Cecilie1200
Diamond Member
I come from a very long Southern heritage on both sides of my family, but I live in the Southwest. This makes for problems, because it is a deeply-ingrained cultural instinct for me to call people "Ma'am" or "Sir". In fact, unless I am very well acquainted-with someone, I feel deeply uncomfortable addressing them by their first name, and if it's someone I am blatantly not a social equal with, such as a boss . . .
This, of course, is a problem, since our society has long since embraced a forced casualness in personal interactions, and outside of the South, insists on equating such polite titles as age-related.
Obviously, if we're talking about my boss, I'm going to accommodate his request in this regard. Being me, my attitude toward anyone who isn't handing me a check is "Suck it up, buttercup", and if they push it, I will put on a faux outraged imitation of leftist SJWs and say, "How dare you disrespect my culture! Microaggression!" But in all seriousness, this really does make me very uncomfortable, and I find it extremely awkward.
What does everyone else think on this subject?
This, of course, is a problem, since our society has long since embraced a forced casualness in personal interactions, and outside of the South, insists on equating such polite titles as age-related.
Obviously, if we're talking about my boss, I'm going to accommodate his request in this regard. Being me, my attitude toward anyone who isn't handing me a check is "Suck it up, buttercup", and if they push it, I will put on a faux outraged imitation of leftist SJWs and say, "How dare you disrespect my culture! Microaggression!" But in all seriousness, this really does make me very uncomfortable, and I find it extremely awkward.
What does everyone else think on this subject?