People bring their dogs to work all the time in my office. Fortunately, all of us are dog lovers, so we all enjoy it.
The other trend that doesn’t bother me, but surprises me is that I’d estimate about two thirds of the people in my office vape at their desks.
We also have bean to cup espresso, which is nice. People will go find high end beans and contribute them. It works out nicely.
We’re highly educated professionals, damnit!
Yeah, I’m allergic to dogs and I hate that trend
Vaping indoors, at the desk ?! I would hate to work there.
Yum, plastic clouds
It’s not me and I have an office. It doesn’t get to me.
But I can definitely see that it would bother a whole lot of people.
On that, I’m old enough to have begun my working life when people smoked cigarettes at their desks. This is a much, much better alternative.
Damn the smoking at the desk must have been awful. Dont get me wrong, im a smoker and do enjoy a indoor cig every so often but sitting around it all the time cant be nice.
I smoke too, and I would HATE to bask in my own. Or someone else’s. Just an icky feeling and experience.
I know it’s wrong and that I’m going to Internet hell for admitting to it, but there’s a smell when Grandma would light her cigarette in the hot box car with the windows up that I find nostalgic to this day even though I find the concept of smoking in a car repugnant
Nah, plenty of people have that olfactory nostalgia. It’s a pretty normal thing.
Also, my dad has NEVER smoked but he says he likes the way my cigarettes smell lol
The crazy thing is that it was so prevalent, I don’t really remember the world smelling smoky unless I went into a small room like my grandparents living room.
I didn’t notice it in places like restaurants and bars until after the bans came.
I would guess that my generation has a diminished sense of smell because of it.
Yeah fuck the vaping thing but everything else is cool lol
When employers can’t afford pizza parties, they come up with stuff like “dogs at work”
I mean I would fucking love somme puppies at work. but also pizza. pizza is good.
my old workplace used to have free breakfast which was the shit. freshly baked bread from local bakery and all sorts of toppings too, it was so nice to go to work, do stuff maybe 30minutes and just go to coffee break and eat some super good bread. and that was every day
We had that, but people knew what the delivery driver looked like or maybe reception had a secret list of buddies to notify …whatever. When breakfast was delivered, within 10 seconds, all the vultures in the office pounced in it, leaving nothing.
Anytime pizza was given on Fridays, same vultures would rush to be 1st in line then walk out with a plate stacked with a whole pizza… Rest of us usually got nothing.
That’s something to bring up to management, you know. Those coworkers were being deliberately shitty.
damn thst sounds shitty. at our place literally no one took moteöäre than couple breads so there was enough for everyone
How much weight did you put on
I wish at least a little :D I’m pretty underweight because my body just rejects fat and I’m too lazy to do any body building to gain mass by getting muscle xd
Until you step on the owners dog.
Then you will be stepped on by the owner probably
This is a metaphor, right? Right?
U just have to profusely apologize to the dog on your knees and we can both move about our day happily. It’s not that hard
It’s dogs in the workplace a problem for people with allergies?
Yes, they can indeed be a problem for people with allergies. In my case dogs (and cats unfortunately) trigger respiratory issue. I had that issue at a workplace where dogs were allowed, not fun times. And unfortunately medication like antihistamines are not an option for everybody, personally I get extremely drowsy from them, even from the latest generation meds.
If they’re allergic to dogs, yes. Like wat
Or are afraid of dogs. Like a lot of people, partially on account of dog attacks being relatively common.
I love dogs, but I don’t trust my coworkers to control their animals.
yep. I self-select out of dog friendly offices. if that’s a “benefit”, I can’t work there.
I’m amazed when companies can’t simply afford 100% remote work. IT’S FREE!
It’s not always about the money. You’ve never had a control-freak supervisor?
i work for a big multinational and there was this woman who walked around with a little yappy thing. she’s the only one and i haven’t seen any rules about it in the employee handbook. i think she just turned up with it one day.
I’ve seen this kind of thing too many times to count. First it was in high school, then the workplace.
- Person notices there is no explicit rule for a thing, or maybe there’s a loophole somewhere
- Does the thing
- Annoys someone
- Now there’s a rule for the thing
Some people just want to push the envelope. Other times, people can have a poor grasp of social norms, or they simply don’t respect others. But on the other side of the coin, people get annoyed for good and bad reasons; sometimes, no reason at all.Bottom line: it’s a mess, so we get rules. But nobody wants to spend time writing these things and enforcing them, so there’s usually a reason/person/event why they’re there.
Those times you see an oddly specific and very weird rule and you just know there’s probably a great story around it.
Yeah. But it’s still rare to see “no unicycling” signs so the unicyclers need to get on that.
I misread the last one as “Drugs as work, happy hours”.
No that’s WFH jobs
My last job offered free beer after 4pm on fridays.
It was smart as fuck if you think about it. For the small price of a few crates of beer, you got 20+ people talking in their free time, and on the weekend, without additional pay. It was officially off-work but since most of your coworkers were there, there was a lot of work-related exchange going on.
Alcohol, the strongest bonding chemical of mankind
That’s pretty much every office in London before the pandemic. Some even had taps with draught ales.
