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People who have worked in customer service: Did you ever get hit with a "Do you know who I am!?" Did you in fact know who they were? (lemmy.world)
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[–] 13 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (18 children)

Not exactly what was asked, but I once worked as a personal banker at a bank branch that served multiple of the Washington Redskins (at the time), including many of their most valuable players. But I don't care about sports, so I never knew who any of them were until I'd have to ask them occupation questions by regulation. A ton of them kept coming to me and told me that they loved that I didn't know or care who they were and that I would never ask them a single football question.

Closer to the topic at hand, I also had another unrelated customer who had a doctorate, not a medical degree, and I accidentally called him "Mister" one day instead of "Doctor," after which dude literally spent an hour of his day waiting to talk to my boss to ream him out for being "disrespected" by not using his title. Any time after that when he came in I made sure to include "doctor" in literally every sentence when speaking with him. 😁

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  • [–] 15 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    I work for a university. Everyone around me has a PhD. I am also earning my own doctorate. NOBODY uses the term "Doctor" except when someone passes their defense and their committee chair gets to be the first person to call them that. I know several university deans and provosts, and I call them by first name. My physician is also faculty. First name. This guy was an idiot.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

    I have a friend with a PhD in computer science. He doesn't go by 'doctor' because people ask him for medical advice. 😂

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    My friends ex has a doctorate in like speech communication or something like that and we were all at a wedding a few months ago and I overheard her bitching about how his mom had sent her a birthday card at some point and she was pissed because the card wasn't addressed to "DR. xxxx". Literally the only job she could find with that degree was teaching it at a community college. Calm down.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago* (4 children)

    looks likes its one of those degrees that arnt marketable, people who get a psych degree act as they are psychiatrist, or psychologist, no you have to get a psyD or phd/MD for that.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Yeah it is for sure not marketable or particularly useful at all as far as I can tell. I tried having conversations with her about her field and she never once explained anything to me that wasn't common sense stuff.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago* (2 children)

    my cousin who got a psych degree went to grad school to get her PSYD the proper way to do it, the other is MD for psychiatry or doctorate for psychologist.

    community college is pretty where some doctorate ends up if they cant find research jobs at a university or in private sector, i see alot of stem professors would be useful in doing research than teaching in CC, not that it is anything wrong with that, likely its the limited amount of jobs stem.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

    community college is pretty where some doctorate ends up if they cant find research jobs at a university or in private sector

    Not a great plan when you have 100s of thousands in student loans to pay off.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    THEY CLAIM THEY like to teach at a CC, some of them had been in the private sector(probably gatekept from university jobs since those are ultra competitive, and faculty just dont leave til they croak, or they become to old to teach)

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

    Hmm, that level of fragile ego but also not a medical doctor. Some kind of engineering?

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