Are you annoyed when your boss brings in their acquaintance for work experience?

[Fiona2011231]

I guess for many parents, it can be hard to find a place for your child's work experience.

So it may be a bit uncomfortable to see your manager bringing in their acquaintance to the office for work placement. Presumably the boss does this so that his own children may receive the same favours from someone else.

Sometimes it gets worse when the boss asks you to take care of the person and then disappears. So for about ten days, you have to find something for that person to do, etc.

If you are in this situation, is there anything you can do?

Presumably the boss does this so that his own children may receive the same favours from someone else.

Or maybe because they want to be able to offer some work experience to a local young person ?
Or maybe someone asked them, and they thought, 'why not?'

How is it different from a child your boss doesn’t know coming for work experience?

No.

It’s happened to me a few times in the past. The first time was all ok but the second I struggled to find her anything to do. It didn’t help I was so busy myself at that time either. I can relate to what you say but apart from put on a brave face sometimes that’s all you’ve got.

It's fine if the kid has an interest in the business.
I got a guy for a week - in a science lab. I asked him what made him choose science, answer "I hate science and am doing languages at A level". That was a great week.....

Some of us are currently questioning this at my work place. It's bad for social mobility. Work experience placements should be open to all.

That's nothing years ago in a former job the boss bought his son in followed by his daughter a few years later. Neither of them were interested or wanted to do anything and we actually weren't allowed to ask them to do anything. How the school allowed that I will never know

We can only offer a family and friends work experience position if we also take a community schools placement. Makes people think twice about offering to acquaintances. Though I did end up with my bosses daughter last summer for a day - was worth it to see how she talked to him!