'This 45 minute meeting was like, 80% about my cats': HR calls employee in for emergency meeting to discuss how she's not allowed to mention that she has cats to co-workers

Talking about your cats at work should not be reprimanded, it should be mandatory.

Look, we don't know, maybe it's just in our office - our very cat-centric office - that it is highly accepted to talk about cats all the time. But we don't think so. We think that people talking about their cats, people showing off cute pictures of cats, people sending each other funny memes of cats througout the day, it's not only normal, it's actually good for the overall morale of the office. Because cats are just… pawsome. Even people who don't have cats or who are not as obsessed with cats as we are are happy to talk about them and see pictures of them.

In our humble opinion, people should tell funny anecdotes about cats, show pictures and videos of them, and talk about them in general much, much more often. Office included. To think that the person in this story got reprimanded for even less than that - for just telling one of their coworkers that they have cats is absolutely ridiculous. Especially considering the fact that the person who is doing the reprimanding has two giant portraits of their own dogs in their office right behind them.

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Talking about our cats to our co-workers is literally one of our favorite things to do! Showing pictures, videos, sharing stories about them - it makes our days so much better. For us and for our coworkers. Of course, our office, here at ICHC, is a little bit different in that way. We actively get encouraged to take videos of our cats and post them online for your enjoyment. But we still don't think that this is something any office we have ever heard of has ever had a problem with. Cats are like- the most innocent and wholesome topic of conversation that you could possibly have at work. It should be encouraged everywhere, if anything.
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Something about this is so insanely fishy and suspicious, but we can't pinpoint exactly what. They have to be able to hear the hypocrisy. They have to know that they sound completely ridiculous, allowing themselves to talk about their pets and put up huge portraits of them, while you can't have a five-minute conversation about them with someone who explicitly asked about them without being reprimanded. It makes absolutely no sense. Maybe someone else - one of our readers - has a better understanding of what might be going on here and could share it with us.
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