[nagdu] Dog at work...the frightened cleaning lady at Dan's house

Dan Weiner dcwein at dcwein.cnc.net
Sat Jun 13 12:15:16 UTC 2015


Why shouldn't you be the difficult one? Your co-worker actually to me seems
like she has been the difficult one for the most part. Now it's your
turn--lol

Obviously it's up to you how you handle things, but in Dan's humble opinion.
One he offers for free with no warrantee, once you compromise on this thing
then it just gets worse and worse and you have to make more and more
compromises.
Your boss unfortunately is also causing an issue though I know from a
management point of view it's hard to sort these things out.
Your co-worker is free to bring her fear of dogs to the meeting and you are
free to bring your four-legged mobility aid, how's that for a solution--lol
 
Now here's an issue I had yesterday...
My Mom is getting older and we have hired a company that sends someone to
clean and do odd jobs to help my Mom out twice a week.
The regular lady who comes  is wonderful. She could not come yesterday and
so the company said they would send a substitute.
All right.
At nine there is a knock at the door.
Dan with Parker on leash walks to the door of our manse.*My Mom and I live
together).
The lady introduces herself  I answered smiling, she started to respond but
then saw the dog.
"No no no dog, I'm afraid of dogs "
Dan starts explaining, I mean I can be charming...but apparently Parker must
have looked at her and she started shouting, slammed the door and ran away.
She called the office and left.

So I had to call the company and complain, because who knows what this
seemingly unbalanced lady said to the office.
They said they won't send her again, though to be honest this caused my Mom
a rather significant amount of stress and I 'm not happy. Apparently I was
told she is Haitian and she is afraid of dogs... Now the afraid of dogs part
I was probably able to figure out on my own, and she did have an
accent.--smile


I am questioning this company's professionalism, I mean for God's sake,
there are people with  just regular pets  in their houses and older people
are among them.
Supposedly these people send CNAs Certified Nursing what...assistants? 

Anyway, in Dan's opinion, Derril Marie, you should bring your dog...let us
know how it goes.
I think you should ask yourself also, "in a regular staff meeting would I
have brought my pup" if so then do whatever it is you normally do, it  is
just that your boss asking you to leave the dog adds an element to this that
you didn't have to deal with before.

I, personally would be bringing Parker if it were a meeting of any length of
time, I'm not always that comfortable with just leaving my dog at a desk
when there are other people around whose behavior I can't vouch for.  

Dan W.

-----Original Message-----
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				I agree with this. 
I'd also suggest the coworker get some counceling paid for by the employer
to deal with this issue. 

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Sent: Friday, June 12, 2015 10:28 PM
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Hi Daryl,
I think what I see is the problem is your boss telling you, or asking you
not to bring the dog.  Whether you do, or don't, should be your choice and
yours alone.  Some people would feel fine with that, some people, not.  Some
dogs need to be with the handler to do their work.  
I don't believe it's anyone's place to tell you to bring or not bring your
dog.  
If the coworker is afraid, then she can sit across the room, or if she is so
afraid she can't be in the same room with you, she could call into the
meeting instead of attending.  But It's my feeling that you are being asked
to do without your mobility aid because she is afraid from across a room.  
Wht you decide to do is up to you, but I think chatting with your boss just
to express your feelings may be good just so y'all are on the same page.  


 Rox and the kitchen Bitches: 
Mill'E, Laveau, Soleil
Pawpower4me at gmail.com
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> On Jun 12, 2015, at 7:57 PM, Daryl Marie via nagdu <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
wrote:
> 
> Hi, guys! For those of you I spoke to on twitter or FB about this, 
> sorry
for the repeat!
> I have a bit of a sticky situation that I would like some advice on.
> I've worked at the same office for a year and a half, and everyone has
been super supportive of Jenny and I, even as we've struggled with Jenn's
barking
> issue this spring. But there is a coworker who is deathly afraid of dogs.
She is so terrified that when I started working here, she asked that her
cubicle
> be moved from beside mine to the far side of the office. I must add 
> here
that I have never once felt disrespected by her, that I am not a valued part
of
> the team, or that Jenny herself is disrespected (she makes it a point 
> to
ask how Jenny and I are doing). Our company's CEO is coming for a site visit
early
> next week, and we are having a staff meeting for about an hour at most
(something that happens 2-3 times a year). My boss asked that I leave Jenny
at my desk during
> the meeting, because even if Jenny is laying down across the room, 
> this
particular coworker is still terrified of her.
> I have unintentionally left Jenny at my desk for moderate periods when 
> I
slipped in to someone's office and we got sidetracked chatting, so I don't
worry
> about her being alone (I figure I can give her a bone and keep her
occupied while I am gone).
> I don't want to act like this is the biggest deal in the world (which 
> it
isn't), but I don't want to treat this like it's nothing, either. I don't
want
> to be the difficult one who takes the dog into the meeting for no 
> other
reason than because I can, when in fact the meeting is only 50 feet away and
she wouldn't
> be guiding me there anyway.
> Thoughts?
> 
> Thanks,
> Daryl
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