{"id":23141,"date":"2012-03-02T15:09:43","date_gmt":"2012-03-02T20:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artofmanliness.com\/?p=23141"},"modified":"2026-03-13T11:08:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T16:08:23","slug":"dim-dash-making-the-grade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/relationships\/etiquette\/dim-dash-making-the-grade\/","title":{"rendered":"Dim &#038; Dash: Making the Grade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-23142 size-full\" title=\"09 SCHOOL 2\" src=\"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/\/2012\/03\/09-SCHOOL-2.jpg\" alt=\"College student grades etiquette illustration.\" width=\"900\" height=\"614\" srcset=\"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2012\/03\/09-SCHOOL-2.jpg 900w, https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2012\/03\/09-SCHOOL-2-768x524.jpg 768w, https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2012\/03\/09-SCHOOL-2-320x218.jpg 320w, https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2012\/03\/09-SCHOOL-2-640x437.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dim and Dash&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Making the grade<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dim has his mom berate his professor about his grade.<\/li>\n<li>Dash takes responsibility for how he does in his classes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2012\/02\/06\/146464665\/helicopter-parents-hover-in-the-workplace\">See Also-Dim in the Workplace<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Michigan State University surveyed more than 700 employers seeking to hire recent college graduates. Nearly one-third said parents had submitted resumes on their child&#8217;s behalf, some without even informing the child. One-quarter reported hearing from parents urging the employer to hire their son or daughter for a position. Four percent of respondents reported that a parent actually showed up for the candidate&#8217;s job interview.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dim and Dash&nbsp; Making the grade Dim has his mom berate his professor about his grade. Dash takes responsibility for how he does in his classes. See Also-Dim in the Workplace: &#8220;Michigan State University surveyed more than 700 employers seeking to hire recent college graduates. Nearly one-third said parents had submitted resumes on their child&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23142,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[318,229,42285],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-23141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-etiquette","category-illustrated-guides","category-relationships"],"featured_image_urls":{"large":"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2012\/03\/09-SCHOOL-2-538x280.jpg","medium_large":"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2012\/03\/09-SCHOOL-2-768x524.jpg","aom":"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2012\/03\/09-SCHOOL-2-372x230.jpg","reactor-320":"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2012\/03\/09-SCHOOL-2-320x218.jpg","reactor-640":"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2012\/03\/09-SCHOOL-2-640x437.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23141"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128399,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23141\/revisions\/128399"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23141"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=23141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}