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To be pissed at my name being laughed at constantly

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NotAmazonAlexa · 27/03/2024 19:43

So I'll let you guess my name.....

Today I had a hospital procedure and every member of staff laughed at my name. I was asked if it really was my name and what the weather forecast is for tomorrow.

On the form I had to fill out first it asked what you would like to be called so I put my nickname to hopefully avoid this but that didn't work. I didn't say anything as I didn't want to make it awkward and wanted the procedure over with as soon as possible.

Not the first time this has happened, at a different hospital last month one nurse couldn't stop laughing and asking me questions..

I'm in my late 40's, used to love my name but it's becoming a nightmare.

Fuck you Amazon

OP posts:
whynotwhatknot · 27/03/2024 22:34

its not even funny

serin · 27/03/2024 22:21

Good grief, they need to get over themselves.
I know two Alexa's, both in their 30s and both working in the NHS. I wasn't aware it's an uncommon name.

SuperstarDeejay · 27/03/2024 22:18

Flyinghighhighinthesky · 27/03/2024 20:25

I smile when I hear the name...love Alexa in Schitts Creek. Such a hit show I can't believe people think the name is "funny" or unusual.

Such a hit show I can't believe people didn't realise the character's name is Alexis Grin

watermelonsugar56 · 27/03/2024 22:17

That is very rude and inappropriate. Alexa is a lovely name btw. Weird people

MMAMPWGHAP · 27/03/2024 22:16

Tell everyone that laughs that you get free Amazon services - Prime, Kindle, Audible etc as compensation.

iwafs · 27/03/2024 22:09

Perfectly nice name.

really unprofessional of staff to keep making idiotic jokes

Pixit · 27/03/2024 22:02

Zapss · 27/03/2024 21:45

Could be worse.

www.newspapers.com/article/the-circleville-herald-obituary-dr-gay/20018596/?locale=en-GB

The Sunday Post had (has?) a long running column titled Seven Days Hard by Francis Gay chronicling the ups and downs of a curtain twitching market town dweller which I suspect was some kind of slow burn embedded front for Stonewall.

ilovesushi · 27/03/2024 22:01

It is a beautiful name. I had a school friend called Flora who used to be teased because it was a margarine brand. Annoying but it didn't make it any less of a beautiful name.

pontipinemum · 27/03/2024 22:00

@PaperwhiteTheGhost I had to google why that'd be a bad name so might not be as bad as you think anymore. I was young when she died.

NewFriendlyLadybird · 27/03/2024 21:56

It’s extraordinarily rude and unprofessional to mock someone’s name.

I would call them out on it every time.

If it’s what I think it is, it’s a very pretty name.

Cuckoochanel80 · 27/03/2024 21:55

toomanyy · 27/03/2024 19:47

was asked if it really was my name and what the weather forecast is for tomorrow.

Michael Fish?

Haha I thought of him too, God love him

alahanscornershop · 27/03/2024 21:54

Is your name Alexa Prime

ZoyaTheDestroyer · 27/03/2024 21:53

I have never seen such a precipitous drop in the usage statistics for a name as that for Alexa between 2017 and 2021 (https://names.darkgreener.com/#alexa).

There is a bully in my DC’s year named Alexa. I have wondered more than once if it is a pre-emptive measure against the teasing her name attracts.

JonnyTheDogFacedBoy · 27/03/2024 21:52

I really love the name Alexa, it's so pretty. I don't have an actual amazon alexa though - if I did, maybe I'd stop hearing it as a pretty name and just associate it with the robot lady who times my boiled eggs and plays Hall and Oates on demand.

If I were you and it bothered me, I'd go by Alex. Although Alexa really is a pretty name, so it seems a shame.

I've got a slightly funny surname that people question/laugh at, I'm used to it and take it in good humour. I find also acknowledging it's comical tends to minimise the banter. I think the more you act perturbed, the more they'll jest.

user1471554720 · 27/03/2024 21:40

If people laugh, ask them why are they laughing at your name, while staring. Make them answer. Then ask them if they would like you to laugh at their name. So rude.

SoupChicken · 27/03/2024 21:39

redalex261 · 27/03/2024 20:09

That’s nothing. I have seen some stunningly bad forenames on paperwork. For example:

Yaris.(FGS, just go with Paris)
Sierra Cosworth (1st & middle name, clearly in honour of that eighties iconic vehicle)
Ocean (just why? especially partnered with a surname something like McClunkybum….)
Kennethina (the very worst of the ones where the parents wanted a boy)
Chardonnay (I am not kidding, blame Footballer’s Wives)
Armani & Jazz (siblings)
Khalessi (Game of Thrones anyone?)

So count yourself lucky, Alexa is a lovely name. No need for fiddling round with deed poll changes!

I hope to god that’s the same Sierra Cosworth I was at school with, otherwise that means there are two little girls with that name!

Fwiw I think a group of women in France tried to sue Renault to stop them calling their car the Zoe Renault because they would be made fun of but they lost.

Gruffallowhydidntyouknow · 27/03/2024 21:39

I wanted to use the name but didn't because of the association. Its a shame it got spoiled as its beautiful.

Pixit · 27/03/2024 21:36

My friend Osama says just own it.

seven201 · 27/03/2024 21:36

I'd be pissed off too. It's a lovely name. In lockdown I was attempting to teach via teams and took the register. When I said Alexa my Alexa started with it's "sorry, I don't understand" and I did the whole, 'oh, isn't that funny' thing. After I realised that poor girl probably had that happen in lots of her lessons and was most likely fed up with it. I think Amazon should have used an uncommon name or even made one up.

FernwoodRydal · 27/03/2024 21:34

I'm really sorry that happens to you. However someone at school called Alexa was really unpleasant to me 20 years ago so part of me is 😂at this. She deserves it, I'm sure not all Alexas do!

PurpleFlower1983 · 27/03/2024 21:31

It’s such a shame the name Alexa has been well and truly high jacked.

ADHDm · 27/03/2024 21:22

So your name is Alexa with no funny connecting Surname?

Not Alexa Amazon. Or anything vaguely funny.

Why would 'just Alexa' be even worthy to comment on.

WhoaJayShettybambalam · 27/03/2024 21:21

Alexa is a beautiful name.

I’m appalled at hospital staff making you feel like this.

Funnywonder · 27/03/2024 21:17

What are people like? Honestly, I would never ever make a joke about someone's name. My name was in a really popular 80s song and I was tortured with people taking the piss. And they always seemed to think they were so original🙄

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