To be pissed at my name being laughed at constantly

[NotAmazonAlexa]

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 would complain, it's unprofessional and nasty. I have a name which often brings a smirk, and there are times when it's not appropriate - a hospital ward definitely one of them.

Ocean is a beautiful name

Why Paris??? It is a Toyota :-) (Yaris :-) ) why not to be named by a car :-)

So my real name means blow job or vagina in lots of countries, I do like it though

Alexa is lovely. Try being called Joy 😒

Professional just applies to the career someone may be in. That career doesn't prevent them from being stupid, insensitive or thoughtless. That said - if I met you today, it would never enter my mind to associate you with THAT Alexa. Afterall, when I personally know 2 people named Susan, I don't think of the one when I'm speaking to the other, but... I suspect they're just trying to make light banter, not realizing how often you might hear it. Just smile and don't respond. Anyway, it's a great name I wouldn't want to give up.

My name is Denise and 46 years later ( yes 46 ) people still sing Blondie's Denis Denis to me as though its the first time Ive heard it !
I feel your pain

Well you could be an Emma, and listen to all the idiots ask “can I lie on you”!

incredibly rude, I'd be making a complaint to the hospital

I'm afraid that in your position I'd just give them a hard stare and say "have you any idea how annoying it is to have to hear that 'joke' multiple times a day?"

Or just the hard stare should do it.

👆 this

Fuck them!
don’t change your name and call them out on that bullshit!
my daughters name is related to a not very nice song and I always call it out when people mock it because it’s a beautiful name!

I totally get a little of how you feel.
My name was Karen, but I changed it a couple of years ago. I’d just gotten so fed up of comments, jokes, assumptions, and sometimes downright nastiness. I also had issues with it from nurses at a hospital; that was actually the last straw for me and what made me finally commit to changing it. I guess there’s just arseholes everywhere.

Ha! He tells everyone that …

Amazon spends $20 billion a year on marketing and advertising its name globally. Pretty sure you're fu*ked in terms of trying to claim it as your name, without people immediately thinking of global retailer first and last and anytime your name is said aloud.
It depends what you want - but however rude - you can't control other people.
I'm sure anyone named Adidas, Nike or Alexa isn't enjoying their name either.
But you either spend a lifetime of resentment, or you just ignore people, or you change your name.
Alternatively, you could contact Amazon marketing and see if they're willing to pay you everytime you promote their company; or whether they want to pay you to help create a "What's in a name" Youtube video built on filmed interactions between you and people's reactions to your name, intended to go online viral.
Just a write a humourous intellgent letter of the interactions/responses you have had.
With a 20 BILLION annual marketing budget, they have the resources to invest in online videos, which might make you feel better and validated.
But ultimately for a peaceful, non-confrontational life, you should probably change your name, eventually.

Nope. 😊 I CBA to read the whole thread. But a couple of sarcastic posters have ‘explained’ 😂

So where is it going?

We had a cat called Isis in in the early 2000s. 😳

It’s a beautiful name and it wouldn’t occur to me to think of an Amazon Alexa machine thing. Probably because I haven’t got one. Also I know someone called Alexia

I mean, you only had to read the first post 🤦🏻‍♀️

You are not alone: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-57680173

And it could be worse. Spare a thought for this woman: https://metro.co.uk/2023/02/13/woman-called-alexa-seary-sets-off-both-alexa-and-siri-whenever-shes-in-a-meeting-18272485/

I have a very unusual first name and my maiden name was forrin. It was always nurses who commented with a smirk.

In my 20s, at a renowned private hospital in London, a nurse once went, "was Haa, that's a funny name, where did you get that from?". When I gave her a hard Paddington stare and simply said "my father, like most other people" she got very arsey and flounce out.

The problem is these sorts of people forget patients are humans and deserve to be afforded basic courtesy.

Complain @NotAmazonAlexa it was rude, bullying and very unprofessional. 35 years on things should have changed.

Be Alex, sorted.

Ahhh lighten up.