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post #46 of 52
3/22/09 at 2:20pm
Actually ronrover, I think it displayed experience and balls calling him by his first name. These guys at the top, most of the time, are pretty down to earth guys, and it totally flies by calling them mister blah blah blah because they hear it so often. Sometimes they look for personality in their workplace, and they can find it when someone calls them by their first name. It shows you are confident. You guys in that meeting were all middle-aged men, there is no room for acting like an amateur anymore with formal titles. *After you call him by his first name, however, you must punch him in the face and usurp his position at the top. jk
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post #47 of 52
3/22/09 at 2:34pm
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So what do you do when you need to a address a specific ma'am in a group of ma'ams with "elusive" names?

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Yeah, I see your point. I tend to go with "Hey, ... you!"

I say "umm" until they look at me, then I point at the one I'm talking to.
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post #48 of 52
3/22/09 at 3:31pm
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Actually ronrover, I think it displayed experience and balls calling him by his first name. These guys at the top, most of the time, are pretty down to earth guys, and it totally flies by calling them mister blah blah blah because they hear it so often. Sometimes they look for personality in their workplace, and they can find it when someone calls them by their first name. It shows you are confident. You guys in that meeting were all middle-aged men, there is no room for acting like an amateur anymore with formal titles.
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post #49 of 52
3/22/09 at 6:04pm
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You should punch new people you meet in the face and push them to the floor to assert your dominance.

You can accomplish the same thing minus the violence through a handshake.
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post #50 of 52
3/22/09 at 7:41pm
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You can accomplish the same thing minus the violence through a handshake.
Yes!
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post #51 of 52
3/22/09 at 8:38pm
As has already been said, it depends on your age and how senior you are. The older and more senior you are the more you can do away with formalities.

As someone made a comment to you later, I suspect that you are at least reasonably young, and not in a senior position comparable to the others present. You should have called him Mr., or done away with his name altogether "How do you do, I am Robert Thompson", or even just "Robert Thompson".
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post #52 of 52
3/22/09 at 9:05pm
Its ALWAYS Mr. or Ms. Mrs. until you are offered a preferred or more personal name by the person.
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