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Dear Mary

Dear Mary: Is my husband’s forgetfulness about fastening his flies costing us friends?

6 February 2021

9:00 AM

6 February 2021

9:00 AM

Q. I was instrumental in finding some much-needed work for a local retired secretary/PA when I recommended her for the transcription of a handwritten historic archive which is owned by a friend. This woman once worked for me and I know her to be completely fastidious. Now she has confessed that her Mac has ‘lost’ or accidentally deleted the contents of the lengthy document she was working on — a week’s work.

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