DEAR MISS MANNERS: I do know a number of individuals who use walkers, and I see a few of the gadgets’ limitations.
It may be onerous navigating tall curbs, strolling over rocky floor, maneuvering by way of tight areas, strolling downhill, touring for lengthy distances, standing in line for too lengthy, and folding it as much as put in a automobile.
On occasion, 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 received 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 ponder in the event that they had been simply being well mannered and I used to be being a pest. What do you suppose?
GENTLE READER: Asking individuals about their medical gadgets is technically not, Miss Manners admits, inquiring into somebody’s medical situation — which might be a no-no — however it’s too almost that to obtain her blessing.
She could be barely extra receptive in case you had been utilizing an analogous machine your self, or in case you had been the particular person’s physician. Or mendacity inclined and in want of help.
DEAR MISS MANNERS: I’m employed at a division retailer the place my major place is within the dressing room.
I examine the variety of objects taken into every room, then I button, zip and cling up objects to be positioned again on the ground racks.
Our retailer’s dressing room has a restrict of 10 objects per buyer at a time. More often than not, the shopper will carry within the full 10 objects, preserve two or three issues and hand the remaining to me when they’re finished.
Usually they’ll carry procuring carts loaded with greater than 10 issues, attempt on just a few, then carry these again to their cart to swap for extra objects. They’ll nonetheless depart with simply a few objects, or none in any respect!
There aren’t almost sufficient racks within the dressing room to rehang all of the objects which are deposited with me. We’re a busy retailer and it’s unattainable to maintain up with this frenzy.
I want I may get the shop managers to scale back the restrict of things allowed within the dressing room, however that’s not going to occur, so I’m interesting to you ladies right here: Rein within the free-for-all try-ons.
You aren’t creating jobs, simply making the work tougher 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 tougher is without doubt one of the joys of working for others — significantly when the coverage is both so poorly thought out or so poorly carried out that it can not obtain its targets.
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 strategy to implement the boss’s coverage that does work.
The latter could be the most difficult, however will open up potentialities for an excellent higher fourth possibility: discovering a extra agreeable job, both by increasing your expertise or by proving your price in your present place.
