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Posted: 4/8/2022 8:30:26 PM EDT
[#1]
Not when I owned my business and they worked for me.
Don't recall it happening any other time. |
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Posted: 4/8/2022 8:35:44 PM EDT
[#2]
I'm not reading 5 pages to make sure someone else didn't already say "I expect them to call me boss", or "What are they supposed to call me?".
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Posted: 4/8/2022 8:37:45 PM EDT
[#3]
I’m a white male. I almost never get offended because life is just fucking awesome.
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Posted: 4/8/2022 8:51:24 PM EDT
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Posted: 4/8/2022 9:08:27 PM EDT
[#5]
I'm not offended by it but in my experience everyone who's said it to me was either a prior felon or convict or a serious manipulator working an angle of some sort.
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Posted: 4/8/2022 9:11:51 PM EDT
[#6]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I'm a white male. I almost never get offended because life is just fucking awesome.  Attached File |
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Posted: 4/8/2022 9:16:06 PM EDT
[#7]
I like being called boss personally. I need to get my friends to start calling me boss.
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Posted: 4/8/2022 9:40:59 PM EDT
[#8]
Depends. Am I their boss? I don't currently have any downstream but if I did and they called me boss, I wouldn't be offended. <shrugs>
Nick |
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Posted: 4/8/2022 10:18:53 PM EDT
[#9]
I prefer Master
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Posted: 4/9/2022 5:59:10 AM EDT
[#10]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I prefer Master What's it like riding around on Blaster? 
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Posted: 4/9/2022 6:04:39 AM EDT
[#11]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I'm not offended by it but in my experience everyone who's said it to me was either a prior felon or convict or a serious manipulator working an angle of some sort. Yep. It's offensive to me when anybody calls me that. |
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Posted: 4/9/2022 6:28:39 AM EDT
[#12]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I couldn’t care less Me either. People get offended too easy. |
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Posted: 4/9/2022 6:37:25 AM EDT
[#13]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Term of endearment. 
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Posted: 4/9/2022 8:03:36 AM EDT
[#14]
I don’t remember the last time I was offended by anything.
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Posted: 4/9/2022 8:06:44 AM EDT
[#15]
Quote HistoryQuoted: It always make me think they were in prison. |
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Posted: 4/9/2022 8:10:56 AM EDT
[#16]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I don’t remember the last time I was offended by anything. The day is young. . . . 
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Posted: 4/9/2022 8:27:25 AM EDT
[#17]
As an adult I have never had a male with a high dermal melanin concentration call me “boss” or “baas.”
I did have it happen as a lad living in Africa. We had two servants who called me “klein bass” or “boss mudiki” (“little boss” in Afrikaans and Shona respectively), but it was a nickname as Father was the boss, and referred to that way. |
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Posted: 4/9/2022 8:31:57 AM EDT
[#18]
Boss is a prison term.
When a guy calls you "boss" generally it means he's done time. |
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Posted: 4/9/2022 8:34:59 AM EDT
[#19]
No, I'm not emotionally soft.
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Posted: 4/9/2022 8:41:54 AM EDT
[#20]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I've known people who call other people Boss a lot. But they were all white guys. Yep |
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Posted: 4/9/2022 8:42:22 AM EDT
[#21]
It is all about the situation and context .
I myself don't use the term because I could end up using it at the wrong time and have someone take it as disrespect . I live in the northeast and most of the time that term got used on me it some southern guy I didn't know (truck driver or whatever) on a construction job. Can be tricky depending on the situation. |
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Posted: 4/9/2022 8:52:58 AM EDT
[#22]
Quoted: I hear that a lot. No. I don't find stupid crap to get offended over. I did work with a black guy that got ticked when people called him boss, though. It was a a job where everyone called the managers "boss" for some reason. |
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Posted: 4/9/2022 9:46:04 AM EDT
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Posted: 4/9/2022 2:15:12 PM EDT
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Posted: 4/9/2022 2:19:43 PM EDT
[#25]
I get called boss by white guys too.
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Posted: 4/9/2022 2:29:16 PM EDT
[#26]
I'm only offended when they say it while dancing a little soft shoe...
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Posted: 4/9/2022 2:40:24 PM EDT
[#27]
I'm not a genetics major, so I can't be sure if he's black.
I'm not a biologist, so I can't be too sure if "he" is a "him". I will refrain from answering. |
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Posted: 4/9/2022 2:42:28 PM EDT
[#28]
no in the slightest, cheif.
