To want people to call me by my correct job title?

[OhamIreally]

After many years climbing the career ladder I finally made it to Director a couple of years ago. It means a lot to me, I have worked hard and seen myself overlooked for promotion in favour of less experienced men and I have been gracious and continued to work hard to get where I am.

Almost without exception, however, when I am in a meeting with a more junior male and they are in a position to introduce me, they refer to me as Manager, or Head of.

I am then in the invidious position of having to correct them and possibly appear petty. It really annoys me.

The other week I was in a meeting with our new Head of Sales and heard him introduced as Director by one of the people who consistently "demotes" me.

Interestingly none of my male peers do it, and nor have I heard a woman do it, just males who are less senior.

Guaranteed they’d never do it to a man. Correct them every time.

YANBU OP

Return the favour and call them assistants or whatever the equivalent is in front of clients and see how they like it

@Shannith I had a similar colleague, we get on very well and he did it once by accident when I'd recently been promoted and used my previous job title. Thereafter he'd do it on occasion to wind me up, when he did I'd thank him and introduce him as my assistant, sometimes asking him to get us all some coffee

I am a director, it doesn't bother me what people think.

I know my role, correct him if you feel the need, with grace.

He's pissing you off deliberately, don't rise to it.

There is actually an issue in my organisation/field generally and that's that senior role titles change frequently, so a lot of the time it is genuine confusion. We often just refer to the role as it would be in any normal company structure rather than the half a dozen word titles a few of us actually have. For example our CEO isn't actually called the CEO but most people refer to her as such.

@WhyBirdStop 😄 I once absentmindedly called him by his nickname in a board meeting, so xxxx and I have agreed...

Of course everyone then called him that throughout the meeting.

It's not petty at all. I worked for years, and was hired as, an analyst. But time and time again certain staff referred to me as an administrator. Which frustrated me no end, as that wasn't my job!

Are name badges with titles underneath an option?

So next time Gary introduces you as xyz.. you reply with..

'and Gary is chief coffee maker, so who would like a drink before we start?'

yep, correct him, and then make him get coffee and take the meeting minutes.

And after the meeting collar him and ask him if he wants a copy of the company orga chart, in A3 with your name and position highlighted to be hung over his desk until he can get it right. with witnesses.

@02Shadow1234

So next time Gary introduces you as xyz.. you reply with..

'and Gary is chief coffee maker, so who would like a drink before we start?'

I lol'd at this 😂😂

Hi, Im director of sales. Gary always gets that bit wrong

^

This.

Gary is, obviously, an idiot