How can I point out mistakes in my boss's signature?
Hello,
My boss has an academic title and a master's degree. I have every respect for that, but he abbreviates both incorrectly and places both before his name in his signature (the master's degree belongs after it).
How can I convey to him that, as the head of a 1,500-person company, this is a bit embarrassing? Or do you think it's rather unimportant and I'm being too petty?
I always wonder why no one points this out to him. He has assistants and high-ranking colleagues who are much closer to him than I am.
Kind regards
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Haha! I’m sorry, too, that I’m totally upset and I just don’t get over it. In Switzerland we call this a “taplisher” – someone who makes a revolt for every little thing.
We’re gonna have to get a bit on the belt so we can’t get our fellow human beings on the alarm. In fact, it is our own problem, because your boss can write how he wants, wrong or right, and he surely does it all his life and has done it without your hint.
For your own peace of mind, however, you can ask someone in his nearer environment what it has to do with it. You noticed that, but you did not know in this form.
That’s how you can deal with it for you and put it down. I’m sure there are more important things to do on your job than optimizing the abbreviations of your boss’s titles. 😉
Thank you. Yeah, I don’t want to be smart. But I’d be grateful if one would point out the mistake.
Thanks for the star. 😅👍
Did you find out more about this?
Find out inconspicuously what’s behind it – maybe a moth of your boss, maybe he wants to make himself interesting or something else. Then you’d rather go to the fatball if you’d tell him.
Well, find out what’s behind it with a few “naive questions.” Then you can still think about what you want to do.
Haha, what a horny story! No one has dared to point him to the mistake! 😂
You did it well!
Yeah, actually. I addressed him at the summer festival 🙂 He thanked and wanted to exhort his secretary why she hasn’t pointed him out for three years. He had probably tipped himself to set up his signature. Instead of M. Eng, he wrote Mr. Eng.
In your place, I would definitely stand out and say nothing. It’s just not your concern and it’s far above your position. As you say, he gives others who are closer to him — and probably closer to him in person as well as hierarchically.
To what extent you are right or not, you can also say hard because you do not tell us any details. That’s a shame. Only the titles with a neutral, exchanged name in between would probably not be too much.
Consider that there may be factual reasons why he does so, and that you may be wrong or at least variants are quite common.
A 1,500-person operation will certainly also operate internationally, or have contacts/suppliers, etc. in (EU-) abroad … it can make sense to choose another, internatinoal order.
I also get emails where then instead of “Mrs. Smith” stop “Smith, Mrs.”
No, it’s just wrong. – Academic titles should be in front of the name, academic degree by name.
He wrote very clearly that the boss uses Dr. MA Müller, for example, instead of Dr. Müller, MA. And that’s just wrong. There is no factual argument for this. Otherwise I’m with you.
Thank you, but I know it’s wrong and how it should be right.
You can be right, no one doubts. We just don’t know because you didn’t give details.
Either way, not your construction site. Stay out of this. Don’t let it go with colleagues. Or you’ll shoot yourself out faster than you love. Nobody likes smartass.
Yes, as a rule, the master stands behind the name. But there is no fixed rule for it. It is therefore not wrong to write the master before the name.
Source: The correct use of academic degrees and titles (unker.com)
I would simply accept the fact and not keep in mind.
Maybe nobody’s pointing to it because the boss wants it.
As an academic, he’ll probably know how to give this title.
I wouldn’t go out as an instructor at the boss.
Well, in his master shortcut, there’s also a spelling error.
Then let the chief hang out the teacher if you think you’re sympathetic.
I’d just say that to him, but my boss is relaxed about that. No one here can know how your boss will react to such comments.
I’d tell him at the next company party in the suff.
So in a 1500 man company, the IT department hopefully has run a software that automatically creates the signatures using the master files in the active directory.
also someone in IT was not attentive and has interchanged 2 fields in the central signature design:)
What you’re thinking about. Maybe he just wants to. I don’t think that’s embarrassing; for me, these are more corinths;-) The title has finally been drawn up and it is able to lead a large company.
Apparently, it just seems to bother you. Personally, it wouldn’t hurt me the bean as long as there’s no spelling error in it.
It’s a spelling error. He abbreviates his master grade incorrectly.
Possibly, the boss also mails internationally… the order is different.
If the mails go to German recipients, he also signals in the ideal case that the company operates internationally.
I think your boss knows what he does! But you can just talk to him and ask him!
It’s not just the order. He also has a spelling error.
Maybe he’ll do it deliberately? Have you ever thought about it?
And who knows what order it is right?
So I wouldn’t have hired you for “smallness” 🙂
If there’s something in the 1500 employees company, something’s wrong.
Ask an assistant.
Right, that’s the best proposal to date. Why didn’t I get there?