The concierge at my new office insists on calling me 'sir'

[Classic Jorge]

I've asked him to not call me sir four times now yet it's still "Hello Sir"

He sounds like C f**king 3PO

[Berni]

Asking him not to call you 'sir' just makes him think you're a tit.

[Classic Jorge]

He's my equal, there's no need to show me any deference.

[Snin]

shouldnt even be allowed a vote..make him call you boss imo

[Berni]

thing, j. If you actually believed he was your equal, it wouldn't matter a damn to you what he called you. Your very insistence on not being called sir is, in fact, a monstrous act of condescension.

He calls you sir not because he thinks you're better than him (indeed, I'm fairly certain he thinks you're a prick), but because that's the form, it's how he's trained and because it maintains a polite and professional distance between you with which he's comfortable.

All the rest of it's going on in your head, not his.

[Rich]

[Classic Jorge]

I don't want to be called sir, I'm not comfortable with it. Of course, I've not told him not to call me it, I've asked him in a few indirect, polite and humorous ways.

[Brentwood]

[PSRB]

[Classic Jorge]

on your kebab

[Brentwood]

His boss, who is a massive, arrogant ****er, usually sits on the phone with his feet up on the desk while this guy polishes his shoes, and he doesn't even acknowledge him :hehe:

[Classic Jorge]

She's already been in the office editing photos on my big, sexy mac

[Berni]

If you dislike being called 'sir' that much, you must hate it in the states, where anyone in a customer-facing service job calls you 'sir'. To interpret that as deference rather than politeness is a very odd thing imo.

[Classic Jorge]

[Snin]

to try to tell him what to do ? and you do it be passive agressive bullying humour ? you are a monster J..leave the poor chap alone imo hes not hurting anyone..sirs fine..please tell me you dont ask waiters to call you Jorge or whatever ? ffs man get a grip

[Classic Jorge]

"Sir is an honorific address used as a courtesy title to address a man without using his given name or family name in many English speaking cultures. It is often used in formal correspondence (Dear Sir, Right Reverend Sir).

The term is often reserved for use only towards one of superior rank or status, such as an educator, or as a form of address from a merchant to a customer. It can also be used by a boy or young man to address an older man."

[Snin]

and use the money to send money home whilst laughing the silly old english bloke who treated her equaly as he slipped his cock in her bum

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

That would be my advice.

[IUFG]

is that what you want?

[Classic Jorge]

[Berni]

he is not and has no desire to be your friend. Ever.

[Snin]

what to say or not to say..chat to him, take him out for a drink, invite him to stay at xmas ..then maybe he will call you Jorge ? or bender perhaps

[Berni]

you'll have him sacked? That would sort it out, I'm sure.

:hehe:

[Classic Jorge]

Or alternatively he can just call me by name, or mate or squire or dude or negro or whatever

[Luis Anaconda]

and often deferential. The fact is he can't be bothered to remember your name

[Brentwood]

bowing and addressing him as "Your Royal Highness". Unthinkable

[Snin]

your sir arent you ? not even my nigga ?..just sir..face it you are an old ..sir..and put up with it

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

The Lanesborough. When The Savoy re-opened I asked him how he had enjoyed his time at The Lanesborough. His face became blank and impassive, with only the merest twitch of the lips to betray his inner pain. "It was... different, Sir Charlie" he confided. "The people..." here he almost cracked. "There were... Russians, and so on..."

He peered bleakly into the middle distance, but remains to this day somewhat broken by his experience.

It was you he was talking about, j. Chaps with no idea of form.

[IUFG]

everyone would be happy!

[Classic Jorge]

Anyway, I called down to ask whether the kitchen is free yet and whether I could have a bacon sandwich and he's only brought the f**ker up to me.

[Snin]

[Berni]

some half-arsed point are just rude, attention-seeking pricks imo.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Rarely, I grant you.

[Classic Jorge]

[Berni]

Honestly, j, have you no idea? :rolleyes:

[Classic Jorge]

Thank you, sir!

:-(

[Berni]

[Classic Jorge]

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

http://cdn2.herald.ie/migration_catalog/article25350560.ece/9f09a/ALTERNATES/h342/0805_ronan1_Pa


Quite the controversy, and she isn't ever our Queen.

[Brentwood]

I assume that was some sort of anti royal gesture, rather than just slobbishness?

[Berni]

Essentially, that is the history of how we achieved a more egalitarian and less deferential society - by giving the lower orders our cash.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

He didn't really come out of it very well over here either to be honest.

[Berni]

Ill-mannered prick was a f**king dodgy fly-half, too.

[Luis Anaconda]

or where he was, or what day it was

[Classic Jorge]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

What would one expect from a pig but a grunt?

[Brentwood]

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/rugby/rugby-union/news-co mment/kevin-myers-ronan-ogaras-a-real-lout-for-not-giving-th e-queen-some-respect-1685515.html (http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/rugby/rugby-union/news-comment/kevin-myers-ronan-ogaras-a-real-lout-for-not-giving-the-queen-some-respect-1685515.html)

[Classic Jorge]

I get confused/dont care enough to make a distinction

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

Distracted, no offence meant.

It's only the Queen ffs.

[Luis Anaconda]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

limp-wrsited leftists, for whom the Honour of This Great Nation is as tissue paper upon which they wipe their reeking ****tenbums.

[Classic Jorge]

[Berni]

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

No harm done.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Well, we didn't used to. :-(

[Red N White Army]

[Classic Jorge]

Just got to London the concierge up a bit.

I reckon by summer he'll be greeting people with "awightmate"

[Red N White Army]

[Snin]

[Ashberto]

probably best not to get to upset by it all.

I think LA nailed it - it spares the poor chap the need to remember, or even find out - your, and everyone else's, name. If I were him I would count that as a massive f**king blessing as I am hopeless with names, which apparently makes me a very bad person.

[Classic Jorge]