And our office is more of a construction field office. It’s not a typical “office” environment. None of the people here are allergic to dogs. Mine rarely comes out of the truck anyway, although we did have a rather spectacular jackrabbit chase down the taxiway today. Didn’t bother anyone but the jackrabbit.
Wow. It’s incredibly bizarre that your office permits pets - that alone would make me unwilling to work there, personally. I can’t imagine the lack of professionalism in a boss that would make them allow bringing pets to work. And this one? Why in the world would the boss permit that? This is just incomprehensible to me. You don’t bring your pets to work (no matter how well-behaved you feel they are - no one ever seems to see how obnoxious their pets are.) Beyond just the inevitable unpleasantness created by dogs in an office, I’d be completely unwilling to work for a boss with so little professionalism.
I always make sure part of my job discription includes the phrase “open containers of anti-freeze may be required”. Enough said.
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I sure hope that’s just your idea of a tasteless joke.
What Excalbre said. Your office is a freakin’ kennel.
I would think it would be a liability nightmare to have dogs in the office. All it takes is one poorly socialized animal to bite someone, and it’d be all up.
Reading this has me thinking about bringing my ferrets into a workplace. The best-behaved ferret makes Warner Bros. Tasmanian Devil seem slug-like.
I would love to bring my cat with me ('cause I’m lonely 
), but it might cause conflict when the boss brings in his lil’ doggy.
My cat would swat him down. 
That’s a really good point. My boss’s dog has done obedience training (the two puppies are in pooch school presently) and they are incredibly well-behaved. I still don’t think they should necessarily be here, but honestly, you barely notice them. They stay put and don’t wander around. (Well, boss’s dog isn’t here. Will be in the spring when the others are gone.)
The Bad Dog is just a disgusting decrepid old thing, but he has a very, very calm demeanor. When he roots through the trash and is a being a stupid animal, even then he’s pretty slothful about it. But he shouldn’t be here at all. He’s disruptive. He wanders around, makes a mess, is noisy, stinky… Gah! Half the day you hear people saying “Out! Ooooouuuuut! Get out!”
But until we move, he can stay because his “demeanor is good”.
Another co-worker tried to brought in an obedience-trained dog, “just to see how it would go”. It stayed at his feet and behaved, but was clearly a little worried about the change in routine. It’s also very, very well-trained, done the obedience school stuff and the whole bit, but it growled at a few people :eek: (and is not coming back). If you allow animals, you’re still opening the opportunity for someone to bring in a pet “just to see how it goes”… and if it goes really badly?
You never know. Someone could step on one of the well-trained puppies and she could bite. Or the boss’s dog could get sick or injured and then act completely out of character and bite someone, it’s true.
Presently we have three dogs in the workplace. The two you never see (and when you do they’re leashed and on their way in or out the door) and the Bad Dog. I just really wish the Bad Dog wasn’t here. It’s obviously disruptive, and I’m sick of its oblivious owner.
Fuck, I should bring it a singing duck!
I thought it was funny.
Tasteless? Anti-freeze is sweet…sweet like candy! Critters can’t resist it. Now get yer damn dog outta my office!
Just what in the hell gives you the right to poison someone else’s dog? Unless you or your family is in immediate danger from the animal - i.e., a vicious dog running at you - there’s no reason to kill it. So it’s annoying you - deal with the owner, not the animal.
If you’re going to take the first part of the comment seriously, then shouldn’t you do the same with the latter…do you have your dog in their office? 
I believe they were just being silly and nobody here actually condones giving antifreeze to animals.
gatopescado?
It seemed pretty obvious to me that gatopescado’s original comment was more about picking a line of work where antifreeze would likely be laying around, therefore avoiding a work environment where any sane person would let their pets run free. Tasteless? I don’t see it as such. Malicious? Certainly not.
chill… I assume no dogs were harmed in the creation of that joke.