MISS MANNERS MINDS YOUR BUSINESS

In Miss Manners Minds Your Business, Judith Martin and her son, executive Nicholas Ivor Martin, equip readers 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.

What do your colleagues, overlords, underlings, clients, and custorners 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 etiqueffe 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. With wit and wisdom, Miss Manners restores civility, guiding you around your coworker‘s rnessy cubicle, past your overly prying boss, around the bridal shower for the new temp, and through tedious staff meetings. Judith Martin, born a perfect lady in an irnperfect society, is the author of the “Miss Manners“ columns and best-selling books, two novels, and a travel book on Venice. She and her husband live in Washington, DC. Nicholas Ivor Martin, who wrote The DaCapo Opera Manual, worked at the White House and was publisher ofthe Washington Monthty before becoming director of operations at the Lyric Opera of Chicago. He lives in Chicago with his wife and daughter.