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[erastes]

Grumpy Monday. :( +--(- (that's my new STAB icon)

Why do people think I'm being Arsey when I ask them to spell my real life name correctly? Would they like it if I spelled their names Joolie, or Reeshard? What irritates me most is that it's nearly always in an email, where they've had to find my name on the system, and it's RIGHT THERE!!! AND STILL they spell it wrongly. However, in the case of Personnel, I suspect they do it on purpose. I've only been here five years, after all.

*psycho stabbing*! ! ! ! ! ! !

As I was a little stuck on my Regency novella, I've skipped forward to a sex scene because that will hopefully encourage me to progress and join up the dots. So now there is frantic wrestling-grappling and the ripping off of regimental buttons. This helps to cheer me up! Nothing nicer than uniformed Majors grabbing and soundly snogging civilians.

Comments

[gehayi.livejournal.com]

Because people are idiots?

I wonder if Personnel has your name recorded wrong in the system. That's happened to me on a couple of jobs. And for some reason the view of the person matters less than what's recorded in the computer.

And yes, I can see where a nice sex scene would cheer you up no end.

[gehayi.livejournal.com]

I've gotten to the point where I just automatically spell my first name, my last name and the name of the street I live on. It's simpler.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

No, my HR woman has always disliked me, and I'm quite sure it's deliberate - I know for sure it's spelled right in their records.

I don't bother to spell it for people in general, but when they've got to type it out to find it on the email system - or they are replying when my name is there on the email itself, there's no excuse. None. But at least 8 out of 10 people get it wrong.

[aunty_marion]

Off with his buttons! At the double!

(And yes, I hate it when people spell my name wrong. I just got my gas inspection report from the council, addressed to Mrs (which I'm not) and with two t's in my surname, which it Does Not Have.)

[erastes.livejournal.com]

There are cravats flying all over the place!

I think its just that most people ARE idiots.

[dgcandace.livejournal.com]

My name is commonly misspelled "Candice," "Kandis," etc. But my most dreaded misspelling is the not-even-a-real-name version, "Candance." However, I don't bother to correct people anymore because it feels too tedious. Nor do I correct people anymore when they can't say the name of the street on which I work (which they often do when I place phone orders for supplies) which is the whopping difficult word "perimeter."

*Imanining order takers going "Peri...p-peri...."*

*sigh*

On a funnier note, my pharmacists always think it's their fault my name is "Candance" in the system and have offered to correct their error multiple times, and I always tell them not to bother changing it since it matches the stupid insurance card.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Candance is just... odd!!

[lee-rowan.livejournal.com]

better than cantdance... I have an oft-misspelled name, too. It's usually not worth the powder to explain.

[raphinou.livejournal.com]

i feel your pain! i recently helped organise an academic conference at my uni. i was in charge of answering all the correspondence we received at the conference e-mail. with the big number of people calling me "ralph" (hate that name!!!), i've had to send out a mass e-mail telling them that there is no "L" in "raph" since it's short for "raphael".

just FYI: for me, "raph" rhymes with "laugh". however, i will answer to "rafe". God forbid if someone calls me "ralph", though!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Now - i pronounce "laugh" like this:

LARF (the r sounds like arrrrr) so is it RARF? Or Laff?

[raphinou.livejournal.com]

LOL! i'd completely slipped my mind that you would use a different vowel for that word. "raph" rhymes with "laff" (which should have the same vowel sound that you have in a word like "pat").

[sionnain.livejournal.com]

ARGH! People do that to me all the time, with the emails? I'll sign it with my actual name, and their response will start out with, "Sharon..."

THAT IS NOT MY $*(W$^*! NAME.

Very annoying!!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I got a memo from someone I had reminded about my name today, and they'd UNDERLINED the extra letter I'd "insisted" on.

GRrrrr!!!!

[dgcandace.livejournal.com]

Hee heee, I got another one who couldn't say "Perimeter."

[angrboda]

I feel you! My mum's first name is Anne-Grethe. Which could also have been spelled Anne Grethe, Annegrethe, Anne Grete, Annegrete or Annegrete. (Without the h is rather uncommon though, but it does occur in her misspellings.) Nobody can ever seem to get her name right. And to top it off our family name could be spelled both with a C or a K.

My first name can be spelled with or without an h and my parents decided that they didn't want me to have the same spelling problems as my mum, so they decided to spell me without the h. Consequently everybody wants to stuff h's in my name where they don't belong!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Hee hee. That reminds me of Margaret Note Spelling of Lancre!!

[asphodeline.livejournal.com]

I've finally sent your Easter package and now I'm a bit worried I may have your name down wrong!! I don't think I do, I think it's the 'proper' speeling but do tell me if it isn't :(

Personnel people are stupid. It's even worse when they can't get your name correctly put onto work name badges!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

No you didn't *frown*

TWO N'S PLEASE!!!!

but how kind of you! How dissapointed I was when I saw the box (handy mini kitchen measure, probably the most useless present anyone could have bought me) and how my eyes lit up when I saw my favourite sweeties of all time (without peanut butter in them)

Thank you!!!!!!!!

[asphodeline.livejournal.com]

oops, I shall amend my address book. I've just broken my glasses so sorry for any typos, can't see the screen!

Lol, I was worried you'd see the box and think that was what was inside. Haha, glad you weren't disappointed. I saw those and thought of you :D

[latetocomics.livejournal.com]

yep...that's frustrating, I run into it with my last name...but I definitely like your method of cheering up!

[nagasvoice.livejournal.com]

Millions of repair persons, car mechanics, bus and truck drivers will just nod sadly at your assertion that People are Ijjiots.
It's so fun being on the other end of that Look, too. You know that one. When you can read their mind about What They Are Not Saying To You Now.
On Friday, I got it secondhand from the dishwasher repair guy about what the floor repair guy did to the front of the maintenance panel to make the guts of the machine completely inaccessible.
This was one of those "more in sorrow than in anger" things.
It looks something like, "I'm not saying it. You can read what I'm thinking perfectly well, we both know exactly What I am Not Saying. I can think it as loud as I like. I am perfectly serene in my self-control, and nothing will force me to utter it out loud to a member of the public, but I can think it as loud and long as I please: You are an Ijjiot."
Sigh.
On the plus side, I've always thought that a civilian shtupped by a Major ought to be a cvilian very well-shtupped indeed.

[lee-rowan.livejournal.com]

Thanks to you, I now have "snogging civilians" in my head.

To the tune of "Waltzing Matilda."

I guess it could be worse...