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We have a #bugs slack channel. It is a dumping ground for issues, or potential issues, and doesn’t always (or often really) lead to action like opening a bug ticket in our tracker. Often the context gets tangled up in other conversations in the same channel.

Do you have a channel like this? How do you manage it’s use? Does it make more sense to remove it and force all bug-related conversation to occur via the ticketing system?

I've encountered several startups that embrace "office dogs" in the course of my career. Most of them its an occasional event, usually when the owner has trouble with pet sitting or something. A couple, however, have a constant presence of dogs. Multiple dogs. They bark, "play fight" and attempt to get some person (any person) to pay attention to them. None of them are scary or overly aggressive.

This is not a large space, though hardly a "garage" sized office.

I like dogs.

This pack of dogs is making me hate this office. It has gotten to the point where even the most typical, innocuous "dog behavior" in the office irritates me. It ruins my flow and engenders a modest resentment towards their owners.

I am at a loss to address this. The company is small enough that the non-bring-dog-to-work folks are a minority, and all of the senior leadership team bring theirs. If this was occasional, it wouldn't bother me...but it is just about every-single-day.

Every.

Single.

Day.

I'd not consider bringing my small children to the office every day only to let them roam around bothering people and squabbling over a toy...is it too much to expect the same of "pet parents" and their "fur babies"?