Dinner was going fine.

Your parents were only moderately disappointed in you. Your mom was lecturing your little sibling about their posture. Your dad was silently reading WeChat articles full of misinformation about how sleeping next to a WiFi router will give you brain cancer.

Then you made the mistake.

You let your guard down.

You gave them an opening.

And your mom, sensing weakness, went in for the kill.

Mom: “So… what do you do at work again?”