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Everyone who works here is a check signer on our bank account. That is how rigorously we screen potential recruits. The vast majority of the time, we recruit people already working in the petcare industry (generally, veteran dogwalkers). We've actually never brought anyone on who has cold-called us, looking to walk dogs. Quite the opposite; we've usually hand-picked folks, and approached them. Given our long standing relationships with the animal rights and animal welfare communities, new collective members are cultivated in much the same way as new romantic partners. Someone we've already known for some time leaves an impression on us by way of their initiative, creativity, ethical commitments, and work ethic, and we then make them do the Truffle Shuffle from Goonies. In all seriousness, as a worker-owned operation, our very existence rests on the character, integrity, and commitment of the people working here. We take that quite seriously. We frankly don't quite get how the average dogwalking agency manages to hand out keys to any yokel in need of short-term employment, without so much as raising an eyebrow. There's something profoundly numbing about that sort of alienated relationship to one's work, and we think setting out a more integrated and dynamic job description both demands more and offers more, for everyone involved. |
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