Bertros. Schirley.

Whenever you have an interview or a meeting with someone you have never met who is a superior be sure to follow this rule: use whatever greeting and style that they use.

If they walk into the meeting in all sweaty and exasperated and tell you to sit down don't offer your name just sit down. If he says his name is Jack, but friends call him Skip, then your name is Robert, but your friends call you Dickie.

It is very hard for me to not blurt out in my giddy way that my name is Katie! However, today I had a job interview and wasn't sure if the meeting would be in German or English, if I should call him Dr. or if we could use the familiar "du" form. He was late to the meeting so I went to the ladies. I came back to find him in the meeting room. He stood up and gave me a friendly, hearty hand-shake. I shook back, looked him in the eye and said nothing. Silence. Silence, more eye-contact. I smile ever so slightly in a satisfied way.
Finally, he says, "Bertros."
"Schirley, " I say and sit down to begin the interview.