Miss Manners Minds Your Business [Paperback]

What do your colleagues, overlords, underlings, clients, and customers have in common? Not knowing how much they annoy you. Not to mention how much you may be annoying them. The route from cubicle to corner office is strewn with etiquette landmines. And now that the boundaries that once cleanly separated work from personal life are blurred, even polite people dont recognize the difference between professional and social manners.Both a sad and hilarious commentary on the state of the modern workplace. As they parse delicate questions of hierarchy, privacy, focus, gender, age, family matters, illness, gossip, rants, business trips, meetings, and socializing, the Martins broach the very core of human relationships. They also drive home the fact that our lives would be vastly improved if we consistently worked together with dignity, respect, responsibility, patience, and, as they so ably demonstrate, a sense of humor. [H]umorous yet helpful advice& an enjoyable collection. [Judith Martin] is an extremely useful philosopher, and I consult her frequently, in order to behave better. Witty. . . . The business world would run much more smoothly if everyone lived by Miss Mannerss rules of etiquette. US