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Posted: 4/9/2022 3:04:57 PM EDT
[#29]
 I would not mind her calling me bosmang 
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Posted: 4/9/2022 3:06:48 PM EDT
[#30]
Nope, I am a boss.
I absolutely hate being called “Yo.” I won’t respond to it no matter what. Not sure why, it just irritates the shit out of me. |
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Posted: 4/9/2022 3:07:05 PM EDT
[#31]
I call people boss and I am called boss. So far none of us seem to care. Maybe because we failed our liberal arts degrees and had to get real jobs.
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Posted: 4/9/2022 3:08:47 PM EDT
[#32]
I get offended by anyone calling me boss! Doesn't matter what they're skin color is!
It's rude and disrespectful! eta: +2 its usually white ex cons |
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Posted: 4/9/2022 3:22:39 PM EDT
[#33]
No, but as an Australian the worst thing you can call someone is a low down scumy dog so I get offended at "yo dog" whomever's mouth it spews from.
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Posted: 4/9/2022 3:33:03 PM EDT
[#34]
I call people “Cheeto”.
Context example: “Hey Cheeto, what’s up?” |
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Posted: 4/9/2022 3:41:34 PM EDT
[#35]
No. I don't have the mental fragility of an egotistical liberal.
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Posted: 4/9/2022 4:27:28 PM EDT
[#36]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I'm offended that OP asked whether I'd be offended or not... I’m offended that your offended that OP asked if you’d be offended. Gosh. |
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Posted: 4/9/2022 5:53:35 PM EDT
[#37]
FWIW cab drivers are traditionally addressed as 'Chief'.
You don't hear it much these days but it's an Old School form of address to a cabbie. |
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Posted: 4/9/2022 5:55:49 PM EDT
[#38]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I get called boss by white guys too. Is that you, Bruce Springsteen?
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Posted: 4/9/2022 6:03:16 PM EDT
[#39]
I don't get offended by words because they only have the power you give them...and I'm not a whinebag
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Posted: 4/9/2022 6:06:36 PM EDT
[#40]
Quote HistoryQuoted: yeah, "buddy" makes me go straight to "I'm not your buddy, pal" 
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Posted: 4/9/2022 6:14:59 PM EDT
[#41]
I had a friend stop by clinic the other day with his new dog he adpoted. He wanted a microchip and check-up.
We were closed at the time, after hours, and we were heading up front and I saw a client getting back into his car. I ducked into the pharmacy so they couldn't see me. My buddy was in the hall and I asked did that car go? I told him if I am there people always stop in for just a quick this or that. (I'd never get out!) He says "Well they probably saw me!" I said, totally deadpan, "That's OK, they will just think we are being robbed."  The next day his dog was spayed and he told my wife to give me something. He's like  |
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Posted: 4/10/2022 7:59:57 AM EDT
[#42]
Blacks complain about living on the plantation, then call white people 'Boss.'
Perhaps I shouldn't expect them to cast off their chains and take some responsibility for integrating into the society they were born into. The prison thing makes sense. Those of you who are an employer or supervisor chiming in about being called 'Boss' are some deep thinkers... |
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Posted: 4/10/2022 8:01:16 AM EDT
[#43]
Am I his boss? If yes, then no. I call my boss, boss.
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Posted: 4/10/2022 8:14:56 AM EDT
[#44]
How do I know they're black? I'm not a geneticist...
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Posted: 4/10/2022 8:32:15 AM EDT
[#45]
No, why?
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Posted: 4/10/2022 8:37:22 AM EDT
[#46]
I don't get offended by words.
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Posted: 4/10/2022 8:43:28 AM EDT
[#47]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I get called boss by white guys too. This ^ because I am the boss. |
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Posted: 4/10/2022 8:50:13 AM EDT
[#48]
What if I’m am the boss?
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Posted: 4/10/2022 8:55:22 AM EDT
[#49]
Quoted: I hear that a lot. Not offended. Considering that 30% have felony convictions, it may be just part of the "diversity" thing. Coming from a white guy (and maybe the same for most blacks), I would take it as an expression of deference like "sir". |
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Posted: 4/10/2022 9:04:19 AM EDT
[#50]
Quote HistoryQuoted: No, but as an Australian the worst thing you can call someone is a low down scumy dog so I get offended at "yo dog" whomever's mouth it spews from. Dunno, "pommie" has to be close. Aussie guy (hard to believe he was actually speaking "English" as it was almost impossible to understand) used that term and I finally figured out that it meant "Prisoner Of Mother England", referring to Australia being used as a penal colony by the Brits. |
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