@col You are easy breezy beautiful. Very generous with your co-workers.

@Cheryl Baby is kind of pervy, don’t you think?

@Lynette I always say “dear” when I’m pissed off. That’s my bad.

@HRBabe Wow, you are easy-going.

@Hooligan Bucko? OMG, I haven’t heard that term in years.

@HR/DC/Brian Nicknames bug me. So I’m with you.

@class One person’s sweet old man is another person’s pervert.

@Susan Aw. My sister would kill me.

@Sid You were doin it wrong.

@Jason BRO? God I hate that, too.

well, i did until now.

damn.

Sid.

The VP wants to make up a fancy new job title for the fool who “needs” to be promoted but there isn’t really a good reason? That’s his privilege and I need to find a way to deal. The client who insists on calling me Sue or Susie even though I have never introduced myself that way and my signature line and business cards all read Susan (and only my grandfather and little sister have called me that since I made the switch in the 5th grade)? I now understand more about how you see our relationship than hours of meetings and crucial conversations would provide and you’re either clueless or thoughtless. But again, I have to find a way to work with you.

That said, I call my little sister Kiddo. That’s the right I claim as big sister. She went through a phase in middle school where it really bothered her. I stopped, sort of, but by the time I left for college and she was in high school we’d both fallen back into the habit. I don’t call her that when she’s at work (we work in different facilities in the same system) and try not to do so in front of her in-laws. I say it with love and think she hears in the name all the protectiveness and affection it carries (I hope).

And if you want me to answer, you’ll call me by my name. Otherwise, I assume you are not talking to me.

However. I do make an exception for waitresses and sweet old men who call me “honey.” They get a pass. But coworkers and people who know my name? They are expected to use it.