My Serfdom for a Ticket

I am a full-time intern at an arts organization. For months, I've been working with my boss on the annual fund-raising gala. Recently, I learned that everyone involved was given two tickets to the performance and the dinner afterward - except me. I will be working during the show, and only received one ticket to the dinner. Should I feel insulted that I'm being treated differently and can't bring my partner to an event I spent hundreds of hours working on? E. G. M., New York Try not to Marlboro Gold make this personal. Your boss is focused on raising buckets of cash from no more than a few big donors and hundreds of plates of rubber chicken. You are the last thing on her mind. And because you'll work during the Online Cigarettes show (and I hate to break it to you, probably during the dinner, too), your partner may get lonely. You'll be up and down like a (low man on the totem pole) jack-in-the-box. Don't stew. Find your boss in a Carton Of Newports good mood and say: "Depending on ticket sales, can we spare a seat for my partner? I'd love to show him what we created." Then live with the answer. You are not an employee yet, though you may want to be. Stay on your boss's good side. Time to Build Cooperation I am building a new house. Every time I walk in, the workers are blaring music - in Spanish, no less. I can't hear myself think, much less have a conversation. Is it rude to ask the workers to turn off the music when they see me coming?Anonymous You may feel like an interloper at your site, but I promise, you are paying for every last nail. (Also, the music would be just as deafening in English. Happily, volume knobs work Newport 100S in all languages.) Ask your contractor if he could kill the tunes when you come for meetings. There will be no insurrection - though the joint will be a little less caliente.