I'm working in an English big company in Germany. Everybody speak English but most of us as second, or third language.
One thing I noticed is that we are all "guys" in the office:
"Ask the guy up there."
"Call the guys of help desk."
"Guys, we need to manage this now."
"Who is the guy who said that?"
"We need to tell this to all the other guys."
Apart from some managers that says "Gentlemen" everybody else use only "guy".
I'm wondering if is this normal also in natively English speaking workplaces or instead there are better and different terms that could be used in such situations.
Best Answer
the people is commonly used in our workplace.
Call up the people in [department name].
Someone is also used
Can you get someone in accounting to take a look at this?
Or, it's just omitted if it's a whole team:
Can you get Finance in here right now?
EDIT: I should add that if a team is all young men, sometimes the term boys is used, though this is usually used within a team and is much more casual.
E.g. The IT(sub-dept.) Manager might say to others in the IS(main dept.) team: "The boys are out fixing a problem, they'll join us shortly"