"What's my name bitch?!?!"
My birth name is Heather Lourie, so with a name like that, you would think that's pretty easy to remember. Heather...Lourie, period. Is it that difficult?? I don't think so, and neither do most of my friends.
Well it seems for some people, it's a hard item to get them to understand. It boggles my mind to no end, but what can I do? The way my last name is pronounced can sound just like I have 2 first names, which I can understand, but there's no excuse for being lazy and not giving someone that common courtesy that everyone deserves. Being that my last name is "Lourie", people think that it's my first name, and think it's Lori, or Laurie, etc...but that's my last name!!!! UGH!!!
But with work, dipshits are calling me by my last name... One in particular is this ass-munch vendor who emailed me today, calling me LOUIE! WHAT THE FUCK MAN?!?!?!
A) I am not a freakin male.
B) My first name is Heather.
How many fucking times do I have to tell these people what my fucking name is?!?! With my Outlook email at work, it's set up so when we send something out or receive something in, our last name comes up first followed by a comma, then our first name. (Basically it looks like "Lourie, Heather")
So what's a girl to do? Kindly and gently e-mail that tard and explain to him that I am not a guy? That's a start.
posted by Red Sox Fanatic at 6:54 PM
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I feel your pain. My last name is not difficult in the least but INVARIABLY gets mangled in the pronunciation. There's a "g" in it which people pronounce as a "q"! How messed up is that?
Anyway, if I was you I'd set up an auto-signature at the bottom of my email that includes your name in the appropriate order. I guess most people don't understand commas...
BTW, I got here via a bunch of other blogs, hope you don't mind me commenting.
;-)
10:28 PM
Red Sox Fanatic:
I like your idea of setting up an auto-signature at the end of my emails. I have it set up for when I compose, but not when I reply or forward, so I am definitelty going to change that now. I hope that works. Great idea! :o)
Feel free to comment on my blogs anytime you like. I will be sure to check yours out as well.
1:03 PM
Mister Bones:
OMG I know how you feel. How many ways do you think people can mess up "Mitch"? I get alot of Matt's, Mack's, Mick's, one guy always calls me Alan for some reason. And not to mention whenever you tell somebody your name is Mitch you always get one of two responses, "What? Oh, I thought you said bitch!" followed by roaring laughter, or "Mitch?...Hey do you know what your name rhymes with? Haha Mitch the bitch!" like they're the only ones brilliant enough to ever make the connection. To avoid these situations in my adult life, I decided to go by my full name, Mitchel. So people at work now get to call me "Michael" all day long. I can't win.
8:08 AM
