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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sandolf" data-source="post: 528904" data-attributes="member: 9525">It kind of cuts both ways Nessie.  I when eventually returned to Canada it took a couple of years before I readapted to absolute strangers calling me by my first name.  There is something "schmuddelig" about it.  <img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/eek.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":eek:" title="Eek!    :eek:" data-shortname=":eek:" />I was per 'du' with my boss at the NDR.  I called him Georg.  His secretary always referred to him as Herr Lorfing.  Her explanation was... (and excuse me if this seems uncultured)... Es ist einfach du Arschloch zu sagen.  Sie Arschloch klingt wiederum kommisch.Georg was an exception.  But generally "Sie" bosses are more no nonsense.(manchmal vermisse ich Deutschland sehr)</blockquote>

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