DEAR MISS MANNERS: I am a longtime employee of a company that has offered additional work-from-home days to IT workers willing to exchange their spacious and private offices for a desk in a shared ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: In this modern age, many workers have the option of working from home at least part of the week. My husband is one of them. Several years ago, he installed himself at the kitchen ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: After 25 years at the same company, my role was eliminated by the parent corporation. When it comes to former co-workers, who should call whom after such a job loss? I consider this ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: My work friend has asked me to lunch a few times, but I just can’t afford to go out. I don’t want to assume she is treating me, but I also don’t want to discuss my financial ...

Miss Manners: It’s weird that my friends won’t ever give me a knife at dinner Miss Manners: Is it rude to offer your grocery cart to a shopper who’s going in? Miss Manners: Will there be social ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: My boss let me know that my co-workers have often “told on me,” reporting when I arrive back to work three minutes late from lunch or leave a few minutes early. Miss Manners: Will ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: In this modern age, many workers have the option of working from home at least part of the week. My husband is one of them. Several years ago, he installed himself at the kitchen ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I am employed at a local department store where my primary position is in the dressing room. I check the number of items taken into each room, then I button, zip and hang up items ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: My company has a return to office four days a week mandate this year. While it’s nice to have the in-person camaraderie, co-workers who are conspicuously ill are coming in and ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I work around machinery that features rotating plastic molds. While not common, the molds occasionally catch on a person’s clothing and damage the zipper of one’s pants. When that ...

Dear Miss Manners: The office where I work has about 20 people, half working in person and half remote. A young woman early in her career, who works remotely and is on several of the regular video ...

Miss Manners: Would it be rude to suggest what I want for Mother’s Day? Miss Manners: I’m tired of hearing thrifters brag about how much they save Miss Manners: My wife is a ‘party eraser.’ How can I ...