I think if I saw more than 2 pugs gathered in one place, I would expire from the cuteness level.

The Original Pug Sunday in San Francisco

The first Sunday of every month, Weather Permitting. The Pugs congregate at the top of the hill in Alta Plaza Park. This park is located between Scott and Steiner with the cross-streets being Jackson and Clay. People show up around 1:00 pm and it lasts until the last Pug has gone home which is usually around 4:00 pm.

No one came.

So INCREDIBLY unprofessional. Also rude, but most importantly, UNPROFESSIONAL.

Oh, wait, I have to share something from our conference this weekend. I was in a small group session and someone related a tale of a potential client who had behaved similarly [slightly different sitch, but in that vein], commenting that it was really uncomfortable. #2 Big Boss of the Company, one of the more mild mannered people in this field, on the surface anyway, steps in.

"It's not uncomfortable, it's inappropriate and unprofessional."

So far, so good, yeah?

Then he says: "We need to know if things like this happen. You can't get revenge right away, but we have long memories at this firm and at some point in the future will come a time....yadda yadda yadda." Except - the man was serious. Really serious. Now I'm dying to ferret out some stories or figure out just what he had in mind.

The Original Pug Sunday in San Francisco

I would die. DIE, I tell you! Is that what you want? Do you have a secret yen to see me undergo Death By Pug Cuteness?

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Community Standard Violation. :) Mostly meaningless, but still annoying.

Revenge? That's kinda funny. In a ... oh, an unprofessional way.

I'm quite startled by what some people seem to think is professional enough. There's a lot of snipping in our staff meetings, and it looks like the meetings of a group adjacent are even more hellacious.

Frankly, I'm sad if someone's having a rough personal time, but DON'T BRING IT INTO WORK AND TAKE IT OUT ON RELATIVE STRANGERS. The person I'm thinking of right now is very manic. It doesn't affect me much, except for the spontaneous handshaking. But it's starting to more directly affect others.

Of course, I'm the sort that doesn't think my life falling apart should impact my nearest and dearest, but still.

I would die. DIE, I tell you! Is that what you want? Do you have a secret yen to see me undergo Death By Pug Cuteness?

It would be very amusing to take you and JZ and Emmett together to this event. Emmett would be in a frenzy, you'd keel over dead, and JZ would squee herself into a sugarcoma.

Plus, and I have no right to say this, she's very heavy -- like, way more than I am, I know, pot, kettle -- and so is her BF, and they thump around louder than anyone who's ever lived above me.

OMG my flatmate is a thumper par excellence. I am womanful in my pretending not to notice that she could out-thump a galloping horse. I have realized after nearly 2 years of this that she just does not notice her impact on her surroundings (e.g. making plates shake in the cabinet) the way she does not notice when she leaves frozen food out on the kitchen table.

I mean, I live in a 3-level (plus Creepy Basement Bob) building, and my upstairs neighbor runs a close second in the thumpy-walk Olympics, and both upstairs and downstairs smoke, and the downstairs people smoked outside the back door directly into the heat intake valve for the whole house till I pointed out that this makes the whole house smell like cigarettes, so mostly I have learned to turn a deaf ear to thumpings. But, I take care not to thump myself.

As for workers bringing home to work, you haven't died of ick until you've found your boss's divorce paperwork sitting on top the company copier, covered with PRIVATE markings, and the boss hasn't been in the office all day. We ignored it as long as we could, and then just put it all in his mailbox while pretending to be blind.

We ignored it as long as we could, and then just put it all in his mailbox while pretending to be blind.

Nobody read it? Really? I figured any office includes at least one person who'd need to.

Revenge? That's kinda funny. In a ... oh, an unprofessional way.

He's totally serious, too. And in this fairly small industry, he totally has the ability to do it.

#1 Boss just had a meeting with a huge client, a Big Big Name in their field whom everyone here would know. Their lawyers were making a line-in-the-sand demand that he didn't agree with, and he just stood up and said "If that's the case then I don't think we're interested in working with you any longer."

They caved. Immediately.

What took so long?

Attorneys general in at least 35 states have launched individual investigations of Blockbuster's new no-late-fees policy following complaints by consumers that it is deceptive, Home Media Retailing magazine reported Friday. The trade publication pointed out that although Blockbuster's owned outlets have adopted the no-late-fees program, some franchisees have not. Moreover, it said, some customers do not understand that if they keep a title longer than seven days, their account is charged either the sell-through price or a previously viewed price and that they are also charged a restocking fee when they return the video. While Blockbuster issues a refund if the video is returned after seven days, it is issued as store credit, not cash -- something that has also raised the eyebrows of several blockbuster customers, the magazine indicated.

I can't believe they got as far as they have. And they probably won't even be smacked for it.