• lugal@sopuli.xyz
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    4 months ago

    When employers can’t afford pizza parties, they come up with stuff like “dogs at work”

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      4 months ago

      i work for a big multinational and there was this woman who walks 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.

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        I’ve seen this kind of thing too many times to count. First it was in high school, then the workplace.

        1. Person notices there is no explicit rule for a thing, or maybe there’s a loophole somewhere
        2. Does the thing
        3. Annoys someone
        4. 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.

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            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