Stone Soup by Jan Eliot for February 18, 2025

Circa 1990s; Someone brought their toddler to our engineering offices and the kid walked down the row of computers we used as servers and turned off each one.

Mouths of Babes department.

Little pitchers have big ears …. an old expression my mother used to use. (Be careful what words you use around children).

Brought my youngest son to work with me, and I had a class of new hires. He learned the job better than anyone else on the first day. But it would be another 6 years before he could even legally go to work there!

Uh-oh, trouble!

‘Out of the mouths of babes’ ! ! ! !

This looks like a Dennis the Menace gag.

Shut up, Alix.

Kids have no filter. When my daughter was about 4, I brought her to the office at Christmastime at my bosses’ invitation. When she met them in my manager’s office, her comment was “Wow, Mom, hadsome men and BOOZE!” They practically fell off their chairs laughing.

Alix is too old not to have a filter. She knows she causes embarassment.

When I had my first full time job. There was a woman working as a secretary, her kids went to school, yet when school was done for the summer, she bring both to work, the boss allowed that. Reason because of what the company did, her kid’s was able to work small task to earn a little money, tedious and they did it. Because when work slowed down, I would have two different small jobs to work on.

Truth from the mouth of a child.

Of course a parent will tell their kids that she is the most important clerk and the only one keeping the business from failing. I guess the most important thing that guy can ever have achieved was his vasectomy.