Dear people, please learn to read

[gothikmaus]

Why can't people spell my surname correctly? It's only 6 letters, it shouldn't be that difficult. All right, it's not so popular like those typical Italian surnames (Rossi, Esposito etc), in fact, if someone has my surname, you can be sure they're related to me. But really. Six bloody letters.

First, this morning I finally got an entrance badge at work, after I've been working here for, oh, 10 months? So I won't need to ask the receptionist for a temporary badge every morning. And guess what, on the list my surname was spelled wrong. Wow, I've only been filling in your bloody entrance form every morning for the last 10 months, you could at least check.

Then, ten minutes ago, I got a phone call from a job agency that began like this:

Guy: "Hello? Miss Oxxxxxx?"

Me: "It's Oxxxxx."

Guy: "Oh, sorry."

WTF, people. Besides he said he was calling me because I had answered one of their job offers last November, but he wasn't actually calling me about that specific offer, but since they had my name in their database maybe I was interested in working as a SAP consultant for one of their consultancy agencies?

Whatever. I refuse to let the stupidity of mankind ruin my good mood. I'll just think of being in Berlin in less than 2 months and seeing Bela and listening to his wonderful voice and pretend the real world doesn't exist.

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[polarforscherin.livejournal.com]

I refuse to let the stupidity of mankind ruin my good mood. I'll just think of being in Berlin in less than 2 months and seeing Bela and listening to his wonderful voice and pretend the real world doesn't exist.

That's it. XD

Nothing's going to ruin my mood till Berlin. :D

[gothikmaus.livejournal.com]

The "funny" thing is, my father made an appointment for a medical exam today and the person there made the same mistake! My father was like "Uhm, you wrote it wrong..."

-__-

But I don't care, I haven't felt this serene in months and I'm not going to get cranky just because people are stupid!

[angrylogic.livejournal.com]

Don't worry about it. People spell my surname wrong all the time, and you know how common and easy to spell it is ;) I think your surname is pretty.

SAP want you bad... Resist, damnit!

[gothikmaus.livejournal.com]

Well, I can understand people spelling English names wrong, because two words that are written in different ways may be pronounced the same way, so you can never be sure what the correct spelling is if you don't ask. But that doesn't happen with Italian words. If your surname is Rossi, you pronounce it one way, if it's Rosi, you pronounce it differently. Bah, whatever.

Yeah, SAP wants my soul. But they'll never have me!

[angrylogic.livejournal.com]

Oh, there are two different spellings of my surname, but it's when someone gets them both wrong it's like "Are you fucking blind? It's about the sixth most common name in the UK. How in god's balls can you get it wrong?" I'm not as bad as my partner though. Her surname is so rare it's only traceable back to its country of origin and even then, there's only about 100 people there with it. I keep telling her it's because she's actually descended from the ancient kings and her people were banished - it's only a matter of time before she can reclaim her throne by birthright XD And also, her name is DEFINATELY one in 6 billion, so stop complaining!

I wish I had an awesome name, but even though no one calls me by my real name, it looks ugly on paper ;_;

[gothikmaus.livejournal.com]

Heh, it's like that with my surname too, only members of my family carry it. But I don't think your name is ugly! It sounds nice, at least to my Italian ears. :)

[achtanablah.livejournal.com]

Even worse is what keeps happening to me: People sometimes adress me in e-mails as "Mr. Almut H..." because they don't know my name and think it's a boy's name. IT'S NOT! >_

[gothikmaus.livejournal.com]

Ugh, yes, that's definitely worse. D: Even if, sometimes, it's better if people think you're a man, especially when you're looking for a job. At least in Italy, men have much better chances of finding decent jobs than women... -__-

[achtanablah.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the weirdest phone call I ever got was this:
Me: Hello
Woman: Hello. Are you Almut H.'s girlfriend?
Me: Wha..?
Took me a while to convince her that I was me.
My name is rare, yes, but not *that* rare.:(