What is in a name?
This whole situation is seriously depressing to me...I know it is stupid, but come on it is my name! My boss and her brother are continuing to spell my name wrong. Maybe it isn't a big deal.
Maybe I am over reacting, but damnit, it is my name, mine. The name that my parents gave me after they decided that my real name was too formal for every day use. It is 5 freaking letters! FIVE! That isn't very many. They however seem to think it is 6 letters, they add an extra letter....or double a letter, whichever.
Regardless, they spell my name wrong constantly. At first I though whatever, but now that we are part of a much larger corporation, it bothers me. They include my misspelled name to people outside of the company, who are now spelling my name wrong, who then send out more emails to other people who then will go on to spell my name wrong. It is a whole name misspelling epidemic...of my name!
I kind of like my name, and I really like my name spelled the way my parents spelled it when I was born. It feels that by misspelling it, it is not me. I know this is so stupid, but it really isn't me. Not with the double consonant starring at me each time I read my email.
Besides as I have said before, I have been here for six years, and in all of those six years, my name, its been spelled the same way that whole time!
I have stood up for myself in the past on this issue, only to be completely blown off, but I really think that I need to put my foot down, and say 'no more'! Spell my name right damnit! It just hurts you know...it is like they can't even take the freaking time to figure out how to spell one of their 40 employees names.
What do you guys think I should do? Better yet, how do I tactfully put my foot down, stand my ground and let them know that this bothers me? Especially, Grande you know all of this, but recently I have been speaking my mind about the thing I feel are wrong about the office. They haven't of course been received well, but at least I am getting my feelings out there. So how with all of that, do I respectfully say, SPELL MY FUCKING NAME RIGHT!?!
posted by C @ 7:07 AM
3 Comments:
some ideas :
- fight fire with fire - they spell your name wrong, you spell theirs wrong.
- you could just not reply and say you were waiting for the employee with the doubled consonant in their name to reply.
- send out emails immediately after they do saying, "if anyone would like to reach me, here's how my name is actually spelled."
- meet with them in person and explain that you don't like having your name misspelled.
- ignore it. clearly they're too stupid to figure it out.
I don't see the last two working. they haven't yet, why should it magically start now? some combination of the first three would probably work best.
perhaps you just need to go through the naturalization process? I hear you get to change your name.
Many computer systems don't allow me to spell my name correctly because they won't accept hyphens, so that annoys me.
Also, no one pronounces my name correctly, but I find that useful in screening phone calls.
People make fun of my last name for having too many consonants (and generally being unpronouncable). But on the bright side, the select few that learn it are very proud of themselves each time they can say/spell it correctly.
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