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Miss Manners keeps urging people (to no avail whatsoever) not to make personal celebrations into office parties.
These are not people who were drawn together voluntarily by mutual affection, but co-workers who are there to make their living. True, many of them may become friends and share one another's joys and sorrows, but others may find that a cordial working relationship is all they want or can manage to summon to conceal their distaste. It can become too much to expect these people to fake
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If something bad smells in the basement, it will eventually make its way to the attic.
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