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Re:At Google, an Employee-Run Email List Tracks Harassment a... by masklinn on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @10:39AM (#14401575)
If they are a genuine princess (not necessarily outlandish if you live in a place which 1. still has royalty and 2. has a pretty down-to-earth one — after all we've recently learned Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands moonlights as a commercial co-pilot) — or if they come to work wearing a tiara, or if they ask you?
Re:At Google, an Employee-Run Email List Tracks Harassment a... by to3m on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @11:06AM (#14401842)
But when you're talking to a princess you would typically use the form Your Highness, or similar.

Anyway, I was thinking of the sorts of situations that actually turn up, on average, for most people. There are only so many princesses to go round, a tiara is highly unusual office garb, and I've never heard of anybody asking to be called "princess" in a professional capacity, at least not in white collar work such as Google. I stand by my rule of thumb. My difficulty thinking up situations was based on my experiences of being at work, which are of course unique, but not, I suspect, especially unusual.

(But if we're trying to think of unlikely possibilities, what about if Princess is your colleague's name? Though given your reply, I expect you're the sort of pedantic so-and-so who'd actually notice that I deliberately quoted it in lower case to sidestep this one.)

Re:At Google, an Employee-Run Email List Tracks Harassment a... by detaro on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @05:20PM (#14405462)
Google has a security manager with the title of "Security Princess": https://twitter.com/laparisa

(but yes, clearly exceptional case)