Career Day with the FAA

Remember Career Day in elementary school and junior high? The day where your parents would come in and talk about what they do for a living? Well today was career day for one lucky chap who's daddy brought him to work directing airplanes as an air traffic controller.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,587801,00.html

Daddy would give Jr the instructions, and the little boy relayed to the pilots listening in. It was all for fun and I'm sure it was real cute, but shouldn't some types of occupations be held to a different degree of responsibility? If chappy wants to spend the day in the bakery with his pops to see how he makes muffins, no problem. However, the air traffic control room (one of the most stressful work environments around) is not a place for kids. Even for innocent reasons as this.

Should we all just assume it should be "Let's bring our kid to work day"? No matter what your job is? We'll give Jr the instructions as if this were his job, and he can carry out the duties.

Could you imagine?

Little Jimmy accompanies his pappy on a Police raid of a meth lab drug house who currently has 5 illegal mules as hostages. Little Jimmy gets his instructions, grabs the megaphone and..............."COME OUT WITH YOUR HANDS UP OR I'LL BLOW YOUR FUCKING FACE OFF, WE'VE GOT YOU SURROUNDED"

How about Melvin with his old man performing spinal surgery. "OK, partner, get ready to cut that cord..........whoa whoa whoa..........no little buddy, the other one."

"OK, pumpkin, do you see that Taliban guy with a robe tying those wires to that big bomb in the road? Ok, gentle squeeze this trigger"

WTF. There are certain jobs that simply have no business including anybody except the professionals trained to do them.