Apropos of Nothing

[penmage]

I really hate it when people misspell my name.

It's not a common name. It's unusual, I know, and even the people who share it with me spell it differently than I do. I can excuse it to a degree. If you've just met me, or if you've never seen it written down, or only write my name down infrequently, whatever, I don't care.

BUT. My professional email address is firstname.lastname@gmail.com. Is it SO HARD to realize that I spell my name like the first half of said email address when you're emailing me? Or, when you've known me for a really long time, and had opportunity to see me write my name and spell my name many times, is it so hard to spell it right?

It's totally unjustified, but it seriously pisses me off.

Comments

[demon-mistress.livejournal.com]

i've written letters to people where i TYPE my name in beneath my signature and both say first name last name. and yet i often get responses made out to mr. last name first name.

not quite the same thing, but i understand how annoying it can get.

[g33kgrrl]

One of my work-friends gets that. She answers, "Actually, I prefer to go by my first name."

[spinflight.livejournal.com]

i get letters addressed to "ms." all the time. on the phone people mishear me as jim or ken. lately i've been shortening my last name to 4 letters because people can't deal with all 9. :-/

[shhbabe.livejournal.com]

People are stupid.