Calling people by their last names

[Anonymous]

Do you call anyone by their last name ?

I know a few people who call their spouse by the last name. The couples are athletic and I guess this is common on teams? Anyone else do this?

[Anonymous]

My middle school Phys Ed teacher did this.

[Anonymous]

This was pretty much the practice when I worked in a setting with mostly men. For some reason they took to calling me "CT" (my initials) but they all called each other by their last names.

[Anonymous]

I call my spouse by his last name, or a shortened version of his last name. When I first met him, that is what everyone called him. I rarely say his first name.

[Anonymous]

My DH sometimes calls me by my last name, so do a couple of guys at work (including my boss). I never thought much about it.

[Anonymous]

Some women on my soccer team do it. I think it's stupid.

[Anonymous]

I am female but grew up with all male friends. They called me by my last name, which is a male name.

[Anonymous]

I call my co-workers, even superiors, by their last name usually when I'm emailing someone else about them.

[Anonymous]

Senior members of the military often times use last names only when they are addressing lower ranking individuals. It is a demonstration of rank and authority because that degree of familiarity is not reciprocal between ranks.

In the civilian workplace it is a tacky affectation used by people feigning military experience and discipline.

[Anonymous]

I have seversl friends that go by their last name. it's usually a by product of too many people with the same first name.

[Anonymous]

I work in a mostly male office, they call me by my last name. I take it as a "one of the guys" thing.

[Anonymous]

Went to a woman's college and most of my friends called me by my last name, which is unique and short. My brother's college friends did the same with him. But in post college life, no.

[Anonymous]

One of my male coworkers calls me by my last name. After a long night of managing phone banks during the March primary (while we were at a bar decompressing), I asked him if it was because he disliked me and he told me it was out of respect. We get along much better now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Senior members of the military often times use last names only when they are addressing lower ranking individuals. It is a demonstration of rank and authority because that degree of familiarity is not reciprocal between ranks.

In the civilian workplace it is a tacky affectation used by people feigning military experience and discipline.

I don't think civilians are trying to feign military experience or discipline. That's a very presumptuous view you have there.
-- A military spouse

[Anonymous]

My friend and her sister have husbands with the same first name. One they call by his last name. It's simple and straightforward. I like it for their purpose.

My brother and his friends call each other by last names a lot. I consider it a young guy thing.