Plus: My boss left my thoughtful gift to him sitting around unused for more than a year.
1. Sensible hotel pool owners post rules, even if they do not enforce them. You should feel free to suggest this to management during your next stay. They do not want pool confrontations any more than you do.
2. Absent such a posting, primary responsibility to avoid a collision lies with the person in motion — meaning a careless swimmer who barrels into an innocent fellow guest owes an apology. 3. Aggressive swimmers are often aggressive in other ways. Coming back later or crowding into a smaller space may therefore be safer than knowingly courting a collision by standing in the middle of the pool with a beatific, but distracted, smile.I am the executive assistant to an attorney. While I was out on medical leave, I had a birthday present for him delivered to his office. He called and thanked me for the “very thoughtful gift.”a thoughtful gift.
Fast-forward six weeks. I returned to work and found the present unwrapped but unopened on the floor next to his credenza. There it rested for one year and 26 days, until he finally removed the present from its box, plugged it in and used it for about two weeks. It was then turned off and remains visible but unused.Three thoughts come to mind: 1. Your boss did not value the gift as much as you hoped he would. 2. He is not socially adept enough to have disposed of the evidence. 3.
Miss Manners will add two more thoughts: 1. Go on about your business. 2. It hardly seems necessary to give birthday presents to your boss — it may even embarrass him — but if you feel you have to do so again, do not worry if your next gift is more perfunctory.
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