To find "Mrs" in a work email signature a bit cringe

[Whyohwhyohwhy26]

Just that really, is this a new thing or I'm just noticing it more nowadays that some female colleagues have Mrs first name last name on their email signatures where the norm is just names + job title etc. I've never seen a male colleague's email signature be "Mr X" and i'd find that equally odd to be honest. Unless it's a professional title like Dr or Professor AIBU to think putting your personal title in an email signature a bit cringe ?

I've never seen anyone do this.

I dunno why but I find it weird 😄. Millennial women are doing this

Like, okay you're married 🙄🙄, why do we all need to know. It conjures up the image of them trying to seem more respectable

Literally never thought about it, I do work in a university though so lots of us use our professional titles

You are being unreasonable to use "cringe" as an adjective.

I’ve never seen this

It's unusual but I have seen people do it though not at work. Maybe it's to avoid the whole pronouns thing? I don't even put my dr title in my signature because it seems somewhat pretentious

I have a senior colleague who insists on using her Mrs title. She was widowed early and it hit hard but I think has always signed off communication this way. Very strict on the inclusion of her middle initial too. Odd. And no one else does it.

I’ve seen it where it’s an unusual name, to make it clear they’re female.

Do the colleagues have names that are unisex? I know one woman that signed off her emails as Mrs, as her name is Alex and she wanted people to know it was a woman they were communicating with.

No I’ve not seen it our house style is first and surname. Pronouns can be added but most don’t.

If you want people to address you by the right title, then it doesn't seem unreasonable to have it in your email sign-off. Mine has Mrs. I suppose it is a bit different for me, as I'm a teacher. Colleagues would only call me Mrs if it's in front of students. But students and parents call me Mrs (in emails and in person). I don't see why it would be 'cringe' anyway though tbh.

What sector do you work in @Whyohwhyohwhy26 ?

Without knowing that, it's impossible to judge whether it's unreasonable or not.

Education? It's very common to see Mrs in the signatures.

Banking? Not so much!!

It's a bit old fashioned I think. Letters used to be signed off with Mrs in brackets

No, this would make sense to me. It seems like others haven't seen it much so maybe it's more of a trend in certain industries

Is it just married women using titles or women generally? Yeah that’s odd. None of my colleagues do this.

I agree it might be used in lieu of pronouns, assuming Mrs signifies you are female. An ex colleague called Alex used her Mrs title for that reason as she was often assumed to be male and occasionally people who telephoned refused to believe she was the same person they’d been corresponding with.

Haha did we work with the same person?!

Men are Mr, women can be Miss, Ms or Mrs if you aren’t addressing them by first name in your communication. I’d like to know what they prefer rather than guess.

I was actually going to say in my OP it sounds like a teacher signature! I'm in R&D so of those with a professional qualification relevant to their signature and those with roles that don't need a professional qualification, perhaps they're trying to join in?

The only title I've noticed is Mrs, the rest of us married or not either use our professional title or just names, never spotted a Ms or Miss

Lots of people where I work do this, me included. I never even gave it a second thought. It said Miss before I got married and Mrs after. I sign my name just as my first name above my standard work signature though.

So do you think they are expecting people to email them back "Hi Mrs X" oops..I just use everyone's first names for colleagues surely?

I’ve never seen anyone put any kind of title in an auto signature in any of the large organisations I’ve worked over the last 3 decades. We all use first names so it’s not relevant.

Even the PhDs don’t add it in.

That's interesting, what age are you? I have never spotted it in another company before current workplace and I've been working and using email for nearly 20 years. Do you expect anyone to refer to your with your title?

Yes that’s extremely odd and I have never seen it in all my years in work for global companies. Unless you were a teacher where I could see why it might be a thing.

Ive seen it and i really dont care.

I find it odd that you think its 'cringe'