Deadbeat Son Gets Job Offer, Must Leave Parents' Home By June 1

SYRACUSE, NY — “Hey, dude,” an executive at a national pizza chain told the (allegedly) deadbeat 30-year-old who refuses to leave his parents’ home in upstate New York, if it’s the lack of a job that's standing between you and financial independence, “we gotcha, bud.”

The offer to Michael Rotondo for a job came from Andrew Steinberg, the chief operating officer of the quick-service pizza chain Villa Italian Kitchen. Rotondo lost a court battle this week when a judge in Syracuse sided with Mark and Christina Rotondo, saying they have every right to boot their adult son from their Camillus home. He must leave by June 1, according to an order signed Thursday by State Supreme Court Justice Donald Greenwood.

The exasperated parents finally took their son to court to evict him after he ignored multiple orders to get the, er, heck out.

In the statement released through a public relations company, Steinberg said the pizza company has sympathy for millennials, “across the board.”

“It’s tough out there,” he said. “With that said — Michael, hey dude. We are offering you a store-level gig, complete with extensive training to get you up to speed, at any one of our 250 locations worldwide.”

That’s probably a plus for Rotondo. In one of his fed-up parents eviction notices, they said: “There are jobs available even for those with a poor work history like you.”

Steinberg even upped the parents’ offer of $1,100 to help their son find another place to live.

“We’ll do you one better,” the statement said. “Literally, one. Offer from us is on the table for $1,101 to come join our team. Consider it a signing bonus.”

How can the real-life “Failure to Launch” character turn that down?

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For one thing, Rotondo, who acts as his own attorney, plans to appeal the eviction notice ruling by Greenwood, who on Tuesday also directed an inquiry into what’s going on in the Rotondo home by state adult-protective workers.

For another, he’s busy granting interviews.

Rotondo says his main job is now getting custody of his son, whose age he wouldn’t disclose in an interview with The Daily Mail of London. Rotondo, who says he was never married to the boy’s mother or involved in a relationship with her, lost custody of the child in September.

Rotondo told USA Today he was an “excellent father” and took his son fishing and skiing.

“I was a great father,” he continued, saying his son needed him in his life.

“That’s why I’m not the CEO of a big company,” he said. “That’s why I’m living with my parents still.”

After losing the custody battle, Rotondo filed an appeal as a “poor person,” status that would get court fees waived, but said his parents complicated that when they told him to get a job and health insurance, according to The Daily Mail account. When he didn’t do either, they offered to pay his health insurance. He refused, saying it would jeopardize his argument that he is indigent.

Rotondo doesn’t like being called “millennial.”

In a bizarre interview with CNN’s Brooke Baldwin Wednesday, he said he can’t be a millennial — described as anyone born between 1981-1996 — because he’s a conservative.

“I would say that I’m really not a member of that demographic that they’re speaking to,” Rotondo said about millennials. “I’m a very conservative person. The millennials that they’re speaking to are very liberal in their ideology.”

He also said he has no interest in reconciling with his parents and considers “much of what they are trying to do to get me out as attack. “

“I was trying to what’s best for me,” he said. “I’ll leave. I don’t like living here, but I need ample time.”

Incidentally, he took the $1,100 his parents offered to help him get settled somewhere else, he told ABC’s “Good Morning America.”

“I took it but with consideration for my plans, and how my finances interacted with those plans, I did use the money for other things, but I don’t regret that," he told the network.”"I would have preferred to have kept the money and given it back to them ... but I had to use it, and that's just how it is.”

“I’m not bothering them by living here,” Rotondo told GMA. “It’s little to no cost to them, and considering how much they’ve harassed me, I think it’s the least they should be required to do, which is just let me hang here a bit longer and use their hot water and electricity.”

Life in the Rotondo household is strained.

“Me and my father recently tried to occupy the same space at the same time ... so I said ‘excuse me,’ and he said, ‘I will not excuse you, Michael,’ ” Rotondo said the ABC interview. “He's just trying to stir something up so that he could get me to say something. It’s my overwhelming belief that he’s trying to make it so that he could try and call the police or something to support his case.”

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