You have the principle right, although I think you should ... business? "...worth returning". I've got to cool off after that. I'm sure your bosses were really pleased you dragged them from an important meeting to speak to a

on 31 Oct 2003: The sentence makes no sense. First, an infertile woman will ... the same for infertile women." Again, the sentence is nonsense. Elsewhere in the article, 'infertile' is defined as 'conceiving only after more than

Charles Riggs filted: It is also rude to call and ... under no obligation to obey the rule you imply above..r Rudeness, in a professional office setting, does not demand rudeness in response. (Newsgroups, of course, are another matter.) Anyway,

You have the principle right, although I think you should find some way of learning from the caller who they ... there, is the person might simply say "Yes"! In that case, I'd say she doesn't rightly deserve a call back. All the

The knighthood follows the job, not the other way around. ... run their businesses. Many of these "Sirs" started with nothing. Okay, but what's the process? Is any sufficiently large and publicly responsible UK enterprise entitled to

The knighthood follows the job, not the other way around. ... run their businesses. Many of these "Sirs" started with nothing. Okay, but what's the process? Is any sufficiently large and publicly responsible UK enterprise entitled to

Is no one going to complain about that "As" business? ... ago, surely it is for single letters. A's, B's, C's. I deleted the "As" once before posting, so I will complain along with you. It might also be:

I don't think it's rude, but it may be counterfactual, ... inevitably has the "Sir" title? Seems awfully suspicious to me. The knighthood follows the job, not the other way around. Big businesses don't trawl the impoverished

In general, "Who's calling" is no way to introduce your office to a person wishing to do business with it. No way. As Skitt implied, it isn't proper in the home either. Well, on those occasions when I really want to know (to

Amazon has just introduced a full-text search feature that I ... "Search Inside the Book", and it allows you to search... Yup - 'fraid so. This is going to royally bugger up the business of generating (=SDC=) questions. Used to be