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kramus · 03-24-2011, 12:41 PM

Never having been in the military I don't have any experience in formal interaction with an organizational superior.

I always referred to pretty well anybody by, interchangeable, their surnames with proper prefix or given name ("howdy Mr. Smith" or "howdy Bob" - this goes for the cleaning staff on up to the company president), workplace nick name or job name ("howdy fellow racker/inspector" "howdy Dildo" or "howdy departmental supervisor person"), a general greeting no matter who was in the group ("howdy folks").

I was never given any reason to think any of my greetings to be unacceptable by anyone. If I had been given any static/attitude I probably would have asked the grief-giver just what bug had flown up their ass to make them such a piece of work. This again goes for everyone from the cleaning staff on up to the company president

You can guess I've been pure blue-collar my entire working career. I've been told by my Lady that my responses to some situations she finds herself in professionally would not be acceptable. My response to that is "fuck'em", but then I don't have anything invested in appearing subservient, servile, or placatory towards anyone in a work environment.

I call officers of the law "Officer", doctors in a hospital "Doctor" and when instructed on what to call a judge I would no doubt refer to one as "your Honour" or whatever it is. But if I shared turf with those folks as part of my job I would assume a different, less formal and more interpersonally aware relationship existed between us.

meh.

03-24-2011, 12:41 PM	#6 (permalink)
kramus loving the curves Location: my Lady's manor	Never having been in the military I don't have any experience in formal interaction with an organizational superior. I always referred to pretty well anybody by, interchangeable, their surnames with proper prefix or given name ("howdy Mr. Smith" or "howdy Bob" - this goes for the cleaning staff on up to the company president), workplace nick name or job name ("howdy fellow racker/inspector" "howdy Dildo" or "howdy departmental supervisor person"), a general greeting no matter who was in the group ("howdy folks"). I was never given any reason to think any of my greetings to be unacceptable by anyone. If I had been given any static/attitude I probably would have asked the grief-giver just what bug had flown up their ass to make them such a piece of work. This again goes for everyone from the cleaning staff on up to the company president You can guess I've been pure blue-collar my entire working career. I've been told by my Lady that my responses to some situations she finds herself in professionally would not be acceptable. My response to that is "fuck'em", but then I don't have anything invested in appearing subservient, servile, or placatory towards anyone in a work environment. I call officers of the law "Officer", doctors in a hospital "Doctor" and when instructed on what to call a judge I would no doubt refer to one as "your Honour" or whatever it is. But if I shared turf with those folks as part of my job I would assume a different, less formal and more interpersonally aware relationship existed between us. meh. __________________ And now to disengage the clutch of the forebrain ... I'm going with this - if you like artwork visit http://markfineart.ca