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Awesome Etiquette

Episode 378 - Holiday Office Party

Awesome Etiquette

Daniel Post Senning

Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Relationships, Kids & Family

4.4645 Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2021

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to Awesome Etiquette, where we explore modern etiquette through the lens of consideration, respect and honesty. On today’s show we take your questions on cashing in a rain check, etiquette when it comes to masks and those who can’t hear, someone using your seats at a sporting event, and writing a thank you note to someone who passes on their books to you. For Awesome Etiquette Sustaining members our question is about buying holiday gifts with employee store credit. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript on hosting holiday office parties. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Maybe it's just that you don't know how to use social courtesy.

0:09.0

Oh, that's old-fashioned.

0:12.0

Watch how Lizzie Post and Dan Post Senate act as host and hostess.

0:18.0

They know that courtesy means showing respect, thinking of the other person,

0:23.1

real friendliness. Hello. And welcome to awesome etiquette, where we explore modern etiquette

0:30.1

through the lens of consideration, respect, and honesty. On today's show, we take your questions

0:35.3

on cashing in a rain check, etiquette when it comes to masks and those who can't hear, what to do about someone using your reserved seats at a sporting event, and writing a thank you note to someone who passes on their book collection to you.

0:50.7

For awesome etiquette sustaining members, our question of the week is about buying holiday

0:55.3

gifts with employee store credit.

0:57.8

Plus your most excellent feedback etiquette salute and a postscript on hosting holiday office

1:04.0

parties.

1:04.8

All that coming up.

1:07.3

Awesome etiquette comes to you from the studios of our home offices in Vermont and is proud to be produced by the Emily Post Institute. I'm Lizzie Post. And I'm Dan Post Sending.

1:17.4

Because I know it's actually in the rearview mirror now, but because we haven't had a chance to discuss it with our audience real quickly, did you have a nice Thanksgiving?

1:26.2

I did. It was really nice. Oh, good. I'm so glad you asked. It takes me back to a very happy memory. I was already ready to talk about everything that's coming up and where we're going. And it's really nice to reflect that Thanksgiving weekend was. It was a real treat. And what about yourself? How was your Thanksgiving?

1:44.6

It was good. I will say that we give out a particular piece of advice about being careful about changing traditions. And my little grouping fell prey to that advice not going that well this particular Thanksgiving.

1:59.5

And I was the one who was griping, but it was our schedule completely changed.

2:05.7

And like nobody had told me that the schedule for the day completely changed until like the

2:10.6

night before. And that it really did actually throw me off. And I will say because that I had

2:17.0

such a beautiful meal. It was so great

2:20.0

to spend time with my niece and nephew and just everybody in the house. And it was, it was really,

2:25.1

really nice. But I really miss the big family Thanksgiving, the one where all the relatives

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