Boss sent me gallavanting with her twin 11 year olds

So this is honestly really cute. I had no issues with this at all. I truthfully just had a lot of fun today. So, my workplace is under new management, and the “boss” with the twins is a manager from another store out of state. Her husband works long hours, and her older teens are summer camp/traveling with friends, just unavailable to hang with the 11 year olds. So since these kids are too young to stay home alone, the boss from the different store brought them to work with her.

A good portion of the time, they were playing Roblox or doomscrolling tik tok, but occasionally they went out gallivanting the mall.

A few things required adult permission for them to do.

The Boss was decorating cakes/training the boss lady for our store (the recent new management) and we weren’t really all that busy.

So she sent me.

Literally handed me cash and told me that I could sign the adult permission forms for the activities that required it.

Bungee jumping, paid for and I signed for them.

Train ride? Adult must ride with kids under 13. So their mom said to ride with them, cost was on her.

I use a kick scooter for transportation. I had it with me today and the kids saw it and asked their mom to ride it, to which she said no because it wasn’t theirs, and that it was my transportation so she wasn’t going to ask me. I stepped in and told their mom that if that was the only thing stopping her from asking me, not to worry about it and I didn’t care if they rode it.

So they rode it. About 12 laps around the mall, probably a lap each.

Both on it at the same time. One kicking, the other in charge of brakes.

Switching every so often.

Their mom asked me for one of my AirTags and we put it on the bottom of the scooter and if the kids stopped for too long, their mom sent me to check on them.

Every so often she would send me out with water bottles for them to hydrate.

I had absolutely no issues with it, I had a lot of fun with these kids.

They have been “working” for the company for 10 whole years (😂 they are only 11) and helped us out a lot too.

So before they were taken home, they asked me if I could bring the scooter in on Tuesday when I worked.

Only thing other than “yea I’ll bring it” was “how do you know my schedule before *I* know my schedule?”

Their mom is definitely doing a great job managing all this. I know there are a lot of parents, not just moms, that go through this kind of situation of bringing their kids to work, so I thought it would be nice to share the “my coworker brought her kids to work” side of the experience: it was great