Don't wiggle your letters at me...

By Wreybies · Mar 16, 2018 · 753 · 17
  1. ... because the number of fucks to be given = zero

    Where I live, in my culture, I am entitled to the quaintly polite title of licenciado (Lcdo.) because of my education and my certification with the federal court. I would never use it. I can't imagine being so crass and full of myself as to demand it.

    Ridiculous.

    I get an email a little bit ago from some waste-of-space who can't be bothered to read rules or warnings, who signs his final email to me: Dickhole McNutsack*, MBA.

    MBA?

    Really?

    Where shall I leave the tithings, my liege. *bows extravagantly*

    MBA.

    Give me a fucking break.

    *Names changed to protect privacy. ;)

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  1. Cave Troll
    Sounds more like he has a BS in BS.

    Sucks when people act like spoiled children, instead of adults.
    Cave Troll, Mar 16, 2018
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  2. big soft moose
    Arnold Rimmer Bsc Ssc (bronze swimming certificate, silver swimming certificate).
    big soft moose, Mar 16, 2018
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  3. big soft moose
    MBA = Monstrously boring asshat
    big soft moose, Mar 16, 2018
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  4. Iain Aschendale
    LOL
    Iain Aschendale, Mar 16, 2018
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  5. jannert
    What is an MBA when it's at home? I know what an MBE is ...but MBA? Nope. Never heard of it.
    jannert, Mar 17, 2018
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  6. big soft moose
    Masters of Business Administration. It is a lot of work and a key achievement, but its only worth using your letters in a professional environment.
    big soft moose, Mar 17, 2018
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  7. jannert
    Ah, right. I knew what an MA was, and an MFA, but not an MBA. An MBE means the Queen loves you, by the way. Or thinks you've done mighty things, like win a race or get rich or famous or something.
    jannert, Mar 17, 2018
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  8. big soft moose
    Member of the British Empire - sits below OBE and KBE (Order and Knight). Since the British empire is now limited to the Falklands, this probably isn't the honour it once was when we owned half the globe
    big soft moose, Mar 17, 2018
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  9. PiP
    LoL.. love it!
    PiP, Mar 17, 2018
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  10. Wreybies
    Precisely. I do use my little letters when I certify a translation. Any bilingual person can effectively create a translation, but certain environments (such as juridical and medical realms) require that the person be licensed to do so, certifying that the product is correct, accurate, and faithful in both style and content when compared to the original. My little Lcdo. is my bona fides. But to use it in any other context reeks of pretentiousness.
    Wreybies, Mar 17, 2018
  11. Iain Aschendale
    AWF.o

    go for it.
    Iain Aschendale, Mar 17, 2018
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  12. GrahamLewis
    I mostly agree, Wreybies. I'm married to a doc, and of course the conversation between them or with friends never mentions the title, and she only uses it professionally, when it's to show her own bona fides.

    I worked hard to earn my JD (doctor of law) but the only honorific I am entitled to, is the courtesy title of esq. with my signature. But that too is pretentious most of the time.

    The one solid exception I know of is "judge" when one is in fact appointed to the bench. There's a saying that once one takes that position, one takes on a new name. I was a judicial clerk to several judges, and even in casual conversation I always used that title. Anything else just felt wrong. One federal judge I worked with tried using his first name around the office for awhile, but gave it up -- it was just too awkward for everybody. Another judge I worked for, a "senior" judge in his late '80s, had a pair of elderly lady cousins stop by chambers while he was out. As they left, they said, "say hi to Dickie for us." I didn't.
    GrahamLewis, Mar 17, 2018
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  13. Tenderiser
    I use my professional letters in certain business correspondence, but personal? Really?
    Tenderiser, Mar 21, 2018
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  14. Wreybies
    Here's the kicker, and the thing I was trying not to say, but I think it needs said. It's a quintessentially male thing to do.

    Does it mean all men would do it? No.

    Does it mean a woman with the rights to little letters would never do it? No.

    But when it is done in this fashion, it flips a really limbic switch in my brain, one originally designed to take note of another bloke's physical size and other "accoutrement" ;) as regards where each of us stands in the pecking order in our little smelly tribe on the cold, cold steppe. But as a modern male, I can only scoff. If you've got to wiggle your letters at me for me to take notice, then you've already lost the game, haven't you? :whistle:
    Wreybies, Mar 21, 2018
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  15. big soft moose
    Yeah they are really saying "fear me, I'm awesomely intelligent." In this case they are kind of on a losing proposition because if their intelligence was really that fearsome they'd have not got into a pissing context with the alpha male in the first place
    big soft moose, Mar 21, 2018
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