Dear lady manners: My company has the mandate to return to the office four days a week.
While it is good to have the camaraderie in person, the co -workers who are ill are entering and spreading their infection. Nobody says anything.
Now I am sick (at home). These co -workers are not heroes to come to work with their germs, but selfish and inconsiderate. (My company provides a generous two weeks or “occasional absence”, which can be used for disease days, medical appointments and others).
I feel that we should tell our office manager something. What suggests?
Soft reader: That you say: “You may want to reiterate the policy of ‘occasional absence’. The mandate back to the office seems to have confused people. We do not want to encourage people to come when they are sick and contagious.”
To get the maximum effect, Miss Manners Rome that you have this conversation while sneezeing and coughing, safely by phone, of course.
Dear lady manners: My husband believes that when we turn to a single indivisible gift for us as a couple (such as a restaurant gift card or other anniversary gift) or a shared experience, such as another couple organized by Sourate Heh and I Sarate Casa Hogareño Hogare-Hogares-Hogares-Hogares-Hogares-Hogares-Hogares-Hogares-Hogares-Hogares-Hogares-Hogares-Hogares-Hogares-Hogares-Hogares-Hogares-Hogares-Hogares Res-Hogares-Hogares-Hogares-Hogares-Hogares-Hogares-Hogares-Hogares-Hogares-Hogares-Hogares-Hogares-Hogares-Hogares-Hogares-Hogares-Hogares-Hogares (although in a single letter).
I would prefer that we send a single message, using “we” in the note (for example, “we love [X]”), With a person writing and each individual firm. Is the bad label approaching? (We write this message together, if it matters).
Soft reader: Despite their revelation at the end, two people cannot write a letter correctly.
In the upper part of yours, at the beginning, it was allowed “my husband and me”, which is the correct way to say it. The rest of a message of thanks would be in the singular, except for a reiteration or two or how much your husband (or you, if you are writing) also enjoy the present. Then only the writer would sign it.
But if you silent you, do you like to make letters of thanks a joint effort? Miss Manners suggests that they turn the issue of writing.
Dear Miss Manners: I have noticed a problem in many IFE FTFTENDED restaurants, which its napkins apparently come exclusively wrapped around the covers.
Then, when I ask for an additional napkin or a replacement, because my hands or table is used, etc., they inevitably give me a napkin with a new cutlery game, which means that I have in what they sometimes are.
Is there any educated way to ask for a napkin alone? Or return the additional covers that have no need?
Soft reader: There are educated ways of doing both.
“Could you have another napkin?” – Repeat, “Only the napkin is fine,” if necessary.
But if that ignores too much, Miss Manners believes that the cutlery is well to return that says: “These are clean, I just needed the napkin, thanks” – Mych, a restaurant of good reputation will return to Goes anyway.
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