IN many instances, both over the telephone and in direct contact, people that I may never have seen and only had business dialogue with, have been addressing me as babe. This has occurred even in their opening sentence.

Are their employers aware of this and are these employers even considering that it may be bad for business? Well, what business? It makes one feel that they are not dealing with a business establishment, unless the business is a brothel with everyone seeing the other as their babe.