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My wife: I tell others (truthfully) 'she's the boss'.

I had a supervisor many years ago that we called the "Senior
Drill Instructor" but not to her face.

Anyone who gets offended just by being called boss truly needs to grow a spine.

Most of the bosses that I have had are just that a BOSS......Big Ol' Stupid Schit !!!

Oh no, not offended, just curious of why people call other
people boss.

I am a Project Manager on a site in VA right now with a few hundred Latino workers mostly, they all call me "boss" for them its simply a respect thing. Some I have asked not to call me "boss" just call me Bill. Now those guys call me Mr. Bill

had a guy who use to work with me that would call me boss, really annoying, he also claimed to be a taekwondo expert. long story short i knocked his ass out one day, after that he only called me by my name.

I've always hated that for two reasons:

1. I don't like being referred to as that. I'm human just like they are, I just have different pay and title. So what!

2. Most people I know that call their supervisor "boss" are weak and/or insecure.

In 1985 I had a boss with the last name Bates. Most of my co-workers called him Master Bates.

Not when I do it, from me it is a form of respect. And trust me, I can be condescending if I so chose.

If you'd grown up in the South 60 years ago....you'd understand about 'Boss Man' or Cap'n!

I am fully aware of the old connotations. I am old enough to remember chain gangs and white only fountains & toilets at the courthouse & elsewhere. Also could usually spot of con just out of the pen or a repeat offender by his calling anybody in uniform Boss or Cap'n.

Not how I use it and knew lots of working men that called the boss or owner "boss" out of respect in the north.

I worked for a woman a long time ago and she told me to call her Ma'am. I quit after a week, just like the long line of employees before me.

Not if you are a Chief Petty Officer in the world's largest non-nuclear Coast Guard.

In the Vol fire dept we use boss at times refering to officers in our dept....or to a senior member who might be a "Boss" in a paid dept in NYC....No desrespect meant..none taken.

NOT So in many cases.

I have been working as a foreman of a crew of 25 since 1985.

Some of the most sincere and most polite farm boys you have ever met have come through my crew. Some have a hard time calling anyone in authority by his first name, and I won't stand for Mister. (After all, I work for a living too.)

So some will use "Boss" as a compromise. And mean it in a respectful manner.

Also, I still see the effects from the plantation days on a few of our truck drivers. Those of extraordinary dark complexion and roots in South Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama will often refer to the white Dock Foreman as "Boss". But they do not address his Mexican counter part as such.

Intent is at question, not the word.

As my dad said 'Your mother could walk into a room full of people and say [bleep] you and they would all want to kill her but I could walk into the same room and say [bleep] you and everyone would laugh'

"Smile when you call me that."

I'd rather be called SOB than chief, boss, or dude. I was taught to call someone by their rank, sir or ma'am.