DEAR MISS MANNERS: I work in a professional office setting, and have felt some disdain from the other women in my office. I am an avid skier, snowboarder, mountain biker and hiker ...
DEAR MISS MANNERS: I work in a professional office setting, and have felt some disdain from the other women in my office. I am an avid skier, snowboarder, mountain biker and hiker, and my boyfriend, daughter and I prioritize these activities in our free time. It’s very clear that my hobbies are quite different from those of the other women at work -- a fact that doesn’t bother me, but seems to bother them.
So I politely declined this regift. Was it rude of me to decline a regift I will never use? In my mind, it was more honest to tell her that we already have passes to the more technical ski hill, thus allowing her to find someone else who would use it. I believe I even offered her that suggestion. I just don’t seem to understand office drama. Maybe that’s because I spend my time out in the forests and on the slopes? Or am I on a different type of slope of being unintentionally rude?
Because Miss Manners thinks you deliberately, if metaphorically, smacked into the scenery with your co-worker. She offered you both a present and, by asking if you could use it, an opportunity to politely decline. All you had to do was thank her and say that you cannot use it, as you have season tickets to another resort.
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