DEAR MISS MANNERS: I do know a number of individuals who use walkers, and I see a few of the units’ limitations.
It may be exhausting navigating tall curbs, strolling over rocky floor, maneuvering by means of tight areas, strolling downhill, touring for lengthy distances, standing in line for too lengthy, and folding it as much as put in a automotive.
Every now and then, I see somebody utilizing a walker that appears actually well-designed for varied terrains or completely different makes use of. I typically cease and ask them about it — the place they bought it, if it really works nicely, what they consider it, and so on.
Everybody I’ve talked to has been receptive and informative. However now I’m wondering in the event that they had been simply being well mannered and I used to be being a pest. What do you assume?
GENTLE READER: Asking individuals about their medical units is technically not, Miss Manners admits, inquiring into somebody’s medical situation — which might be a no-no — however it’s too practically that to obtain her blessing.
She can be barely extra receptive should you had been utilizing an analogous system your self, or should you had been the individual’s physician. Or mendacity inclined and in want of help.
DEAR MISS MANNERS: I’m employed at a division retailer the place my main place is within the dressing room.
I verify the variety of gadgets taken into every room, then I button, zip and dangle up gadgets to be positioned again on the ground racks.
Our retailer’s dressing room has a restrict of 10 gadgets per buyer at a time. More often than not, the client will carry within the full 10 gadgets, maintain two or three issues and hand the remaining to me when they’re achieved.
Usually they may carry buying carts loaded with greater than 10 issues, attempt on a number of, then carry these again to their cart to swap for extra gadgets. They may nonetheless go away with simply a few gadgets, or none in any respect!
There aren’t practically sufficient racks within the dressing room to rehang all of the gadgets which might be deposited with me. We’re a busy retailer and it’s inconceivable to maintain up with this frenzy.
I want I might get the shop managers to cut back the restrict of things allowed within the dressing room, however that’s not going to occur, so I’m interesting to you girls right here: Rein within the free-for-all try-ons.
You aren’t creating jobs, simply making the work more durable to maintain up with — and making few purchases to point out for it. Most of us solely make minimal wage as it’s.
GENTLE READER: Finishing up a coverage that makes your workday more durable is likely one of the joys of working for others — notably when the coverage is both so poorly thought out or so poorly carried out that it can’t obtain its aims.
However unilaterally implementing one’s personal coverage will end in on the lookout for a brand new job.
And so the choices are: finishing up the objectionable coverage, convincing the boss to see the error of their methods, or discovering a technique to implement the boss’s coverage that does work.
The latter will be the most difficult, however will open up prospects for an excellent higher fourth choice: discovering a extra agreeable job, both by increasing your expertise or by proving your value in your present place.
Please ship your inquiries to Miss Manners at her web site, www.missmanners.com; to her electronic mail, [email protected]; or by means of postal mail to Miss Manners, Andrews McMeel Syndication, 1130 Walnut St., Kansas Metropolis, MO 64106.
