Miss Manners Minds Your Business, Nicholas Ivor Martin
Miss Manners Minds Your Business, Nicholas Ivor Martin
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Miss Manners Minds Your Business

Author: Nicholas Ivor Martin, Judith Martin

Narrator: Karen Saltus

Unabridged: 8 hr 9 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Published: 10/01/2013


Synopsis

A witty guide to managing a real life wisely in a work-centered world.

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 don’t recognize the difference between professional and social manners.

What do you say to a colleague who has just been fired?
How do you maintain a family-friendly office without discriminating against singles?
What’s the difference between showing romantic interest and sexual harassment?
Which colleagues should be invited to family weddings?
When should you be unavailable, at or away from work?

Don’t convene a focus group or appeal to Human Resources—consult Miss Manners!

With wit and wisdom, Miss Manners restores civility, guiding you around your coworker’s messy cubicle, past your overly prying boss, around the bridal shower for the new temp, and through tedious staff meetings.

In Miss Manners Minds Your Business, Judith Martin and her son, executive Nicholas Ivor Martin, equip listeners with the practical, pertinent, and utterly correct advice necessary to win the job, keep the job, and leave the job with sanity and dignity intact.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Deborah

The short review: Miss Manners is always funny and informative, and this collection of her advice is a terrific read even if you're not a business person (which I am not). The details: I love Miss Manners because she refuses to be what people expect. She may be old-fashioned in certain ways, but she......more

Goodreads review by ALLEN

Think of Judith Martin's earlier, much larger books like MISS MANNERS' GUIDE TO EXCRUCIATINGLY CORRECT BEHAVIOR (800-plus pages, most recent edition 2005) as the "JOY OF COOKING" of etiquette, general works that cover all aspects of etiquette, from dress to decorum, socializing, correspondence and e......more

A helpful book, especially for 20-somethings entering the workforce. Many topics are included, from love in the workplace to posting and replying to online reviews (Yelp). How do you handle speaking to someone that has been fired from your company? Workplace gossip? Vacations, gifts, office parties,......more

"Miss Manners Minds Your Business" by Judith Martin and Nicholas Ivor Martin, was a fun and witty read, although it felt a bit more USA-specific than other "Miss Manners" books. Still very entertaining for a reader who doesn't live in the US, but not as universally applicable.......more