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I presume this is a spoof. Nobody would want to work in a place with animals wandering around. It's really not an acceptable working environment.

by jbb555 13y ago

simonbarker87 13y ago
Some very large companies let people bring dogs to work - Mars being the one that comes to mind. If you wouldn't like it then I guess it means it's not a place for you to work.
Evgeny 13y ago
I presume this is a spoof. Nobody would want to work in a place with animals wandering around. Are you serious? I once worked for a company where a cat was living on the premises (belonged to the lady who was cooking lunches). That's still one of my best workplace-related memories - both the cat, and the fact that lunches were pretty much "home made" food.
nicholassmith 13y ago
Aside from zoo keepers. I imagine they're happy working in a place with animals wandering round. Ridiculous example yes, but your acceptable working environment and someone else's working environment can be very, very different. Clearly having animals wandering around works well for SparkFun, as they seem to be on the ball with their business.
VLM 13y ago
I work with a mostly blind woman and her seeing-eye German Shepard service dog. Amazing dog. All the puritan whining about dogs assumes its a standard issue frat boy bringing in his basset hound, but the puritanism melts away like ice from a blowtorch when its the blind lady instead of some frat boy antics. All the stories about poop everywhere and people getting bitten and fighting amongst the rabble remind me of when my kids were toddlers. I wonder if I could bring in my kids, as long as the poop ended up in a bag and they don't bite too many people. It seems more than a little ridiculous. Instead of "working" for 12 hours a day but spending half of it Fing around with your dog, why not work 8 hours and go home and play with your dog at home? Or if you're only "working" for eight hours but spending half of it playing with dogs, why not honestly work part time? Or why not just work at home, or flex time it to the max, or whatever? It just seems the most complicated possible solution to a simple problem.
- elohesra 13y ago
  >All the puritan whining about dogs assumes its a standard issue frat boy bringing in his basset hound, but the puritanism melts away like ice from a blowtorch when its the blind lady instead of some frat boy antics. Well yeah, for obvious reasons: 1) It's not a luxury for the blind person to bring her dog into work, it's a necessity. 2) It's not her pet, it's a service animal, and she will presumably treat it like a service animal (i.e. no cutesy excusing any bad behaviour, no doggy-talking all day long etc). 3) Seeing-eye dogs go through a tremendous amount of training to make them basically not act like dogs, so that they won't be hyper, and won't randomly bark, and won't randomly crap on the floor. Pets go through bare minimum training (if that) to make sure they don't savage a human. Surely you can see why the analogy between a service animal and a pet isn't apt? It's like calling a Democrat hypocritical for disliking domestic firearms usage, yet allowing military firearms usage; sure the object in question is nominally the same, but the context and effects are entirely different, and it's really the context and effects that the speaker is objecting to.
soggypopsicle 13y ago
I would

I presume this is a spoof. Nobody would want to work in a place with animals wandering around. It's really not an acceptable working environment.

by jbb555 13y ago

I presume this is a spoof. Nobody would want to work in a place with animals wandering around. It's really not an acceptable working environment.

simonbarker87 13y ago

Some very large companies let people bring dogs to work - Mars being the one that comes to mind. If you wouldn't like it then I guess it means it's not a place for you to work.

Evgeny 13y ago

I presume this is a spoof. Nobody would want to work in a place with animals wandering around. Are you serious? I once worked for a company where a cat was living on the premises (belonged to the lady who was cooking lunches). That's still one of my best workplace-related memories - both the cat, and the fact that lunches were pretty much "home made" food.

nicholassmith 13y ago

Aside from zoo keepers. I imagine they're happy working in a place with animals wandering round. Ridiculous example yes, but your acceptable working environment and someone else's working environment can be very, very different. Clearly having animals wandering around works well for SparkFun, as they seem to be on the ball with their business.

VLM 13y ago

I work with a mostly blind woman and her seeing-eye German Shepard service dog. Amazing dog. All the puritan whining about dogs assumes its a standard issue frat boy bringing in his basset hound, but the puritanism melts away like ice from a blowtorch when its the blind lady instead of some frat boy antics. All the stories about poop everywhere and people getting bitten and fighting amongst the rabble remind me of when my kids were toddlers. I wonder if I could bring in my kids, as long as the poop ended up in a bag and they don't bite too many people. It seems more than a little ridiculous. Instead of "working" for 12 hours a day but spending half of it Fing around with your dog, why not work 8 hours and go home and play with your dog at home? Or if you're only "working" for eight hours but spending half of it playing with dogs, why not honestly work part time? Or why not just work at home, or flex time it to the max, or whatever? It just seems the most complicated possible solution to a simple problem.

elohesra 13y ago
>All the puritan whining about dogs assumes its a standard issue frat boy bringing in his basset hound, but the puritanism melts away like ice from a blowtorch when its the blind lady instead of some frat boy antics. Well yeah, for obvious reasons: 1) It's not a luxury for the blind person to bring her dog into work, it's a necessity. 2) It's not her pet, it's a service animal, and she will presumably treat it like a service animal (i.e. no cutesy excusing any bad behaviour, no doggy-talking all day long etc). 3) Seeing-eye dogs go through a tremendous amount of training to make them basically not act like dogs, so that they won't be hyper, and won't randomly bark, and won't randomly crap on the floor. Pets go through bare minimum training (if that) to make sure they don't savage a human. Surely you can see why the analogy between a service animal and a pet isn't apt? It's like calling a Democrat hypocritical for disliking domestic firearms usage, yet allowing military firearms usage; sure the object in question is nominally the same, but the context and effects are entirely different, and it's really the context and effects that the speaker is objecting to.

soggypopsicle 13y ago

I would