Anybody go by a different name sometimes?

[Mysterian]

I'm a man type person who works in a nursery. There's a lovely and rather scatty Mum who calls me John all the time. It's not my name. I couldn't figure out how to correct her in a polite way that wouldn't make her feel embarrassed, so I didn't. I'm now John whenever I see her.

Anybody else in a similar situation?

What?

Also. You're not going by a different name - surely someone is getting your name wrong?

Years ago I worked with a horrible woman who just rode roughshod over other people. We had a new guy come to work in our department. She started calling him Kevin (not his name). He pointed out to her that his name wasn’t Kevin. She shouted at him ‘well you look like a Kevin’. Oh well that’s alright then!

Because there's a big difference between the person mistakenly calling a man John and them calling a woman John.

Your way of expressing yourself has somewhat obscured your meaning, I think, Mysterian. It would have been simpler if you'd just said 'I'm a man' or used another male name when explaining what was happening - 'My name is James but there's a mum who always calls me John'.

Thank you. I was really confused.

(I am autistic and can get confused when writing doesn't follow the normal "rules")

A man I emailed or called at least weekly suddenly started calling me Becky after about 8 months of working with him. It's not even close to my name.

No idea why. My colleague rang him and quite bluntly asked him why he suddenly doesn't know my correct name. He couldn't explain it. It was really weird.

Stop bullying John.

Also. I'd say "goes by" a different name for situations where someone is, for example, choosing to use their middle name. So I was thinking it was something you'd chosen to do from the title and it didn't match with the op.

Came here to say the same. I have an unusual (non English) first name and I just can't be bothered with the hassle. So in Starbucks I'm Beth.

I have a friend called Jessie, everyone in our social group calls her Jessie (presumably short for Jessica). I was with her last week when she had to drop off something at her mum's en route to somewhere else, and her mum said 'Hello Justine, pop it there love. Thank you.'
Maybe it's a common shortening for Justine? I've never heard it before though.

One of my son's goes by his (English) middle name instead of his Italian first name and has done since he was 13, so about 5 years. One of his teachers had called him Ravioli or Spaghetti or something and that was that, he suddenly hated his beautiful name.

Starbucks called me a coc once I've no idea how they managed this its nothing like my name the lady who passed me my drink was a bit ummmm this is for erm and just asked whose is this?

People tend to call me by my surname as it is a female name (but spelled slightly differently).

So I have a female first name and female (first name) surname.

As an example, Susan Allison - and getting called Allison all the time.