"Everyday Etiquette"
This week's etiquette lesson comes to us from the chapter entitled:
Let's join our lesson, already in progress...I am a personal secretary for a major executive of my firm. When my phone rings should I say, "Miss Brown speaking" or should I say, "Mr. Carstair's office, Miss Brown speaking" or just "Mr. Carstair's office." -M.J.B. Flemington, New Jersey
You say "Mr. Carstair's office," and add, if you wish, "Miss Brown speaking."
-Hey Miss Brown, you just missed 5 phone calls while writing this letter asking how you should answer the phone. You're fired.
-Horshack would never have this problem: "Hello, Mr. Carstair-r-r's office!"
And that concludes another lesson in "Everyday Etiquette". Please tune in next week when we will learn what our calling cards should read when we're divorced and the ex dies. dum dum DUM!
**Questions and Answers from "Everday Etiquette: Answers to Today's Etiquette Questions" by Amy Vanderbilt, 1952-1956. Snark responses from "Maggi", 2010**
**Please note, all snark implied is just that, snarkiness. Please answer all phones correctly or we will descend into chaos...**
**Please note, all snark implied is just that, snarkiness. Please answer all phones correctly or we will descend into chaos...**
Ha ha!
ReplyDeleteAnd look, only a couple generations later and now we say "Yo, 'sup! Homies in da HOUUUSE!"
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ReplyDeletelol, that was funny!!
ReplyDeletetoo funny! totally cracks me up though, because I have NEVER worked a job where they didn't tell me how to answer the phone. Doh!
ReplyDeleteHa! God forbid the woman identify herself rather than immediately say who she's working for.
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ReplyDeleteHow very "madmen". love it! zootsuitmama
ReplyDeleteLove this, thought this would of been common sense actually don't waist my time writing in silly mare! ha ha
ReplyDeleteAnd your comments crack me up!
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