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Tech CEO applauds an employee selling their dog to accommodate return-to-office

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Re: Tech CEO applauds an employee selling their dog to accommodate return-to-office

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You can sell dogs? Even with desirable breeds, I assumed their value was basically nil after they were a puppy, unless you sold for breeding. Is there a large used pet market?

I've never heard of it. If I ever needed to get rid of a pet belonging to a sick parent or whatnot, I'd take it to the humane society.

Re: Tech CEO applauds an employee selling their dog to accommodate return-to-office

#32

You can sell dogs? Even with desirable breeds, I assumed their value was basically nil after they were a puppy, unless you sold for breeding. Is there a large used pet market?

i mean you might get a pure breed puppy for $1500-2k but if its an adult you'd be lucky to get $200

My guess is its just some made up story by the CEO to try to get his employees to work harder because some anonymous employee had to sell their dog

Re: Tech CEO applauds an employee selling their dog to accommodate return-to-office

#34

Won't comment directly on the strange rant. But it highlights the reality that something has seriously changed since the pandemic. I have multiple employees that insist on staying home due to their dogs. The amount of discussion around employees' dogs is on another level now, partially due to the anxiety these dogs have when their owners go into the office. It's all very different than prepandemic, I for one never he…

Fortunately workers can now say “I want to work from home because I like it better than your shitty office environment” and if the employer doesn’t like it they can go pound sand and find other workers.

Honestly this works as a very nice filter bubble for me. You want me to be on-site because you don’t trust me to be productive unless you can see me? Boy, I bet your Jira hygiene is a lot of fun to be subjected to.

I’ve made the permanent decision to not be forced to work in an office ever again. It will always be my personal choice where I am physically located: you probably aren’t paying me enough to control my location.

Re: Tech CEO applauds an employee selling their dog to accommodate return-to-office

#35

This is despicable, but titling "Tech CEO" for a digital marketing company is a stretch. FWIW, no one(very few?) actually in tech company would make fun of working mom's or applaud someone for selling their dog.

What makes you think there are fewer sociopaths in tech than marketing?

Re: Tech CEO applauds an employee selling their dog to accommodate return-to-office

#36
post #23

Won't comment directly on the strange rant. But it highlights the reality that something has seriously changed since the pandemic. I have multiple employees that insist on staying home due to their dogs. The amount of discussion around employees' dogs is on another level now, partially due to the anxiety these dogs have when their owners go into the office. It's all very different than prepandemic, I for one never he…

I agree that some folks are a little weird about their pets, but after 3 years working from home, these animals do get trained to assume someone is around. Dogs shred stuff, etc.

Also, some people treat their inanimate cars with more loyalty and love than a pet, so it’s not really that weird.

Re: Tech CEO applauds an employee selling their dog to accommodate return-to-office

#38

This is despicable, but titling "Tech CEO" for a digital marketing company is a stretch. FWIW, no one(very few?) actually in tech company would make fun of working mom's or applaud someone for selling their dog.

#noteveryceo ...

Re: Tech CEO applauds an employee selling their dog to accommodate return-to-office

#39

"In the video, Clarke levies some big accusations at his staff. Among them: that 30 remote employees had entirely stopped logging on in a “quiet quitting” coup. He expressed suspicions that some of Clearlink’s developers had been holding down positions at other companies without Clearlink’s knowledge. He told content writers they should be using AI to increase output “30-50 times our normal production.” This sounds l…

A thought follower.

I've always thought it was very ironic that the main prerequisite for being a "thought leader" is not having any thoughts yourself

Re: Tech CEO applauds an employee selling their dog to accommodate return-to-office

#40

This is despicable, but titling "Tech CEO" for a digital marketing company is a stretch. FWIW, no one(very few?) actually in tech company would make fun of working mom's or applaud someone for selling their dog.

Google and facebook are digital marketing companies.
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