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Re:At Google, an Employee-Run Email List Tracks Harassment a... by arethuza on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @10:27AM (#14401440)
"Princess" in the UK at least would be pretty offensive in that context - I wouldn't dream of calling a colleague that.
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Re:At Google, an Employee-Run Email List Tracks Harassment a... by jk563 on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @10:33AM (#14401511)
Depends on the colleague, I have done that and similar many times previously and had similar back.

The comment is made, we laugh, he has his salad, I eat my burger, we moved on to something else.

(UK)

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Re:At Google, an Employee-Run Email List Tracks Harassment a... by Chris2048 on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @11:05AM (#14401836)
No it wouldn't. Try spending some time further up north.
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Re:At Google, an Employee-Run Email List Tracks Harassment a... by arethuza on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @11:53AM (#14402247)
I'm in Scotland :-)
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Re:At Google, an Employee-Run Email List Tracks Harassment a... by Chris2048 on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @05:15PM (#14405425)
and find that offensive?!
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Re:At Google, an Employee-Run Email List Tracks Harassment a... by arethuza on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @05:11AM (#14408617)
No - I wouldn't find that offensive (I've been called far far worse things in a work context) - but I'd be very worried about potentially causing offense, more for the sake of politeness than the HR impact.
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