting the myth that anytime you piss someone off they can just snap their fingers and get you dragged to hospital and declared mentally ill is extremely dangerous, and could lead to people not dialling 999 when necessary.

This is supposed to be a fun thread about dumb shit your teenagers have done, like exploding eggs in the microwave. Domestic disputes serious enough that the authorities removed the adult from the house isn't "dumb shit kids do", it's incredibly disturbing. (And didn't happen to the poster herself but heard about second hand.)

Sorry but I've heard "it was just a minor domestic dispute" enough times in my life to be sceptical.

bellsandwhistles333 · 06/12/2023 19:04

My 16 yrs old came home 3 days in a row desperate for a quick lift to college because the bus had yet again drive past her and not stopped at the stop.....

She swore up and down she was on time and she saw it go past her and not stop.

On day three I was furious and said I was going to complain and find out what was happening, I asked if there was ever anyone stood with her that also was missing their bus.

That's when she tells us she's in the b&m directly across the road and she sees the bus pass but she feels it should be on time to the minute and stop even if no one is there

MumblesParty · 06/12/2023 19:04

Catza · 06/12/2023 08:24

I’m so relieved that’s not just us!
Not knowing when the school term starts (I genuinely don’t think my parents once received any information from the school in my entire secondary education, yet we are now solely in charge of school term times, starting times, what to bring etc. Apparently, all they need to do is being turfed out of the car on time - no other responsibilities)
Genuine surprise that there are instructions on a pot of noodles that she eats with relative regularity. Needs help to boil a kettle and pour water in in case she “does it wrong”
Despite being told where the bin bags are still wants her dad to go downstairs to help her find them.
When she has some rubbish to get rid of - “where should I put this?” Every single day.

@Catza term dates are for the parents to sort. It’ll be in the school newsletter and on the website.

Menomeno · 06/12/2023 19:04

PostItInABook · 06/12/2023 18:21

When I was a teen I helpfully said I’d make everyone bacon sandwiches. Nearly set the kitchen on fire ‘waiting for the oil to boil’.

In my first year at uni, I was really chuffed with myself after buying my T.V. License. Until my dad dealt the crushing blow that it was a yearly thing, not a lifetime thing. Gutted.

In a similar vein my ds was incredulous to discover that a 3% mortgage rate didn’t mean 3% over the life of the mortgage. He thought if he borrowed £100K he’d repay £103K over 25 years. He kept telling me I was wrong because my way meant you were paying for your house about three times over, and that couldn’t be right! 😂 This was when he was about 18. He’s an accountant now.