Work Etiquette Question

[lph]

The use of "my" grates much more than the use of "girl". Some people use "girl" all the time. I consider it a diminutive or casual term, fine for friends or in a very casual sense, but not really appropriate in a lot of settings.

I have a personal crusade to get people to use the term "woman" in all settings where they would use "man" to describe a male Especially in Norwegian, a female stranger is usually described as either a "girl" or a "lady", whereas a male stranger would just be a "man". I'd really like to see the neutral term "woman" be used more, because it doesn't hold any connotations.

No, I don't get miffed if a male colleague calls me a girl, or us female colleagues collectively as "the girls". But I'll respond by calling them "boys"

[Tuckervill]

The use of "my" grates much more than the use of "girl". Some people use "girl" all the time. I consider it a diminutive or casual term, fine for friends or in a very casual sense, but not really appropriate in a lot of settings.

Yes. I belong to NO one. For a man to use it to refer to a coworker smacks of women-as-property, and I'm just not tolerating that.

Girl, gal, I don't care, until you put the word "my" in front of it.

Karen

[SadieKate]

Thanks, all, you've been giving me some ammo.

Mimi, are you able to quote your company's guidelines?