To be annoyed to see my (foreign) name misspelt in work email?

It is rude, particularly if it keeps happening with the same company.

Call centres abroad insist on addressing me by the male version of my first name, no matter how many times I tell them I'm not male, and I don't want them addressing me by my first name anyway! One idiot working for Vodafone even changed my personal details on the account to the male version, meaning the next time I rang I couldn't get past security because I was giving the wrong first name...luckily I got through to a UK vodafone call centre and the advisor dropped a strong hint to what had happened... it was the final straw so I made a formal complaint and got £150 credited to my bill.

The minute the contract was up I left Vodafone...

Don't even get me started on my surname, it's French and no one can get it right. Recently I had a tradesman look at his worksheet, very rudely say 'I'm not even attempting to say THAT'...his firm promptly got a complaint, too.

I've got a common 1960s name with 2 spellings. I get slightly irritated when it's spelled wrong by those who know me well but I usually let it slide with others.

I don't think it being "foreign" has anything to do with it.

For a start Britain is very multi cultural.

I just think that people tend to forget the spelling of names.

Also when they are mailing a long list of people, it can be easy to make a mistake

Don't get hung up on the reason being your name's foreign- ness. I have a very British name that has several variants of the surname. People always get it wrong, despite the correct version being on my email signature.

Some 'foreigners' are given nick names - which is deliberate and undermining.

Your scenario seems like a careless typo.
Like an Italian man named Nichola and then an English person thinks it's a woman or the S must be missing at the end. It's not malicious.

It's idleness and people are. Try not to take it personally.

LOL

So your original plan before this post was to reply all to give the perpetrator a ticking off with an audience of everyone on cc?

I can't believe you're actually making this into a thing and sending a special email about this even if you don't now copy the others. My v traditional English name gets mispelt and mis pronounced sometimes. I know they mean me. Why make a fuss...

My DD had an unusual EU spelt name. It was regularly misspelt on all sorts of school paperwork.

It really pissed me off that the school would go to the trouble to ensure other second generation migrant children had their names spelt correctly but DD had to put up with an anglicised equivalent.

I would make a fuss if I were you.

I’m English, it happens to me, I’m not precious.

I have a common English (ish) name that has been popular for 30+ years and I regularly get called a totally different name on emails that starts with the same letter (think Hannah being called Helen, or Emily being called Elizabeth). It happens probably once every couple of months. I just shrug it off.

Happens to me all the time, no amount of complaining gets people to get it right.

I remember an Alistair who used to get Alligator coming up on the computer. It was at least a cause of merriment and obviously it was the machine rather than a person doing it.

I see a solution has already been suggested, but just wanted to say I feel your pain!

I have a similar name of Latin origin (my family are from said country) but it’s really quite popular now over here, particularly among very young people. To the point it’s eclipsed the English equivalent.

It’s so annoying when people get it wrong! There’s a particular sound in the middle of my name that is written differently in the language my name comes from, as opposed to the way it’s written in English, and people so often get that wrong. I’ve even heard of English children now being called my name but with the misspelling!

Re making the name masculine, that also happens to me. Funnily enough, I’m now learning a language that uses the vocative case (means you say names differently when addressing that person, basically), and my name becomes the masculine version. Sounds very funny to my ears!

Edit - i feel like it’s quite likely we have the same name!

It happens a lot and with my British lastname.
It's laziness on their part. Failure to use correct spelling when setting it up. Ask fir it to be changed.

Let it slide. It has nothing to do with being a foreign name either.

I have a very English name that can be spelt two ways and people will reply to my emails with the wrong spelling.

It is annoying. I have the less usual of two spellings for my pretty common first name, and an unusual, although quite simple to spell, English surname.

It really irritates me that people do not take the time to get it right, even people I've known for a long time make mistakes with my name(s).

My name is spelled wrong all the time. I even get called different variations of my name to my face. I can't get het up about things like this. They're is so much more important things to be indignant about.

I work for a company whose head office is in Spain. My name frequently gets mis-spelled and mis-pronounced to another similar name. I don’t correct anyone—I just go with it. I know it’s me they’re talking to, and I know it’s not intentional. (It’s not my close team members who do this—it’s people who I may or may not ever really speak with much in the future. If it was direct team members, then yes, I would correct them.)

I get Suzanna, Susannah, Suzanne, Susanne, Susan all wrong. I let that slide.
I dont let Cristina, Rosana, Carolina anything ending in na get by though. Those are not my name.

I'd say it's not to do with your name being foreign. I worked on a film and the producer was a close family member. They managed to spell my three letter name incorrectly despite knowing me all my life and working with me for years.
It's just a mistake/carelessness. If your email address/footer has been created with the wrong spelling then just get it sorted through IT.

I also have a foreign name and get all kinds of variation both in writing and speech, it doesn't really matter to me as it's not with malicious intent. I also called a woman Tasmin in emails for months until I noticed that her name was Tamsin. I apologised and she was cool with it so we moved on.

Definitely not being unreasonable. I used to work with a Tracey Smith and a Tracy Smith. Different teams but I would need to email both of them regularly. I could never remember if the one in accounts was the one with an e or if that was the one in estates. So I would check, every time. It's just polite to do so.

I have a very popular in my generation name and my own grandmother regularly spells it wrong. The different spelling is normally pronounced differently!!

My colleague Marc got so annoyed at people spelling his name Mark he had a name plate on his desk changed to Marc Withersea - would always correct people

It's likely autocorrect. I have a friend called Maure and autocorrect always wants to change it to Maude.