Your mother ought to be making you work!
I love my grandparents, but they genuinely do not understand how much the world has changed since the 80s-90s.
Currently, I do not have a job. However I have applied to countless jobs. Most I never heard back from, the rest I got rejected. All that to say, I am actively looking for and applying for jobs.
Well I was kind of ranting to my grandparents because I was a little discouraged from being rejected, and my grandmother decides to chime in (with an attitude):
“Your mother ought to be making you work! I made your dad work at your age!”
…What?
I tried to explain that I’m applying, but I’m not being accepted. She just kept repeating the same thing.
What is she expecting my mother to do? March in there and demand I be hired? Also I am an adult, my mother doesn’t have anything to say about my job search. And I can confidently say that my dad was working because he wanted to, not because his mother “made him.”