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In a business, a person is to get up to be introduced, and at the conclusion of a meeting. A man is to stand whenever a senior person or visitor enters a room. Getting up is to be based on the position of the person entering the room. This action is normally omitted in regards to an immediate supervisor, co-worker, or when you are ill, or old. A receptionist or a secretary is usually not expected to rise to greet each caller, but may do so as a mark of honor or friendship. A more senior person can avoid getting up to greet a job applicant for a non-executive position. This person may rise for a junior person at a first interview, and at a last interview when an employee is leaving an organization

Remain standing as long as a senior person does, or until you are specifically asked to do otherwise. In business, a senior woman in your chain of command may say, “This is business, you can sit. (Do it.)” Remain standing as long as any man or peer who is talking remains standing.

In social life, stand, if a woman comes to, or is brought to, your desk or table. Stand as long as any woman near is standing (even when asked to do otherwise.) Stand to answer any woman who addresses a remark. Stand the entire time anyone in your party is engaged in conversation with a woman at your table, no matter how long. You can even eat standing. (You may omit standing, when a woman who is working in public comes to your table, unless she is also a close friend.)

In a private home, get up every time a woman enters a room. Remain standing as long as any woman near does, or until specifically asked to do otherwise. When there are more than twelve guests in the room, rise only when a woman joins your group. During an informal occasion as a host you may rise and go forward to greet each adult guest, but not necessarily to greet a child. Handshaking is a probability.

When getting up, pause; keep your upper and lower body in alignment. You can place your hands on the sides of your chair, lift your buttocks, and push your chair back or pull yourself towards the front of your chair. Then you may swivel right and use your hands on your thighs to pull yourself straight up maintaining good posture alignment and your weight evenly balanced. Handshaking may be omitted, or is optional at the lead of the senior person.

When you stand, understand the rules of "Proximics:" how close someone else is willing to stand next to you. As a rule, one to eighteen inches is considered an intimate contact zone. Eighteen to thirty inches is considered a social zone. In the United States of America, most public actions are to be conducted in the social zone.

When you stand, avoid fussing with your hair, picking the lint off of your shoulder, straightening your tie, smoothing your clothing, and/or attempting to scrub the "Damn spot" from your hand. Leave this action to Lady Macbeth. You may offer any visitor a chair.

When a woman gets up, rise half way up to acknowledge her departure. The man to her left is to assist her in getting up. He is to help by pulling out her chair, and then pushing it in to a place six inches in from the edge of the table.