My boss brings his dog into work with him. It’s objectively a terrible dog – it barks at anyone coming into the building, isn’t spayed so will occasionally have to wear a diaper it always tears off and leaves as a surprise for someone walking around the office, and it also gets into trash. Both employee and customer bathrooms don’t have trash bins with lids so paper towels and whatever else is just thrown in. Not a big deal except for the fact that the dog picks everything out and makes a mess. Here is where I am stuck: my boss will pick up paper towels and anything else from the customer trash BUT if an employee uses a paper towel, throws it in the employee bathroom trash, the boss will not clean up the mess. We use reusable towels for the most part in the employee bathroom so trash is minimal but on Monday we didn’t have any clean reusable towels so I used a paper towel, threw it in the trash and now here we are days later with the towel chewed up and in multiple pieces in and around the bathroom. When we use the employee bathroom you must step over it (we are the only employees so I am not dragging anyone else into this).
So who is the asshole? Me, the passive aggressive employee who uses the trash bin in the bathroom instead of bringing it to the trash in my office OR my boss, the passive aggressive boss who has a shitty dog?
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My boss brings his dog into work with him. It’s objectively a terrible dog – it barks at anyone coming into the building, isn’t spayed so will occasionally have to wear a diaper it always tears off and leaves as a surprise for someone walking around the office, and it also gets into trash. Both employee and customer bathrooms don’t have trash bins with lids so paper towels and whatever else is just thrown in. Not a big deal except for the fact that the dog picks everything out and makes a mess. Here is where I am stuck: my boss will pick up paper towels and anything else from the customer trash BUT if an employee uses a paper towel, throws it in the employee bathroom trash, the boss will not clean up the mess. We use reusable towels for the most part in the employee bathroom so trash is minimal but on Monday we didn’t have any clean reusable towels so I used a paper towel, threw it in the trash and now here we are days later with the towel chewed up and in multiple pieces in and around the bathroom. When we use the employee bathroom you must step over it (we are the only employees so I am not dragging anyone else into this).
So who is the asshole? Me, the passive aggressive employee who uses the trash bin in the bathroom instead of bringing it to the trash in my office OR my boss, the passive aggressive boss who has a shitty dog?
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If the dog made the mess he should be the one cleaning it up
Your boss’s dog so his responsibility
I bring my dogs to work. I always clean up after any messes they make, which isn’t many.
ESH
NTA. It’s the bosses dog. it’s his responsibility to clean up after it. Why not a broom and dust pan?
You threw the paper towel away like a descent human being.
His dog made the mess. His dog, and what it does, is his responsibility. He should be cleaning up after everything it does.
NTA, but note that he IS still your boss, and, if this is in the States, he can fire you for any reason or no reason at all.
How unprofessional of your boss to bring his horribly untrained dog into a place of business where customers interact. What if the dog diaper ended up in the customer area? What uf a diaper-less dog pees or whatever unspayed females do on a customer? And he’s trying to die on the “employee paper towel” hill? Dude, leave the freaking dog at home!
NTA
Does anyone else work there? Your post left that kind of ambiguous (at least in my interpretation). If there’s more than one “you”, y’all need to confront your boss. This is bullshit.
NTA. The mess is the responsibility of the person who owns the dog.
how is the dog in the bathroom in the first place? nta
Obviously the owner should clean up after the dog.
However, is there no cleaner? When do the loos get cleaned? Who does it? And how often?
NTA