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Should Kids Sell at Work? Etiquette Expert Weighs In
12/15/2025
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Story summary
- A reader questions whether employers should allow their children to sell items at work, especially when the boss accompanies them, which can pressure employees to buy.
- Miss Manners (the etiquette columnist) acknowledges the dilemma but says employees are not obliged to purchase items they do not want.
- She suggests handling it by talking with the children about their products and declining to buy if necessary, hoping parents learn a lesson.
