{"id":30734,"date":"2012-02-08T22:02:22","date_gmt":"2012-02-08T22:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/npr_helicopter_parents_hover_in_the_workplace\/"},"modified":"2012-02-08T22:02:22","modified_gmt":"2012-02-08T22:02:22","slug":"npr_helicopter_parents_hover_in_the_workplace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=30734","title":{"rendered":"(NPR) Helicopter Parents Hover In The Workplace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With millennial children now in their 20s, more helicopter parents are showing up in the workplace, sometimes even phoning human resources managers to advocate on their child&#8217;s behalf.<\/p>\n<p>Megan Huffnagle, a former human resources manager at a Denver theme park, recalls being shocked several years ago when she received a call from a young job applicant&#8217;s mother.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;An employee was hired as an IT intern, and the parent called and proceeded to tell me how talented her son was, and how he deserved much more [compensation], and that he could make much more money outside of this position,&#8221; Huffnagle says.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2012\/02\/06\/146464665\/helicopter-parents-hover-in-the-workplace\">Read (or better listen to) it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With millennial children now in their 20s, more helicopter parents are showing up in the workplace, sometimes even phoning human resources managers to advocate on their child&#8217;s behalf. Megan Huffnagle, a former human resources manager at a Denver theme park,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=30734\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,101,149,597,98,129,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-children","category-economy","category-laborlabor-unionslabor-market","category-marriage-family","category-psychology","category-young-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}