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> insist on calling me by my first name, which is not who I am. As someone who goes by a nickname, I find this to be a feature. If I get a phone call or email
by chiph 11y ago
> insist on calling me by my first name, which is not who I am.
As someone who goes by a nickname, I find this to be a feature. If I get a phone call or email addressing me by my legal first name, it's almost certainly a sales call, and I can take appropriate action.
- kstrauser 11y ago> As someone who goes by a nickname, I find this to be a feature. Oh, that's definitely a perk. "Hi, um, may I speak to... Firstname?" "No, but I can take a message." As a bonus, my first name is ridiculously pronounceable but cold callers act like they've never seen that arrangement of letters before. Imagine being Robert Joe Smith and they ask, "is... Row... Bort... there?" If you can't even say my first name, I have no prior business with you (and almost certainly no future dealings).
- dsr_ 11y agoPeople who use my name have probably been introduced to me. People who use all three of my initials probably know me online. People who call up and ask for "Dee" are invariably trying to sell me something.
- kpil 11y agoI'm sometimes called my middle name, which I am not using. In Swedish, it seems that the rhythm or composition of the full name is rather important, so a lot of people are goes by their middle name. I guess my second name seems more probable as a name. Example: "Erik Lars Svensson" is not ok, but "Lars Erik Svensson" is. "Anna Sofia" is ok, but "Sofia Anna" is not. Sometimes the proper name is capitalized like this: Lars ERIK Svensson...