Take Your Child To Work Day

Yesterday was Take Your Child To Work Day. Here at the office, there was a large contingent of youngsters parading through halls enjoying what amounted to a day off from school more than a learning experience. So what, exactly, is the point of this event? I'd like to know who came up with the idea because, as far as I can tell, most people either (A) have an incredibly boring job that would interest the average attention-span-impaired child for about 5 seconds, or (B) have an interesting and/or exciting job, meaning they are probably far too busy working and/or risking their lives to actually make it a worthwhile experience for their children. I'm pretty sure children that age have no interest in accounting, nor can they join their fireman father on a call to extinguish a five-alarm fire.

-Mark