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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

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Andthereyougo · 30/03/2024 21:23

Menomeno · 27/03/2024 19:50

Could be worse. I’ve a friend with an 18 year old called Isis.

I rejected a house last time I was house hunting as it was in Isis Drive.

OP, very unprofessional of hospital staff. I’d be writing a complaint to the department manager or whatever they’re called.

Daisymaybe60 · 30/03/2024 21:06

It’s very rude and unprofessional of anyone to laugh at your name (which is lovely and not a bit comical, btw).

My name is apparently side-splittingly funny to people who don’t get out much. I once had someone ringing me regarding a start date for our home extension. She thought it was perfectly acceptable to start off by saying that eee, the whole office had been laughing at my name. I told her the job would now be going to a rival firm and that they could all have a good laugh about that, before putting the phone down. It was a small local company that could definitely have done with the business. Some people really are stupid.

Mayana1 · 30/03/2024 21:02

frantique · 30/03/2024 17:29

That’s nothing. My first name is Googlesearch.

Oh you must think you are so funny.

Mayana1 · 30/03/2024 21:00

Toooldforlonghair · 28/03/2024 10:49

I am known by my second name for pretty much the same reason My first name became a joke in the 1980s (now thankfully not so much.) I changed it after someone interviewing me for a job basically said they never expected someone with such a chavvy name would apply for the post!

People of a certain age still laugh when they learn my name, including people who should know bette and make comments such as you 'don't look/sound like a (insert name).

Honestly OP my advice is use a dimunitive/alternate name and don't be afraid to call people out - everytime. The MN classic 'did you mean to be so rude' is a good start. I only wish I'd known the phrase 30 years ago.

Just tell us your name!!!

Harrysmummy246 · 30/03/2024 20:56

Menomeno · 27/03/2024 19:50

Could be worse. I’ve a friend with an 18 year old called Isis.

Well the river Thames through Oxford is known as the Isis, who was an Egyptian (?) god, hence why the second oubc crew is Isis, racing Goldie for Cambridge

Bojosgirl · 30/03/2024 20:52

I thought Karen and my name is Karen. My 10 yr old grandson thinks it’s a load of rubbish about Karens and I’m the nicest person he knows. That’ll do for me 🤷‍♀️

Mayana1 · 30/03/2024 20:47

Pixit · 27/03/2024 22:02

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.

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The point is not about his name Gay. If you would have read the article you would find out his surname was Hitler. So he was Gay Hitler.

Amazonstolemyname · 30/03/2024 20:40

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

I hear you sista!

GlitteryRainbow · 30/03/2024 20:39

toomanyy · 27/03/2024 19:47

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

Michael Fish?

I thought John Kettley now can’t get the song out of my head.

RosesAndHellebores · 30/03/2024 20:39

@SeaBreezeDewberryMusk some of the nicest people I have known have been called: Comfort, Loveness and Gifty. Totally usual names in their culture and all people rendering fantastic public service to people in the UK.

pollymere · 30/03/2024 20:37

I always think of the Billy Joel song actually...

It's the same problem as all the Harry Potters and James Bonds out there.

There are worse names to have but people are rude and infantile.

I was actually thinking being called April married to a man called shower would be pretty tough. I'm an admin on a FB page and sometimes I think a name has got to be fake but it isn't - some names are truly astounding.

Springchickenonion · 30/03/2024 20:37

You have a lovely name OP. Just eye roll them.

Mayana1 · 30/03/2024 20:37

Zapss · 27/03/2024 21:45

Could be worse.

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

OMG!!!!
Yes that would be much worse. But he actually died 3 years after IIWW finished, so it was not that bad for him his whole life.

MaybeDonkey · 30/03/2024 20:35

SeaBreezeDewberryMusk · 30/03/2024 20:28

Ocean is ridiculous as a name for a human being. I can’t imagine an adult being taken seriously with a ‘name’ like that.

The most ridiculous ‘name’ I have ever heard is Tequila. 🙄

Seriously, WTF is wrong with the name Karen? It’s a normal name and far better than stupid ‘names’ like Gift, Patience, Apple, Ocean, Paris.

Alexa sounds like a normal name to me.

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Ocean Ramsey seems to manage just fine.
Patience is a very traditional name from the 1600s no less, not that it should matter, ridiculing names is not OK regardless.

RosesAndHellebores · 30/03/2024 20:35

SeaBreezeDewberryMusk · 30/03/2024 20:28

Ocean is ridiculous as a name for a human being. I can’t imagine an adult being taken seriously with a ‘name’ like that.

