to be annoyed that people at work can't spell my name correctly?

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I have a common name that is spelt one of two ways (think, for instance, Jody and Jodie). I have lost count of the number of times that people at work email me saying "Hi Jody", when it's "Jodie".

I cannot understand how multiple people do this, multiple times. It clearly says the correct spelling of my name in my email address. I sign my emails with the correct version of my name.

EG

"Hi Sandra,
Please find attached the requested document.
Kind regards,
Jodie"

Response:

"Hi Jody,
Thanks for this.
Kind regards,
Sandra"

It is not an unusual name, nor a "yoonique" spelling. AIBU that it is just common courtesy to get someone's name right?

I have a name which is spelt 2 ways. Colleagues regularly spell my name wrongly in emails even though my name is RIGHT THERE IN FRONT OF THEM. It's lazy and rude.

What's worse is that my MIL has also spelt my name wrong for the last 30+ years. grrrr

Only time it really winds me up is when random people search me out to ask for me to help them with something and they spell my name wrong

I don’t mind helping but when you’ve gone to the effort to search my name and email address on the intranet AND you want me to give you my time and effort make the effort to get my name right

I am also petty enough though to spell constant mis spellers of my nameincorrectly in my responses

Wafflecopter I do the exact same thing. There is a perverse sort of pleasure in finding bizarre spellings for culprits with very normal names.

DD1 has SN and goes to special school. Her long name has an i and an e in it. Her short name is spelt ie. All her forms say 'Long name ("ie")' So many people then labelled, wrote and used '_y'. Without fail, I politely asked that they correct it, because DD1 couldn't learn to spell her name if it was written incorrectly. She must have been listening, because when she was about 9, she said 'that's not my name, there's no 'y' in 'long name'!

I have a Welsh name. In England where I live and work people constantly put a Y on it. It ends in N! It drives me INSANE

People at my work pronounce names wrong all the time especially an Asian colleague’s. I get so cross on his behalf especially as it’s pronounced phonetically (I checked) so not difficult. I get my name shortened all the time too. No idea why but I hate it. I NEVER refer to myself as short name- think Beth instead of Elizabeth so a distinct difference

People just don't care. I work with several people with the same name, some shorten it to a nickname and some don't. I forget who does and doesn't so when emailing I will check, because it's courteous.

For me, there is a male equivalent of my name that people are constantly calling me in emails. It is extremely annoying because my female version of the name is far more common in the UK and so the male defaulting seems even worse.

Not even my own name but I do feel the Rachel/Rachaels of this world must get pissed off a lot. Especially when insult is added to injury with 'Racheal'. Same with Michael.

I'd be a more annoyed with whoever named you

Why? I don't have an uncommon name.

This is so annoying! I don't usually get my name spelt incorrectly, but I have a name that has a different version. It is actually a name in its own right (like Anne/Anna). Not only do I get the wrong version of my name, but one of my colleagues has the other name. There have been several times where I receive an email that's obviously for her and vice versa and no matter what we do, it still happens.

Aside from the fact it smacks of laziness, I am concerned it could be an issue one day. She has quite a niche role within the company and so I always feel I'm more likely to receive something that could be quite sensitive or confidential.

It's rude, it takes a second to look at the spelling the person uses.

@georgialondon you tell em Georgina

@georgialondon you tell em Georgina

😂😂😂

I get this all the time and I don't care. My own grandmother never remembered how to spell it so I have had lots of practice. I think most people have a default setting for names, for example, they know a Tracey to when they come across a Tracy it doesn't register.

Both my first name and surname have several common variations. I think as long as your immediate colleagues get it right, let the rest go. Also remember lots of people are now typing emails on phones with stupid autocorrects they may not even have noticed. If it cheers you up, I once worked with a man called Slava, who constantly got the autocorrect of Slave!

People usually just automatically go with the spelling that they are most familiar with, and don't think too much about it.
I wouldn't take it too personally
I was in my last job 15 years. Was presented with a beautiful inscribed gift when I left.
Yep. Name spelled wrong
It could have been the ultimate fuck off moment. Or it could have been the famous ditsy-ness of the person who was in charge of organising it. I choose to believe it was the latter.
The time to worry is when they forget your name altogether... Although I've had that too
Hmm...

My ex MIL had invented a name for me as she "could not remember" my real name. Which is probably somewhat rare and not very British (e.g. Anastasia), but far from unheard of or hard to pronounce. She called me (and addressed all the cards etc) as Debby. Or Debbie, I need to check. It does not have a single letter or phonic in common with my real name.

Oh, yes. I have a first name that only has one spelling, but it is easy to make a typo which turns it into something faintly insulting, and I get that quite a lot. At least, I have to hope they're typos and people aren't just insulting me. I also occasionally get completely different names that begin with the same letter, which baffles me.

But it's my surname which has been the thorn in my side for my whole life. It is an uncommon, regional name which has two spelling variations. Mine is the less common of the two and, when people get it even vaguely correct, it's the other version that they usually use. Most of the time, though, I get all manner of ridiculous misspellings, even when I've spelled it out with the NATO alphabet or when they're replying to an email address WHICH HAS THE CORRECT SPELLING IN IT. Don't even get me started on people who insist that I'm pronouncing it wrong because it's not said as it's spelled.

I do understand that it's not the easiest of names to get right, but I do think that if it's written down there in front of you, it's downright rude to still spell it incorrectly.

I’ve had this my whole life. It drives me batty. So I actually changed it to the most common spelling (that everyone used). Nobody noticed. Literally, my closest friends, even family, not one bloody person ever commented that I’d changed my name. So I assume they all just think that’s how it was spelt all along.

YANBU. It's just rude (and frankly dimwitted when the name is right there in front of them in an email you've sent).

My name has two possible spellings, a male version and a female version (which sound identical). People quite often use the wrong one (including my uncle, who has known me for 48 years ). It's annoying.

I used to work in a school where dd also went. One particular teacher always called me by dd's name. Dd left, it didn't make any difference. Even now, I've left too but if I bump into her I can see the struggle on her face as she tries to get my name right

( She remarried - I deliberately carried on using her previous surname. Because I could!!)

I lead a small team. Been in this post nearly a year and I email or speak to them all at least a few times a week. One of them is yet to spell my name right.
It doesn't really improve my impression of her abilities in a role where detail is important!

I have a name that has 2 different spellings, I've actually had all sorts of variations that don't even make sense, it's a straight-forward name. I honestly don't understand why people get so annoyed by this. It's really, really not a big deal. Other people(obviously) don't give a shit how someone spells their name.

YABU I have got an unusual name. I get all sorts of names (often completely different) and a variety of spellings. If I got stressed about it I would spend all day getting stressed. Not worth it imo. It's only a name, doesn't really matter.