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I knew the general idea of -tachi, as explained e.g. here: ["Hey Bro!" how to
call out friends](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/30002/hey-bro-
how-to-call-out-friends/38533#38533)

However, in one ラノベ I read the following situation: Assume there is a
supervisor Asahi and 2 employees Kimi and Mashi of same "grade" sitting at the
same table. And Asahi addresses both of them ("you two"/"both of you") using
"Kimi-tachi".

Isn't such a call-out insulting to Mashi? I mean, the translation would be
"Kimi and the other one", "Kimi's group", etc., correct? But since Kimi and
Mashi are of the same social standing, isn't just naming one of them strange?
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plurals plural-suffixes
Addressing a group of people with -tachi (たち) and name of one
「きみ」 as a personal name and the pronoun 「君{きみ}」 are **_pronounced so
differently_** that at least among us native speakers, there would be no
confusion or misunderstanding.

「きみたち{HLLL}」 = "Kimi and the gang"

「きみたち{LHLL}」 = "Y'all"

Mashi will know without thinking which one was said just by the pronunciation.

Hope I am not misreading your question.
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Correct me if I’m wrong but I feel that it wouldn’t be offensive because they
would use it quite often.It’s literally just the first name that you think of,
and I don’t think anyone would think to much into it. Though a better reason
would be that especially with Japanese people, they prefer to worry about the
group rather than themselves which is why they are always apologising and
using phrases like ‘しょうがない’.

I’d guess that they’d choose the name of the older employee, because I’m
pretty sure in Japanese culture the people who serve longer are more important
within a specific rank. Especially the people with more experience. But if
they have almost equal experience I’d think it wouldn’t matter.

Unlike us westerners their group mentality is quite strong and don’t care
about selfish fame like their boss using their name to refer to the group
rather than someone else. So they’re probably more likely to think ‘I’m sorry
our boss used my name instead of yours’. I’m not Japanese ore anything, and
this is just my speculation from my knowledge of Japanese culture so take it
with a grain of salt.
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You don't usually address people that way unless you indicate one group in
contrast to others. Even if you do so when there doesn't seem to be a good
reason, I don't particularly feel anything.

I'd like you to consider that you couldn't do that to begin with if there was
such connotation for one who doesn't happen to be representative.
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