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bertha katzenengel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-01-06 08:36 PM
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Poll question: Does it irritate you to be called HON or other such things at work?
Edited on Sat Apr-01-06 08:43 PM by bertha katzenengel
I'm trying to figure out if this is a habit I should break. I call everyone (staff, not attorneys), "honey," "hon," "sweetie," "my dear," "cutie pie," etc. Never anything that would cross the line into sexual harassment.

But it's DC, not Baltimore, hon.*

So I'd like to know: If someone at your work uses terms of endearment like that with you, does it irritate you? Or upset you in some way? Please elaborate.

Thanks!

* wonder how many people will get that? ;)
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miss_american_pie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-01-06 08:38 PM
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1. Other
It all depends on how it's said. There was a guy I used to work with that I almost smacked once.

And I do it all the time, too. I'm trying to stop.
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bertha katzenengel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-01-06 08:42 PM
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6. thanks for your reply
I used to call groups of folks "kids." For example I'd walk into the break room and say to the assembled, "Hi, kids." Just a greeting, right? One woman - maybe in her 50s - ripped me a new one for that, saying "I'm not a kid" etc. I wasn't trying to be inappropriate. I didn't mean to hurt her. I was very young. And I was fired from that job (for something else), and I'm sure there was rejoicing. :shrug:

I want to stop, too. But see -- I LOVE PEOPLE! And I want them to know it. What to do, what to do.

Dig your handle, Miss Pie. ;)
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miss_american_pie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-01-06 08:43 PM
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8. Thanks
And I do it completely out of affection, too. But my four year old started calling me "honey" in public, so I figured I should stop.
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NNadir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-01-06 08:38 PM
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2. Slightly bugs me, except when my wife does it.
I always want to be her "hon."
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bigwillq Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-01-06 08:40 PM
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3. I never say those at work
and no one ever says them to me.

But when I'm out and about in the bar/club/with friends or family--

I use "babe" and "sweetie" a lot.
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YellowRubberDuckie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-01-06 08:40 PM
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4. One of my guy friends at work calls me Puddin'...
And I totally love it. He's like a big brother and I love him. It makes me all tingly when he calls me that.
Duckie
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bertha katzenengel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-01-06 08:42 PM
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7. Puddin'
oh, that is SO sweet, and that it makes you tingly... what a lovely thing to read this night.

:hug: loveya, Duckie
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YellowRubberDuckie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-01-06 08:44 PM
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9. I'm not attracted to the guy or anything...
He's just a good friend. Of Course it also makes me gooey when Skip calls me Schnooger, which is a cross between Schnookums and Sugar that he made up when we first got together...But that's not at work. :evilgrin:
I love ya too, Bertha! :hug:
Duckie
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ZombieNixon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-01-06 08:41 PM
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5. Hon, if they know you're from Maryland...
all will be forgiven. ;)

(I know, I live in Chicago, but I spend the first ten years of my life halfway between DC and Baltimore)
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bertha katzenengel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-01-06 10:06 PM
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14. There is a sign on the Baltimore-Washington Parkway, where you
cross into Baltimore. The sign sais "Welcome to Baltimore." One time when I was driving to BWI I saw that someone had tacked a big paper sign underneath. So the sign read "Welcome to Baltimore Hon." :rofl:
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BelleCarolinaPeridot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-01-06 08:48 PM
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10. I would take " hon " anytime .
Because of the way things are at my job , I could be called worse .
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SeattleGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-01-06 09:10 PM
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11. I said "Other", though generally I don't mind it.
I really like the people I work with, and we all get along really well. Not that we go around calling each other "Hon" all the time, but there is an occasional term of endearment spoken now and then.

However, if someone from another office that I didn't really know did that, I wouldn't like it.
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Alleycat Donating Member (992 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-01-06 09:12 PM
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12. It's been a long time since I heard
hun, babe, sweetheart, sweetie, I'd probably kiss the guy who said it and be then I'd be disciplined!
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reyd reid reed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-01-06 09:15 PM
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13. Only one person at work calls me anything other than my name
Normally it doesn't bother me, 'cause it's just what he does...no biggie.

Except for once, when I had to call him about something, he thought I was his mother.

The next time he called me whatever the endearment of the day was...I wanted to slug him.




When people who call in call me 'sweetie' or 'honey' or 'dear'...THAT annoys the shit outta me.
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