'I'm the talk of their office [now]': Lawyer snaps on a feral 7-year-old kid after 'hands-off' parents let them terrorize the entire office building

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Jesse Kessenheimer • Writer and Editor
Oct 16, 2024 1:00 PM EDT

This furious lawyer matched a feral office kid's energy after they spent all afternoon disrupting their office, but the 'hands-off' parents next door didn't seem to appreciate the not-so-gentle approach to their lack of parenting. 

When you're trying to focus on work, there's nothing more infuriating than a consistent distraction. Mere moments away from a work epiphany, when the office door opens and closes, the cherubic features of some random 7-year-old are not as cute as they're supposed to be–in fact, when the distraction persists, and the kid in question becomes a full-time nuisance, something's gotta give. 

This kid got an earful from a strange adult in the workplace after terrorizing the wrong law firm. Although Mom was somewhere across the hall in another office space, this feral child was sent dashing around the building, causing mayhem and mischief in every cubicle he could get into. Keep scrolling to read how one woman became infamous across the hall after losing her cool on a seriously disruptive kid who was treating the workplace like a playground.

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    AITA for barging into an office and telling them to make stop their kid from opening our office door?
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    So I work in an office building with different offices on each floor. Every afternoon one of the lady's in a different office brings her kid and allow him to run up and down the halls
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    constantly opening and closing our door. Yesterday I had enough. I opened the door just as he slammed it and I yelled at him to stop opening and closing our door. I then barged into
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    their office and told them I didn't know whose kid that was but they better make him stop opening and closing our door. I then filed a complaint with building management. This
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    morning apparently I'm the talk of their office. "That's her... that's the lady...." Yes it's me and maybe if you weren't such a useless of a parent maybe your kid wouldn't have gotten
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    yelled at. This kid is at least 7 or 8 and should at least be taught some common courtesy. I work in a law office while they're nothing but telemarketers.
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    Key Apartment1929 NTA. Kids have no business in a law office unless they're relevant to a case. Parents like that need to learn a lesson.
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    Fabulous Sophie right, there's a big difference between a child quietly working or reading at a desk and a child who is disrupting others by constantly slamming door
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    ilovemischief I used to have to go to my mom's office after school because we got out before her work day ended. I literally curled up in a corner or UNDER HER DESK and went to sleep.
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    cutiepiexkrish A child quietly occupied is different from one who is actively disturbing others. They must be taught right
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    marbel Um-I grew up having to spend the day in my dad's office sometimes (he's a dentist, but same type of deal). In no way were we to act feral. We were allowed to bring homework, do office.
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    chores, help out, and be polite to patients. Maybe in the 80s we were allowed to stuff bills. Otherwise we were SOL. What the , no one is raising their freaking kids anymore.
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    kikivee612 My dad used to take us in with him when he had to work Saturdays or when we had off school. Every single time, before we went in he put the fear of God in us
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    telling us that we better sit still and be quiet and not bother anyone. We had some games and coloring books and snacks. We knew to behave because we had consequences if we didn't.
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    worker ant 6646 Mum worked at the pub, and dad worked at the car manufacturing plant, so sometimes my sister and I had to take a booth after school while mum worked the dinner shift, when dad didn't knock off til 7.
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    Homework, colouring in and activity books were our entertainment and woe betide either of us for even considering leaving the booth or thinking about making loud noises... We BEHAVED OR ELSE. I'm not saying that smacking us was the right way to discipline us, but there has to be consequences.
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