Quote Originally Posted by Tellos Athenaios View Post
But why do you need the affirmation that you rank “below” your boss by calling him by his “title”, rather than by his name?
I mean he's just some poor sod managing a bunch of disinterested employees (including, quite possibly himself) at the local Sainsbury's and you see him pretty much every day at work, and maybe when you do your shopping.

But still, calling your boss Kevin doesn't change the fact of the work situation one bit, does it? So the right manners are obvious (modulo being an expat from a completely different work environment).
I dislike the pretence, we are not all in it together, he was a lazy sod who tried to buddy up with the workers. Of the bosses I have had, I have much prefered the ones who smiled the least.

Why? How does that help, in any meaningful way? I've not actually bettered any of my behaviour by my mother telling me off for it. I have however learned to appreciate the value of proper hygiene without too much persuasion by simple explanation. Just treating children as too stupid to know doesn't really beget you much in the way of respect or obedience if they're of the intelligent (and therefore) inquisitive kind to begin with.
Obedience to authority is a learned behaviour, I learned to obey my parents at a young age. I was never punished for doing something, like not washing my hands, I would be punished for disobedience, like not washing my hands when told to do so.

This is why, at age 24, I have just spent the last week tidying my room after coming home.

I was never treted as stupid, unless I acted like it, but I was taught that "because I say so" was a sufficient explanation in certain circumstances.

People who don't learn that are a liability because later in life when someone in authority tells them "because I say so" they waste time with stupid question lie "why" which can wait until after you are out of the burning building/blast zone/way of the falling tree.