Dogs in the workplace

2009-01-26 23:46:34

#26

Dilbert_X: The X stands for; +1,817|6410|eXtreme to the maX

Dogs are unpredictable, how your fluffy pet behaves with you and with a stranger, especially a child, are two different things.

Dogs, as with all animals, are creatures of instinct and training. Dogs can be trained fairly easily, but their instinct is only suppressed by training. Don't screw with their instinctual responses, and you'll be fine

How is everyone who comes into contact with someone elses dog going to know what their instinctive responses are?

There have been plenty of cases of people who think they know their dog finding out they don't.
I've known and known of enough people having serious attacks that I don't want one in a workplace.

Last edited by Dilbert_X (2009-01-26 23:49:19)

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2009-01-26 23:51:59

#27

AussieReaper: ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°); +5,761|6456|what

Dilbert_X wrote:
I've known and known of enough people having serious attacks that I don't want one in a workplace.

Don't discriminate.

https://louisbrailleschool.org/image/guide-dog-puppy.jpg

https://www.bigpawsonly.com/dog-images/guide-dog.jpg

https://www.abc.net.au/reslib/200705/r142550_493665.jpg

You really think they are a bad idea?

Can you make any exceptions?

These dogs are needed in the work place.

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2009-01-27 00:28:17

#28

Dilbert_X: The X stands for; +1,817|6410|eXtreme to the maX

Highly trained working dogs, bred for docility, with a handler, OK. They aren't risk free however
An average dog owned by the average dumbfuck who just wants to bring his dog to work for fun, no thanks.

And what is that dog smuggling in its butt?

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2009-01-27 00:45:35

#29

unnamednewbie13: Moderator; +2,060|7075|PNW

Harmor wrote:
Here in California we are, well, one of the most liberial places in the United States. The complex that I work in has several businesses that allow their employees to bring their dogs to work.

With all the allergies and lawsuit happy people in California is it 1) legal to bring pets to work; and 2) right?

1) If consumers or employees complain, it should be up to individual companies to decide; not Big Brother. Haven't we given them enough oomph with the anti-cigarette shit?
2) I don't think it's really a right or wrong question, but if it has to be that way...is it right if you bring ticks to work? Is it right if you have a perpetual motion device click-clacking just within my range of hearing?

2009-01-27 00:46:55

#30

unnamednewbie13: Moderator; +2,060|7075|PNW

Dilbert_X wrote:
the average dumbfuck

You have a high opinion of people.

2009-01-27 01:28:13

#31

Dilbert_X: The X stands for; +1,817|6410|eXtreme to the maX

Half the population is of below average intelligence, it doesn't fill me with confidence.

Of all the dog owners I have known only one actually bothered to train his dog as they should be, nevertheless his dog did run off out of control and kill a deer, on a school playing field - could just as easily have been a kid.
Doesn't really fill me with confidence about dogs and their owners either.

A good deal of people seem to have dogs as vanity/ego things to show off to other people.
Hence the need to take them into work I suppose.

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2009-01-27 03:01:55

#32

M.O.A.B: 'Light 'em up!'; +1,220|6526|Escea

Man you must live in crazy dog central, or a large dog pound disguised as a town. In 18 years and the hundreds of dogs I've come across I've only ever had one run up to me and jump up my front, and all that did was bark because it was excited. I've had dogs take hold of my the base of my coat, my sleeve or my trouser leg before but those were playful actions. They're called man's best friend for a reason you know.

2009-01-27 03:18:16

#33

AussieReaper: ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°); +5,761|6456|what

Dilbert_X wrote:
Half the population is of below average intelligence, it doesn't fill me with confidence.

Well if the average is half, then of course half the population is below average. Half the population is above average also.

You maths skills don't fill me with confidence.

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2009-01-27 03:51:41

#34

unnamednewbie13: Moderator; +2,060|7075|PNW

TheAussieReaper wrote:
Dilbert_X wrote:
Half the population is of below average intelligence, it doesn't fill me with confidence.
Well if the average is half, then of course half the population is below average. Half the population is above average also.

You maths skills don't fill me with confidence.

One half of three parts, what a wonderful concept!

