I thought the "appearances" bit was about whether or not it was expected for the uncle to schmooze whith his nephew's boss, but idk.

Yeah, but I would have expected that to be the kind of thing ZYL would know. Otoh, none of his other employees have regular human families, so maybe he just hasn't had to deal with the situation before ever. (Is the SID his first work experience? Has he never had workmates groaning about their parents trying to schmooze the boss before?)

*waves goodnight*