Etiquette - with the Queen of England and Others

It happens every day in the workplace. Those "sticky dilemmas."

I sure went through enough when I was in marketing ... like the CEO who wanted to do his own TV spot, and he was not only unattrative, he came off in front of the camera as deceptive. (How did I know? When you're a marketing CEO, it's your job to know that sort of thing.)

Now, if you were photographing the Queen of England, would you tell her to take off her crown?

In a line too good to have been scripted, the Queen replies, "What do you think this is?"

Quite a multicultural SNAFU here. Annie Leibovitz, hired to photograph the Queen, asks her to remove it (ever how nicely), telling her it would be more "casual." Well, yes, that it would.

COMMENTS:

• Yes, there is "simply going too far"? It's an EQ thing
• Come on now, do you honetly think the Queen of England would "storm out"? Don't you think she would have the offender removed?
• It's a TIARA, not a crown?
• You cannot trust the media, you cannot trust photography any more. It appears she's storming out. That footage was from when she arrived.
  
  Watch a video here:
  -->BBC apologizes to Queen Elizabeth II Or go here:
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• July 12: After implying that the queen stormed out of a photo-shoot with Annie Leibovitz, the BBC refutes the claim and issues an apology. NBC's Martin Savidge reports.

In the workplace, would you:

1. Watch your lawyer practice his jury summary, when you've been asked to watch and give feedback, and then tell him that he needed to make better eye contact?
2. Edit the CEO's article, correcting the grammar? The content? His opinion that "no vice president could be trusted with ..."
3. Advise your colleague that their dress was inappropriate for the office.
4. Tell your secretary she smelled bad.
5. Give negative feedback about anything to a 'superior officer', even if requested.
6. Inform your boss that the reason people wouldn't meet with him was because they said he was always picking his nose.

Tricky questions? The last one is a true example of when a coach was called in to find out why people were avoiding a certain executive.

Nothing's harder than the office politics. Need some help? Take the BUDGET EQ COURSE. There's also the Difficult People course.

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SEEN ON A TSHIRT: I DON'T KNOW IF YOU KNOW THIS
BUT I'M KIND OF A BIG DEAL AROUND HERE

P.S. and so is my crown, as a symbol the UK.