Called the wrong name, long passed correcting them

Senna

Anyone else have an acquaintance who said your name wrong ages ago and you never corrected it, so you just live with it.

I had a guy in my work looking to do some business with us, is was pretty small and more hassle than the payment we would get. So after meeting him the second or third time, as we stood up from the meeting he said "thanks Paul not my name), i'll be in-touch". I corrected his mistaken name call this time.
2 weeks later again and "hi paul", feck it, I'll never see him again soon, so it'll be ok.
Now 6 years later he's in my work (as a customer) once a week and I just cant tell him now, I've left it far too long.

Is your name Father Ted Curley?

davetherave

Is his name Trigger?

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internet_user

Senna wrote: »

Anyone else have an acquaintance who said your name wrong ages ago and you never corrected it, so you just live with it.

I had a guy in my work looking to do some business with us, is was pretty small and more hassle than the payment we would get. So after meeting him the second or third time, as we stood up from the meeting he said "thanks Paul not my name), i'll be in-touch". I corrected his mistaken name call this time.
2 weeks later again and "hi paul", feck it, I'll never see him again soon, so it'll be ok.
Now 6 years later he's in my work (as a customer) once a week and I just cant tell him now, I've left it far too long.

He's going to destroy your office!!

Insect Overlord

If it's a girl they're gonna name it Sigourney, after the actress. And if it's a boy they're gonna name him Rodney, after Dave.

1ZRed

Have sex with him and scream out a different name during sex. See how he likes it

ITS_A_BADGER

Senna wrote: »

Anyone else have an acquaintance who said your name wrong ages ago and you never corrected it, so you just live with it.

I had a guy in my work looking to do some business with us, is was pretty small and more hassle than the payment we would get. So after meeting him the second or third time, as we stood up from the meeting he said "thanks Paul not my name), i'll be in-touch". I corrected his mistaken name call this time.
2 weeks later again and "hi paul", feck it, I'll never see him again soon, so it'll be ok.
Now 6 years later he's in my work (as a customer) once a week and I just cant tell him now, I've left it far too long.

Leave stuff littered around your desk with your proper name on them so he'll have to notice the different name

starlit

Happens to me a lot either i correct them or dont bother!

Grayson

I know someone who called me bob for two years. It went on so long I couldn't tell him it wasn't my name. I think he originally got confused because my c-worker is called Rob and he met me with him the first time we met.

Fizgig Bandicoot

I've quite a long name, so often when I introduce myself to people they reply with a shortened version of my name. This really gets on my nerves as if this was my name I would have introduced myself as such and I think it's just being lazy.
Eg. 'Hi, I'm Mary Ann.' 'Nice to meet you, Mary.'

In a previous job, my name was spelt wrong on the roster all through my time there and the manager never learned to pronounce my name despite being told how to numerous times. It's not that hard to pronounce, although it's a bit unusual it's spelt phonetically.

The secretary where I have been working for the last three years also calls me the wrong name even though I am friends with her son so she has heard him and his wife saying my name. I just go along with it now!

rainbowdrop

I told a friend of mine that my dad's name was Fred for the craic about 5 years ago (he asked my Dad's name, and I just said the first one that popped into my head)

Everytime my friend meets my dad, he says 'hello Fred, hows it going Fred' etc, etc.

My dad's name is Peter!

The Pheasant

Yeah I've had this guy at work calling me Toby for a while now

getzls

At my wedding two of my new wife's Uncles called me George during speeches.

My name is not George.

Ihatecuddles-old

All my neighbours call me my best friends name, we were always together growing up so they mix us up. They only realise I'm not her when they see us together.

My mam always calls me my sisters name before my own. So annoying, it happens every time she says my name, I'm starting to think she's just used to it now.

Ruu

Now is your chance to make up a new identity! Max Power!

kylith

Ihatecuddles wrote: »

All my neighbours call me my best friends name, we were always together growing up so they mix us up. They only realise I'm not her when they see us together.

My mam always calls me my sisters name before my own. So annoying, it happens every time she says my name, I'm starting to think she's just used to it now.

You think that's bad; my mother runs through all my siblings names before she gets to mine. I'm the only girl out of 6 children. According to my mother my name is JohnSimonMichaelDavidRobertEmma*.

*Not our real names.

There is a manager in work who calls me the name of the girl who did my job before me. She left 5 years ago.

HazDanz

A friend of mine called Shane started a placement last week and one of the workers there started calling him Sean. Friend didn't correct him and two other workers there who were calling Shane Shane at the start of the day were calling him by Sean as he was leaving work.

Other worker must have corrected their correctness.

1ZRed

kylith wrote: »

You think that's bad; my mother runs through all my siblings names before she gets to mine. I'm the only girl out of 6 children. According to my mother my name is JohnSimonMichaelDavidRobertEmma*.

*Not our real names.

My mom always calls me by her brother's name, but if that wasn't bad enough she calls my sister by my dad's name. That bitch has problems

El Guapo!

There was a guy in my last place that called me Stephen, for 4 years. I never bothered correcting him.

dan dan

Use a name label on your shirt. Better still invent a false name for them, and keep on using it until you are pulled up . Then you can sort them out .

For Paws

Start telling all about your day / what just happened / things people said to you etc

But always start with 'I said to myself, (real name), you can't be doing this / listening / watching or whatever.

Just keep inserting you real name into your stories until he cops on.

He'll either cop on to your real name or he'll stop talking to you altogether.

Also, tell your colleagues / co-workers to always address you by (real) name whenever he's around.

Alternatively, start calling him Hubert until he asks you why, and then tell him it's because you thought it was his real name. Accept his correction & apologise, but the next time he comes in, call him Angela.

spankysue

A guy I used to work with called me Jenny for two years, have no idea how he got Jenny from my name. I thought I was mishearing him for a while, then it just got too late to say anything

cofy

Senna wrote: »

Anyone else have an acquaintance who said your name wrong ages ago and you never corrected it, so you just live with it.

I had a guy in my work looking to do some business with us, is was pretty small and more hassle than the payment we would get. So after meeting him the second or third time, as we stood up from the meeting he said "thanks Paul not my name), i'll be in-touch". I corrected his mistaken name call this time.
2 weeks later again and "hi paul", feck it, I'll never see him again soon, so it'll be ok.
Now 6 years later he's in my work (as a customer) once a week and I just cant tell him now, I've left it far too long.

I have had the same thing happen to me, but the person calling me by a wrong name may far bigger problems than me and would not ever intentionally hurt someone, so it does not bother me.

Avasa

My ex's mother used to call me by the dogs name.

WilyCoyote

Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger doesn't have such worries.