To love it when colleagues bring their dogs to work and want them to do it more often?

[Natsku]

I work in a factory and people sometimes bring their dogs in (not on the factory floor of course but in the office side or other rooms where they can safely be - today there's two in the women's shower room) and I love it so much as do many others. But I suppose there's a chance there's some people in the building that don't like dogs/scared of them/are allergic so don't like it, though no one has complained yet.

Most of the factory is on holiday this month so I am strongly encouraging people to bring dogs in while its quiet and less people to potentially be bothered, so I can get some canine cuddles when I need a break from work.

Ugh. I would hate this. Just because people don’t openly complain - probably because they don’t want to look like wanker of the week - doesn’t mean everyone wants to be around dogs. Especially in a work situation where it is bringing an emotional, and very personal, dynamic into what is supposed to be a professional environment.

Jesus, that is horrendous. Dogs don't belong in professional environments.

They don't. But then again I strongly suspect this is a wind-up thread.

Dog threads on MN tend to be very strange indeed.

Why assume it’s a wind up? Like I said upthread, a previous employer didn’t mention all the dogs that were in the office every day. I found out on my first day.