Last name that could be a first name vent

photokitty · February 2016

vikinganna87 said:

Slightly unrelated but on the topic of names:

The woman who had my job before me - I've never met her - did really well. Over the course of 6 years she went from being Laurie to Laura to L to Elle. Now I can understand being in a client-facing role and wanting to make things simple. But I'm like hell no would I change my name! It's like sacrificing your identity to please others. Anyone else think this is odd?

A local day spa with 8 or so locations, makes every employee use a different name. As in only one person can use each name. That way if you call to make an appt with Susan, there is only one Susan. Most of them don't get to use their real names as a result. I always found it crazy.

emmaaa · February 2016

This is what I keep thinking about "two first names" Haha.

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[Deleted User] · February 2016

photokitty said:

vikinganna87 said:

Slightly unrelated but on the topic of names:

The woman who had my job before me - I've never met her - did really well. Over the course of 6 years she went from being Laurie to Laura to L to Elle. Now I can understand being in a client-facing role and wanting to make things simple. But I'm like hell no would I change my name! It's like sacrificing your identity to please others. Anyone else think this is odd?

A local day spa with 8 or so locations, makes every employee use a different name. As in only one person can use each name. That way if you call to make an appt with Susan, there is only one Susan. Most of them don't get to use their real names as a result. I always found it crazy.

I went to help out a friend's daughter who was learning how to be a cosmetologist, so I called to make an appointment with this student at the salon/school she was working at. I had met the girl, her name was something common like Erin. Her mother told me that when I called to make my appointment I needed to ask for Monique. Sure enough, I show up and she's wearing a nametag that says Monique. So weird.

vikinganna87 · February 2016

@photokitty @adk19 I find that disturbing and degrading

InLoveInQueens · February 2016

My first name is an uncommon spelling of an even more uncommon name (as in I've met two other people in my life with the same name, spelled the same way, and maybe 5 more people with different spellings of the same name) so I know the pain of never finding anything with my name on it. For my birthday one year my brother got me a keychain/zipper pull that had a cute elephant on it and it said "They didn't have your name" which I thought was amazing. My maiden name was again uncommon with multiple ways to spell it (two spots where two letters could be flipped) and two ways to pronounce it. And if you knew how often I had to correct people when pronouncing my first name you'd think my name was Welsh or something, people struggle with it constantly.

My husband's last name is a possible first name but I was so excited to be able to spell it for people once and have them be able to spell it right from then on and pronounce it correctly on the first try. It was a great feeling, though I haven't been called it as my first name it's a possibility and I'm all for it over having both names misspelled and mispronounced all the time.

Knottie1436436203 · February 2016

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short+sassy · February 2016

CMGragain said:

DH uses his middle name as his first name. I always know when it is a telephone solicitor if they ask for him by his real first name.

A bit off topic, but somehow...somewhere...in some database that has apparently been used for the last 25 years...my birth year got switched. So, in this database, I show as being born in 1937 instead of 1973.

On the 65th birthday of my alternate self, I got SO many "birthday" cards from every Medicare supplemental insurance company out there. AARP hounds me to become a member (via mail) on an almost weekly basis, lol. The AARP mail started (I think) when I was in high school. It's been forever.

emmaaa · February 2016

short+sassy said:

CMGragain said:

DH uses his middle name as his first name. I always know when it is a telephone solicitor if they ask for him by his real first name.

A bit off topic, but somehow...somewhere...in some database that has apparently been used for the last 25 years...my birth year got switched. So, in this database, I show as being born in 1937 instead of 1973.
On the 65th birthday of my alternate self, I got SO many "birthday" cards from every Medicare supplemental insurance company out there. AARP hounds me to become a member (via mail) on an almost weekly basis, lol. The AARP mail started (I think) when I was in high school. It's been forever.

Oh my, that's hilarious!

My dad made a mistake on his health insurance when he added me. I go by my middle name so he didn't even have my first name on there (not too hard to get around though). But he also put my birth year wrong. He had 1991 instead on 1990. I never even noticed that until I went to college and was trying to waive the health insurance fee the automatically charge you.

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