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Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my desk

petrea_mitchell posting in

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A reader writes:

I work in a cubicle office and bring a trained, medically necessary service dog named “Betty” to the office with me. I allow her to socialize with coworkers on breaks, and she is very loved in the office for how friendly and adorable she is. She also adores her coworkers and thinks everyone is her best friend.

Unfortunately, a new coworker, “Sarah,” has been repeatedly ignoring service dog boundaries with Betty over the last six months.

These boundary violations include taking Betty out of my cube while I’m on work calls or distracted, removing her leash in public work areas without asking, entering my cube without permission to interact with her, and petting her or interacting with her when I step away from my desk. This has started to impact Betty’s training as she’s now having separation anxiety behaviors when I leave in order to get attention. Sarah would respond to this behavior, which escalated it, despite being asked repeatedly not to.

Things were at their worst today when Sarah not only removed Betty’s leash but also attempted to remove her service dog gear. I asked her to stop but this didn’t work, and I had to physically push her hands away from Betty.

I have had multiple conversations with Sarah about her behavior with little success. When I point out a specific behavior, Sarah will then start doing a new one or find different ways to circumvent the boundary and continue her interactions with Betty. This appears to be a pattern with Sarah, as there are other areas where she struggles to incorporate feedback.

All my conversations with Sarah so far have been verbal and in the moment, as we are equals and I don’t feel it is my place to supervise her behavior. I did message my supervisor about the concerns when they started escalating and we had a one-on-one about it. My supervisor then spoke with Sarah’s supervisor about the issues and a one-on-one was had with Sarah about a month ago. Despite this, the behavior has not gotten better and seems to be getting worse.

I have had a previous negative experience with HR where I was blamed for not handling a verbally aggressive and threatening coworker with clearer boundaries before escalating to them. This time I want to make sure that I’m doing everything I can and should before I escalate things to HR again. I also don’t want to ruin the atmosphere of the office by cutting off all contact to Betty due to one coworker being unable to follow boundaries. What should I do in this instance to handle it professionally and not step on toes or upset HR?

– Trying to keep my working dog working

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Miss Manners: Items vanish post‑party, and list of possible culprits is down to 3. How do I proceed?

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I hosted a dinner party for 20 guests. Since a few of them smoke, I had arranged a separate room to function as a smoking room.

After the party, I discovered that a very small painting and a little sculpture were missing from the smoking room. Neither of them is really valuable, even sentimentally, but it still has left me very distraught.

There is no other way that these items could have disappeared except being taken by someone. Only three guests were ever in that room.

Now, what do I do? I have not mentioned this to anyone, since it undoubtedly would make everyone uncomfortable and lead to speculations about who took the things. I’d rather just forget about the whole thing, but if something similar happens in someone else’s home, I will feel guilty for not having said anything.

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andrewducker

About two months ago Gideon discovered Mario Odyssey. He played ¾ of it with me, and then restarted and played the whole game by himself.

And then followed that up by playing all of Kirby and the Forgotten Land.

And then, this afternoon, discovered that we have a PS4. So now we're playing The Last Guardian. He is delighted by his pet dog-dragon.
Original is here on Pixelfed.scot.

melagan

I've been busy over at

romancingmcshep and getting a last-minute story finished and posted for it.

You can check out this year's entries Here

I've also been working on my

5soulmate prompts. I finished the ones for touching your soulmate feels good and touching your soulmate lets them feel what you're feeling.

In both cases, I thought I was working on you can only touch your soulmate and by the time I was finished, realized they fit the other prompts better. Oh well. Progress at least.

The

fandomtrumpshate auction caught my attention this year, too.

And just a few minutes ago,

sga_saturday posted the prompts for this month. History and/or Reading.

I'm waiting to see the story where Rodney is reading Atlantis slash fanfic aloud to John. Oh, I know there are stories out there like that, but whose to say we can't have more?

(and if anyone has the links to those stories, please share.)

I almost forgot to add Shore Leave! A big thanks to

sgatazmy for posting about it on her journal. I've made plans to go with

goddess47 as my partner in crime. I am so EXCITED!

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Challenge 201 is now closed. ⏰ I will post the voting today or by tomorrow and a new round in the future. Thank you, entrants, for your patience.

Marine Life Squid Thank You GIF by pikaole

andrewducker

Last Sunday Sophia threw up.

She spent Monday and Tuesday with a fever, and then Wednesday clearly feeling better but not well enough to go to school.

She was mostly either asleep or watching videos. I worked at home on the Monday, when she mostly slept.

On Tuesday I had to work from the office, which is when Jane had to deal with a lot of...demands.

And then I worked at home on Wednesday, although I did drop-off and pick-up. She continued to have demands, and we split them as best we could, depending on who had meetings when.

And then by Thursday she was feeling much better, and made it in to school for World Book Day, where she was Sophie from the BFG (pyjamas and drawn-on glasses). And since then she's thankfully been fine.
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16 Doctor Who icons from 12x08 The Haunting of Villa Diodati

Check out the rest here. <3

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Hi and welcome! :3 It's Saturday, which means it's time for our weekly Free for All. There are no themes to follow for prompts or fills. If, perhaps, you missed a prompt theme that you liked, or you've had any ideas that didn't really work with Tuesday's or Thursday's posts, then today's your chance to prompt 'em. Be free, and have fun! ✎

Just a few rules:
1. No more than five prompts in a row.
2. No more than three prompts in the same fandom.
3. Use the character's full name and the fandom's full name for ease in adding to the Lonely Prompts spreadsheet.
4. No spoilers in prompts for a month after airing, or use the spoiler cut option found here. Unfortunately, DW doesn’t have a cut tag, so use your best judgment when it comes to spoilers.
5. If your fill contains spoilers, warn and leave plenty of space, or use the spoiler cut.
6. If your story has possible triggers, please warn for them in the subject line!

