To hate calling everyone guy's!

[thenettyprofessor]

This drives me mad. Come on guy's, let's go here guy's, hi guy's etc
Maybe it is because I have two daughters. Anyway I wish this referring everyone as a male would stop

It's not so much the male that annoys me, it's when it's in a work setting and a team leader or manager says "ok guys". Always makes me cringe ! It's like saying "I'm one of you and we're cool".

The male connotations*

I find it annoying too. Not really anything to do with the male thing. I find “girls” just as irritating unless referring to actual girls.

[btw the correct spelling is guys not guy’s].

To me it is just a gender neutral term ie not masculine, and doesn’t bother me.

Well, it's a good job you don't live where I am in Ireland - everyone gets called 'lads', male & female. I found it very confusing when I first moved here

Haven't RTFT but have you tried calling?

Addressing multiple people as guys is not a male term to me.

Unless you say a person is a guy, then I'd say it's male.

Weird I know.

The Collins dictionary definition lists is as informal, ‘persons of either sex’. What’s the problem?

I hate it, especially in restaurants. It's guys (no apostrophe) though!

I don’t have it as much as people using apostrophes incorrectly

What Shirleyphallus said.

I have times when I correct people at work, mainly because my team is usually at least half women, working in a traditionally male profession. I feel erased and like we have to fit in. And we don't.

Yep Shirley.

Oh but then I fucking mistyped have for hate so that’s really irony there isn’t it

1. Which guy are you referring to, and why does this person own so much?
2. Meh, suck it up. Language changes, and there's sod all that can be done about it. Remember that people have been railing against singular "they" since at least Shakespeare's time.

I’ve got four DC and use ‘guys’ as a collective term but it annoys me too.
‘Come on people!’ wanky and they ignore me anyway.
Oi! Rabble! Works really well but pants will be hoiked and you are that family.
Shouting ‘Children!’ has zero effect on them. I might as well be the wind.

We need a new good word for a diverse collection of people who are a bit subordinate to you and need to be given the same instruction

what’s a suitable alternative?

I prefer Sir and Madam especially if we're in a restaurant.

what’s a suitable alternative?

Cunts.

Now I've said that I would love to hear that in a Frankie and Bennies.

Hey cunts!

I know some on MN like to sneer at "Americanisms" but y'all is a great way of addressing people, imo.

Opening line of every YouTube video ever:
"Hey guys!"

Ugh, Y'all said by anyone other than Americans... even Americans. Horrible.

Doesn't bother me, in fact it's never really registered but I hear it a lot

what’s a suitable alternative?

Cunts

Could work at home with the kids, but what about in the office?