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Good morning.
Another day. More work. I've got a to-do list for today, and I'll probably get a few calls regarding the interviewing process as well. Whee-fun.
I've handed the pager off. That's nice. The darned dog has had his morning run down the office hallway and scared the bejeezus out of me by his sudden appearance. That's not nice. He ran into my coworkers' office next door, where they are more dog people, instead of into mine. That's nice.
What the heck is this dog doing in the office? I mean - when he was a guide dog puppy, yes. He washed out of the program; he's a pet now. Four years ago, I would have freaked, shut my office door, cried, and demanded the dog be taken away. Today I can deal with it; he sometimes freaks me briefly, but that's it. I think I'm finally getting that phobia under control. Which does not mean that I understand in the least what the hell someone's pet dog is doing in the office regularly.
I mean - okay, N. brought in her little dogs, confined to her office, when her house was being painted, so they wouldn't be subjected to that. And R. brought his cats - again confined to his office - during a fumigation. That I understand fine. True, there are boarding kennels, but I don't mind pets in the office for a day or two during stuff like that, as long as they're mostly confined.
This guy is in 2-4 days a week, for the whole day, and his owner lets him wander off-leash. It wasn't so bad when you could say he was in training and needed to learn to deal with an office, and even being loose in an office, as might happen when he was working with a blind person. He's a pet now. And they have a new puppy in guide dog training, whom we've seen what, 2-3 times since he started, a couple months ago? To be fair, we didn't see the now-pet dog until he was older, mostly, either.
I've asked Y. to keep this dog under control. I'm not quite at the point of asking him to get it the heck out of our office yet.
But I don't understand. I don't understand how he thinks it's okay/reasonable to bring a pet to the office on a near-daily basis.
I've handed the pager off. That's nice. The darned dog has had his morning run down the office hallway and scared the bejeezus out of me by his sudden appearance. That's not nice. He ran into my coworkers' office next door, where they are more dog people, instead of into mine. That's nice.
What the heck is this dog doing in the office? I mean - when he was a guide dog puppy, yes. He washed out of the program; he's a pet now. Four years ago, I would have freaked, shut my office door, cried, and demanded the dog be taken away. Today I can deal with it; he sometimes freaks me briefly, but that's it. I think I'm finally getting that phobia under control. Which does not mean that I understand in the least what the hell someone's pet dog is doing in the office regularly.
I mean - okay, N. brought in her little dogs, confined to her office, when her house was being painted, so they wouldn't be subjected to that. And R. brought his cats - again confined to his office - during a fumigation. That I understand fine. True, there are boarding kennels, but I don't mind pets in the office for a day or two during stuff like that, as long as they're mostly confined.
This guy is in 2-4 days a week, for the whole day, and his owner lets him wander off-leash. It wasn't so bad when you could say he was in training and needed to learn to deal with an office, and even being loose in an office, as might happen when he was working with a blind person. He's a pet now. And they have a new puppy in guide dog training, whom we've seen what, 2-3 times since he started, a couple months ago? To be fair, we didn't see the now-pet dog until he was older, mostly, either.
I've asked Y. to keep this dog under control. I'm not quite at the point of asking him to get it the heck out of our office yet.
But I don't understand. I don't understand how he thinks it's okay/reasonable to bring a pet to the office on a near-daily basis.