Dear lady manners: I would be very grateful if I could provide guidance on how to gently handle two common problems with email.
1. The answer, “never verify that account.”
What do we do when our correspondence enters a black hole? Several people have affirmed that the message I sent was an account that they never verify. But they do not sacrifice a driver or better.
2. Social correspondents who write from their work accounts.
I was surprised by the friends who will read my email, which was sent to their personal accounts, and then responded from their work management. This includes a lawyer, who will respond to social messages and even Chitchhat of gossip from his work account.
The soft instructions of me to change accounts seem to fall into deaf ears.
Soft reader: To address your concerns in order:
1. “Oh! That is the last email address you give me. Is there a better to use?”
2. “Don’t you worry that your work has access to your personal emails? Maybe I am paranoid, but I never put anything that I would like to use in writing, much less in the corporate account.”
The effectiveness of any of the manners cannot promise. But if you suspect that friends who claim that “they are simply not good in correspondence” are using lure accounts when they refuse to follow up with a better option, although it may not be the friends that you
Dear lady manners: We have two single nieces, in their 30 years and live together in a small home that one of them possesses.
Offen will announce to family members that they are planning a special party, then they feel and wait for a relative with a larger house to sacrifice to organize the party for them. This shows all the responsibility, time and cost in the new host.
How can we stop this manipulation?
Soft reader: For not barbing the bait.
Miss Manners suggests that you and the rest of family practice say: “That sounds lovely. What time should we be there?”
Dear Miss Manners: My husband and I are in our 60 years and we are both retired. We still have a relatively good health, so we want to travel while we can.
Every time my husband has suggested places to go, I have followed it, just although those destinations may not be my preference.
However, when I suggest places I want to go, my husband cannot do not do not, even if I did all the planning and everything I would have to do is pack and go. Usually, he just says he will think about it, and that’s all. Without rejection, but he doesn’t say yes either.
They sacrificed us a lot for a cruise that really wanted to continue. But he acted again in the same way, saying that he would think about it and then gave me any response until the promotion expired.
I am reaching the point where I just want to move on and reserve everything before I say or not. I thought about finding another travel companion, but most of my friends are still working or do not like to travel.
Any advice?
Soft reader: That you take the absence of rejection as validation and reservations the tickets.
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