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Miss Manners: You May Not Want, Need a Gift, but You Certainly Don’t Need to Say that to the Giver
Miss Manners advises employees to politely question children selling items at work and avoid feeling pressured to purchase, suggesting group complaints if necessary.
- Miss Manners advises employees they are not obliged to buy items children sell at work and warns of concern when a boss escorts a child around the workplace.
- Readers wrote in about whether employers should allow children sellers at work, and a retired dog walker, 73 years old, asked about regifting a $30 dog-walking tool.
- If the seller seems unprepared, ask the child about the item's use and sturdiness, and say regretfully you cannot commit; a responsible parent should appreciate this lesson.
- Criticizing gifts can discourage future generosity, as Miss Manners warns that employees often feel obligated to buy when the boss is present, complicating workplace charity sales.
- Miss Manners frames it as a lesson in the child's use of power to intimidate and invites readers to send questions via missmanners.com or Andrews McMeel Syndication, 1130 Walnut St.
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Miss Manners: My boss is teaching his child to use intimidation tactics
DEAR MISS MANNERS: What do you think about employers who let their children come around the workplace to sell goodies to their employees? And worse yet, what about when the boss himself escorts his child around the building to sell stuff? Yeah, I know, it’s always for a good cause, but isn’t that putting people on the spot, and not in very good taste? Nobody really wants to buy these things, but you always feel obligated, especially when the bos…
·Alabama, United States
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