Jobs that involve kids usually come with one unspoken rule: safety comes first.

So when a gym manager brought a dog that “wasn’t good with kids” into a facility with a daycare, one young employee was left doing mental gymnastics.

But her off-the-cuff remark would quickly put her in bad standing with her boss.

Keep reading for the full story.

AITA for making a snarky comment to my boss about her dog?

So I (18F) work at a gym that has a daycare, and I’m one of the daycare workers.

Today we had a big event going on for people signing up for a marathon. It was super slow for me — I only had one kid in the daycare, let’s call him Conner (4M).

Conner is obsessed with dogs. He talks about them literally all the time.

So when her boss came in with a dog, it seemed like the perfect opportunity.

My general manager (30sF) showed up with her dog, and a bunch of adults were petting it. Conner saw that and immediately asked if he could say hi.

I figured it was fine since she brought the dog into the gym and it seemed friendly with every adult out there (there were kids there too that just weren’t signed up for daycare).

So I take Conner out and tell my manager he wants to say hi.

But her boss is quick to shut this down, so she spoke without thinking.

She goes, “Oh no, he can’t. My dog isn’t good with kids.”

And I kind of blurted out, “So you brought your kid-aggressive dog to a place with kids?” It definitely came out a little sassy.

I didn’t yell or anything, it just slipped because I was confused why she’d bring that dog to a gym with a daycare.

This obviously led to some consequences.

She got pretty annoyed and ended up sending me home early.

Now my coworkers are texting me saying I was rude. I wasn’t trying to be disrespectful, I was just caught off guard and trying to keep the kid safe.

AITA?

It was the right thing in principle, but perhaps not in practice.

What did Reddit have to say?

In the real world, it pays to think before you speak.

Snark was definitely not the right response here.

This employee really overstepped her bounds with this one.

This commenter goes against the grain and takes the daycare worker’s side.

Apparently safety is optional, but tone is not.

Sometimes speaking up costs more than just staying quiet.

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