I used to work for an Australian company that produced HR software - recruitment, 360 reviews, etc. Our job application form had a fairly standard list of titles (Mr, Mrs, Miss, Mr, Dr, and maybe one or two others) that nearly all clients were happy with. However, a university asked us to add maybe 60 more, much like the list in this screenshot. Some understandable for a university (things like “Prof” or a suffix of “Ph.D.”) and some… less understandable (Colonel, Lieutenant, General, Father, Capitan, Sir, The Honourable, …)
The customer is always right… We had to add a “huge list of titles” feature flag to the system, that was only enabled for this one client. All other clients were fine with the standard list.
What if His Excellency Emmanuel Jean-Michel Frédéric Macron enrolls at that uni?
This is how such a title picking menu looks like in Austria, in this case for the newsletter signup form of a supermarket chain:
Somebody added that 80th title and still decided against just making it a free text field
There are professors with more than two doctorates whose title is missing here…
That’s how you get F.U.C.K.
Yeah… what a shame. These poor tortured souls have to settle for Dipl. Ass. instead.
What the fuck.
Well you Austrians still have a very weird hard-on for titles
Genuine Question:
Is “Mx” a gender neutral version of Mr/Ms or something else?
You have, I’m sure unintentionally, reminded me of an old peer-to-peer sharing client.
It’s a DNS record used for denoting which email server to use. Short for Mail eXchange.
Yes.
I like how you can actually leave it empty, or alternatively choose ‘intentionally blank’.
I want my last name as Page and to pick Intentionally Blank.
I wish I could be intentionally blank. I might do better at poker
Maybe it’s to be addressed as ✓ and they didn’t indent it properly?
I thought the one at the very bottom said “Bacon” for a second, and got really excited.
It is I, Intentionally Blank Tar_Alcaran.
As a viceroy, I am highly offended.
Professor Baroness Wessley
They should add ‘Emir’, ‘Pasha’ and ‘Bey’
Paging user blade to adopt the title ‘Bey’
Very well Lt. Commodore Squid, requesting permission for count Ziglin to sip on the blood of commenter above me.
Granted, but only if you’re both into it.
LEFF-TENANT COMMODORE, I presume.
Now that they’re in England, it has to be.
The letters are right in front of your face. It’s spelled Commodore.
Yeah well… (Fixed.)
LOL, oopsie!
Have a good day 👍
I’ll take Intentionally Blank for 400, Alex
Oh, but I make people call me “Sire.” Lord is so new-fangled and casual.
Or I used to, back when I had friends. I’m not sure where they all went.
I thought that was a password selection combo box
