Dear Miss Manners: I attended a music festival, where I wore pasties instead of a top. While there, I actually ran into a ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: A director at my place of work sent out a system-wide email inviting everyone to a baby shower for her ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I am a professor at a small university. One of my colleagues has the annoying habit of entering my office ...

In today's Miss Manners column, advice columnist Judith Martin offers advice on how to handle colleagues who barge into your ...

We blame kids for bad behaviour, but the truth is adults have quietly stopped teaching basic manners. Without these lessons, ...

Miss Manners: When they hear where I worked, they say horribly rude things Miss Manners: I got my co-worker to stop yelling for me, and now she just barges in Miss Manners: Is it true that I shouldn’t ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I had a choking incident at the office today when I inhaled a cherry tomato. One of my direct reports did the Heimlich maneuver and helped loosen it, and then one of the guys from ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: A good friend asked me to join her and a few other people for lunch. This was not something I wanted to do, so I claimed to have conflicts on the first two dates she suggested. Then ...

Dear Heloise: In response to Diane T. in Arizona, I had the opposite happen to me. I had been going to a hairdresser for many, many years. It was my hairdresser who started to not be on time. My time ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: When did people become so insecure that they take offense at pretty much everything? I’ve noticed a huge shift. Compliments given by strangers are now considered an insult or an ...

As shoppers flood stores across the country during the year’s biggest shopping season, retail workers are bracing for what many describe as the most demanding — and often demoralizing — stretch of the ...

The workplace is an etiquette minefield, it turns out. The Wall Street Journal’s quiz on office manners stoked much debate and some grousing about what’s polite behavior in the modern workplace. And ...