<p>Ah, well, can we talk about horse poop some more? There are people who ride horses through the streets of our suburb… the horses leave their very large droppings in the road, and it can take 2-3 weeks before cars/rain/etc. obliterate them. So I have to make sure my dog doesn’t eat them and we don’t step in them when we walk. I know you can’t get off your horse to pick up… but how about riding someplace besides suburb streets so the problem doesn’t occur to start with? This is not Dodge City in the olden days…</p>
<p>This thought brings an old poster to mind, but why do people ask a question, and then get upset if the consensus doesn’t agree with what they thought was the answer? If you already think you know the answer, there’s no need to ask the question.</p>
<p>It doesn’t seem like that kind of conversation to me… no one is really fessing up to leaving their baggies (at least not for more than a brief time & picking them up on the way back). Everyone seems to be agreeing that people really ought pick up after their animals and that bagging is not really enough… And the other things that “make no sense” aren’t generating a lot of disagreement from the OP, either. I know what kind of posts you mean (people who want their viewpoint confirmed – remembering a thread about someone who didn’t like their apartment temperature last year!). But this doesn’t have that feeling to me.</p>
<p>The inconsiderate horse poop folks do have an option. Our local police horses have bags that hang off of them so when they are in parades and stuff, their droppings go into the bag and not on the street. </p>
<p>I’m wondering about the young women who are always late. Do they have children who go to day care or something so they can’t possibly get there earlier? Or maybe take mass transportation that leaves them few options for when they arrive? I’m a fan of flex hours, but realize they don’t work in all situations.</p>
<p>I don’t understand why people do not clean up after themselves in the public bathroom. Few weeks ago, a very nice looking young lady came out of a stall, she didn’t bother to even flush the toilet, she had sprinkled all over the place. I was so annoyed I asked her who she thought was going to clean up after her. By the way, the toilet worked, but she didn’t want to touch it.</p>
<p>Oldfort - I want to half gag going into public restrooms. </p>
<p>I can’t understand people and their young children - why do you take a 5 year old to an R rated scary movie? Why do you not require they sit still and behave at a restaurant? Why do you allow them to scream their heads off in public and pretend it’s not a big deal?</p>
<p>LasMa - I have a “trick” for the late people. And btw… I call being late when you are paid hourly stealing. You are stealing time, and time is money. First they get a sticky note on their chair at the time they are supposed to be there to report to the office manager when they get in. They are then told what time their day begins. After that they start getting written warnings. It’s fine to be late now and then, this is for chronic late people. If someone actually makes it to 3 warnings they are terminated. If you are late 10 - 15 minutes everyday it’s an hour a week or 50 hours a year. That’s an entire weeks vacation and then some. People don’t usually think of it like that.</p>
<p>
</p>
<p>I’m confused. If you’re hourly, don’t you only get paid when you’re there? I am hourly and if I get to work at 9:15 I get paid starting at 9:15 so if your time sheets are accurate, I don’t understand how being late would be stealing. Lying on time sheets is a different issue. </p>
<p>What actually drives me crazy is some of the people who are not hourly. I’m the only hourly person in my department, and we have somebody who probably averages arriving half an hour late, frequently takes more than an hour for lunch, and often leaves ten minutes early. Some weeks, I’d be surprised if she works 30 hours. Isn’t that more considered stealing? (If I decided to attempt to work that schedule, I’d get paid for 30 hours…)</p>
<p>I realize that if people need to be there at a certain time, they should be there, but I think that’s different from the stealing issue.</p>
<p>eyemamom, that is fine for those who have control over when they arrive. But I would expect the office manager to ask why they are late if they are consistently arriving at the same time, and to see if they are making any effort to correct the problem. If they take mass transit, it may depend on the schedule of their first bus - does it run every 15 minutes so they can catch the next earlier bus, or does it only run once an hour? Do they drop their child off at school - do they do so at the earliest it is allowed? Is there another affordable option?</p>
<p>I have a co-worker who our manager consistently schedules to open with me at 9am, but can’t get there until 9:10 most mornings after dropping off her daughter. Our manaager knows this, but chooses to put her on the schedule then anyway. Even put her on to open at 8am, during our busiest weeks, because she had to demonstrate to her bosses that she had scheduled two people to open.</p>
<p>It’s easy to say those people should be fired, but it may be a compromise on the part of management to not lose an otherwise good employee - one they can’t schedule to start half an hour later.</p>
<p>If the phones start and works start at 8, and you’re paid to be there at 8, then show up at 8. When you’re hired you are told the hours and asked if there is anything to prevent you from showing up on time everyday. Then is the time to speak up. Now no one cares if someone is late here and there, it’s the the pp talked about, consistently showing up late. Either wake up earlier or try and adjust your hours.</p>