The most ridiculous ‘name’ I have ever heard is Tequila. 🙄

Seriously, WTF is wrong with the name Karen? It’s a normal name and far better than stupid ‘names’ like Gift, Patience, Apple, Ocean, Paris.

Alexa sounds like a normal name to me.

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You do realise how rude and biased your post is I hope.

Runnerinthenight · 30/03/2024 20:32

*dull, wet and thick actually - and King Charles!!!

LateAF · 30/03/2024 20:31

SeaBreezeDewberryMusk · 30/03/2024 20:28

Ocean is ridiculous as a name for a human being. I can’t imagine an adult being taken seriously with a ‘name’ like that.

The most ridiculous ‘name’ I have ever heard is Tequila. 🙄

Seriously, WTF is wrong with the name Karen? It’s a normal name and far better than stupid ‘names’ like Gift, Patience, Apple, Ocean, Paris.

Alexa sounds like a normal name to me.

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Gift, Patience - culturally appropriate names in many west African countries. Just because it sounds silly to you doesn’t mean it is- not very nice to call names stupid. There isn’t just one English speaking culture.

SeaBreezeDewberryMusk · 30/03/2024 20:28

DreamerIzzy · 30/03/2024 18:20

Ocean is a beautiful name

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Ocean is ridiculous as a name for a human being. I can’t imagine an adult being taken seriously with a ‘name’ like that.

The most ridiculous ‘name’ I have ever heard is Tequila. 🙄

Seriously, WTF is wrong with the name Karen? It’s a normal name and far better than stupid ‘names’ like Gift, Patience, Apple, Ocean, Paris.

Alexa sounds like a normal name to me.

Runnerinthenight · 30/03/2024 20:26

Tell them you predict fog - because they're dull and wet!!

( I think Prince Charles called his ex BIL 'Foggy' for this reason!!)

Change yours to Alexis?

Mayana1 · 30/03/2024 20:20

TeenyTinyCrocodile · 27/03/2024 20:51

They should have been (better) trained about that.

Indeed, but one can only wonder how people can get through recruitment and then years of training for professional jobs such as these and still need (more) training, as though common courtesy and a professional attitude towards patients is some kind of mystical extra that a good proportion of these staff need help to figure out.

Your toes would curl if I wrote out all the disrespectful patronising rubbish (and sometimes downright discrimination) trotted out to my quite old (and seems older due to a disability) parent, that is supposedly amusing in a beneficial way to him (it isn't).

Trained??? You can not be trained to be kind or respectful. You either are or you are not. And those who can not be, should not be working with people in the first place.

phoenixrosehere · 30/03/2024 20:06

DreamerIzzy · 30/03/2024 18:20

Ocean is a beautiful name

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It is.

The only name I would raise an eyebrow on is Kennethina, the rest to me aren’t bad. Not everyone has the same connotations when it comes to names or cares to the point that they would ridicule or think lesser of someone because of it.

housethatbuiltme · 30/03/2024 20:04

CestLaVie123 · 30/03/2024 19:49

A poor boy at my daughter's school is named Anal

There a boy at DS school called Karren, his family are middle eastern immigrants so I assume its cultural but first time I saw it I did think 'poor kid, not just a girls name here but one with such a big cultural reputation'.

housethatbuiltme · 30/03/2024 20:01

I thought it was going to be Misty Days or something with the weather comment.

Alexa isn't weird, if it really super bothers you you could use deedpoll to add may an 's' to the end and be Alexas.

Whereareallthemillionaires · 30/03/2024 19:59

Whereareallthemillionaires · 30/03/2024 19:54

Obviously given your first post it has to be something to do with the weather
because the doctors asked you what the weathers like today
so
weather
forecast
storm (y)
sun (ny)
shower(s)
drizzle
snow (ey)
Rain, rainy or ( ing)
overcast
thunder
lightning ( very very frightening, Galileo…sorry you need to be a bit old for that joke )
hurricane
windy
cloud (y) or ( s)
gale
tornado
hail
fog
humidity
precipitation
temperature
freezing
boiling
sweltering
frost
icey
gail
monsoon

i can’t think of any more.
was even a bit near @NotAmazonAlexa

Ok
Ive just realised I’ve completely wasted my time🤣🤣🤣as it looks like it’s some modern technology stuff I don’t use.
Tbh if your name is Alexa ( I’ve seen adverts so I know what it is ) it wouldn’t occur to me to laugh. I wouldn’t even put the two together.

I think it’s a lovely name !

MyNDfamily · 30/03/2024 19:58

I used to know someone who called her daughter Alexa, I have thought about them actually and wondered if this sort of thing happens. I also walk in a park where there's a Dog called Isis.

There's no way that appropriate for NHS staff to react like that. I can't believe that. That's awful.