Just Don't Call Me Boss!

Notice how when people call you "Boss" it's like a back-handed compliment, implying you are somehow the "Man" who doesn't really know the lowdown...

The whole "Boss" thing got started with the success of the film "Zorba The Greek", a dramatization of Nikos Kazantzakis' excellent novel. Zorba became an institution in Greece. There is a restaurant in London called "Zorba's". The film starred Anthony Quinn as Zorba. My Mother went to a party hosted by him in the 60's.

From now on, if anyone addresses me as "Boss", I am going to reply "I am Zorba", straight off the bat and that's my final.

 

Do you feel the same way about 'Guv', as in 'Governor'? I remember they said it all the time in the seventies tv show The Sweeney. I haven't heard it much these days though.

 

"Guv" isn't quite so annoying. But I don't hear it as much these days.

 

I like Chief.

 

I like "Chef."

 

I like American Indians, so when I got called Chief once I felt chuffed hehe. I don't know what the female equivalent is but I liked it lol.

 

Some uses of the term 'Boss' today stems from rap music/culture.

 

i guess i'm glad i've never heard either.
i remember when zorba was a big thing,
but i never went to see it at the time.
(i still don't recall ever having done so, nor feeling compelled to)

a lot of human emotions are not the same for me.
i have my own feelings, am moved by them and so on,
but the longer i live the less i feel i understand
or perhaps i mean relate to,
the ways people feel about things,
and relate to each other themselves.

i certainly do not wish to be agrandized,
or for that matter, even particularly noticed.

if i could manipulate people into opening their own eyes,
without ever noticing i exist in the process,
i would feel very happy and at peace with having done so.

 

"boss" is annoying. so is "sir" when it comes from someone who isn't a stranger.

 

I hate it at work when some smokin' hot 20something year old calls me "sir"...reminds me I'm a gray-haired old fart old enough to be her father....

 

yeah there's that too. the one that bothered me the most was when i was a manager at pizza hut and one of the drivers, who was about 20 or 30 years older than me, would regularly call me "sir." i really don't think he meant it to be condescending, but it felt that way anyway.

 

i prefer to be called Master by my minions.

i can legally use the letters RSE at the end of my name but i dont want to look so pretentious.





i miss rolleyes smiley

they replaced the Master designation with Journeyperson a while back

 

You find it condescending, them imagine receiving a Dear Boss letter from reputedly the first serial killer ever in Jack the Ripper



Hotwater

 

Ok little buddy

 

Would you prefer "Sugar Daddy"?

 

Tis Amazing The Difference One Little Letter Can Make......



Cheers Glen.

 

How about 'squire' - I've been called that before now.

Peasants I suppose.

 

I used to have an avuncular guy call me squire when I was a young man. Squire is okay. He also used to say "Be paranoid...Be very paranoid" (Intended as a form of self-protection.)

 

People under the feudal system had reasons to be paranoid.