addressing colleagues

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Sorry, if you are working with me please take the time to learn my first name. I learned yours. If you are too new to have learned everyone's name then I prefer "Hey, I'm sorry I forgot your name". I'll tell you it as many times as I need to for you to remember it. :chair:

Just say, "my name's Talltale, what's yours?" If they don't know you don't like to be called "girl" how can they change?

i'm just curious. i work in a hospital where nurses address each other 'girl'. i don't really like being called girl especially in the work environment.. even those who are like 10 yrs younger than me call me girl and just today i have been pulled out to another area and one called me 'boy' when i didnt mind her because she was calling me girl across the hall. i don't know if it's just me or do others feel the same way too? can anyone tell me how they address each other at work?

is this a serious question??? You really couldnt have figured this out on your own?? wow.. " Can you please stop calling me girl, my name is ____________." :hlk: geeesh............

Hey you!

haha just kidding, that actually would annoy me too. Ditto what everyone else said.

Just correct them when they call you "girl", and say, "Um...I really don't appreciate you calling me 'girl' when you address me. It's GORGEOUS girl. BTW, my real name is XYZ, but you can still address me as Gorgeous Girl."

They won't forget your name from that point on.

I may be guilty of this myself. When I'm flummoxed by something, I tend to say, "girl, did you SEE the BM that came out of that poor little thing, OMG, no wonder she felt bad" or, "girl, how are we gonna get 4 units of PRBCs down a 24 gauge that's sitting up there on the poor little thing's knuckle, she's go no veins, why, WHY didn't they put in a central line..."

And "girl" beats what I'd like to call folks sometimes, that's for sure....like the folks who think you can give 4 units of PRBCs down a 24, and you end up getting a surgical consult for a triple lumen at 8pm, as opposed to during the day when everyone' awake and a lot less grumpy about it....

thanks for the insight but yes i was serious when i did this post.

I hate it when nurses say B...... Please, lucky B......, etc in the work environment. I made it clear to one who said it( she was joking) but I find it unprofessional and offensive. I get so annoyed whe nurses call their patients honey, sweety, sweetheart, sugar, pumpkin, cupcakes ....every bakery word yo can think of. Very unprofessional and nasty at the same time. So weired to hear a 23-27 year old nurse saying to a 60-70 year old guy, honey, sweety etc. Ewww just ewww.you have to set limits for coworkers and they will know not to cross the boundaries.

I wouldn't like it. I'm not that crazy about my name either, but at least it's my name, and not some generic term that probably developed from a lack of IRL contact d/t chronic texting