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Thursday October 4th, 2012 - 18h00
Royal Ottawa Golf Club
4 course meal
$77 per person plus taxes and service
As per club policy, no jeans please


Heat wave attire

BY: julie
Tags: 
At work,
Office,
professional attire,
heat wave,
office wear,
dress code

Sticky situation: The weather!

 

The heat is on and off come the layers.

 

The thermometer rises and down come the dress codes.

Embarassing BBQ situations

BY: julie
Tags: 
At home,
hostess gift,
exiting boring conversation,
barbecue,
vegetarian at a barbecue

Yeah! The first long weekend of the summer is here and you need it, to recharge your batteries, unplug the techno and reconnect with loved ones.

 

 

In Canada, this first three-day break of the summer generally means a combination of planting, freshening up our homes and an invitation to a barbecue.

 

Here are five barbecue sticky situations and their solutions:

 

 

As published in the Huffington Post Canada.

 

1. What can I bring as a hostess gift, if I don't drink wine? 

My friend is always late

BY: julie
Tags: 
sticky situation,
late,
late friend,
etiquette

I liked your last Sticky situation blog about how to cope with a late colleague. You had some good suggestions in there. I would not have thought of them.

 

Now, for the socially late: what can I do about my friend who always arrives late?

 

She does not seem to understand the impact it has on the lives of others, 

Late colleague

BY: julie
Tags: 
At work,
sticky situation,
late colleague,
Civility,
business etiquette

Sticky situation:

What can I do about a colleague's perpetual lateness?

 

Five to 10 minutes after the start of our weekly meetings, coffee in hand, he waltzes in and usually says something like: "What did I miss?"

 

When we collaborate on reports, he pushes back the deadline for his part, which must be completed before mine. I then have to rush through my portion of the work, which sometimes means working overtime, to respect the project's delay.

 

This is more than an annoyance. It is disruptive and unproductive. And frankly, I feel that it is very disrespectful of my time and me.

 

Help!


Solution(s):

 

Teaching table manners

BY: julie
Tags: 
At home,
Dining,
Table Manners,
Dining Etiquette,
ten commandments,
Easter

Ten Dining Commandments

Every Easter, somewhere between Good Friday and Easter Monday, you are bound to see a clip of Charlton Heston's epic performance as Moses in Cecil B. De Mille's 1956 movie, The Ten Commandments.

 

Every Easter, somewhere between Good Friday and Easter Monday, when sharing a meal in the company of others, you are bound to look at one of your loved ones, and think: "I can't believe he just bit, licked and sucked." And nooooo, he wasn't eating the traditional Cadbury Creme Egg. Enough of this! You vow to teach your family proper table manners.

 

Solution(s):

 

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