Advice Column: Colleagues who use inappropriate language

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A few older men at my company refer to me as “sweetheart”, especially in their greetings. I really don’t like it. Am I overthinking things here?

— Woman in tech

Let me start with this: I don’t feel comfortable when any acquaintance or colleague calls me either “sweetheart” or anything within the family of overly intimate terms. No, no, no…