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 get this all the time too, though they don't usually spell my name the other way it can be spelled. Instead, they give me an entirely new name altogether!

Eg.
"Hi Tony
Thanks for sending this files through.
Regards, Renee"

"No worries, Rebecca."

My name isn't Renee (or Rebecca), but this is how off base they are.

I also get a lot of "Mr Tympanic" if I haven't met the person, even though my first name has only ever been a female name in any culture it's used (as far as I know).

It's laziness. I've stopped caring.

Hi Jodie, I get this all the time even though my signature is clearly written at the bottom of emails. It's sloppy but I guess easily done. I always mention it gently in an email and if they do it again, I respond back to them with their name spelt obviously incorrectly and this usually does the trick! Some people will even comment that I've spelt their name correctly, whilst again spelling mine incorrectly ... and I apologise saying I know how annoying it is because people often spell mine eg Jody instead of Jodie !! Good luck.

My mum's brother has never been able to spell her/our surname right, and my parents have been married for almost 50 years. She once pointed out to him that he was getting it wrong every time, and for about two years he did spell it correctly but he put quotation marks around it. Then he reverted to the incorrect spelling again, and we all gave up. If I didn't know better, I would think he didn't approve of my dad or their marriage or something. It's very bizarre!

I get this a lot.

But I'm guilty myself. I often have to email a man named Jarek, and have to check several times that I haven't accidentally written Jared.

Another one who sympathises as I get this too.

My email address even has my actual name in it. It’s not as if it’s [email protected] - it’s actually old.bear

And people still get it fucking wrong

I am not bothered by the Asian teams who get names confused between first name and last name - I'm not often sure about their names, either, and what I should refer.to them as (then half of them have Anglicised names which bear no resemblance to their email address or anything.) I just say, "please call me Emma," and hope they reciprocate.

I don't often have misspellings of my name, and I do try to get people's names right.

What does annoy me is a manager at work who is really quite fussy about his own name (definitely Andrew, not Andy,) but is actually quite crap at other people's names, especially if they're not recognisably English. Seems quite hypocritical to me - if you are bothered about your own name, you should show others the same courtesy.

My email address even has my actual name in it. It’s not as if it’s [email protected] - it’s actually old.bear

my work email address doesn't even have my surname in! It is literally [email protected]!!!!

*I get this daily.

To make matters worse I have a surname that is a common first name, so people I don’t know always call me by my surname.

Hi John,

Thanks for taking the time to meet me, as discussed please find the attached information.

Best Wishes
Jane Hillary

Hi Hillary,

Thanks for your email.

Best
John.*

I get this too.
I think it's because emails come up Hillary, Jane at the top.
But everyone's are like this....and I sign it Jane Hillary!

Its only a name. Chill out

Names are a big piece of people's identities.

YANBU, even if it was an unusual name. Just normal courtesy.

This happens to me too. I don't have a standard white British name, so most people would have to check how it's spelled anyway, but they apparently don't.

Even people from my own ethnic group/culture spell it wrong. Although it is more usually spelled slightly differently from the way I spell it, there's still enough doubt that you'd think they'd check. Because the language it's originally from is transliterated into Latin script, so there are various options for spelling many words from that language, as it isn't exact.

And this includes many people I've never met, so they aren't just guessing from the way it sounds; the only way they know my name at all is from me signing the email.