Do you hate when your name is misspelled?

[imawino]

Sept 23, 2015 19:37:58 GMT -5 thyme4change said:

I also have a common name with many different ways to spell it.  I have variable reactions.  

If it is someone I know well and work with often, it hurts my feelings if they can't take the time to look at my name on the email "To" line and get it right.  It makes me wonder if they consider me at all.  Do they respect me or am I just a warm body.

If it is someone I only have email exchanges with (there are many of them) I usually think they are lazy or lack attention to detail if they can't glance up and get my name correct.  It doesn't bother me that my name is spelled wrong, but it does make me question their work.

In most other places, I don't care.  Again - if I consider you a friend and we hang out and have for a while - you should care enough to get it right.  If I see my name on the list of parents, written by someone who doesn't know me and mine is spelled wrong - I don't care at all.  

I have a name that is frequently mixed up with other much more common variants.  I don't much care, but if you are responding to an email that has my name in the signature line you really have no excuse.  I get it happening once if you're just responding quickly and not paying much attention, but to keep doing it makes me think you're kind of stupid.  It's not only in my signature, my actual email address is [e-mail]   Good grief

Since my company did something with our email system for some reason my name now shows up in its entirety First MIDDLE and Last (it didn't change my actual email address, just who it shows you it's from).  I get a ton of responses that completely skip my first name and just refer to me by my middle name now, which I find odd.

[happyhoix]

No I don't give a shit.

My married name is an uncommon spelling of a common name (DH had an illiterate ancestor who misspelled it) and unless it's something important like a credit card transaction, I don't bother to correct it.

I had a boss who was named Gant, and people often misspelled it Grant. He would actually return business letters to the sender and make them correct them and resend them.  He was an ass - not for his fixation on his name, but for many other reasons.

[t-dog]

Sept 23, 2015 19:10:24 GMT -5 alabamagal said:

Sept 23, 2015 16:34:22 GMT -5 flamingo said:

My gramma sends all cards/correspondence to me address as Mrs. His First and Last Name. She KNOWS I didn't take his name, but she's old school and back when she got married she ceased to be Ms. Her Name and became Mrs. His First and Last Name. So, we will probably never break her of that habit.

More irritating is when she sends checks with made out to "Flamingo His Last Name". My bank isn't real happy about cashing those, and gramma doesn't understand why I'm not cashing her check. DH and I FINALLY opened a joint bank account just for this type of stuff and our bank now lets us deposit these checks in there. Obviously, gramma isn't the only one who gets it wrong, but it's most irritating when she does.

Funny (?) story, when I first moved to our current city last year, the electric company screwed this up and sent the bill addressed to "Flamingo His Last Name". We never got the bill. My assumption is the mail carrier didn't leave the bill (at the time, only my last name was on the mailbox, as DH hadn't yet moved/changed his address). I finally got suspicious and called them about 6 weeks or so after the bill was due. I had a heck of a time trying to straighten it all out. First, it didn't occur to me that was the problem, so they couldn't find me, then when they found me in the system, no one could figure out why the bill never got to me. 

Oh, and my last name that I kept? Not one person has ever spelled it right on the first try! 

I could have written this except it is my MIL that used to write checks to me with DH last name. She thinks I am just pretending to go by my original last name.

My last name was misspelled at Ellis Island when my family came over from Poland. The good thing is that if I google my last name I am related to everyone that shows up. And I can almost always use my last name as a user name on websites.

Same thing happened to my great grandparents when they came from Poland although I have been told the ski was intentionally dropped by Ellis Island staff to make the name "less ethnic"

[mojothehelpermonkey]

My aunt just misspelled my name in a reply to a Facebook comment that had the correct spelling of my name listed right there. Maybe it's autocorrect's fault.

[Robert not Bobby]

I really never have that problem...think of an American car maker that is not GM or Chrysler (oh, they were bought out by Fiat)...and my first name is Robert. I know, so plain. Sometimes I wish my name was something really exotic like...maybe...Gianpaulo Greco di Venezia il Primo. What a mouth full that would be, but distinctive.

Gianpaulo is John Paul...two beautiful biblical names, and I am not religious.

My kids are Alexander and Stefan.

[ken a.k.a OMK]

You can see that my first name is Ken. My last name is Rogers and I'm often asked if it is with or without a "d."  Without.

Now if I could only get a royalty check made out to Kenny Rogers.

[ken a.k.a OMK]

Sept 24, 2015 21:15:06 GMT -5 mollyanna58 said:

Sept 24, 2015 13:50:17 GMT -5 Icelandic Woman said:

It's called Something About Kidd Steps.  If you'd like to join, PM me your FB name and I'll send the invitation to join.

There is also an EE gang on fb.

[Icelandic Woman]

Oct 2, 2015 16:39:03 GMT -5 ken a.k.a OMK said:

Sept 24, 2015 21:15:06 GMT -5 mollyanna58 said:

It's called Something About Kidd Steps.  If you'd like to join, PM me your FB name and I'll send the invitation to join.

There is also an EE gang on fb.

So where is my invite to that one?