Is it acceptable? I cannot for the life of me pronounce one of our manager's last name. I thought of paging him over the intercom as Mr (Firstname) but everyone in my department acted horrified. Now I just say "any available manager" when I need to talk to him and sometimes I get a manager who isn't him. I just really cannot pronounce the name and butcher it every time.
Everyone at my Kroger calls the managers by their firs names. Heck, I don't even know their last names. I never even gave it any thought until reading this thread.
I, and everyone else at the store I'm at, call the co-managers by their first name, but not the store manager. He's "Mr." followed by his last name. I think it's just a sign of respect since the store manager is the highest authority figure in the store.
always first name, nothing else. why on earth would i call my boss by their last name?! what?!
See, that's what I thought too. But the time when I called my boss by his first name over the intercom, people in my department acted like I had committed the ultimate act of disrespect or something. He wasn't even mad, at least not that I can tell. Anyway, we used to have this other manager and she WOULD throw a hissy fit if you called her by her first name over the intercom, so maybe that's how the whole thing started. She's gone now though.
At our store, it depends on the manager.. The main manager we called by his last name. Another one, it was whichever we preferred. Another co-manger by last name.
I, and everyone else at the store I'm at, call the co-managers by their first name, but not the store manager. He's "Mr." followed by his last name. I think it's just a sign of respect since the store manager is the highest authority figure in the store.
This is how it is at our store. All managers (co and store) get paged as "Mr/Mrs Lastname" so that another Tim or Fred doesn't pick up line 101 thinking the call parked is for them. It really does lessen confusion. I don't call any of the store co-managers by their last name, the only ones that do are the younger people. I always called our store manager by "Mr. Lastname", everyone did, no one called him by hist first name.
If they're salaried, call them by their last name. If they're union, call them by their first name. I've beem with Kroger for 25 years and that's the way it's always been.
You from the south? We call all our managers by either by their first and last name (intercom) or just their first (face to face), but I know some of the kids in my store will revert to Mr/Ms. first name if the managers (and coworkers) are older. Hell I do it with my older coworker is at least 20 years my senior. Just respect is all. Might be a lil different further up north or on the west coast.
I always call the comanagers by their first name and the store manager by his last night. I'm not exactly sure why I do this, but always have since I was hired. I also call the district manager by his first name as well.
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