What is up with everybody calling me boss? I go to Home Depot: “aisle 10, boss”. Costco: “sure thing, boss”. Oil change dude: “all done, boss”. This is a prison thing, right? Does anybody else get this or is it just an L.A./latino neighborhood thing?
I hear it hear in Chicago, too. Never associated it with prison or anything, just general slang.
Hey, I don’t have to stop what I’m doing and answer you.
You’re not my boss.
Also, you’re only a half cadence.
Would you prefer “'guvna”?
Big Hoss on Pawn Stars calls everyone (males, anyway) ‘my man’. I think that would irritate me.
I do it. Unconsciously; sorry! No explanation - it just happens. I promise to work on it 
I never get that here in Montreal, but a lot of people here speak French anyway.
Actually, now that I think of it, “chief” is more commonly used around here.
Mon? Mon?
Why is everyone saying mon at the end of statements all of a sudden like we were in Jamaica, no one used to do this now it is a trend or something.
We are not in Jamaica goddamit!
No, then you’d be ‘El Jefe’.
I’m a turnaround, boss.
Only if preceded by 'ello
WordMan, did you hone your chops playing in the prison band? 
Maybe it comes from the phrase “[do something] like a boss”. Seems like no one ever doesn’t say that lately. Except me. I never do.
Okay - you’re the boss!
How does “sir” make you feel? That’s probably the word they’re avoiding, since so many aging adults object to it because it makes them “feel old” to be addressed respectfully.
Yeah, part of getting close to 50 seems to be everyone has stopped calling me “bro”* and is now calling me “sir.” I’m not really annoyed with these kids, except I feel old. And they keep getting on my lawn… :p:o
- (Or “My Brother.” There’s no racial connotation to this in Hebrew, it’s just Army Slang here.)
No - just a conversational twit falling back on a silly word to sound…whatever. Not cool, just pleasant. Exactly what you find frustrating. It’s a variant of Have a Nice Day, admittedly.
Sorry 'bout that, chief.
I’ve known some women, usually of the skater/surfer/stoner variety, who call everyone of both genders “dude.”
If someone is leading a kitchen staff, do the cooks call them “Chef chef”?
Other ones: “bra” from surfers/Hawaiians (hate that one), “bruv” from people in parts of London and such.
OP: yeah, it seems like something a lot of Hispanic Americans do.