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One of the perks of being an Aussie is calling everyone from the frontline workers to the C-suite 'mate'

Luckily the C-suite get their own C-word for proper etiquette.

I don't think I've ever seen someone at a tech company in Australia refer to someone as 'mate'. Certainly not C-suite.

For the most part, I find the use of mate as obnoxious at worst and awkward at best.

In Australia, the words "mate" and "cunt" have seemingly-opposite meanings, to what an American-English speaker might think.