<p>I can tell you for sure, the ones I’ve dealt with who come in 10 - 15 minutes late everyday are the first ones out the door at the closing time.</p>
<p>Those of you with dogs… If you’re taking your dog for a walk on a road without sidewalks, and the dog has to go… Do you have the dog go on the road, or do you hop into the nearest yard? If you clean it up, does it matter?</p>
<p>What is the social norm for this?</p>
<p>Sent from my DROID BIONIC using CC</p>
<p>I can speak to this one, because my neighborhood sort of randomly has sidewalks on some blocks and not on others.</p>
<p>Yes, it matters. Dog waste is dog waste and I ALWAYS clean it up (even at the off-leash dog parks, where people wouldn’t notice if I did or not–although everyone is supposed to). I have one dog who prefers to go on grass and another who only goes in the street. She is over 100 pounds, so…yeah. I would not want to drive over her “gift” if I were a neighbor passing through after she did.</p>
<p>Also… I’ll admit to being one of those four to six minutes late people. I’m on time for meetings… But there would always be something traffic wise. And if you left even earlier then you’re at work a half hour early which isn’t good either.</p>
<p>When I started at my job I lived a half hour away. I’d leave forty five minutes early and still get there a few minutes late sometimes. When I moved closer, I lived ten minutes away. I’d leave fifteen minutes early. Then I’d hit the stop sign at the random train on the way and get there a few min late. </p>
<p>We weren’t considered late unless we were more then seven minutes late because things happen. However any minutes late… Had to be made up. So either take them off your lunch or add them at the end of you’re day. Nobody steals minutes. If your company is letting them steal minutes that’s their fault.</p>
<p>Sent from my DROID BIONIC using CC</p>
<p>Sally, I looked out my window the other day and some dog and it’s owner were right smack in the middle of my side yard. I could see stepping a few feet onto my property… But they were a good twenty feet or so in.</p>
<p>She cleaned up after the dog I just found it odd. After the dog finished, she didn’t go back to the road right away… They walked another sixty feet or so in my grass till they made it to the front of the house then started walking on that road!</p>
<p>Maybe I’m just weird but I’d never go walking around in someone that I didn’t knows yard.</p>
<p>Sent from my DROID BIONIC using CC</p>
<p>That is terrible. One of my neighbors (who has a beautiful yard) put up a hand-made wooden sign with a picture of a dog going #2 and a big “No!” on it as a reminder. I think people have respected it because now the sign is down.</p>
<p>On the flip side, I had a neighbor yell at me when my dog was going on the space between the sidewalk and the street. She was only going #1 but he flipped out about her going on his property and me not cleaning it up. First, I reminded him that that space is city property, not his, and then I reassured him that I always clean up after my pets. What is ironic is that this is someone with probably THE most neglected yard in a two-mile radius. But still.</p>
<p>I’m assuming the woman thought noone was home… But still… I found it very strange. I work from home and spotted her out my office window. Guess we’ll see if she returns.</p>
<p>Sent from my DROID BIONIC using CC</p>
<p>Fendergirl, that’s completely bizarre. I think it’s one thing if you stay off the property but your dog goes onto the grass (so the dog isn’t further into the property than the length of the leash, and of course you’d clean up after the dog) but I can’t imagine wandering around somebody else’s yard. I grew up with dogs on a street with no sidewalk and no shoulder.</p>
<p>I lived out in a suburb for 15 years. I never felt comfortable taking walks around our neighborhood because I never knew if someone’s dog would come charging at me, as I am scared of dogs. I live in NYC now. I am a lot more comfortable in taking walks because all dogs are on leashes. We used to have a lady with a small poodle. She liked to do her business on our lawn and the owner wouldn’t clean up after the dog. I finally had to tell the lady to take her business some where else.</p>
<p>Glad I’m not the only one who finds it weird.</p>
<p>I am not a fan of dogs either. Mostly because I’m allergic. </p>
<p>I didn’t recognize her so I’m not sure if she lives on my road or what. I’ve lived here four years and know most of the people who live near me but there are a few houses of folks I’ve never met.I’m guessing she’s not from this road because we all have nice sized yards and if that’s the case the dog could have went in their yard, lol.</p>
<p>Sent from my DROID BIONIC using CC</p>
<p>
</p>
<p>Nothing to clean up, obviously… but one thing I have learned the hard way from having a female dog (black lab) is that their urine damages the lawn. I have always walked my dog on the leash into the field or down by the road in our semi-rural suburb. But a few winters ago I got lazy and started letting pee just off the driveway when the snow wasn’t too deep. In the spring my lawn had all these bare spots in that area – I had to hand rake with a small trowel-sized rake to get the dead grass out, then re-seed. I have heard that male dog urine does not kill the grass… not sure if that is true.</p>
<p>intparent, you are right about the urine. In this case, the easement/tree lawn/whatever people call it regionally is not exactly soft manicured grass. It’s pretty unkempt. A few people maintain and fertilize and tend to these spaces on their property, and I would definitely keep my dogs away from them. In general, we avoid any yard that shows pride of ownership. On the other hand, it’s nature, and all the raccoons/coyotes/bunnies/deer/squirrels have to go somewhere too.</p>