How about you only have to work 28.8 hours a week?
Smart move. I recently upgraded from 14.4 to 33.6 and regret it.
Honestly sounds like a downgrade…
Foosball
Mama says foosball is the devil!
It’s eitger Football or the local equivalent to “Foot” and “Ball”.
The sport with the egg is “American Football”. And you US citizens can call our football “European Football” and not *Soccer".
Wasn’t the name “soccer” originally from England?
Edit: it was, and it was used for ~100 years in England until around 1960 - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_for_association_football
Yeah but only poshos call it “soccer” here to distinguish it from “rugger”
who the hell calls rugby “rugger”? that’s even worse than “soccer”.
Well England sucks :p /s
See now we’ve got a valid argument going
Foosball is just an Americanized spelling of “Fußbal” which is German for Football.
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This is foosball.
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The sport with the egg is “gridiron football”, we call it “football” for short for the same reason other countries call association football “football” for short, it’s the most popular variant here.
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We don’t call it “American football” because that’s not what it’s called, you lot say that because of point 2. Nobody is going to say “European football” because that’s not what it’s called either.
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The word “soccer” was imported from the UK (seriously that word is british as hell, you really think we came up with that shit?), and we use it for reasons outlined in points 2 and 3, and also because “european football” is inaccurate, tiresome, and stupid sounding.
5. This is the first and only time I’ve ever heard of rugby union football being referred to as “ruggers”, I never thought I’d read a dumber-sounding word than soccer but you’re just full of surprises today.For some reason i was imagining one of the replies was the same person, this was in error.-
Foosball specifically refers to the tabletop game in America.
It’s not as dangerous as stick hockey
ice hockey > stick hockey
Air hockey > sex with office dogs
Tbf that right thing is a VERY low bar
Stepping on a Lego brick is more enjoyable
How do you know? You’re disgusting!
Unless i forgot how words work (I am very good at forgetting) I meant litteraly anything is better than doing it with a dog
I don’t know. You seem to know a lot about where having dog sex fits on a scale of enjoyment… Hmmm
Depends. Chihuahua or mini-pin, yeah, I agree. But a golden-doodle? That’s a tough call.
So you’re saying there are no cats? That could be a problem.
I’m glad my workplace has a cat. Although, the cat does cat like things at the most inopportune moments.
Mine has a cat and a dog
everything except pay me a decent wage and let me have free time.
I stayed at a shitty job for 5 years because jobs here where you can bring your dog is non-existing. Hes gone now and every shit day was so worth it to be with him.
I bring my dog to work every day by working from home!
Smart ass answer, I know
Never had that chance before, until a couple of years ago. Hug him/her from me <3
Bean to cup coffee machines legitimately was part of the reason i took a job at my current company.
Then during covid they downsized offices and got rid of them all.
Now all we get is instant coffee…
scumbags…
Wouldn’t you think that the coffee pays for itself when you factor in productivity?
I’m allergic to dogs and don’t drink, bad recruiter, shoo! Shoo! spray bottle noises
I wish I hadn’t needed to learn these lessons about start ups by working in start ups. I just want to be a mailman or something at this point.
That’s crazy to me because I had the exact opposite experience. I went in hoping for a certain amount, and they offered me knowing full well what I was hoping for, 20,000 more. Plus all the other benefits like video games and dogs at work. In fact I don’t think I’ve ever had a bad experience with startups except that your job is essentially temporary cuz they will either close or sell
Hah I was about to say that only bad part of startups that I’ve had was that you weren’t sure if you’d have a job six months from now. I probably just got lucky and jumped on board during the “throw cash at everything phase”
If they offered you 20,000 more than what you expected, might be you are underselling your actual worth and could have negotiated for more.
Or they knew they weren’t going to last more than 1 year, so why not spend all that tasty VC money?
Would be nice if true, but I guess those “extra” money would most commonly stay in tops’ pockets
That or dumb money is just dumb, and if the cost of money is free, you can just guess at things that might work with thousands of monkeys hitting typewriters.
I worked at a tree farm in my teens and honestly if I could still do that making what I make now I would be all over that. Always outside, in great shape, got to run heavy machinery, it was great.
mobbing-free Fridays!
Did you say “Dogs at work”? Deal.
Some of them are your coworkers though.
And not all of them are house trained.
If you WFH all work is dog at work.
Do they provide the dogs?
You have to bring your own. You may play with the other dogs if they approach you.
It’s nice, but it comes with micromanagement. They are like fleas, though the biting is more painful.
Hey, we’re a family now, Your best friends for a perfect work - work balance!
“Treat your friends like family- exploit them.”
-Rules of acquisition as relayed by Quark
I’ve run into this a few times. If the culture and benefits are good but we can’t level on pay, I let them know that I can’t accept the offer but I refer them to a colleague with less experience for whom the pay would be appropriate. After over a decade in leadership I’ve had many employees, and I’m always looking out for ways they can step up the ladder. We’ve gotta have each other’s back in this job market.
These jobs are all pushing 6 figures tho. Not sure what kind of job would try to push 36k on a professional position.
