To not want telephone operators to call me by my first name?

[NeoMaxiZoomDweebie]

AIBU? I've had to call Tesco mobile twice today and they ask my name and my password...I say "It's Neo Maxizoomdweebie" and they then say "Alright thank's Neo...how can I help you?"

And I'm thinking NO! Call me "Miss Mazizoomdweebie please!"

Some companies say "Ok do you mind if I call you Neo?" and I say "Yes...I do actually." and I can HEAR them go

But they then call me by my title and 2nd name. One operator today called me Neo and then reduced that to "love".!!

I AM a bit old fashioned...but come on!

It always comes down to class on MN.

What a load of bollocks.

Terry's class has nothing to do with this. I mix with a very broad group both professorially and socially and in my experience class doesn't come into it.

Thank you Usual. The hilarious thing is that it's only the screaming middle classes who give a shit.

True,neo. It's only the supposed MC on mn that bang on about class.

I don't think we can say that class does or doesn't come into this. We can only say how we see it.

I too mix with a very broad group both professionally and socially and in my experience class does come into it, NeoMaxiZoomDweebie. Sorry if that offends you but I can only speak from my own experience.

Well from my experience of being WC I think you don't know what you are talking about.

You're entitled to your opinion, usualsuspect, just as I'm entitled to mine.

I know a Lydia and she hates people calling her Lyd or even worse Lyds.

I do t blame her.

I also have a name which people shorted to a made up word. I hate it, especially of I don't really know the person. It's rude IMO to shorten someone's name unless you're introduced to them, with the shortened version.

IWillGetThere. You're comment was very rude and rather goady.

I absolutely loathe it - it puts my back right up! I remember my mum getting really annoyed with a new gym opening that used her first name without asking - boy did they get a large piece of her mind (she is fierce when crossed). It is meant to make you feel more comfortable - all it does with me is make me think they are rude.

I'd much rather be called by my first name.

Class doesn't come into it at all, what a loads of bollocks.

I don't think you're being U if that's how you feel. But I do think you're being incredibly old fashioned and very uptight.

You do realise it's 2013, not 1957 don't you? Are you wearing a hat and matching gloves while typing here?

Iwillgetthere likes to be addressed as Mrs Leadbetter

What's the general consensus on sir or madam when someone doesn't know the name of the person to whom they're speaking at all?

I often use it and generally with no reaction from women while men tend to comment favourably upon being called sir. In fact the only time I've had a stroppy response was from a woman who was utterly convinced that I was calling her madam in an attempt to insult her.

I despise madam. Sound so matronly.

I once got called Lord Squoosh, but that was my fault, I'd ticked the wrong box. Delusions of grandeur

Apologies for the grammar in my last post. I was trying to do three things at once and failed miserably.

I'd given my self a sex change and an aristocratic title!

I loathe being called madame.

squoosh

I find this a truly ridiculous thing for anyone to care that much about.

Am happy to be called by my first name.

Mrs Grateful if you don't mind.

So it seems I am not working class because I say WHAT instead of pardon, but I am working class for preferring to be called Mrs.

I call the a toilet the WC and I say looking-glass instead of mirror.

Am I posh?

(Clutches pearls)

Yanbu. I think it's rude to call someone by their first name if you are dealing with them in a professional context.

RichardG do you really, truly say looking glass?

Yes, I do truly say looking-glass (but only if my DM is listening)! She has Hyacinth Bucket delusions!!