Dear Service Providers: (aka doctors, nurses, receptionists, clerks, waiters, waitresses, etc.)

Unless you are my mother, grandmother, boyfriend, girlfriend, lover, spouse, or child, you should not be calling me or anyone else in a business situation “honey”.

The reason is that unless you are in one of the those relationshhips listed above and are entitled to use that term “honey”, you are using it in a derogatory manner.  It sounds like you are talking to a child not another adult or even more importantly a client.

If I were to address any female employee by the term “honey” it maight be consider disrespectful if not “sexual harassment” in the work place.

Because someone is in a less powerful position than you, it does not give you the right to call them “honey”.  That is, of course, unless your intent is to make yourself feel important.

In addition, the use of these terms is unprofessional.

Thank you for giving this your consideration, Dearie.