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dan@upvote.au ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

I used to work for an Australian company that produced HR software - recruitment, 360 reviews, etc. We had a fairly standard list of titles (Mr, Mrs, Miss, Mr, Dr, and maybe one or two others) that nearly all clients were happy with. However, a university asked us to add maybe 60 more, much like the list in this screenshot. We had to special-case it so that this one client got the huge list, while all other clients got the regular list.

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Zwiebel@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
What if His Excellency Emmanuel Jean-Michel Frédéric Macron enrolls at that uni?

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- lars@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  But where else could he find another spouse?
  
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lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Sounds like a university I know - brilliant and accomplished people, very proud of it, to the point of projecting that pride on everyone else and assume everyone must hold their full title as dear as they do. The idea of one of my teachers, some “First Name, Baron of Examplington-Doublename”, telling us to just call him “Mr. Examplington” would have shorted out their brains.

For all their laudable competencies, humility was not among them.

(Not in Australia, but I imagine it’s hardly exclusive.)

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