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Top 10 Tips for Responding to Inappropriate Personal Questions at Work
via On Balance by (author unknown) on April 20, 2008
We've all been on the receiving end of painfully personal questions. In the white-collar corporate factories where I've worked, protocols abound, so people are hyper-sensitive to blundering into one's personal life. As a result my awkward questions always come from a) relatives and b) acquaintances. (I find that friends, whom I can pick and choose, don't venture into inappropriate territory too often). One relative inquired, a few days before my wedding, how often I got my period and did I know when I ovulated. A male relative asked me when I'd be able to fit into my jeans again -- two weeks after my first child was born. Another wondered, over dinner with my second husband, whether I missed my first husband. In fairness, I blunder as well. My worst was the time I asked the mother of my daughter's new best friend where they were from. "Ethiopia," the mom
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