Colleagues with "fake" advanced degrees? Ordered to address someone as "Doctor" (online doctorate)

[Anonymous]

[Anonymous]

Honorifics are just that.. It's customary to use them as a show of respect in some countries and professions, and not so much in others. In this country, the expression "Doctor" is in common use only in medical-related fields. In academia, PhDs are typically referred to as "professor", not "doctor". People with other kinds of doctorates, like attorneys with JD degrees, are referred to as Mr or Ms, or Judge, if applicable, never as Doctor so-and-so.

And it depends on the circumstances and environments. Many of my neighbors are medical doctors, but they introduced themselves to me by their first names, which I use when speaking with them in the context of us being neighbors.

I don't see why you'd feel obligated to use the honorific "doctor" under the circumstances you describe unless you want to pander to the requestor's ego.

[Anonymous]

Since you have your MS, insist that they in turn call you “Master.” As in, “Yes, Master Layla.” Explain that it’s only fair.

[Anonymous]

Usually people with PhDs don't request to be addressed as "Dr" unless it is a university.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A person who has a Ph.D. and demands to be addressed as Dr. is a jerk regardless of where they earned or bought their degree (the exception is an academic context where all Ph.D. are referred to as Dr.).

My child's public high school college counselor kept correcting me to call her "Dr." when I kept saying "Ms." (because I kept forgetting).
She was obviously insecure.

[Anonymous]

AITA because I refuse to call my coworker Dr __? He barely scraped by getting a bachelor degree online as an adult. I did a competitive grad program and we have several PhD colleagues. He calls himself Dr to be funny but now the newer clients think it’s for real and I refuse to call him them.

[Anonymous]

I have a coworker kind of like this. They have a PHD in a random liberal arts field. We work in a corporate setting, not an academic/research-oriented place where this would be relevant, and most people only have a bachelor’s.

They’ve somehow made it so their name appears in all company systems as ‘Joe Smith, PhD’. Last week, we had a company training where you had to sign into to provide attendance and they signed in with the ‘PhD’ affixed to their name. It’s kind of cringey.

[Anonymous]

This is a VERY old thread so don't expect a response from the OP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Since you have your MS, insist that they in turn call you “Master.” As in, “Yes, Master Layla.” Explain that it’s only fair.

On DCUM that's Master Larla.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:SAHM tenure?

Stop being the problem at work.

This! I also was wondering WTF is a SAHM tenure

[Anonymous]

My boss is a Doctor of Ministry. I refuse to call her Dr.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Usually people with PhDs don't request to be addressed as "Dr" unless it is a university.

Even then, most PhDs at a university prefer to be called professor such and such rather than Dr. —- It’s a higher honorific esp at large universities with a number of PhD staff.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I didn’t realize only a degree from a selective university “counts”.

How about a real one, rather than a diploma mill...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I didn’t realize only a degree from a selective university “counts”.

It’s about schools having accreditation or not.

[Anonymous]

Sounds like you’re a judgy biotch and have WAY too much time on your hands.