How to Respond to a Good Bonus
A reader wondered: what is the business etiquette for responding to a generous bonus?
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What to Tip Your Secretary for the Holidays
Readers had a LOT of opinions on our poll on what to tip your secretary for the holidays.
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Business Etiquette | Career | Conferences | Just Starting Out | Networking | Office Culture | Professionalism
Asking Your Boss For Help With Networking
If you’re new in the field, should you expect your boss to introduce you to her contacts and take you to networking events? How can you ask her to start helping you network? Reader S wonders… I’m new in my career in a small office and my boss is well established in our field. She…
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Hyphenated Names and Email Addresses
What IS the convention on hyphenated names and email addresses? Does it matter if you have a long, unwieldy email address? We’ve talked about how to choose a last name (as well as name change after divorce), but never about email addresses and names, and Reader E wonders… I was wondering if you have any…
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Worlds Colliding: When Networking Groups Want You to Join a Facebook Group
Can you keep your Facebook account private from colleagues and professional friends? Can you grow your career by networking on Facebook and still have a semblance of a personal life? What is the polite way to respond when asked, as Reader E was, to join a Facebook Group for a committee she’s on? I recently…