Prompts should be formatted as follows: [Use the character's full names and fandom's full name]
Fandom, Character +/ Character, Prompt

Are today's prompts not catching your eye? No worries, because we have plenty of older prompts that just might do the trick! You can browse through the comm's calendar archive (here on LJ or here on DW) for themed and Free For All posts, or perhaps check out Sunday posts for Lonely Prompt requests. (Or, you can be like me, and try to save interesting prompts as you see 'em... and then end up with multiple text doc files full of [themes + links + prompts] that you can easily look through and search for keywords.) Multiple fills for one prompt are welcome, by the way! Oh, and you are very likely to find some awesome fills to read as well, and wouldn't it be nice to leave a comment on those lovely little writing distractions? ~_^

We are on AO3! If you fill a prompt and post it to AO3, please add it to the Bite Sized Bits of Fic from 2026 collection.

If you are viewing this post on our Dreamwidth site: please know that fills posted here will not show up as comments on our LiveJournal site, but you are still more than welcome to participate. =)

If you have a Dreamwidth account and would feel more comfortable participating there, please feel free to do so… and spread the word! comment_fic

A friendly reminder about our posting schedule: Themed posts for new prompts go up on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Saturdays are a Free for All day for new prompts of any flavor. Sundays are for showing Lonely Prompts some love, whether by requesting for someone to adopt them or by sharing any fills that you've recently completed.

snowynight

grated peel of one lemon
¾ cup sweet butter
7 egg yolks
1 cup sugar
½ teaspoon baking soda
1¼ pounds flour

Cream butter, add sugar, lemon peel and soda. Mix well, add yolks and beat again. Add flour gradually, beating dough constantly until well blended. Chill.

Published in Recipes from American National

Despote the name, there're no apples in the recipe.

apod_feed

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260306.html

Do young stars blow bubbles?

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260306.html

kaffy_r

Diaries

I'm writing this with a cat on my lap. I have to periodically remind Carter that he can't grab for balance at shirt. There are breasts under there, my dude, and your claws are unwelcome. Really. But I can't bring myself to knock him off my lap. That's partly because I love him, and partly because I know it won't do much good; in a minute or two, he'll be back on my lap. I have found myself repeatedly surprised by finding him back on my lap after dumping him - I don't even notice him coming up to my lap until after he's made himself comfortable and me uncomfortable. Cats. Go figure.

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Current Mood: sad
Current Location: the home office
Current Music: Ateez "Sunrise"

dialecticdreamer

A New Thought
By Dialecticdreamer/Sarah Williams
Part 1 of 1, complete
Word count (story only): 1237
[Sunday, May 17, 2020, 3 pm]

:: Ed takes a risk, but only Vic is there to support him. Part of the Edison’s Mirror (Teague Family) story arc. ::

Back to And Stepping Forward
To the Edison's Mirror Landing Page
On to

Sunshine bathed the yard in random dashed lines as broken clouds scudded westward, slowly building the dull gray wall that seemed to be pushing the sun closer to the horizon. Ed stripped off the borrowed leather gloves, scanning along the perimeter of the yard for any weeds that he might have missed. The plastic grocery bag clipped to a belt loop on his right side was barely a quarter full, and long ingrained habits made him begin a third sweep, looking for stray bits of unwanted plants.

Unable to find any nearby, Ed patrolled the perimeter of the yard, all the way down to the ditch and the two lane road. Across the river of tarmac, the neighbor bent forward, leaning under the hood to inspect the engine. Something clanged, then clattered on the white concrete driveway.

Ed watched the bolt roll all the way toward the ditch.
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Current Mood: worried

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[47x] Xenoblade Chronicles (Rex, Pyra, Mythra, Nia)
[65x] Hazbin Hotel (Angel Dust)
[35x] RWBY (Blake/Yang)

Teasers:

Full post here

kimberlogic

*waves*

Thanks to those who reminded me to return to this place, though today's reason is a sad one.
I'm glad to be "with" everyone and looking forward to hugging some of you soonest.

This week has brought me back around to wanting to be sure to say the things that I would want any of you to hear or know NOW, while I can be sure that my love reaches you.

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Today's prompt is: two toned

• You have 2 days time to submit an icon for this prompt (in other words, until prompt 2781 gets posted)!
• Prompt 2777 have been closed.
• If you have any questions regarding the prompt, feel free to ask in a comment.
• To submit an icon you simply reply to this post with the following information:
Icon:
Claim: (only necessary if it's a specific claim)
Status: (e.g. #1/10 - number of icon completed/table size)

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Check-In Post - March 7th 2026

AAM: my coworker won’t stop interfering with my service dog

Miss Manners investigates a crime

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Busy days

challenge closed ⌛

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Speak Up Saturday

ladies in pastels and black (a 100 cql/mdzs ships fic)

Interesting Links for 07-03-2026

The Haunting of Villa Diodati - Doctor Who icons

Free for All Saturday, Week 10 [DW Edition]

Saturday Cooking: Apple nut pita

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Dept. of Fridays

#97 A New Thought (part 1 of 1, complete)

Xenoblade, Hazbin Hotel, and RWBY icons