Business Etiquette Quiz: Are You a Goofus or a Gallant?


As longtime readers of Highlights know, it's better to be a Gallant than a Goofus. Gallant would hold the door for a woman carrying packages. Goofus would watch her drop the bags and laugh. The extreme difference between the two made it easy to learn right from wrong.

Then, we went to work and the rules got complicated. While making introductions, lunching with clients and going to cocktail parties, you may think you're Gallant dazzling the office with marvelous manners, but there's always the possibility that you are poor, ignorant Goofus, getting under everyone's skin. Take our quiz, and find out how much business etiquette you actually know.

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  1. When you walk into a meeting, you:
    • Sit next to the chairperson or senior officer
    • Pick a chair, any chair
    • Ask if it's okay to sit anywhere
  1. You wake up late and rush to the office only to discover your computer ate a very important file. When manager Kate says, "How do you do?" you say:
    • "How do you do?"
    • "Great! Never better!"
    • "I had a tough morning, but it's getting better."

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