!rant

What do you call your boss?
Do you call by their first name basis, last name, or 'sir/madam' or anything else?

Here in India I've seen people calling 'sir/madam' and first name basis.

I really hated it when I visited india, everybody "sir"ed me. It made me feel old and wealthy 😄.

I work in media and advertisement and here everybody is informal and uses the german "du” and first name.

well India is bureaucrats heaven.

Some of us get lucky to get into organization where people prefer calling by name. Well you are lucky.

Otherwise every single organization private to government, you have to give respect to your senior. In Hindi it is simple "Ji" but in English we add Sir.

Technically it is wrong but what can you do. Except following those rules.

And even then in doubts remember your ragging days. All this shit start from there.

@OPM46 I really liked the ragging part. 😂

@AnonymousDev Ah! the fking third button. When the shit started.

First name basis with everyone 😊

First name. They're not better than me, it keeps some sanity in the cooperation and they're not fucking better than me. I'm there for mutual benefits, not to lick arses.

The only people I'd call sir or ma'm would be older people, from which I don't know their name, while asking for it, or to watch out for something.

First name - more so, we are on nickname basis.

m'lord/m'lady

@ihatecomputers in sweden? where nearly everybody abanoned honorific forms in the 60ties? Are you working for the king of sweden? 😲

First name basis.

@heyheni Kinda, since I quit my job I'm my own boss and I refer to myself any way I want 🤓 (Usually "your majesty ihatecomputers, ruler of typos, maker of bugs and unemployed bum extraordinaire".)

I used to talk to my boss just like I would my coworkers and acquaintances since we're not living in the 16th century anymore ✌️ I don't believe that professionalism or worth recide in speech or clothing... So I play that game as little as possible, while trying not to self-sabotage by botching first impressions or coming across as disrespectful. It's a balancing act, for sure. But fancy words are mostly a way of faking the respect mandated by the so-called hierarchy.

I usually greet my muay thai teachers in a very official way though... Which is hypocritical of me since it's a way of confirming the hierarchy.

I guess I can show respect where it is due and that most bosses and managers I've encountered have been incompetent money-grabbing slave masters; not mentors.

/preach

Names (first or last)