In my first job, she made a gourmet chowder for Christmas potluck that I passed off as my own. I got on the bosses good side.
I'm not sure which is more -worthy -- that you would take credit for something someone else did in order to impress your boss or that it took your mother's gourmet chowder rather than your own efforts to get on the boss's good side.
I'm not sure which is more -worthy -- that you would take credit for something someone else did in order to impress your boss or that it took your mother's gourmet chowder rather than your own efforts to get on the boss's good side.
I know, right?
I'd be out of luck as my mom is less of a cook than I am. If I were to pass off her cooking as my own, I'd probs get fired for how bad it is.
If I'm sick and I need to fill something out, she'll probably hand me some Pepto and tell me to get to work. She's a horrible neglectful person.
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"Remember that apathy has no place in our Sorority." - Kelly Jo Karnes, Pi
If I'm sick and I need to fill something out, she'll probably hand me some Pepto and tell me to get to work.
This is my mom to a 't'. When I was younger and would get the sniffles she would literally make me a Tylenol and make me go to school. It seemed so harsh at the time but now I am pretty no-nonsense about illness, so I think it worked.
They believe their sharp elbows and pushy nature have helped to smooth the path for their children into one of the country's oldest and finest universities.
But parents of a new generation of Oxford students are causing consternation among dons, who claim they are responsible for the number of appeals doubling in the past year. . . .
“Compared with my day, when you had to go out of your way to get to a phone box to ring mum and dad once a week, with the mobile phone mum can track you down any time but equally you can ring mum because you don’t know how to open a tin of beans.
“It is more difficult to sever that over-dependency if you can contact them so easily. If you are not careful, the child will march into their interview with their mother. It is infantilisation.”
-worthy -- that you would take credit for something someone else did in order to impress your boss or that it took your mother's gourmet chowder rather than your own efforts to get on the boss's good side.
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