working with parents

anyone do it? son/father specifically but it doesnt really matter..i just wanna see if it sucks for anyone else too

i have (don't anymore) and i'll never do it again....

my dad, since he got me the job, felt it was ok to dump work on me that wasn't mine just because he was behind... of course i did it... but it pissed me straight the fuck off... if you wouldn't do it to some other worker, don't do that shit to me either... in tha tsame respect, i don't expect any favors in the work place, short of what you'd ask another worker to do...

yeah I do right now it kicks ass! lol...sorry it's not so great for u tho...how much u get? and what do u do?

For six years. Sometimes, its cool. Sometimes, I want to punch him in the fucking face..........now I work at home

I never did, but my 2 closest buds did, and it has it's ups and downs to say the least. One ended up getting fired by his own father (deservedly so), and the other quit so many times that I gave up counting. Things finally settled down when they reached their early 30's.

It is great to be able to know you will have a decent job with your parents, but you better be able to handle some criticism from those who love you. They certainly cannot show you any favoritism and will probably be tougher on you then a regular boss/co-worker.

nah i just quit...i put radar/chartplotters and gps in yachts, made $12/hour- very good money for a 21 yr old but it just wasnt worth it...sometimes he tried to be boss, sometimes dad, sometimes buddy but if i ever did something against his word i was always his son- not employee...just pissed me off to the point i just walked off mid-job

I used to work in my dad's liquor store.
He cut me a good amount of slack, but I didn't slack off much.
I also got free drinks and snacks from the store and he would pay me straight cash each day (definite plus). The only bad thing was that he was paying me $5 an hour for a long time until i was legal to work.

not really going against his word, but giving constructive criticism and he thought i was calling him out in front of the whole shop

yea he gave me slack but i dont like getting slack...i pulled my weight but when i complained about others not pulling theirs on the way home he'd tell me to deal with it and be nice to everyone in the shop...then he'd give hours on my paycheck without telling me cuz he mustve felt bad or something...he has an excuse for everything

I do sometimes and I hate it. I mean, my dad, the things he makes me do are easy, but it's so boring. He's in construction so I'm with a bunch of guys and it's just awkward. I told him I don't want to work with him anymore.

shit...I started at 15$ an hour over my 16 yr. old summer and pulled in 1000 a check every two weeks...but 12$ is good

thats one of the reasons y i quit, for the job i was doing i shouldve been making $14 but he didnt think i had paid my dues yet after being thier for a year last week...this is a guy who got kicked outta the coast guard at 22 cuz he smoked weed and still hasnt told my grandfather after 25 years- he said he hurt his back...he has such high ecpectations from me he named kevin "the second" and not "junior"- like i was just like him or something.....i dunno, just venting- thanks

i've been working for my grandfather for a while now. i like it because he's not super strict on when i have to get there and leave, plus he works at his house usually restoring classic cars which is fun.
i guess you have to make a fair amount of money and a good relationship with the person to make it worth it to work for them

I dont mind. I don't have a pay taxes for working, just get $50 a night for hawling(sp?) equipment. (Mother's a DJ, we do weddings and school dances and whatnot)

My son works in his dad's office in the summers, but he doesn't really report to his dad. He reports to the office manager, so it works out fine. They don't really have a lot of interaction except at lunch or occasionally in passing. He wishes they had more, he says, because he'd like to learn more about patient interaction and medical stuff, but privacy laws pretty much prevent that.