words that make you grit your teeth

[TsPoet]

Oooh, the last name thing got me.

I hate, absolutely HATE when someone addresses a woman as Mrs. John Hislastname.

Hate it to the point where I will ask the woman in question when she changed

The floor I work on has two groups and managers of those groups are on either end, they are also married, I'll call them Brian and Karla Smith. I once heard a high level person in the company introduce a group of people to several of my coworkers, as "This is Dr Jones, and this is Dr Smith, and this is Mrs Smith". Karla is also a PhD.
I was furious. Karla did nothing, but I don't know what she could have done.
I was standing there, and I wasn't introduced at all, but that didn't make me nearly as angry as Karla not getting the same respect as the two guys there at the time.

[ilima]

The floor I work on has two groups and managers of those groups are on either end, they are also married, I'll call them Brian and Karla Smith. I once heard a high level person in the company introduce a group of people to several of my coworkers, as "This is Dr Jones, and this is Dr Smith, and this is Mrs Smith". Karla is also a PhD.
I was furious. Karla did nothing, but I don't know what she could have done.
I was standing there, and I wasn't introduced at all, but that didn't make me nearly as angry as Karla not getting the same respect as the two guys there at the time.

My dissertation advisor & her husband both graduated from Wisconsin. She said the alumni mail sent to her husband is addressed as Dr. while hers is Mrs. She laughed about it, but she was a bit chuffed about it, too.

Karla's hubby or the other person should have taken the opportunity to refer to her as Dr. So-and-so.