Parents' Day?

When I entered the Kieser Training locker room yesterday morning, I noticed a boy in a corporate-design shirt with a name tag helping one of the training staff. Jokingly I asked him whether he was a new staff member. He replied that he was there because it was Parents' Day. I said, " Why didn't you use the German word Elterntag? " but he insisted on Parents' Day.

This is not my back (©Kieser Training)

Back home, I looked it up on Wikipedia. Indeed, the US celebrates Parents' Day on the fourth Sunday of every July for recognizing, uplifting, and supporting the role of parents in the rearing of children. On the other hand, the German Elterntage are special days when schools or universities invite students' parents to meet the teaching staff and tour the facilities.

At Kieser Training, neither definition applied. Kieser simply invites its staff to bring their kids along, familiarizing them with their parents' work. The boy was a twelve-year-old son of a trainer. While I returned my ID card in exchange for the padlock I had used on my locker, he told me he would like to work for Kieser once he finished school.

Kieser Training starts recruiting early.
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