I was very sad to read this. For that dog, it was like their parent just gave them up to a life in a small cage in the shelter or cycles of adoption and adjustment. It's also a living thing, and can feel trauma, sadness, abandoned... What I can't understand is, is the job that was chosen over the dog, really that irreplaceable? I refuse to believe that. All jobs = source of income. The nature of it, is what varies. Could that employee not have found another one? That pays the same? In a capitalist society I find it hard to believe that. Why don't pet owners think of their pets as family members? Why do you choose your job over another living thing that's basically your family? Behavior like this is what normalizes companies to mistreat employees. I feel so disappointed when such actions are normalized by the CEOs. What makes you so important that you expect your salaried employee, who btw, you can fire anytime, will sacrifice what fulfils them, in this case, another living thing who loves them unconditionally, for you? You won't even pay him/her what you get paid for the same amount of time that you put in for your work.
The real question is, why this guy was too cheap to pay for dog care or a rover to keep the dog? Maybe let’s take some self responsibility
I agree, who in their right mind would do that? I think the person wanted to get rid of the dog and used RTO as the excuse. What’s next? Give up your kid, to go sacrifice your life for the corporate grind? What a sad CEO, he should be embarrassed about this.
People actually do that to their kids as well. I had a coworker that was thinking about having their infant son raised by grandparents in India while she and her husband focused on their careers in the U.S. I don't know if she went through with it because she left the company.
I know two Chinese couples who have done that. It's not as bad as giving up your kid to a foster care though. Grandparents will love the child. But the dogs basically going to an orphanage
His company going to cleaners after this. I would not work for a company who does not treat it's employees as adult. People not opening laptops says a lot about companies agile processes which is not tracking employees effort or lack of it.
Saw this coming when everyone got pets at the start of Covid. As much as I disagree with that CEO, this is squarely a human problem.
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