Alternatives to using the word '"guys" at work anyone?

[DaveCinzano]

B-boys and flygirls

 

[DotCommunist]

threaten people with dry slaps for added verisimilitude re:frank butchering it

 

[5t3IIa]

Fuck the lag here at work

Arf

 

[Pickman's model]

I'm sick of it now. Meetings and events its 'you guys' this and 'our guys' that.

For example when negotiating 'what we can do to help you guys' etc if there are men and women on the other side of the table.

I understand why. Its a gender-neutral term for a group of people. However I am from Stafford, not California.

its a tricky one. Only alternatives I can think of are:

- "you people" (too much like a Prince Philip expression when talking about the lower orders)
- 'you lot' (sounds a bit disparaging)

Chaps

 

[DaveCinzano]

threaten people with dry slaps for added verisimilitude re:frank butchering it

Revolving bow tie to lighten the mood at team meetings

 

[FridgeMagnet]

Third page and nobody has said "cunts" yet.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

Bredrin

I think that's gender specific. I've heard 'bredrin and sistren' although not in a work setting

One of my pet hates is "colleagues". I particularly dislike it when a supermarket gives a "colleague announcement". What is wrong with "staff anouncement"?

what's more annoying is when shop announcements advise customers to 'ask a colleague for help'

my colleagues won't bloody know. i want to talk to someone who works there

 

[starfish]

I tend to use folks or people.

 

[Bonfirelight]

Humans

Good job humans, you're a credit to your species.

 

[Orang Utan]

One of my pet hates is "colleagues". I particularly dislike it when a supermarket gives a "colleague announcement". What is wrong with "staff anouncement"?

Mine is 'work colleague' - no need for the word 'work'! A colleague is someone you work with. You don't have a 'leisure' colleague.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Humans

Good job humans, you're a credit to your species.

Longpigs or nothing

 

[Bonfirelight]

Mine is 'work colleague' - no need for the word 'work'! A colleague is someone you work with. You don't have a 'leisure' colleague.

Not with that attitude you won't

 

[Libertad]

You lot.

 

[dylanredefined]

Fellas

 

[ffsear]

drones

 

[pengaleng]

dickheads

 

[JimW]

Do it all with your tone of voice, "Right then!" in a brash and breezy manner that will grab everyone's attention and annoy them just as much as saying guys - but, and this is the key thing, without saying it! Tah-dah!

 

[DaveCinzano]

drones

"There's two kinds of drones in this organisation - are you a predator or a reaper?"

 

[skyscraper101]

'Gang' seems to have died off in recent years, I think it's time to bring that quaint 70s/80s Britishism back.

 

[Vintage Paw]

What can we do to help you?

Thread should have ended here tbh

 

[CrabbedOne]

Just start every conversation with "Whose the Daddy???" and nature will take its course.

 

[DaveCinzano]

'Gang' seems to have died off in recent years, I think it's time to bring that quaint 70s/80s Britishism back.

Still popular in Philly, though

 

[Chilli.s]

Mooshes

 

[J Ed]

Third page and nobody has said "cunts" yet.

I came here to suggest it

 

[krtek a houby]

'Gang' seems to have died off in recent years, I think it's time to bring that quaint 70s/80s Britishism back.

And Scooby Doo used it in the late 60s. He wasn't a colleague, mind.

 

[Yossarian]

Y'all.

Friends.

Motherfuckers.

 

[Idris2002]

COMRADES

 

[Clair De Lune]

You should never address your co worker en masse. It's a cunts trick.

 

[Orang Utan]

Fellow mugs

 

[Orang Utan]

You should never address your co worker en masse. It's a cunts trick.

not necessarily. what if there's an emergency: 'guys guys guys like we really need to leave guys the office is like on fire guys'
or if you're retiring and you want to thank them for not buying you a gold watch?