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It is - and sometimes I get called by middle name instead of either of the other names. In e-mails the failure rate for people getting my name in the right ord
by lvturner 6y ago
It is - and sometimes I get called by middle name instead of either of the other names.
In e-mails the failure rate for people getting my name in the right order is around 80% - sometimes even after I've corrected the sender three or four times (with decreasing subtly)
- orthoxerox 6y agoIn the international company I work for we have a rule that surnames are always in all caps in employee directories. So it can be "Ryan LEE" or "LEE, Ryan" or "LEE Ryan" (in Hungary), but you know that Lee is the family name. Before that rule was introduced, confusion was commonplace. A colleague of mine is called, say, Vyacheslav Spirin, and he signed his emails as "V. Spirin". To Indians this looked like a normal South Indian name, where "V." was the family name, so they assumed his first name was Spirin. When the same guy introduced himself in person as Slava they thought he and Spirin were different people.
- CGamesPlay 6y agoTo be fair, I would have thought that Vyacheslav and Slava were also different people.