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

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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 hope that poster meant née rather than nee, but it’s a woman’s original surname.

This wouldn't bother me. People putting pronouns in their signatures do, I judge them for it, big time.

So this is a bit different, in my profession many women do this as they built up their career under their maiden name and they do this to ensure their is continuity so they keep as much “credit” from the old name as possible.

I do think the mrs is cringy too. It harks back to when people on the office where called mr x, now we use first names it is entirely redundant and shakes to me of “showing off” they are married (hardly an achievement, and certainly not relevant to work).

Someone at work introduced herself to me as Mrs X the other day (no mention of first name) which I thought was highly peculiar. Granted this was in a school, but I'm not a pupil.

Yeah that’s definitely odd.

I've used Ms in all communications (unless I know the recipient personally) for a very long time.
It's mainly because everyone seems to assume I'm a Mrs (usually because of my age), but I've been there, done that, and have the divorce papers and better life to prove I don't want to be there again!
By the same standard, I don't want people calling me Miss, so I point out that I'm a Ms, to make sure anyone official gets it right.

@Harmonypus But the title Ms doesn't signify you are divorced. I am married and my title is also Ms. Ms is in essence the equivalent a Mr in terms of marital status neutrality but for a woman.

I've only seen Mrs being used in the MOD. I always assumed it was so the reader knew the sender was a civilian.

I am retired now, and don't remember seeing this. My initial thought on reading your post was are they doing it to show they are spoken for so colleagues don't ask them out or give unwanted attention, However when you said in your industry a number of colleagues have professional titles perhaps they are putting Mrs to inform the recipient that they don't have a professional title.

This is common in schools because students aren't allowed to address school staff by their first name, so first names aren't identified where children can see or hear them.
Everyone is either a Miss or Sir in a school in front of students. It took me ages to get used to that 😁.

I did - but couldn’t remember either (a) where the accent went or (b) how to get accents on my phone late on a Saturday!

Not sure who is the intended audience for your post. I'm well aware of what happens in schools, given, as I said, I work in one.

When this conversation took place we were in the staff room which is on a separate corridor that pupils are not allowed to enter.

Doctor and Professor is likely to be relevant to the person’s employment. They evidence academic achievement.

Mrs evidences you got married. It’s hardly the same.

The other titles you cite are also irrelevant unless the email is from a member of the House of Lords and relates to parliamentary business.

In a work context that is utterly irrelevant. You are running the risk of appearing a little unprofessional.

Even in work emails? How odd.

Our email signature strips at work are auto-generated by the HR system, so whichever title is on your HR record, will display on your email signature strip (not sure if you can manually alter these). I don’t think anyone has ever had an issue with the arrangement

Maybe they are trying to prove a point. I’m sick and tired of receiving mail with Ms, I’m a Miss.

Post might use titles. Email doesn’t generally except in schools.

Ms is a neutral title that doesn’t denote your marital status. Why do you need to let everybody know that you’re unmarried?

I’m traditional, I like being a miss and if I was married a Mrs, just my opinion of which I thought I’d be entitled to.

On an email though?

I suppose not, I usually just put my name with no title, but seeing a title would not upset me in any way.

I’ve seen it, it’s usually in a font made to look a bit like handwriting and sometimes a “fun” colour too…

Double cringe

@ it is the convention.