2009-01-27 13:55:38

#35

majorassult: I <3 ak101; +307|6966|under there hayousaidunderwear

Dilbert_X wrote:
Half the population is of below average intelligence, it doesn't fill me with confidence.

Actually the average IQ of a person has risen significantly according to the Flynn effect. During 1932 only 3% of people were defined as having very superior intelligence. In 1997 they took a representative sample to take the Stanford-Binet test (1932 IQ test) and 25% of the individuals were defined as having very superior intelligence.

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2009-01-27 14:00:50

#36

CameronPoe: Member; +2,925|6859

Dogs to work? Hello? Why in fuck's name?

/addendum: except for guide dogs obviously.

Last edited by CameronPoe (2009-01-27 14:02:14)

2009-01-27 14:17:30

#37

RAIMIUS: You with the face!; +244|7018|US

Dilbert_X wrote:
Dogs, as with all animals, are creatures of instinct and training. Dogs can be trained fairly easily, but their instinct is only suppressed by training. Don't screw with their instinctual responses, and you'll be fine
How is everyone who comes into contact with someone elses dog going to know what their instinctive responses are?

Really? INSTINCTUAL response. The natural one...the kind of response common to all normal dogs (again we are not considering rabid animals, but domesticated dogs). Domesticated dogs only become dangerous when someone or something activates their territorial or "fight/flight" response. Humans have widely understood these responses since the beginning of recorded history (i.e. don't run toward the growling dog to try to pet it).

2009-01-27 17:30:54

#38

Turquoise: O Canada; +1,596|6709|North Carolina

Dilbert is a cynophobe?

2009-01-27 23:28:23

#39

Dilbert_X: The X stands for; +1,817|6410|eXtreme to the maX

Raimius wrote:
Domesticated dogs only become dangerous when someone or something activates their territorial or "fight/flight" response.

Or they see something tasty, or they get startled, or they've just been poorly trained - if at all - and still think they are the pack leader.
Don't want them in the workplace, thanks

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2009-01-28 00:20:56

#40

unnamednewbie13: Moderator; +2,060|7075|PNW

Dilbert_X wrote:
Raimius wrote:
Domesticated dogs only become dangerous when someone or something activates their territorial or "fight/flight" response.
Or they see something tasty, or they get startled, or they've just been poorly trained - if at all - and still think they are the pack leader.
Don't want them in the workplace, thanks

I prefer being surrounded by dogs than infinitely more unpredictable humans.

CameronPoe wrote:
Dogs to work? Hello? Why in fuck's name?

/addendum: except for guide dogs obviously.

Why not. If you can prove that they aren't too distracting and otherwise do not inhibit yours or your coworkers' schedules, it's fine by me. After all, it's legal to live in toxic LA, so what harm is a dog going to do...

Crowded office situations and high customer density will obviously inspire a company to ban the practice without any government nitpicking. As to health reasons..."say, Bob, do you have your shots?"

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2009-01-28 01:00:28

#41

Dilbert_X: The X stands for; +1,817|6410|eXtreme to the maX

I'd like to take my rattlesnake to work.
He just wants somewhere warm to sleep and he'll eat the mice, is very quiet, mostly, and is great with kids, again mostly.
As long as you understand rattlesnake psychology - if he's a'rattlin its not time for a'ticklin - and don't tread on him you'll be fine

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2009-01-28 01:33:59

#42

unnamednewbie13: Moderator; +2,060|7075|PNW

Dilbert_X wrote:
I'd like to take my rattlesnake to work.
He just wants somewhere warm to sleep and he'll eat the mice, is very quiet, mostly, and is great with kids, again mostly.
As long as you understand rattlesnake psychology - if he's a'rattlin its not time for a'ticklin - and don't tread on him you'll be fine

Sheeyit, you are a cynophobe.

I'd like to take a little kid to work. All he'd do is eat peanut butter sandwiches and be quiet. Very quiet. Then he'd shoot up the place.

Last edited by unnamednewbie13 (2009-01-28 01:35:07)

2009-01-28 02:54:07

#43

AussieReaper: ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°); +5,761|6456|what

Get back to work, I told you to reformat my USB ages ago!

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