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Post by pearly queen on Jan 4, 2007 11:47:14 GMT
I have NEVER worked in a place where we were required to formally address the managers - and neither has anyone alse I know. It's first name terms in most places these days, surely, and this Mr Connor nonsense is so out of date.
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Post by sootycat on Jan 4, 2007 12:18:11 GMT
The workforce are going to have to end up calling them Paul and Liam, otherwise there will be so much confusion going on as as to who is which, as it started to show last night. ;D.
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Post by RitaLittlewood on Jan 4, 2007 14:08:23 GMT
Isn't that like Mr Baldwin and Mr Baldwin?
Patsy
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Post by Nick on Jan 4, 2007 16:05:34 GMT
Yes pats..they didnt seem to have any problems with the two Baldwins
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Post by RitaLittlewood on Jan 4, 2007 16:06:24 GMT
I'm sure they'll get round it somehow.
Patsy
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Post by pearly queen on Jan 4, 2007 17:23:25 GMT
Yes pats..they didnt seem to have any problems with the two Baldwins Janice used to get away with calling Danny 'Danny' because she was practically his step-mother-in-law so he tolerated her familiarity. I don't recall anyone calling Adam 'Mr Barlow' when he was there - especially Joanne, his girlfriend. It's all first names at Streetcars, the Rovers, the Kabin - and imagine if Roy asked Vera and Becky to call him 'Mr Cropper'? Liam and Paul need to drop this forelock-tugging Mr Connor crap and get real. . |
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Post by sallywebster on Jan 4, 2007 18:50:08 GMT
We always call our managers by their first names at work. However my mum said in her day it was always "Mr" or "Mrs".
They did call Adam "Mr Barlow", although I doubt Joanne did seen as she was his girlfriend.
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Post by Nick on Jan 4, 2007 18:57:28 GMT
When I first started work in 1977 we called our bosses Mrs this and Mrs that (What unusual names lol)...but by the time I started my second job in 1981 it was all first names
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Post by sallywebster on Jan 4, 2007 18:59:24 GMT
These days they like to have a more friendly relationship with bosses. I dont shorten any bosses names though, I call them their full names.
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Post by valda on Jan 4, 2007 23:06:02 GMT
cal me old fashioned I still call my hubby,s bosse.s Mr and Mrs so does my hubby as it show,s respect  , even though they want us to call them by they,re first name,s it just doesn,t seem right to us |
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Post by sallywebster on Jan 4, 2007 23:11:07 GMT
I still call some of my mum and dad's friend Mr and Mrs too Valda, it does show respect particuarly if they are older people.
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Post by Jade on Jan 5, 2007 1:04:52 GMT
Not always only in some places a load of bosses want respect and like that feeling of authority also they are your boss and not necessary your friend.
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Post by pearly queen on Jan 5, 2007 8:05:14 GMT
Lots of older people introduce themselves as Mr or Mrs So and So - because that's from their era - and they expect people to address to them as such.
They don't have such formality where I work, as respect (or lack of!) is
conveyed quite obviously and successfully among the workforce anyway.
I've had a few managers down the years who were complete to$$ers - and calling them 'Mr Whatever' would not have implied any respect at all, since I had none.
First name terms make managers more approachable, IMO - there is less of a 'them and us' situation.
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, even though they want us to call them by they,re first name,s it just doesn,t seem right to us