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What seemed weird when I visited your country
lepetitfromage:
Maybe I'm more informal than others, but I prefer for most people to use my first name. When I was student teaching, it was so weird to get used to the way that students referred to me. I told them they could call me "Ms. D"- a little less formal but still maintains the right dynamic for student teaching. If/when I ever get a REAL teaching job, I've even considered allowing my students to call me by my first name. There's a certain comfort in it.
--- Quote from: LTK on 03 Jun 2014, 15:45 ---And looking at that billshrink page: wedding musicians, really?
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You stick the word "wedding" in front of anything and they will find a reason to charge you more. You're supposed to tip all of your wedding vendors, even though they're taking an arm and a leg in the first place.
LTK:
In case of weddings, isn't it way easier to, y'know, not tip them? What are those wedding musicians/florists/caterers/whatever going to do, tell all their friends to avoid you the next time you're getting married?
ankhtahr:
It's very interesting when you're spending a lot of time in hackerspaces, as some people are more comfortable with nicknames than with given names, so you get used to being referred to by your nickname. There are a few people where I don't even know their real names.
Tutors (students who teach lower grade students) almost always want to be referred to by their first name, same goes for everyone in the Fachschaft. And then there is this one professor who hates his last name and asks everybody to call him by his first name.
bainidhe_dub:
A lot of times the guy actually working at your wedding is just some grunt from the company you have a contract with. It's kind of like tipping waiters in that you're thanking the individual for their service to you, while still paying the establishment for your meal. I wouldn't say it's expected but my husband definitely gets tips sometimes when he runs lights for weddings and bar mitzvahs, usually like $50 when it happens.
Loki:
--- Quote from: ankhtahr on 04 Jun 2014, 07:01 ---Tutors (students who teach lower grade students) almost always want to be referred to by their first name
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Well duh, they are students :roll: Same goes for professor assistants, by the way, which I believe is equivalent to a TA in the US.
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