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My name is easy beyond belief but people get it wrong ALL THE TIME. You'd think "Jane" is pretty safe, but especially at Starbucks it gets rewritten into a lot
by silencio 12y ago
My name is easy beyond belief but people get it wrong ALL THE TIME. You'd think "Jane" is pretty safe, but especially at Starbucks it gets rewritten into a lot of other names like "Shane" or "Jayne" or "Jain". My now maiden name "Lee" is...well...."Li", "Le", "Leigh"..........I think one person almost got my new last name wrong but it was over the phone and a B vs V problem.
Even better is when I was at Disney World for part of my honeymoon. If you tell Disney employees you're celebrating an occasion, they'll give you a button for it - e.g. honeymoon, 1st visit, family reunion. One employee offered to customize my husband's and my very boring honeymoon buttons for us with our names. She asked my husband if he spelled his name (Kevin) "the way you expect to spell it". I got a button that said "with Keven" and didn't have the heart to tell her what was wrong with it.
BTW at my restaurant I used to use names and now I just use numbers. Numbers are way easier to remember and call out, and makes it harder for people to accidentally (or purposefully) take the wrong thing if they can't return the number card back.
- p8952 12y ago>She asked my husband if he spelled his name (Kevin) "the way you expect to spell it". I got a button that said "with Keven" and didn't have the heart to tell her what was wrong with it. Poor girl. As someone cursed with the inability to spell non-phonetically I'd hate to have to ever write anything without the help of spell check. It's such a silly thing when you think about it but people will write you off as a moron without a second thought.
- coldpie 12y agoMy favorite are the typographical issues. My last name contains an I and I often hear L in its place from telemarketers. Makes hanging up on them even easier than it already is.