Me to Ruriko, in Japanese via text: “I’m leaving for work.” Ruriko: “Oh not anymore you’re not.” Me: “???” Ruriko: “That’s ‘the company president is leaving for work leaving for work.’ You wanted ‘a salaryman leaves for work leaving for work.’” (出社 vs. 出勤, respectively)
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Within the ingroup, sociolinguistically, senior management unambiguously outranks rank-and-file employees. When speaking to the outgroup, the ingroup should elevate the outgroup over the ingroup, irrespective of within-group relative status, as a matter of course.
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But, and this is sort of complicated, while if I'm talking to a customer's junior employee about someone senior to me at my job I will self-deprecate on behalf of my coworker, it would be an extremely poor play for that junior employee to more subtly actually pull rank on us.
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