Miss Manners: What Can We Do About Volunteer Who Prayerfully Refers to Meal Ingredients as Poisons, Toxins?

Miss Manners: Our coworker’s blessing sounds like an exorcism of our food

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I am happily employed by a very low-key, faith-based organization. Community and collaboration are part of our work culture, so leadership encourages our teams to share holy day meals together several times a year. We always pray a simple blessing before we eat.

Miss Manners: Co-worker insists on ‘praying’ the toxins and poisons out of foods at the company meal

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I am happily employed by a very low-key, faith-based organization. Community and collaboration are part of our work culture, so leadership encourages our teams to share holy day meals together several times a year. We always pray a simple blessing before we eat.

Miss Manners: What can we do about volunteer who prayerfully refers to meal ingredients as poisons, toxins?

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I am happily employed by a very low-key, faith-based organization. Community and collaboration are part of our work culture, so leadership encourages our teams to share holy day meals together several times a year. We always pray a simple blessing before we eat.

Miss Manners: My co-worker performs an exorcism for the toxins in our potluck, and I find it rude

At our work meals, a coworker interrogates us about food sourcing, then prays to cast 'toxins' out of dishes we prepared. How do I handle this rudeness?

Miss Manners: My co-worker calls our potluck dishes ‘poison’ in her prayers

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I am happily employed by a very low-key, faith-based organization. Community and collaboration are part of our work culture, so leadership encourages our teams to share holy day meals together several times a year. We always pray a simple blessing before we eat.

Miss Manners: Co-worker adds her own blessing to ‘cast out toxins’ from food

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I am happily employed by a very low-key, faith-based organization. Community and collaboration are part of our work culture, so leadership encourages our teams to share holy day meals together several times a year. We always pray a simple blessing before we eat.