Content about Emily Post

March 24, 2011
Last Word: A Little Bit Pregnant?

Either you’re pregnant or you’re not. It’s the same with being on time. Either you’re on time or you’re late, and that’s an ineffective way to start any meeting. Here are five essential tips for people who are preparing for an interview--whether it’s for a job, a promotion, a new client, or new business you’re trying to land--and they start with being on time.

By Peter Post

A reporter for the Washington Post called one day. She authors an “Ask the Expert” column and had a question for me: “This guy wants to know if he was treated badly. He went to two interviews. For the first he was 20 minutes late. He understood why he might not get that job. For the second he was only five minutes late. But again he didn’t get the job, and his lateness turned out to be a factor. He wanted to know, ‘Was this fair?’”